Michael Czollek

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Michael Czollek (born March 28, 1959 in Berlin ; † October 10, 1999 there ) was a German singer-songwriter and politician .

Life

Czollek's father was the communist resistance fighter and publisher Walter Czollek . At the age of eleven, he was beaten up in an East Berlin school because of his Jewish roots . After graduating from Klement-Gottwald-Oberschule, he studied history at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since the 1970s Czollek has appeared as a songwriter and poet, among others in the circle of writing workers . He received the advancement award of the FDJ Central Council Berlin and the art award of the FDGB . He headed the FDJ district leadership in Berlin-Marzahn . In 1990 he was a co-founder of the small Marxist party Die Nelken . In the 1990 elections to the Berlin House of Representatives , he stood for the PDS list. In February 1992 he moved up as a member of parliament.

In May 1992 he was expelled from the PDS parliamentary group because he kept quiet about his work as an unofficial employee at the Ministry for State Security . According to a report by the Gauck authority , he had written handwritten reports about friends and acquaintances. In 1995 he left parliament. He wrote theoretical essays on Marxism and took up a law degree at Berlin's Humboldt University , which he could not finish because of multiple sclerosis . His son is the poet and essayist Max Czollek .

literature

  • Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 114.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Hesse: "The second guilt of the left". Jews and anti-Semites in the GDR . In: Transatlantic . No. 5 , 1990, pp. 23 .
  2. ↑ Edwin Kratschmer et al. (Ed.): Open Windows . New life, Berlin, p. 184 .
  3. ↑ Herbert Laschet-Toussaint: So far so green: anthology writers from forty years . BoD, 2018, p. 306 .
  4. ↑ hmt: A Mercedes was chasing Klaus Landowsky . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 30, 1992, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 17 ( taz.de [accessed September 29, 2019]).
  5. ↑ twenty plus. (PDF) In: petrapau.de. May 6, 2010, accessed September 29, 2019 .
  6. ↑ GLASNOST Berlin - contributions from authors to socially relevant topics. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Isabel Richter: Only healthy people should study . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 11, 1997, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 21 ( taz.de [accessed September 29, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Christine Schmitt: Max, the thinker. July 12, 2006, accessed September 29, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Czollek, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and politician (Die Nelken)
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1999
Place of death Berlin