Tom Crepon

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Tom Crepon , actually Carl-Thomas Crepon , pseudonyms Claus Wendt , Hans Knutt (* 1938 in Demmin ) is a German writer. As an unofficial employee of the GDR State Security , he spied on other writers.

Life

Tom Crepon grew up in Teterow . After graduating from high school in 1958 and completing his military service in the NVA , he studied English and German at the universities of Greifswald , Rostock and Berlin . From 1964 to 1967 he worked as a teacher at the Extended High School in Teterow. In 1967 he became an aspirant of literary studies at the Academy for Social Sciences in Berlin, where he completed a collective dissertation for Dr. phil. received his doctorate.

From 1971 to 1986 he was the first director of the newly founded Neubrandenburg Literature Center, an institution of the council of the Neubrandenburg district , and from 1981 also the district chairman of the GDR writers' association for the Neubrandenburg district. At the same time he worked from 1972 as an unofficial employee (IM) under the code name Klaus Richter for the Ministry for State Security . In this capacity he spied on Brigitte Reimann , inter alia , hindered Werner Liersch's research and sought to influence young writers. Crepon was also involved in the persecution of Annegret Gollin .

In 1978 he was the middleman in the purchase of the Fallada estate stored in Braunschweig against foreign currency payments from the East German Ministry of Culture by the East Berlin Academy of the Arts. With the estate, an archive was set up in the Carwitzer Hans Fallada House in 1981 .

1985/1986 he gave up both official posts to work as a freelance writer. In July 1989 he left the GDR on a one-year visa as a scholarship holder of the Duchy of Lauenburg Foundation . He has lived in Lübeck since 1992, where he was a public relations employee at the city ​​library from 1991 to 1993 . In that year Werner Liersch discovered for the first time in his Stasi files that it had been Crepon who had hindered him massively on behalf of the State Security, and unsuccessfully requested the Hans Fallada Society , which is closely connected to the literature center , to cope with the IM activity to discuss.

In 1994 Crepon was the town clerk in Otterndorf .

Works

As Carl-Thomas Crepon

  • (with Dietmar Hans Angler, Werner Jehser, Sepp Müller, Leopold Sladczyk): Main questions of socialist partisanship and ties to the people in contemporary GDR literature. 2 volumes, Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the SED 1971

As Tom Crepon

  • Life and death of Hans Fallada. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1978 - several editions
(West edition) Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1981 ISBN 3-455-00400-8 ; (Paperback edition) Frankfurt / M .: Ullstein 1984 ISBN 3-548-27529-X
  • Leberecht von Blücher. Berlin: Neues Leben 1988 ISBN 3-355-00624-6 , 2nd edition 1990
  • Life and suffering of Ernst Barlach. Rostock: Hinstorff 1988 ISBN 3-356-00065-9 , 2nd edition 1990
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: a small historical and cultural study of the country. Kiel: State Center for Political Education 1990 (contemporary issues; 67)
  • Heinrich Schliemann. Berlin: New Life 1990 ISBN 3-355-01029-4
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Pictures of a Landscape. Rostock: Hinstorff 1993 ISBN 3-356-00505-7 (text in English and German), 2nd edition 1995
New edition Rostock: Hinstorff 1998 ISBN 3-356-00779-3 (German) / ISBN 3-356-00780-7 (English)
  • Holstein Switzerland. Rostock: Hinstorff 1993 ISBN 3-356-00501-4
  • A city made of marzipan: the great Lübeck reading book. Rostock: Hinstorff 1993 ISBN 3-356-00516-2
  • (with Marianne Dwars) There's (no) a fairy tale about the swale: Hans Fallada in Neumünster. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1993 ISBN 3-529-06220-0
  • Children's games in Northern Germany. Neumünster: Wachholtz 1997 ISBN 3-529-06357-6
  • Friedrich Schult. Friend Ernst Barlach. Schwerin: Demmler 1997 ISBN 3-910150-37-3
  • Short life - long death: Hans Fallada in Mecklenburg. Rostock: Hinstorff 1998 ISBN 3-356-00797-1
  • Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher - his life, his struggles. Rostock: Hinstorff 1999 ISBN 3-356-00833-1

As Claus Wendt

  • Art pieces: aphorisms and other jumps in thought. Berlin: Eulenspiegel-Verlag 1984
  • Vollmann's wife. Berlin: Tribüne 1988 ISBN 3-7303-0196-9

literature

  • Christine Baumann: On the history of the Neubrandenburg Literature Center: Documentation; 1971-1989. Developed on behalf of the city of Neubrandenburg. Funded by the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the State Commissioner for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for the records of the State Security Service of the former GDR. Schwerin; Neubrandenburg 2005
  • Christiane Baumann: The Literature Center Neubrandenburg 1971-2005. Literary politics between promotion, control and a new lack of history. Publication series of the Robert Havemann Archive, Vol. 11. Berlin: Robert Havemann Society 2006 ISBN 978-3-938857-03-8
  • Sabine Lange: Fallada: Fall ad acta? Socialist heritage and the Ministry of State Security. Bremen: Edition Temmen 2006 ISBN 978-3-86108-089-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Baumann (Lit.)
  2. ↑ Detlev Lücke: Petzen as a social mandate? , in: Friday of October 7, 2005, full text accessed on July 13, 2013
  3. ↑ So his website; after Baumann, Crepon left Neubrandenburg to become head of the Ernst Barlach memorial in Güstrow , which he did not succeed in spite of intrigues and denunciations.
  4. ↑ Jochen Schmidt: "I have the GDR in my heart." The disputes over the Neubrandenburg Literature Center. In: Horch and Guck Heft 53 (2006), pp. 50–52 ( full text )
personal data
SURNAME Crepon, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crepon, Carl-Thomas (real name); Wendt, Claus (pseudonym); Knutt, Hans (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Demmin