Ulrich Völkel

Ulrich Völkel (born October 30, 1940 in Plauen , Vogtland ) is a German writer .

Life

Ulrich Völkel passed his school-leaving examination in 1959 and then did his military service in the National People's Army . From 1961 he worked as a stage worker and dramaturgy assistant at the theater in Putbus on Rügen . In 1962 he became cultural advisor for the city of Saßnitz , and from 1962 he worked in the cultural work of the city of Schwerin . From 1963 to 1965 he studied at the Leipzig "Literature Institute Johannes R. Becher" , which he graduated with the degree of a graduate philosopher. After that he was an artistic assistant atSchwerin State Theater and the Rostock Volkstheater . He has been a freelance writer since 1975 . From 1988 he lived in Arnstadt , Thuringia , where he founded Rhinoverlag in 1993, which he managed until 2006. He has been based in Weimar since 2001 . He has 2 children.

Ulrich Völkel is the author of novels , stories , poems and plays . He also publishes works of fiction and non-fiction , mostly on regional topics, and works as a lecturer for various publishers .

Ulrich Völkel was a member of the GDR Writers' Association from 1968 to 1989 . In 1968 he received the Fritz Reuter Art Prize of the Schwerin district , in 1969 the main prize in the playwright competition of the Ministry of Culture of the GDR and in 1979 the Theodor Körner Prize .

Works

• Cain and Abel , Berlin 1968
• Fishing on Fridays , Berlin 1971
• Schwerin history (s) , Schwerin 1972 (together with Karlheinz Effenberger)
• On the bridge with Marie , Berlin 1973
• The ship sails again , Berlin 1975
• With lyre and sword , Berlin 1983
• Berger's marriage , Berlin 1985
• Eagle with a broken wing , Berlin 1987
• The fourth key , Berlin 1988
• Two giants in the sound , Berlin 1988
• Luc and the Wolves of Paris , Berlin 1989
• Central Thuringia , Erfurt 1993
• Thuringian Forest , Erfurt 1993
• The dictator's safe , Erfurt 1993
• At home, in my foreign country , Arnstadt [u. a.] 1999
• An elephant in the hotel , Weimar 2002 (together with Klaus Martin)
• Caves, grottos, show mines in Thuringia , Ilmenau 2007
• Small illustrated book Weimar , Weimar, Thür. 2009 (together with Johannes Bock)
• Native plants , Ilmenau
  • 1. Flowers and Herbs , 2010
  • 2. Grasses and Herbs , 2011
  • 3. Trees and Shrubs , 2011
• Together for one another , Erfurt 2010
• Bonjour citoyen , Erfurt 2012
• Domestic animals , Ilmenau
  • Birds , 2012
• The distant grave , Weimar 2014
• The runaway corpse from the arsenal. Commissioner Ponte determined (1) , Wiesbaden 2014
• Death lurks under a suspended load. Commissioner Ponte determined (3) , Ilmenau 2017
• Three dead men and a woman. Commissioner Ponte determined (4) , Ilmenau 2017
• The death of a bookseller. Commissioner Ponte determined (5) , Ilmenau 2018
• I will kill you. Commissioner Ponte determined (6) , Ilmenau 2018
• Stone from the bridge. Commissioner Ponte determined (7) , ilmenau 2019
• Gonikowski. Or how power works , Weimar 2020

Editing

• Birthday of a special kind , Schwerin 1969
• 77 restaurants and recipes in Thuringia , Arnstadt 1993
• Harry Thürk , Halle (Saale) 2007 (published together with Hanjo Hamann and Stefan Wogawa)
• August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben : Poems and Songs , Weimar 2008
• Small lexicon of Weimar personalities , Weimar 2009
• Small Lexicon Bauhaus Weimar , Weimar 2010 (edited together with Christian Tesch)
• I remember. Records, journeys and diaries , Weimar 2014 (Author: Wolfgang Held )
• Stumbling Stone Stories Weimar , Weimar 2016
• Stumbling stone stories Aurich , Weimar 2018

Web links

• Homepage of the author