Rainer Klis

Rainer Klis (born August 7, 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , GDR ; † October 14, 2017 in Chemnitz ) was a German writer and bookseller .

Life

Rainer Klis was the son of an engineer and an industrial clerk. After attending the polytechnic high school , he completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith. He refused to do military service and from 1975 to 1979 carried out various activities. From 1979 to 1982 he studied at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . He then worked as a freelancer, including contributing to the East Berlin magazine “ Das Magazin ” and performing in literary and musical programs. Study trips took him to the Asian republics of the Soviet Union and to Cuba.

In 1989, Rainer Klis was one of the founders of the New Forum and the SDP in Karl-Marx-Stadt ; he was politically active until 1991. He then worked mainly as a journalist and ran a bookstore in his home town of Hohenstein-Ernstthal from 1991 to 2016 . From 1996 onwards he made numerous trips to southern Africa, Lapland and the western United States and Canada.

Rainer Klis was the author of novels , short stories and travel reports . Critics call him a master of the small form and the "Hemingway from Hohenstein-Ernstthal". From 1981 to 1991 he was head of a poetry circle in Karl-Marx-Stadt . He was co-founder and from 1989 to 2007 President of the Saxon Writers' Association ; until 2006 he was a member of the Association of German Writers in Saxony. Since 2005 he has been a member of the PEN Center Germany .

He has been married twice and has a daughter.

Works

• Uprising of Readers , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle [ua] 1983, DNB 830960449
• Behind big men , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle [ua] 1986 ISBN 3-354-00007-4
• Hand-writing , Karl-Marx-Stadt 1989 (together with Ronald Weise) DNB 993778089
• Königskinder , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle [including] 1989 ISBN 3-354-00512-2
• Return to Germany , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1993 ISBN 3-928678-13-2
• Rauchzeichen , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1998 ISBN 3-928678-44-2
• Indian time , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1999 ISBN 3-928678-56-6
• The evening of the representative , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2000 ISBN 978-3-86211-034-6
• Forays through the Indian country , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2000 ISBN 3-928678-59-0
• Im Land der Crow , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2002 ISBN 3-928678-87-6
• Night of the Cavaliers , Faber and Faber, Leipzig 2003 ISBN 978-3-86211-035-3
• Man without a horse , Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2004, ISBN 3-937025-02-2 .
• Stone Age , Rowohlt, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-87134-574-6 .
• Hohenstein-Ernstthal (with Regina Röhner ), Klis, Hohenstein-Ernstthal 2008, ISBN 978-3-937654-31-7
• Laus im Pelz , Plöttner, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-86211-018-6
• Rauch-Werk , Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-359-02362-3

Awards

• 1984 together with Irina Liebmann award for young writers of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle-Leipzig and the literature institute "Johannes R. Becher" (Leipzig).

Web links

• Literature by and about Rainer Klis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• Author portrait on the pages of the Chemnitz City Library
• Author portrait at Chemnitzer Verlag

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Klaus Walther : Author Rainer Klis died completely unexpectedly . In: Freie Presse Online , October 14, 2017.
2. ↑ Klaus Walther: A life between the times. In: Freie Presse, October 16, 2017, p. 7.
3. ↑ Erik Kiwitter: Friends mourn Rainer Klis . In: Freie Presse, Hohenstein-Ernstthal local edition of October 17, 2017, p. 9.
4. ↑ Klaus Müller: Sparkling short prose. Rainer Klis to death . In: Neues Deutschland from November 20, 2017, p. 16.
5. ↑ Michael Hametner, My friend, the Indian from Hohenstein-Ernstthal, in: anzettelt, information sheet of the Saxon Literature Council eV, 1/2018, p. 10f.
6. ↑ Rainer Klis. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 510.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait of the author at Chemnitzer Verlag
8. ↑ ^{a b c} Portrait of the author on the pages of the Chemnitz City Library
9. ↑ ^{a b} Short biography on Rainer Klis' own homepage
10. ↑ Michael Hametner: At the beginning of murder (new Germany). Retrieved June 9, 2019 .