Sigmar Schollak

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Sigmar Schollak (born May 2, 1930 in Berlin ; † May 21, 2012 in Berlin ) was a German journalist , children's book author and aphorist . He founded the Federal Republic of Germany's Authors' Circle in 1992 and was its chairman until he left in 1997.

Life

Schollak's family was subjected to reprisals during the Third Reich . Schollak's father was Jewish and his parents lived in a so-called mixed marriage .

During the Second World War , Schollak began an apprenticeship in the clothing industry in 1944, but broke it off in 1945 to take music lessons. After the war he completed his education by attending a conservatory and the Berlin-Charlottenburg Academy of Music . He then worked as a musician in show orchestras until 1960, when the (initially part-time) activity as a feature journalist and author became his main profession.

Due to political persecution and his parents' flight to West Berlin, Schollak was not admitted to study literature and in 1961 gave up his work as a journalist after the Berlin Wall was built . After the GDR Ministry of Culture rejected the printing of two manuscripts, Schollak published his works at Kinderbuchverlag Berlin until 1980 .

Grave of Sigmar Schollak in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

In 1980, Schollak submitted an application to leave the country because of Biermann's expatriation , which was only granted in 1982 after lengthy harassment. In the same year he received a one-year scholarship from the German Literature Fund in Darmstadt. In the period that followed, he wrote several books in which Schollak was finally able to meet his penchant for satire . He also wrote aphorisms and radio reports for the station RIAS and also for several West German stations. In 1989, Schollak was granted another one-year scholarship from the Prussian Sea Action Foundation in Berlin.

Sigmar Schollak was the founder of the Federal Republic of Germany's circle of authors and, until his departure in 1997, also its chairman and co-initiator of the Hans Sahl Prize . From 2008 to 2012 he was a member of the PEN Center for German-Speaking Authors Abroad .

He married for the second time in 1967. He was the father of two grown children; until the end he lived and worked in Berlin.

Sigmar Schollak died just three weeks after his 82nd birthday on May 21, 2012 in Berlin. The funeral took place on May 31, 2012 at the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . Grave location: 18-H-7/8.

Works

  • Murder in Detroit , children's book publisher, Berlin 1969
  • Der Davidsbündler , children's book publisher, Berlin 1971
  • Grandsons of the slaves , children's book publisher, Berlin 1971
  • The Hunted , children's book publisher, Berlin 1972
  • Dead fear , children's book publisher, Berlin 1973, with many b / w photos from the US civil rights movement in Mississippi
  • Storm on Harpers Ferry , children's book publisher, Berlin 1975
  • Squidward and the bewitched day , children's book publisher, Berlin 1976
  • The girl from Harrys Straße , children's book publisher, Berlin 1978
  • The new one from 106 , Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1980
  • The Devil's Festival , Berlin hand press, 1982
  • Excursion to paradises. Prose. Arani, 1989
  • Kallosch. Roman , Weidler, 1995
  • Tattoos , aphorisms, ibid. 1997
  • The kiss, paying lip service , aphorisms. Donath, Bremen 2007
  • Narrenreise , Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 2015

Web links

Commons : Sigmar Schollak  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Der Zuspitzer ", obituary by Günter Kunert , May 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Obituary notice of the family in the Berlin Tagesspiegel on May 27, 2012. Accessed on November 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Schollak, Sigmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, children's book author and aphorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2012
Place of death Berlin