Utz Rachowski

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Utz Rachowski (born January 23, 1954 in Plauen , Vogtland) is a German writer .

biography

Utz Rachowski, who was born in Plauen / Vogtland in 1954, got into initial conflicts with the State Security (MfS) in the GDR's extended secondary school, which he attended from 1968 . In 1971 he was expelled from high school for founding a philosophy club and excluded from the Free German Youth ( FDJ ). He completed an apprenticeship as an electrician and then did his basic military service with the NVA .

In 1977 he took on the workers' and peasants faculty in Freiberg graduated from high school gradually began in Leipzig the medical school . After two semesters he was de-registered and worked as a stoker . In 1979 he was sentenced to 27 months imprisonment for disseminating his own poems and literature by Jürgen Fuchs , Reiner Kunze , Wolf Biermann , Gerulf Pannach and the associated charge of " subversive agitation " . After the intervention of Reiner Kunze and Amnesty International , Rachowski was released to West Germany in 1980. There he studied art history and philosophy in Göttingen and at the Free University of Berlin .

Utz Rachowski's first publications began in 1982. With Marianne Herzog, he remained the only writer in the Federal Republic who (1981/1982) entered Poland under the military dictatorship and inquired about imprisoned colleagues and brought their “hunted” texts back to the Federal Republic. 1984 he became an author and employee of the Berlin Oberbaum Verlag under the publisher Siegfried Heinrichs .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he returned to Vogtland while maintaining his West Berlin residence. In 1993 he became a co-founder and for the next seven years, together with Axel Reitel and Roland Erb , editor of the Dresden literary magazine Ostragehege . Since 2003 he has been working as a citizen advisor for those affected by the GDR dictatorship on behalf of the Saxon State Commissioner for the Stasi files. Utz Rachowski lives in Berlin and in Vogtland .

Works

  • The looks of the neighbors. Radio play. Saarländischer Rundfunk, June 17, 1983.
  • Stories as sad as you are. Stories and an attached report, Verlag Europäische ideen, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-921572-97-5 .
  • The last day of childhood. Stories and a poem. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-926409-02-9 .
  • The voices of summer. Stories. Oberbaum Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-926409-70-3 .
  • Nameless ones. Stories. BasisDruck, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86163-058-3 .
  • My museum. Poems. Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 1995, ISBN 3-910184-41-3 .
  • Memories of a youth. Essays. Chemnitzer Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-928678-19-1 .
  • The face - the writer - the case. Lectures on the poets' pretension, competence and the present tense as the tense of poetry. Dresden Poetics Lecture 1999, Thelem Universitätsverlag, Dresden 2000, ISBN 3-933592-41-0 .
  • Don't tell me about Minnigerode. Stories, essays, interviews. Thelem Universitätsverlag, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-937672-46-X .
  • My summers, my winters and the other. Audio book. Edition ERATA, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-86660-017-8 .
  • Everyone is silent about something else. Documentary about Utz Rachowski, Annegret Gollin and Tine & Matthias Storck. First ran at the Berlinale 2006.
  • Both summers: two stories and three essays. Leipziger Literaturverlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86660-121-5 .
  • Miss Suki or America is not far. Long poem about a Cavalier King Charles lady. Drawings by Thomas Beurich, afterword by Klaus Walther . Mironde Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-937654-49-2 .
  • The things that I forgot Poems. Bookspot Verlag, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-9566909-8-3 .
  • Poetry album No. 339. Poems. Märkischer Verlag Wilhelmshorst, 2018.
  • The lights that we light ourselves: essays - speeches - portraits - letters from prison. P&L Edition / Prose & Lyrik, 2019, ISBN 978-3956690570 .

Works in Polish translation

  • Miss Zuki czyli Ameryka jest całkiem blisko! Atut Publishing House, Wrocław 2015 (with a foreword by Adam Zagajewski )
  • Targ Łakoci. (Naschmarkt). Publisher Series Interpretationum Litterariarum, Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Wrocław 2017. (with a foreword by Wojciech Kunicki )

Translations from other languages

  • Jorge R. Sagastume: In the shadow of the longing for freedom, Argentine stories. Shoebox House Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-94112026-6 .

Awards and grants

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Axel Reitel: Who was Siegfried Heinrichs? RBB radio report (YouTube)
personal data
SURNAME Rachowski, Utz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen , Vogtland