Peter Maiwald
Peter Maiwald (born November 8, 1946 in Grötzingen (Aichtal) , † December 1, 2008 in Düsseldorf ) was a German poet and writer .
Life
Peter Maiwald was born the son of an employee and an unskilled worker. After graduating from high school, he studied theater studies , German and sociology at the University of Munich for eight semesters . He broke off this course and from 1968 lived as a freelance writer in Munich . In the same year he joined the German Communist Party . In 1970 he moved to Neuss . In 1984 he co-founded the critical, left-wing monthly magazine Düsseldorfer Debatte ; this led to Maiwald's expulsion from the DKP in the same year . From 1985 he lived in Düsseldorf.
Peter Maiwald's early publications were agitprop pieces in Brechtian style, poems and songs that took up time problems in a partly ironic, partly bitter way, the most famous being the ballad by Hester Jonas , which was set to music several times . Since separating from the DKP, Maiwald increasingly used traditional forms, stanzas and rhymes in his poems , which for him were indispensable features of real poetry . An almost enthusiastic praise of his poems by Marcel Reich-Ranicki helped Maiwald to gain further fame. In addition to the lyrical work, numerous essays , radio plays and radio reports were created.
Peter Maiwald belonged to the Association of German Writers from 1975 . In 1976, 1980, 1986 and 1991 he received working grants from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia , in 1983 the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the City of Bad Homburg, in 1985 the German Critics' Prize and in 1997 the Rheinische Literaturpreis Siegburg .
Peter Maiwald died after a long illness at the age of 62.
Works
- Stories from Worker B. , Munich 1975
- Answer in this country , Munich 1976
- The people from Annostraße , Oberhausen 1979
- Ballads from Saturday to Sunday , Stuttgart 1984
- Good things , Stuttgart 1987
- Entrances - Exits , Cologne 1989
- The Gutenberg people , Frankfurt am Main 1990
- Springinsfeld , Frankfurt am Main 1992
- Wortkino , Frankfurt am Main 1993
- Signs of life , Frankfurt am Main 1997
- Paul's Magic Land is called Samarkand , Frankfurt am Main 1998
- 100 stories , Munich and Vienna 2004
- The mammoth mouse looks like a mammoth , Munich 2006
- The cherry tree and Mrs. Koenes
Editing
- When the war was over , Düsseldorf 1980
Translations
- Margaret Atwood : High up in the tree , Frankfurt am Main 1994
Settings
- The people from Annostrasse . Music: Mike Herting , Performers: Rick Abao (Gsg), Fasia Jansen (Gsg), Uschi Flacke (Gsg), Mike Herting (Gsg, keyboard). LP. plans , 1978
- Reinhard Fehling : machnomma , contains settings of poems from ballads from Saturday to Sunday and good things . CD 1993
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Maiwald in the catalog of the German National Library
- Poet Peter Maiwald has died . In: Spiegel Online , December 4, 2008
- List of contributions by Peter Maiwald that appeared in the Düsseldorf debate (pp. 74–75)
Individual evidence
- ^ Lothar Schröder: Obituary: Peter Maiwald is dead. (No longer available online.) In: Rheinische Post. December 3, 2008, archived from the original on December 6, 2008 ; Retrieved July 2, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maiwald, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aichtal |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 2008 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |