Otto Werner Foerster

Otto Werner Förster (born May 2, 1950 in Meißen ) is a German Germanist , writer and publisher .

Life

Born in Meißen, Otto Werner Förster moved with his parents to the Federal Republic in 1957, and the family returned to the GDR in 1960. After finishing school, he completed vocational training as a gardener, worked as a transport worker in a Leipzig foundry and did basic military service with the NVA.

He completed his German studies at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig with a diploma (on Ulrich von Hutten ). 1980 Förster obtained his doctorate as Dr. phil. with a dissertation on science fiction literature in the GDR and worked as a research assistant until 1985. In 1985 he quit Karl Marx University and switched to a freelance position as a writer and journalist, including a fee as a literary editor for the Leipziger Volkszeitung (1987 to 1988).

In January 1990 the writers Ingo Schulze , Eckhart Reinhold and Otto Werner Förster founded the "Altenburger Wochenblatt". Förster was its editor-in-chief until 1991 and co-owner of the advertising agency word until 1997 (including Köstritzer beer newspaper, radio spots, slogan: The black with the blonde soul ). In 1998 Otto Werner Förster founded Taurus-Verlag Leipzig. Förster has been a member of the Johann-Gottfried-Seume-Gesellschaft zu Leipzig eV since 1999 and of the Leipzig History Association for several years .

Books

Fritz Schiller , a biographical story, illustrations by Annette Fritzsch, Postreiter-Verlag Halle 1988
Volker's battle meal or how the Christ child was born to the Germanic peoples ... is explained in a knowledgeable way in this collection of folkloric research reports and illustrated sensitively and vividly by Knut , Satire, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1997
"... as if the world was smoking behind me in flames" - "Don Carlos" and Schiller , essay, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1997
Fritz Schiller - a short story about Friedrich Schiller in Mannheim, Leipzig, Dresden , Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1997
Johann Gottfried Seume - "I have never been a poet" , essay, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1999
Georg Joachim Göschen - "A merchant who trades in the finest goods ..." , essay, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1999
Freemasons in Leipzig: people, history, facts , essay, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1999
Carl Ernst Mey and the Deutsche Celluloid-Fabrik Actiengesellschaft: a Weltmann in Plagwitz and Schleußig , essay, edited by Hans-Joachim Wolf, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 1999
Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld: My life story: at the same time as an otherwise and now over a period of 55 years , edited by Otto Werner Förster, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2000
Max Gerd Schönfelder: My years with the Semperoper: Secrets about Elektra; Anecdotes and stories , edited by Elke Therese Schönfelder and Otto Werner Förster, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2002
Register of the Masonic Lodge "Minerva to the Three Palms": 1741 - 1932 , edited by Otto Werner Förster, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2004
Leipzig cultural heads from 800 years. Part 1: Leipzig city center until approx. 1850 , city guide, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2004
Carl Augustin Grenser: History of Music in Leipzig: 1750-1838; but mainly of the great concert u. Theater orchestra , ed. and transcribed by Otto Werner Förster, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2005
Leipzig cultural heads from 800 years. Part 2: The suburbs , city guide, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2005
Careful Wagner! Humorous from the life of a composer , ed. and with a foreword by OW Förster, illustrations by Anja Stiehler, Faber and Faber Leipzig 2006
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld: Letters from a painter to his family about a nine-day hike from Munich to the Bavarian highlands and northern Tyrol in 1849 , edited by Otto Werner Förster and Volker Külow, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2006
Leipzig heads: a hundred celebrities on the trail , publisher: Bernd Radestock, Leipziger Medien Service 2008
Leipzig and the Freemasons: a cultural history , together. m. Günter Martin Hempel, Strong change. and exp. Version, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2008
The Freemason Lodge Apollo iO Leipzig , edited by Peter König, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2009
Death of a "spirit seer": Johann Georg Schrepfer; a hushed up state affair. 1774 , edited by Lutz Geyer, Taurus-Verlag Leipzig 2011
Leipzig and the Battle of Nations: 1813 - 1913 - 2013; 200th anniversary of the Battle of Nations , texts: Otto Werner Förster; Thomas Müller. engl. Translated by: Ines Laue, photos: Andreas Döring, Leipziger Medien Service 2012
... that I will be happy in Leipzig. Entertaining literary walks through old Leipzig , Verlag JG Seume, Leipzig 2013

Audio book

The robbery of princes at Altenburg , based on a text by Otto Werner Förster, with Maja Chrenko, Arno Köster, Axel Thielmann, Hoerwerk Leipzig 2008, ISBN 9783861899136

Radio documentaries

The Saale, the Mulde, the Elbe ... A journey through the 1000-year history of the Wettins. Co-Author: Gerhard Pötzsch . Director: Beatrix Zeiske , Radio of the GDR 1990
One with the world. Comments on Jules Verne , MDR 1995
... And if it were the Freemasons , MDR 1996
How the Christkind was born to the Teutons ... - Christmas nonsense series, Radio PSR, 1996
Our right to residents of other worlds. Kurd-Laßwitz-Portrait , MDR 1996
Biedermann as arsonist: Hans Dominik , MDR 1997
I've never been a poet: Johann Gottfried Seume. , MDR 1998
... as if the world was smoking behind me in flames. 'Don Carlos' and Schiller. , MDR 1996
Konrad von Wettin. A time picture , MDR 1998
From parliament to barricade - Robert Blum. , MDR 1998
Albert Lortzing , music feature, MDR 2001
Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld. My life story , reading in 5 episodes, MDR 2001
A merchant who trades in the finest goods ". Georg Joachim Göschen. , MDR 1998
A diplomat on the battlefield: Moritz von Sachsen. , MDR 2003
Father Gleim. On the 200th anniversary of the death of Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , MDR 2003
A good heart, with a lot of recklessness. Wilhelmine Countess Lichtenau. , MDR 2003
Physical exercises Leipzig poet. A contribution to the Olympic application ... , MDR 2003
Work, that is the great law! A portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , MDR 2004
Bringing something important and serious to the audience ... - Schiller's ballad year 1797 , MDR 2004
Princes, founders, iconoclasts. The 'Princely School' Grimma. Strange story of their founder figures. , MDR 2004
Ernst Abbe. A German story. , MDR 2005
Elector, knight, turning point. The robbery of princes at Altenburg , MDR 2005
I am disgusted with all mediocrity in art: Christian Gottfried Körner , MDR 2006
... Now Bonaparte makes the situation. The beginning of the end of old Europe. , MDR 2006
Guys, do you want to live forever ...? The Seven Years War 1756 - 1763. , MDR 2006
When the elector became king. Comments on the 200th anniversary of the royal proclamation in Saxony 1806. , MDR 2006
Paul Gerhardt, Grimma, Klosterstrasse 1 , MDR 2007
Books, education fear of princes: Anton Philipp Reclam , MDR 2007
A great prince in a small country: Carl August von Sachsen-Weimar MDR 2007
The most capable portrait sculptor in Germany: Carl Seffner , MDR 2007
This is a man! Mr Goethe, I am pleased to see you - Napoleon in Erfurt , MDR 2008
Reußen, Fasch and Leineweber: Greiz - A city portrait , MDR 2009
Patty Frank: A life with Karl May - The co-founder of the Karl May Museum Ernst Tobis , MDR 2009
Magister Everywhere disturbs the greats of Weimar: The archaeologist, educator and writer Karl August Böttiger , MDR 2010
A legend crumbles: Goethe and Frau von Stein , MDR 2010
We wish our subjects to be happy: Duke Georg I of Saxony-Meiningen , MDR 2011
In the dark grounds of the forest ... Vulpius' Rinaldo Rinaldini - the Weimar portrait , MDR 2012
That I strike my mind higher than what has happened before , MDR 2012
Power games in early Saxony: Friedrich the Meek , MDR 2012
People, you have to get better first: Otto Ludwig , MDR 2013
I was called to be a dangerous person - August Bebel in Leipzig , MDR 2013
Stone construction kit dreams - The Lilienthal brothers, Froebel and an original from Rudolstadt , MDR 2013
Saxony builds Germany's first long-distance railway line - the cornerstone of the European railway network , MDR 2014
The Veste Heldburg - The German Castle Museum in Thuringia , MDR 2015
Luther's fight against the iconoclasts , MDR 2015
Sugar tree and ice skating - Goethe establishes new Christmas customs in Weimar , MDR 2015

Web links

Leipziger-Recherche - Website of Otto Werner Förster
Literature by and about Otto Werner Förster in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2012/2013: 68th volume, De Gruyter Berlin 2012, p. 271
^ "Reality and Design. On Some Aspects of the Fantastic Genre in the GDR Literature of the 1970s.", Diss.
↑ Jörg Drews: "Hats off in Magdeburg. Between innocent life and existential frenzy - the autobiography of the painter Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld", Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 3, 2001, p. Roman6
↑ "A whole genre in data and facts. Biography, lexicon and music history - new books tell about Leipzig's land and people", Leipziger Volkszeitung, March 10, 2005, p. 15
^ FP: Stockings on the Leash, FAZ of March 27, 2014, p. R4
^ Patrick Conley: Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964-1991 . 2nd edition Berlin: Askylt, 1999, p. 163. ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 ( hdl : 10900/62994 )

personal data
SURNAME	Forester, Otto Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Forster, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH	May 2, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meissen

[1] Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2012/2013: 68th volume, De Gruyter Berlin 2012, p. 271

[2] "Reality and Design. On Some Aspects of the Fantastic Genre in the GDR Literature of the 1970s.", Diss.

[3] Jörg Drews: "Hats off in Magdeburg. Between innocent life and existential frenzy - the autobiography of the painter Veit Hanns Schnorr von Carolsfeld", Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 3, 2001, p. Roman6

[4] "A whole genre in data and facts. Biography, lexicon and music history - new books tell about Leipzig's land and people", Leipziger Volkszeitung, March 10, 2005, p. 15

[5] FP: Stockings on the Leash, FAZ of March 27, 2014, p. R4

[6] Patrick Conley: Features and reports on radio in the GDR. Recordings from 1964-1991 . 2nd edition Berlin: Askylt, 1999, p. 163. ISBN 3-9807372-0-9 ( hdl : 10900/62994 )