Paul Gratzik

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Paul Gratzik (born November 30, 1935 in Lindenhof , Lötzen district , East Prussia ; † June 18, 2018 in Eberswalde ) was a German writer.

Life

Paul Gratzik was the son of a farm laborer who died on the Eastern Front in 1941. He attended elementary school and fled with his mother and five siblings from East Prussia to Mecklenburg before the end of the Second World War . There he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 1952 to 1954 and then attended the workers and farmers faculty in 1954/55 to catch up on his Abitur . In 1955 he fled the republic to West Germany, where he worked as a construction worker in the Ruhr area .

A year later he went back to the GDR and became a miner in the lignite opencast mine in Schlabendorf am See . In 1962 he was a functionary in the Weimar district leadership of the FDJ . From 1962 to 1964 he studied at the Institute for Teacher Training in Weimar and then worked as an educator in youth workshops until 1971 , where he also found material for his later plays. In 1967, he was succeeded by his operation, the VEB transformer and Röntgenwerk Dresden to study at the Institute of Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig seconded, but in 1968 for political and ideological reasons relegated because he sympathy for the Prague Spring developed.

From 1971 he was a freelance writer , in 1974 he worked part-time in an industrial company in Dresden . From 1977 Gratzik lived in Berlin and had been a contract author with the Berliner Ensemble since 1975 . After the construction of the Wall in 1961 was the Ministry of State Security of the GDR aware of him, on 2 May 1962 he was IM under the code name "Peter" for the Ministry of State Security. When he refused further employment in 1981, he was himself an object of observation for the State Security Service from 1984 onwards. Since 1981 he lived in Beenz near Prenzlau in the Uckermark .

Paul Gratzik was a writer of dramas and narrative works. Among the authors of GDR literature, he was considered a blatant outsider, since he voluntarily returned to "production" and - in a very idiosyncratic language influenced by Expressionism - described the everyday life of industrial workers in the GDR. He also did not shy away from the subject of the youth work yards, which he knew from his own experience, which caused him difficulties with state censorship .

Paul Gratzik received the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1980 . 2011 was about the writer of the documentary traitors by Anne Katrin Hendel . In 2019 a memorial stone was unveiled in Beenz.

Works

  • 1965: Troubled days. Acting in six pictures. Central House for Cultural Work , Leipzig 1966.
  • 1968: Malwa. A game in six pictures based on the story of the same name by Maxim Gorky. Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt am Main 1978.
  • 1969: Waiting for Maria. (Piece).
  • 1970: detours. Pictures from the life of the young engine fitter Michael Runna. (Piece), Henschelverlag, Berlin / GDR 1970.
  • 1971: The knee beater. (Piece). World premiere at Hans-Otto-Theater, Potsdam 1971.
  • 1975: Fairy tale of someone who set out to learn to fear. (Piece).
  • 1976: Lisa. Two scenes. (Piece), Verlag der Autor, Frankfurt am Main 1979.
  • 1976: manual operation. (Piece).
  • 1977: Transportpaule. Monologue. (Novel). Hinstorff, Rostock 1977 / Rotbuch, Berlin 1977.
  • 1980: Chekists. (Piece).
  • 1982: Coal cowl. Novel. Rotbuch, West Berlin 1982 / Hinstorff, Rostock 1989.
  • 1984: The ax in the house. (Piece)
  • 1988: Gabi's place. (Novel, unpublished)
  • 1994: Hans Wurst in Mogadishu. (Piece)
  • 1996: Tripoli. (Narration), filmed as Country Life
  • 1997: Lithuanian pianos. (Piece after Bobrowski). First performance Theater 89, 1997
  • 1999: The adventurous Simplicissimus . (Piece to Grimmelshausen ). First performance Theater 89, 1999
  • 2010: The Führer birthday. (Drama)
  • 2015: St. An erotic story with drawings by Emma Korolewa. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-359-02458-3 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annekatrin Hendel : A dream of socialism The writer Paul Gratzik has died. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 19, 2018. Retrieved July 19, 2018 . David Ensikat: Be a hero for once! In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 17, 2018, accessed July 19, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Cf. Barth: Gratzik, Paul .
  3. ↑ Film data sheet: Perspective German Cinema: Fatherlands Traitor Profile. Berlin International Film Festival , 2011, accessed on June 20, 2018 . Fokke Joel: Film "Der Vaterlandsverräter": Documentation of a betrayal. In: Zeit Online . October 4, 2011, accessed June 20, 2018 .
  4. ^ Matthias Bruck: Cursed and loved - Beenz remembers a controversial writer . In: Prenzlauer Zeitung, December 4, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Gratzik, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Lindenhof , Lötzen district , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 2018
Place of death Eberswalde