Siegfried Pitschmann

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Herbert Warnke (left) awards the FDGB Art Prize for Literature to Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann (1961)

Siegfried Pitschmann (born January 12, 1930 in Grünberg in Silesia ; † August 29, 2002 in Suhl ) was a German writer .

Life

Siegfried Pitschmann was a trained watchmaker until he began to write in 1949. From 1957 to 1959 he was a machinist in the construction of the Schwarze Pumpe combine , and since 1959 freelance writer. In 1958 he met Brigitte Reimann in the writers' home "Friedrich Wolf" in Petzow am Schwielowsee . From February 1959 to October 1964 he was her second husband. Siegfried Pitschmann lived and worked in Rostock from 1965 to 1989 , and later in Suhl.

“He will write some good books, real literature,” wrote Brigitte Reimann about him. Elvis Celebrates Birthday was published in 2000 by the Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag . This book was Pitschmann's first publication after a long break.

Brigitte Reimann's dictum is confirmed in Pitschmann's largely autobiographical novel Education for a Hero from 1959: A pianist who feels as if he has failed works as a concrete worker in the Schwarze Pumpe combine and is worn out in twelve-hour shifts. Pitschmann refrained from portraying the workers of the combine as class-conscious figures of light in his novel. In a speech at the first Bitterfeld conference in April 1959, Erwin Strittmatter dismissed the young colleagues without naming Pitschmann: "The people who work here are described as constantly drunk, greedy and without moral support." The novel does not appear in the GDR. Pitschmann attempted suicide; the manuscript remained unfinished. In 2014 it was discovered in the Brigitte Reimann Literature House in Neubrandenburg; Aisthesis Verlag published it in 2015 .

In 1974 the plant was on his five attempts over Uwe based film Life with Uwe published.

Publications

  • A man is at the door . Radio play, with Brigitte Reimann. Dramaturgy: Gerhard Rentzsch , director: Theodor Popp
  • A cartman's whimsical engagement. Construction Verlag, 1961.
  • Seven bushels of salt. Radio play, with Brigitte Reimann. Dramaturgy: Gerhard Rentzsch, director: Theodor Popp
  • Counterpoints. Stories and short stories. Construction Verlag, 1968.
  • Men with women. Stories. Aufbau Verlag, 1973.
  • The lucky Zimpel, the woman and the planes. Radio play. Dramaturgy: Wolfgang Beck , Director: Hannelore Solter
  • Exodus of the prodigal son. Reclam, Leipzig 1982.
  • “And yet we always dreamed of it”: Siegfried Pitschmann on living, loving and working with Brigitte Reimann Feature by Sabine Ranzinger, MDR / Der Audio Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-89813-014-2 .
  • Elvis is celebrating his birthday. Structure Verlag, 2000, ISBN 978-3-74661-461-8 .
  • Notice of loss. Memories. posthumously. Wartburg Verlag, 2004, ISBN 978-3-86160-310-8 .
  • Kristina Stella (Ed.): Would have been nice! The correspondence between Brigitte Reimann and Siegfried Pitschmann. published posthumously. Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89528-975-0 .
  • Raising a hero . Edited and with an afterword by Kristina Stella, Aisthesis-Verlag, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8498-1100-6 .

Prices

literature

  • Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Daniel Siegfried Pitschmann (1930-2002), pp. 144-153 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Christian Eger: Published from the sewing box: The letters from the German writer Brigitte Reimann to her second husband and colleague Siegfried Pitschmann have appeared . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, May 24, 2013.
  2. Brigitte Reimann: Everything tastes like goodbye. Diaries 1964–1970 , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 89.
  3. a b c Jörg Bernhard Bilke: Bitterfeld Abwege. Siegfried Pitschmann's lost novel . In: Der Stacheldraht , vol. 2015, issue 6, p. 18.
  4. ^ Original broadcast: August 3, 1960, Radio DDR I; Reprinted in: Die Reihe, No. 50, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 1960.
  5. ^ Original broadcast: November 17, 1960, Berliner, Rundfunk; Reprinted in: Hörspieljahrbuch 1. Henschel-Verlag, Berlin 1960, pp. 65–93.
  6. Original broadcast: June 16, 1973, voice of the GDR
  7. ^ Heinrich Mann Prize . Academy of Arts