Matthias Biskupek

Matthias Biskupek (born October 22, 1950 in Chemnitz ; † April 11, 2021 in Rudolstadt ) was a German writer , publicist and literary critic .

Matthias Biskupek (2017)

Life

Matthias Biskupek grew up with two brothers and a sister in the small Saxon town of Mittweida . His father was a teacher, born in 1920 in Breslau , his mother was an employee, born in 1923 in Leipzig .

He first attended the Fichte School in Mittweida, then the extended secondary school "Erich Weinert". At the same time he did an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer at Roscher & Eichler KG Altmittweida. He graduated from high school and qualified as a skilled worker in 1969. He then studied technical cybernetics and process measurement technology at the Magdeburg University of Technology . He completed his studies in 1973 with a thesis on digital displacement and angle measurement. From 1973 to 1976 he worked as a systems analyst and at times also as a machine operator in the Schwarza chemical fiber plant near Rudolstadt .

During his school and study days, Biskupek attended various literary circles, for example at the TH Magdeburg with Wolf Dieter Brennecke . In 1974/75 he worked in the literature working group in Neulobeda . In the following years he took part in the Schwerin Poetry Seminar several times , and in the 1980s as a seminar leader. After a negative decision from the Leipzig Literature Institute , he worked at the Rudolstadt Theater from 1976 , initially as an assistant director , later as a dramaturge , and at times as a stage technician , program draftsman , stage manager and small actor . During this time, a study visit (1978) took him to an electronics company in Gera . From 1979 to 1983 he was dramaturge and copywriter at Geraer Kabarett Fettnäppchen . There he oversaw a dozen programs, for which he also wrote the lyrics and of which half were performed. In 1981/82 he took a special course at the Leipzig Institute of Literature. Since 1983 he has been living freelance in Rudolstadt.

Several of his texts were published in the magazine Temperamente: Blätter für Junge Literatur ( Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin) between 1978 and 1983.

Between 1985 and 1991 Biskupek traveled frequently to Estonia , and in 1987 he stayed for several weeks in Munich and Cologne. There he researched a Karl Valentin biography that appeared in 1993. Since 1990 readings, exhibition openings and lectures have taken him to England, Poland, Finland, Japan, Switzerland and the USA, among others.

In 1993 he was a district clerk in Neunkirchen / Saar . In 1997 he received a residency grant for the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf , and in 2000 the Casa Baldi grant from the German Academy in Rome in Olevano Romano. He received the Walter Bauer Prize in 2016.

From 1982 he was a candidate, from 1985 until its dissolution a member of the Writers' Association of the GDR , in which he was the last chairman of the Gera district association in 1990. In the early 1990s he was chairman of the Thuringia regional association in the Association of German Writers (VS). For a time he was also chairman of the Thuringian Literary Society in Weimar and spokesman for the Thuringian Literature Council. He was a member of the Friedrich Bödecker District of Thuringia and the PEN Center Germany , of which he was treasurer from 2011 to April 2017. After six years he no longer ran for this office.

He wrote novels, stories, cabaret texts, feature articles and features for the radio, and in the 1980s he also wrote treatments for DEFA , which however never became a film. He also worked as a journalist and literary critic, from 1978 to the end of 1993 for the Berlin weekly Die Weltbühne , and from 1998 for Ossietzky , one of the two successor magazines , of which he was co-editor since August 2015. From 1982 to 2012 he wrote monthly book columns for the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel , after which he worked occasionally. He also worked for daily newspapers and produced features for Deutschlandradio Kultur and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

Publications

• Reporting office for concerns. Stories. Satires and grotesques. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1981.
• Life with jacket stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1985.
• The navel and other beautiful centers of a trip for two. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1986.
• Published nuisance. Satires & Glosses Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1987.
• Dispute satire. Essay. With Mathias Wedel , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Leipzig 1988.
• Flower woman and film minister. An Estonia mosaic. Report. Verlag Tribüne, Berlin 1988.
• The adventures of others. Stories. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1990.
• We bag Germans. Satires. Glossaries & feuilletons, Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1991.
• Book in the basket. Pictures from the reading country Independent publishing bookstore Ackerstraße, Berlin 1992.
• The foreign traffic office. Satirical feuilletons, Verlag Weißer Stein, Greiz 1992.
• They are all so nice. Scenes. Songs and monologues from the cabaret of the Swiss Ed. With Gudrun Piotrowski. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1993.
• Karl Valentin - A pictorial biography. Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag, Leipzig 1993.
• The view from outside. Observations by the district clerk Matthias Biskupek in Saarland. Neunkirchen (Saar) 1994.
• Beer table with coke loops. Satirical ingredients from Claudia to Canada. Eulenspiegel - The New Berlin, Berlin 1995.
• The quota axis. About the unstoppable rise of a citizen of Saxon nationality. Novel. Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag, Leipzig 1996.
• Zockendorf Castle. A murder story. Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag, Leipzig 1998.
• The native home. Mocking eulogies. Edited by Wulf Kirsten. Hain-Verlag, Rudolstadt / Jena 1999.
• Weather report. Humoresques. With 22 illustrations by Peter Gaymann. Gustav-Kiepenheuer-Verlag, Leipzig 2002.
• What does "GDR" actually mean? Bohemian Villages in German & History. Eulenspiegel - The New Berlin, Berlin 2003.
• Vacation, Klappfix, vacation check - travel in the GDR. Together with Mathias Wedel, Eulenspiegel - Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2003.
• Horrido, comrades! Stories. Eulenspiegel - The New Berlin, Berlin 2004.
• The social budgie - the horrific but edifying story of an intelligent bird living together with a writer who is permanently overwhelmed by society. With animal sensitive pictures by the ornithologist Ioan Cozacu, generic name Nel-Verlag Individuell, Schöneiche b. Berlin 2005.
• THE CONCENTRATED CHARGE - That was 2005. Ed. H. de Jattens, with texts a.o. by Wolfgang Brenner, Wiglaf Droste , Peter Ensikat , Jess Jochimsen , Dietrich Kittner , Lothar Kusche , Steffen Mensching , Michael Rudolf , Giannina Wedde, Mathias Wedel and M. B., Eulenspiegel Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2005.
• The little GDR encyclopedia - from household day to travel guide. Piper, Munich 2006.
• Forays through the Thuringian herb garden. Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2007.
• Praise of the pun and other pros and cons - essays from ten years. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha near Jena 2007.
• A moral institution. Novel with proper props, final curtains and theatrical blood. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2007.
• The luck of the right money and other highlights from two decades since the fall of the Wall. Text-Bild-Band, Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2009.
• The queen's collar. edition burgart, Rudolstadt 2010.
• Rose Schwartz and the consequences. NORA-Verlag, Berlin 2012.
• The retired apprentice. My 66 life stories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2015.
• The poet's curse. Thirty-three poems. Sayings and songs from four decades. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha near Jena 2015.
• You with your cheeky snout - Renate Holland-Moritz. Anecdotes and letters edited by Reinhold Andert and Matthias Biskupek, Quintus Verlag, Berlin 2019.
• The literary Rudolstadt. Rudolstadt Writings, Volume 1. Published by the city of Rudolstadt. Series concept and editing: Jens Henkel, coordination: Petra Rottschalk, Verlag Stadt Rudolstadt, Rudolstadt 2020.

literature

• Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th and 21st centuries. Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Matthias Biskupek (born 1950), p. 22-28 .

Web links

• Homepage of Matthias Biskupek (also authorized source)
• Literature by and about Matthias Biskupek in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Matthias Biskupek in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Pfeifer: Writer Matthias Biskupek is dead. In: MDR culture . April 11, 2021, accessed April 12, 2021 . 
2. ^ Matthias Biskupek. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: P-Z. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 77.