Otmar Leist

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Otmar Leist (born January 16, 1921 in Bremen ; † December 7, 2012 in Bremen) was a German writer .

biography

After serving as a soldier in World War II, he studied literary history and economics for a few years. He then worked as a civil engineering worker, educator and bank clerk. He has been a writer since 1975. Leist was a member of the German Peace Society - United War Resisters and in the Association of German Writers .

At the large demonstration against the NATO double resolution on October 10, 1981 in the Hofgarten (Bonn), Leist presented the declaration along with numerous other poems (Bonn October 10, 1981 , Lamuv Verlag , 1981).

In the play Happy Is Who Forgets by Gottfried Greiffenhagen and Karin Nissen at the Schauspiel Kiel (in-house production, October 2006), a poem by Leist is quoted: “Here, a state did not take its money into service with decrees, here the money itself has a state created".

For more than 30 years, Leist headed the Bremen “Literatreff” in the Vienna Hofcafé, where writers put their texts up for discussion.

In the book "I can't get no" ( Kiepenheuer & Witsch , 2007) by Irmela Hannover and Cordt Schnibben , Joachim Barloschky quotes a poem by Leist (p. 342): "Before I got lost in the suites of the upper ten thousand, led a side door to the outside: the entrance for the staff. "

The broadcaster Radio Weser.TV broadcast in the series Encounters on January 20, 2009 a conversation with Leist about and with poetry on the subject of side door to the open air .

Leist was buried anonymously in the Huckelried cemetery in Bremen. On January 3, 2013, an obituary for Leist was published in the Weser Kurier .

Works

  • Helmet off to think . Push-pull publishing house, Hoisbüttel, 1975.
  • In half the light . Relief Verlag, Munich, 1976.
  • Years of the fire devil . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude, 1976.
  • Mobilization . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude, 1977.
  • In the Golden West, studio in the farmhouse, Fischerhude, 1978.
  • Human work . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude, 1979.
  • The city for us . Atelier in the farmhouse, Fischerhude, 1981.
  • Jumping points . Brockkamp Verlag, Bremen, 1984.
  • Long anger, longer love . Donat Verlag , Bremen, 1992.
  • Sinje's diary . Donat Verlag, Bremen, 1994.
  • Turning points . Donat Verlag, Bremen, 1996.
  • The snake . Donat Verlag, Bremen, 2001.
  • Stone thrown into the blue . Donat Verlag, Bremen, 2004, (2006 as an audiobook by Ohrlust, Bremen).
  • Under the sloping sun . Donat Verlag, Bremen, 2006.

Anthologies

  • From the not entirely free Hanseatic city of Bremen, Bremer write for Bremer . Werkkreis Literatur der Arbeitswelt, 197 ?.
  • Our democracy - texts and posters on the present. they hear. Journal for literature, art and criticism. 21st year, issue 102, Bremerhaven, 1976.
  • Federkrieg - poetry anthology . Direkt Verlag, Frankfurt Main, 1976.
  • Peace and disarmament. A German reading book . Fischerhude, studio in the farmhouse, 1977.
  • Right to work. A reader , 1978.
  • Ignition material - from the not entirely free Hanseatic city of Bremen 2nd work group literature in the world of work, 197 ?.
  • from the not entirely free Hanseatic city of Bremen 3rd work group literature in the working world, 1980.
  • Write how we want to live . An almanac, New Society for Literature, Berlin, 1981.
  • Declaration of Peace - a reader . Fischerhude, studio in the farmhouse, 1982.
  • The oven is far from over . Flieter Verlag, 1988.
  • Living with fish ... An anthology by Bremen and Gdansk authors, 1989.
  • The Nu - Literature and Art in the Square. Volume 1 Ed. Johnson Christoph, Siarang Verlag Brakel, 2009.

Non-fiction

  • Ed. With Heinz Becker: Causes and Forms . In: Militarism in the Federal Republic , 1981.

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Radio encounters
  3. ↑ [2]

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personal data
SURNAME Leist, Otmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2012
Place of death Bremen