Paul Werner Wagner

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Paul Werner Wagner, Berlin 2008

Paul Werner Wagner (born August 11, 1948 in Wolfen ) is a German literary scholar, cultural manager and chess official.

Life

Paul Werner Wagner was arrested on the Czechoslovak-Hungarian border after completing secondary school in 1967 while trying to escape from the GDR and sentenced to 19 months in prison for treason. After seven years in production , Wagner studied cultural and literary studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

In the last few years before unification, Wagner was actively involved in the civil rights movement and headed the discursive Pintsch Club in Berlin-Friedrichshain. During this time, Wagner was monitored by the East German Ministry for State Security .

From 1994 to 1997 he was managing partner of the Palamedes Agency for European Communication Culture GmbH. Wagner is chairman of the Emanuel Lasker Society , which was founded in 2001 , has chaired the Friedrich Wolf Society since 2012 and was chairman of the artists' club DIE MÖWE from 2002 to 2010 as well as the author and editor of several books. He was married to the two-time GDR chess master and international champion Annett Wagner-Michel and has a son with her. He has a daughter from his first marriage.

Publications

  • Uranium mining in the Cold War , by Rudolf Boch and Rainer Karlsch (HG), Ch. Links Verlag Berlin (PW Wagner: “From the fighting spirit of the Kumpel-Sportler - Die Wismut and the football sport” pp. 632–658), 2011 ISBN 978-3 -86153-653-6
  • The AGFA-ORWO story. History of the Wolfen film factory and its successors , by Rainer Karlsch and Paul Werner Wagner, Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg , Berlin 2010 ISBN 978-3-942476-04-1
  • Emanuel Lasker: homo ludens - homo politicus; Articles about his life and work , by Elke-Vera Kotowski , Susanna Poldauf, Paul Werner Wagner (eds.). Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2003.
  • The Bitterfeld uprising: June 17, 1953 and Germany policy; Events - contemporary witnesses - analyzes , by Stefanie Wahl, Paul Werner Wagner (eds). Leipzig: Forum Verlag, 2003
  • Rebellion against the Narrow: Protocol of a failed attempt to escape; Interrogations, poems and letters , by Paul Werner Wagner. Magdeburg: State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR in Saxony-Anhalt, 2001
  • "... you have to get your rights ...": Paul Othma - strike leader on June 17, 1953 in Bitterfeld , by Heidemarie Schmidt, Paul Werner Wagner. Magdeburg: The State Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former GDR in Saxony-Anhalt, 2001
  • “Kampf” by Emanuel Lasker - reprint of the first philosophical work by the German world chess champion from 1907 , Paul Werner Wagner (editor), Potsdam 2001
  • Interview with Wolfgang Leonhard (film and text version on the bonus DVD in the DVD box "LIBERATION" - ICESTORM 2005) (interviewer PW Wagner)
  • Ticket to Ride - Chess - Society - Politics House of History Bonn 2006
  • Big stories 70 - GDR archive "columbus 64" - DVD box with booklet text (20 pages), Studio Hamburg Enterprises 2012 (PW Wagner - author of the booklet text)
  • Friedrich Wolf - a broadcasting pioneer - double CD with booklet text, German Broadcasting Archive 2013 (PW Wagner - research, booklet text and selection of audio documents)
  • “But I saw for myself that it was the war.” War diary and letters from the front 1943–1945 , Konrad Wolf , Edition Die Möwe, ed. Paul Werner Wagner
  • On the culture of the GDR - personal memories and scientific perspectives Frank Hoffmann (Ed.) (PW Wagner "My Bitterfeld Way. Culture and Production in the GDR" (pp. 229–242))
  • The Kracher von Moscow - football between politics and sport - the international match between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany on August 21, 1955 Thomas Grimm (Ed.) (PW Wagner “Football in East Germany - The View Over” (pp. 35–43))
  • Chess column of the Berliner Zeitung every second weekend edition since 2002 (so far over 850 portraits of famous chess masters )

swell

  • On July 12, 1980, Annett Michel and Werner Wagner entered into a chess marriage . SCHACH 9/1980, p. 128

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Paul Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfen