Michael Meinicke

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Meinicke in March 2006

Michael Meinicke (born March 17, 1948 in Berlin ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Training and imprisonment

The son of the commercial director of DIA Glas / Keramik grew up in East Berlin . Michael Meinicke passed the skilled worker examination as an electrical assembly fitter with a high school diploma in 1966. After his parents divorced in 1965, he lived with his mother. In 1968 Michael Meinicke began special training as a foreign trade merchant at the state-owned foreign trade company electrical engineering, which he completed in 1969. In 1969 Michael Meinecke worked as a customer advisor for "Industrievertrieb Rundfunk und Fernsehen" in the house of the electrical industry on Alexanderplatz in Berlin . On January 6, 1970, he was arrested on remand on charges of hatred of the state that he is said to have spread in the Pankower Lyrikklub . In 1972 he was imprisoned for two years for " subversive " poetry. He was denied a degree. He then worked at the German State Opera Unter den Linden . He traveled through Poland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia and was repeatedly briefly detained for political reasons .

Escape and a new beginning

In 1978 Meinicke fled to West Berlin in the trunk of a Ford . After he was denied a university course in the GDR, he was able to study at the Free University of Berlin and in 1985 obtained a master's degree in German , journalism and theater studies . He first worked in 1986 as a language teacher for foreign children. From 1988 on, Michael Meinicke worked for the Karl Hofer Society and worked as a caretaker. a. responsible for looking after artist scholarship holders in the former reception building of the Berlin-Westend train station .

Since 1991 he has been living as a freelance author and journalist in the north Hessian village of Uttershausen , a district of Wabern . Meinicke is the father of two children.

Literary work

At the age of nine, Michael Meinicke published numerous stories on the children's pages of the Berliner Zeitung newspaper and in the well-known Eastern children's magazine Die Drum . In 1959 he wrote an essay that appeared under the title Friedensfahrt in the newspaper Freie Welt and in the weekly illustrated . As part of the FDJ lyric movement, he wrote his first natural and love poems in 1962/1963, but also poems against the Vietnam War . Peter Will introduced Michael Meinecke to the work of Wolf Biermann at the Pankow Poetry Club . In particular, the "wire harp" impressed him deeply. In 1963/1964 he wrote the poems "Thank God!" And "The cat asks the bird", which were directed against the building of the GDR Wall on January 13, 1961, and presented these works to the "Pankower Lyrikklub". On January 6, 1970, he was arrested for incitement to the state . In 1972 seven of his poems were interpreted as "subversive" and Michael Meinecke was subsequently imprisoned by the State Security for two years.

His first literary works were published in the GDR as samizdat and in West Berlin in anthologies of small scenes or as self- published. His first independent work, published by KKZR Verlag in West Berlin , was the novel Revolution der Einsamkeit in 1985 , which has seen two new editions.

At the end of 1989 he invited artists to East-West encounters in the former reception building of the Berlin-Westend train station , thus establishing the Westend artists' group, which met regularly for a few months .

From 1994 to 1997 Meinicke was project manager of the Umweltbibliothek Berlin eV and until 1995 also wrote some articles for the journal telegraph, which is closely related to this library .

Together with the Kulturkreis in Uttershausen, he successfully opened a library at his current residence in 2000 , which he has been running since then. In the same year his work, the novel Ostkreuz , was published , which is committed to the social beat and has been the most successful work to date with five editions .

Works

Prose & Poetry

New editions: Drei-ECK-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987; unter Liebe, Strand und Steine , Notschriften-Verlag, Radebeul 2005. ISBN 3-933753-74-0 .

Non-fiction

  • “Young Authors” in the GDR 1975–1980 . Drei-ECK-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1987 (2nd edition 1991). ISBN 3-923161-11-5 .
  • Young theater in the GDR 1968–1990 . Together with Christian Hussel and Ulrich Löchner. Drei-ECK-Verlag, Bochum 1996. ISBN 978-3-923161-45-4 .

Audio books

  • Ostkreuz - progressive art . Excerpts from the novel. Director: Philipp Baumgarten, recording studio Bommelmütze zu Zeitz. Mutt Almanac, 2006.
  • Stories from Germany . Short stories. Director: Philipp Baumgarten, recording studio Bommelmütze zu Zeitz. Mutt Almanac, 2006.
  • Fist and overtone . A radio play or shrewd listening seriousness. Director: Thomas Kirsche. Cherry production, Leipzig 2007.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ koeter-almanach.de Biography of Michael Meinicke
  2. ↑ wabern.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Reference to the initiative of the cultural group in Uttershausen to set up a library, which is led by Michael Meinicke.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wabern.de  
  3. ↑ boombooks.de Press release from the publisher on Katharsis
personal data
SURNAME Meinicke, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinecke, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin