Michael Sallmann

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Michael Sallmann (born April 7, 1953 in Chemnitz ; called Salli Sallmann ) is a German poet and songwriter . Until his deportation, he was active in the critical GDR artist scene. Today he works as a radio editor and presenter.

Life

youth

Born in Chemnitz in 1953, Sallmann first attended primary school in Gornsdorf . In 1969 he completed his school career in Thalheim . This was followed by a two and a half year apprenticeship as a construction machinist. In 1971 Sallmann began studying at the technical college for engineering economics in Leipzig . During this time his activities as a writer began. He married in 1974 and divorced in 1976. Sallmann's daughter, born in 1975, comes from her.

Ban on appearing, de-registering and deportation

Because of "repeated lecture hostile, corrosive text content", the Leipzig Cultural Directorate withdrew his amateur permission to perform as a poet and singer. His band broke up with him. In the summer of 1974, a few weeks before his thesis, he was de-registered because of his contacts with Wolf Biermann and “counter-revolutionary activities”.

To prove himself in production, Sallmann worked as a driver in Leipzig. In addition, he continued his appearances in the Saxony area anonymously and without permission . In 1976 Sallmann was called up for basic military service in the National People's Army . During this time he was arrested by the Ministry for State Security in the spring of 1977 for " subversive agitation " . The reason for this was the writing and reading of texts and songs critical of the GDR in front of soldiers and officers. Without conviction and against his will, he was deported from the remand prison in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen to West Berlin because of “special efforts by the government of the GDR and the Federal Government ” , where he still lives today.

Life in the west

In West Berlin he continued his journalistic and musical activities. This was followed by his own book and album publications. Sallmann also worked as a gardener, nurse, food courier and night watchman. In 1980 his first son was born. Also from 1980, Sallmann first made up his Abitur and began studying German at the Free University in 1984 . In 1987 he married again. In 1989 his second son was born. In the same year he graduated with a grade of 1.

Since 1988 Sallmann has worked as a freelance journalist for the taz and the Frankfurter Rundschau . From 1990 he also worked as a radio journalist for Deutschlandfunk and RIAS . Since 1992 he has been editor of literature at the ORB , since 1997 literary editor at the SFB / ORB community program Radio Kultur and at RBB - Kulturradio .

Works

Fonts

  • The choice / bad advice / start of the internship / exmatriculation / response to a disciplinary measure / an illegal appearance / a former partisan , biographical contributions in: GDR concrete - stories and reports from a real country , Berlin (West) 1978, p. 67 -87.
  • Cold time . Songs and poems with musical notation by the author. Olle & Wolter, Berlin 1979.
  • Nothing special , poems and stories. Dirk Nishen , Berlin 1982.
  • Butts under the bush , poems. With colored pencil drawings by the author. Dirk Nishen, Berlin 1986.
  • “When I was like a bird - Gerulf Pannach. The texts " . Berlin 1999 (as editor).
  • About the pitfalls of alcoholism in connection with coal heating . Poems, Dresden 2006 and Berlin 2014.
  • Bathing day. Reports from everyday life in the GDR, Frankfurt 2009.
  • The humpback diver. Stories, Berlin 2014

Discography

  • Whip. LP, songs by Michael Sallmann. Trikont, Our Voice , 1979
  • Cold time , LP, songs by M. Sallmann, Walter Mossmann, butterflies a. a., 1979
  • DingDong , CD, 4 songs, United One Records, 1996
  • Strangely Sharp , CD, 11 songs, United One Records, 1997
  • Seeker after the storm , CD, 4 songs, DuDu Records, 2003
  • Too much confusion here , CD, 14 songs, DuDu Records, 2009
  • Kreuzberg ice songs. Songs from the eighties , CD, 12 songs, DuDu Records 2011
  • Sallmann-Mühsam: Mühsam-Sallmann. Salli Sallmann sings lyrics by Erich Mühsam, CD, 16 songs, DuDu Records 2014, distribution: Buschfunk

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d See profile on Literaturport.de
  2. ↑ Cf., short biography at the Berlin-Höhenschönhausen Memorial Foundation, viewed on October 30, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Sallmann, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sallmann, Salli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, songwriter and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz