Klaus Steinhaußen

Klaus Steinhaußen (born March 2, 1931 in Bremerhaven ; † June 23, 2015 in Leipzig ) was a German writer and editor .

Life

Before the start of the Second World War, Klaus Steinhausen's family moved to Meissen , where he attended the Princely School of St. Afra . After an apprenticeship as a baker in 1945, he worked as a journeyman baker until 1949, after which he worked for the Meissen city administration. From 1949 to 1951 he made up his Abitur at the Workers and Farmers Faculty in Dresden and also studied engineering economics in Dresden from 1949. In 1955/56 he was a scientific assistant, then from 1956–1960 department head in the Schwarze Pumpe combine in Hoyerswerda and in the Meißen cable works .

At that time he was already a member of the Young Authors 'Working Group in Cottbus , studied at the Leipzig Literature Institute from 1960 to 1963 and became a member of the GDR Writers' Association . 1963/64 he was a freelance writer, then from 1964 to 1968 senior assistant and deputy director at the Leipzig Institute of Literature. After working as a freelance author from 1968 to 1970, he was editor at Mitteldeutscher Verlag in Halle from 1970 to 1982 . From 1970 to 1990 he led the poetry seminar in the distance learning program of the Leipzig Literature Institute and the poetry proseminar at the FDJ - Poetenseminar in Schwerin .

Retired in 1994, he first lived in Rudolstadt , from 2009 to 2013 in Jena , and from 2014 in Leipzig.

Works

• The returnees , narration. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 1960
• Late memories , poems. Otto, Offenbach 1997. ISBN 3-9805676-7-2
• How should the nightingale ever die? , Novel. Otto, Offenbach 1999. ISBN 3-933116-26-0
• Soaring , narration. Wartburg-Verlag, Weimar 2003. ISBN 3-86160-313-6
• Deluge. End of a Childhood , Roman. Otto, Offenbach 2007. ISBN 978-3-936751-92-5
• Fear for the nightingale. Novel of a childhood and youth , novel. Fischer, Aachen 2009. ISBN 978-3-89514-832-3

As editor

• No scent of wild mint , anthology (ed., With an afterword). Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle and Leipzig 1980
• Above all summits there is peace. Literary forays through Thuringia (ed., With a preface and pre-texts). Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle and Leipzig 1990. ISBN 3-354-00643-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Steinhaußen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Klaus Steinhaußen at the Thuringian Literature Council
• Frank Quilitzsch : Poetic flights of fancy: Thuringian author Steinhaußen turns 80 , in: Thüringische Landeszeitung , March 2nd, 2011