Uwe Berger

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Uwe Berger (right) and Heinz Knobloch (2nd from right) sign their books.

Uwe Berger (born September 29, 1928 in Eschwege , Hesse ; † February 16, 2014 in Berlin ) was a German poet , essayist and narrator .

Life

Uwe Berger was a descendant of Karlshafen Huguenots . His father was a director at the Deutsche Reichsbank . Berger spent his youth in Emden , Augsburg and Berlin. During the war, at the age of 15, he became an anti-aircraft helper in the Berlin area. At the end of the war he was a candidate for a naval officer in Denmark . After returning home, he wrote his first poems and tried prose. He then completed a degree in German and art studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Berger worked for the Volk und Wissen publishing house and lecturer at the Aufbau-Verlag from 1949 to 1955. After that, he worked as a freelance literary worker .

Uwe Berger was a board member of the GDR Writers' Association from 1973 to 1989 . In addition, from 1982 to 1989 he was independent vice-president of the GDR cultural association . He was also IM "Uwe"

His grave is in the Oberschöneweide forest cemetery .

The Doom or Love of Paul Fleming (1983)

In his review, Knut Kiesant writes that the focus of the story is on the problem of artists using the example of the poet Paul Fleming, longing for peace, as well as his understanding of the function of poetry during his most eventful years from the beginning of his trip to Russia and Persia. Berger undertakes an episodic narrative style with 23 chapters, a historical-essayistic reconstruction of the biographical development path and tries to reduce the historical distance to the 17th century by submitting today's knowledge to the characters, whereby the line between information and instruction is blurred. His omniscient narrator avoids historical coloring and creates the impression of undisguised modernity. However, no critical distance is established from the main character, but Fleming's poetry is brought closer to the reader and its contemporary effect is understandable.

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Consent. Six stories. Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 1955
  • Home road. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1955
  • The thorn in you. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1958
  • Heart of the earth. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1960
  • Huts by the river. Poems 1946–1961. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1961
  • Red sun. Sketches and notes. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1963
  • Noon land. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1965
  • Faces. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1968
  • The chance of poetry. Essays and reflections. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1971
  • Images of transformation. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1971
  • Working days. From the diary 1964–1972. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1973
  • Flint. Poems. Selection and epilogue by Armin Zeißler , Reclam-Verlag , Leipzig 1974
  • Smile in flight. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1975
  • Brick gate and Spreewald barge. Märkische Landscapes. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1975
  • Sea of ​​fog and wormwood steppe. Encounters. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1977
  • Zeitgericht (poems 1946–1975). Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic , Berlin 1977
  • Quiet words. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1978
  • The shaman stone. People and places. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1980
  • Just a moment. 99 travel sketches. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1981
  • Extract from the silence. Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1982
  • The Doom or The Love of Paul Fleming (novel). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1983
  • The inclination. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1984
  • This reflection in your eyes Poems. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1985
  • From where and where. Essays and speeches 1972–1984. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1986
  • The conversation of the dolphins. The children's book publisher, Berlin 1986
  • Way into autumn (memories). Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1987
  • Orpheus' dream. Love poems 1949–1984. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1988
  • Burden and lightness. Odes. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1989
  • Flames or The Word of the Woman. Narrative. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1990
  • Breath. Love poems and graphics. Mauer-Verlag Kriese, Rottenburg a / N 2003
  • Spaces. Verses and pictures. Mauer-Verlag Kriese, Rottenburg a / N 2004
  • Paths out. Episodes of Memory. Mauer-Verlag Kriese, Rottenburg a / N 2005
  • Words away. Poems and signs. Zwiebelzwerg-Verlag , Willebadessen 2006
  • Hangover dad. Epistles. Zwiebelzwerg-Verlag, Willebadessen 2006
  • Honor the pomegranate. A hundred poems 1946–1989. With sketches by the author. Zwiebelzwerg-Verlag, Willebadessen 2007
  • You will be. Poems and signs. With sketches by the author. Zwiebelzwerg-Verlag, Willebadessen 2010
  • Of sense. Gleanings. Zwiebelzwerg-Verlag, Willebadessen 2011/2012
  • Listen to the unsaid. From the diary from 2000 to 2012. EDITION digital , Pinnow 2013
  • Looking for more. Novel. EDITION digital, Pinnow 2013

literature

  • Günther Deicke : "... who forces himself ..." In: declarations of love and others. Berlin 1972
  • Dieter Noll : Follow-up in: Uwe Berger, Arbeitstage. From the diary 1964–1972. Berlin 1973
  • Armin Zeißler: Epilogue. In: Uwe Berger: Feuerstein. Leipzig 1974
  • Lexicon of German-speaking writers. In two volumes, Leipzig 1974
  • Uwe Berger, Günther Deicke (Ed.): Lyrik der DDR. Berlin and Weimar 1976
  • Kurt Böttcher and Hans Jürgen Geerdts in: A short history of German literature. Berlin 1981
  • Anest Andrea, New York. (Uwe Berger, The Shaman's Stone). In: World Literature Today . University of Oklahoma, Autumn 1981
  • Werner Neubert : A continuity of maturity. Weimar Contributions 2/1986
  • Andreas Klimt: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 1998. Munich, Leipzig 1999
  • Anneliese Berger: Uwe Berger is eighty years old. In: Treptow-Köpenick. A year and reader. Berlin 2008
  • Christian Krause:  Berger, Uwe Ludwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

Commons : Uwe Berger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Berger. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 67, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ^ Günter Kunert: Adult games . ISBN 978-3-423-20472-9 , p. 368 ff.
  3. ↑ Knut Kiesant: Uwe Berger: The fate or love of Paul Fleming. In: Weimarer Contributions 31 (1985), pp. 113-118.
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschwege
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2014
Place of death Berlin