Michael Peschke

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Michael Peschke (born March 26, 1959 in Berlin ; † May 14, 2011 there ) was a German writer, playwright, screenwriter, editor and communism researcher.

Life

Peschke came from the working class in Berlin-Mitte and graduated as a communications engineer in 1979. From 1988 to 1994, exactly at the time of the fall , he worked as a "workers' dramatist" at the Volksbühne on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz . From 1994 he worked as a freelance author, and from 1999 as editor of the magazine " Opponent ".

In 1999 Michael Peschke worked with Gabriele Stammberger on her autobiographical book "Gut Ankommen", which describes her time in exile in Moscow from 1932 to 1954, including Walter Haenisch , a communist and son of the SPD politician Konrad Haenisch , who was executed in 1938 , and the actor and vagabond activist Gregor Gog described.

Shortly before his death, Peschke dealt intensively with the Czechoslovak agent and victim of the Slansky trial Otto Katz , about whom he was planning a biography.

Dramas

Works

  • We leave heaven to the angels. Nine autobiographical conversations; volksbühne 1992/93 season (artistic director Frank Castorf)
  • Gabriele Stammberger , Michael Peschke: Arrived safely - Moscow. The exile of Gabriele Stammberger 1932-1954 . Basisdruck Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86163-082-6 .
  • From Hauptbahnhof to Kalashnikov - Texts for Theater and Film, Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-943881-90-5

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personal data
SURNAME Peschke, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2011
Place of death Berlin