Rudiger Syberberg

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Rüdiger Syberberg (born February 6, 1900 in Mülheim , † April 29, 1978 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German writer , playwright and storyteller.

life and work

From 1923 to 1925 Syberberg was a dramaturge in Düsseldorf, after which he also worked as a businessman and journalist and later ran a book shop. In a dedication copy of his novel Peter Anemont to the publisher Kurt Desch in 1953 he wrote: “I will be exhibiting at the Leipzig Antiquarian Book Fair until March 15th. - That's why I can only process your order from March 16th. ... ”His dramas“ Lilith ”(1946) and“ The Prisoners ”(1965), the novels“ Peter Anemont ”(1936) and“ That these stones become bread ”(1954) as well as his stories mainly deal with religious problems of humans .

For his best-known novel That these stones become bread, which was also translated into French (by Louise Servieen) and Dutch (by Jan Willem Hofstra ), he received the “Welt im Buch” award in 1954. The novel is about the story of the young pastor Heim, who receives his first parish in a border area, where the farmers eke out their desperate and meager existence between forests, stony ridges and a reservoir. In this deserted corner of the earth, the need has reached such an extent that people have become dull, custom and decency have given way to a will to survive at any price or to dull resignation. The pastor tries by all means, at last with a desperate act, to turn the need around.

President of the PEN Club

From 1951 Syberberg was next to Johannes Tralow and Johannes R. Becher President of the PEN Center Germany , but he resigned from the organization in 1953 after allegations of corruption and suspected cooperation with the state-controlled East German Cultural Association . “The extent to which his activity for the PEN Center Germany was controlled during his short term of office cannot be proven on the basis of the available sources. ... The Syberberg case is no longer mentioned in the files that have been preserved, ”writes Dorothée Bores in her large-scale research work The East German PEN Center 1951 to 1998: A tool of dictatorship? However, during his term of office, Rüdiger Syberberg hardly made an appearance for the PEN. The main reasons for this were serious illness and incapacity for work and the resulting major financial problems.

Works

  • Peter Anemont. Alber, Munich 1939.
  • Lilith. Munich 1946.
  • Josip and Joana. Play in three acts. Desch o. J., Munich approx. 1947.
  • I come in the night. Novella. Alber, Munich 1941. (New version: Glock and Lutz, Nuremberg 1959)
  • That these stones become bread. Desch, Vienna / Munich 1955. (actually 1954)
  • On such nights. Klemm, Freiburg i. Br. 1956.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dorothée Bores: The East German PEN Center 1951 to 1998: A Tool of Dictatorship? de Gruyter, Berlin 2010, p. 222 f.
  2. ↑ https://mimamo.co/dok-non-pr-video/non-pr-video-misc
personal data
SURNAME Syberberg, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim (Cologne)
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1978
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen