Peter Böthig

Peter Böthig (* 1958 in Altenburg ) is a German philologist and literary scholar .

Life

Böthig studied German at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1984 to 1986 he was a research assistant there. Due to his co-editing of the independent literary magazine Schaden , he was fired in 1986. He then worked as a freelance writer for newspapers and magazines. In 1988 he was finally arrested by the Ministry for State Security (MfS). In 1989 he was allowed to leave for West Berlin .

From 1989 to 1990 he was a teaching fellow at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, USA. In 1993 he was in Berlin with the dissertation difference and revolt. Literature from the GDR in the 80s. Investigations on the margins of a discourse on Dr. phil. PhD. Since 1993 he has been director of the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum in the Rheinsberg Castle , since 2009, the Alfred Wegener Museum in Zechlinerhütte. He works as an exhibition curator and journalist and is a board member of the Working Group on Literary Societies and Memorials , the Rheinsberg Art and Culture Association, the Peter Huchel Haus e. V., the Brandenburg Literature Association and the Christa Wolf Society and co-organizer of the European Travel Literature Festival Next to the track as part of the Fontane Festival in the city of Neuruppin .

Fonts

• Grammar of a landscape. Literature from the GDR in the 80s . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-931836-03-7
• with Stefanie Oswalt: Jews in Rheinsberg. A search for clues . Edition Rieger, Karwe b. Neuruppin 2005.
• Erich Arendt and Neuruppin. Frankfurter Buntbuch 44/34, 2008, ISBN 978-3-938008-23-2 .
• Alfred Wegener. Meteorologist, polar explorer, geoscientist. 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027776-4 .
• In the house of the seven forests. Lola Landau and Armin T. Wegner in Neuglobsow. Frankfurt Buntbuch 49, 2010. ISBN 978-3-938008-29-4 .

editor

• with Klaus Michael : Flanzendörfer: It is impossible to live it. texts photos pictures. Berlin 1992.
• with Klaus Michael: power games. Focus on literature and state security Prenzlauer Berg (= Reclams Universal Library , 1460). Reclam, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-379-01460-5 .
• Kurt Tucholsky : Longer, better. Reinbek near Hamburg 1995.
• Christa Wolf, Gerhard Wolf: Our friends, the painters. Berlin 1995.
• Martin Hoffmann : Reflections from paper and shadow. Berlin 1996
• Kurt Tucholsky: And there are always traces. Texts and portraits. Amsterdam 1997
• Poetry is always right: Gerhard Wolf - author, editor, publisher. Berlin 1998
• with Petra Schramm: Peter Brasch : Status Quo, essays, sketches and portraits, BasisDruck Berlin 2002.
• Christa Wolf . A biography in pictures and texts . Luchterhand, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-630-87169-0 .
• Jürgen Graetz, photographs 1958–2008 . Edition Stechlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-025222-8 .
• with Peter Walther : The Russians are here. Everyday life in the war and a new beginning in 1945 in diaries from Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-079-5 .
• with Carina Stewen: Kurt Tucholsky: Mr. Wendriner and the Lottchen . 2014, ISBN 978-3-945256-01-5 .
• with Wolfgang Sax: Kurt Tucholsky: Where were you in the war, sir -? 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-045129-4 .
• Language times. Ekke Maass's literary salon . A documentation from 1978 to 2016 . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-86732-241-6 .
• Prussia should be beautiful here. Fifty town clerks in Rheinsberg invent a poetic province. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, 2020, ISBN 978-3-947215-72-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Böthig in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Peter Böthig at perlentaucher.de
• Peter Boethig at Lukas Verlag