Uwe Grüning (writer)

Uwe Grüning (born January 16, 1942 in Pabianice near Łódź , Poland) is a German writer and politician .

life and work

Biographical

Grüning grew up in German-occupied Pabianice near Łódź (Poland) until 1944 , then in Callenberg and from 1951 in Waldenburg near Glauchau in Saxony . Grüning lived 1981–1988 in Greiz and 1988–1993 in Reichenbach in Vogtland and has lived in Neumark in Saxony-Vogtland since 1993 .

Teaching

Grüning studied production technology from 1960 to 1966 at the Technical University of Ilmenau , then worked there as an assistant and senior assistant and received his doctorate in 1970 as a Dr.-Ing. From 1975 to 1982 he worked as a technical college teacher in Jena .

Literary work

Since 1966 he has published poems, essays and short stories in anthologies and magazines. Another literary field of work is the adaptation of works by English and Scottish, (old) French, Czech and Russian poets: Byron , Coleridge , Keats , Wordsworth , Shelley , Guillaume de Machaut , Rimbaud , Karel Toman , Valeri Brjussow , Anna Akhmatova and others. v. a. He also wrote novels, radio plays and biographies. He has been working as a freelance writer since 1982.

Political and public offices

Since the fall of the Wall , Grüning has been involved in state politics in Saxony. Initially a member of the freely elected People's Chamber , he moved into the Saxon state parliament in 1990 as a member of the CDU , to which he - also the CDU's science policy spokesman - belonged in the 1st , 2nd and 3rd electoral periods until 2004. Grüning was also a founding member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts and was a member of the five-member media council of the Saxon State Media Authority from 2004 to 2016 . From 2004 to 2010 he acted first as its vice-president, then as president until 2012.

Publications

Own writings

• Experienced here. New poems by new authors. By Kurt Bartsch , Uwe Grüning and others Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle (Saale) 1966, OCLC 2807347 (first publication by Grüning). 1967 ² , DNB 456569383 .
• Selection 68. New lyrics, new names. Selected and with a preface by Berndt Jentzsch. Verlag Neues Leben , Berlin 1968, OCLC 245863576 , pp. 50–54 (co-author; in the poem “Gesang im Feuerofen” ( Daniel 3,51  LUT ) a misprint can be read: “[…] Estimated, weighed : / Die Lions have scorned the cripple, / whom Darius accused them of. […] ”( Daniel 6,23  LUT )).
• Driving morning in December. Poems. With an afterword by Heinz Czechowski and woodcuts by Valentin Rothmaler . Union Verlag Berlin , Berlin 1977, OCLC 3396615 .
• On the Vyborg side . Novel. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1978, OCLC 4132266 .
• Behind Gomorrah . Stories. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1981, OCLC 10395266 .
• Reflections. Poems. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1981, OCLC 8207390 .
• Deciduous trees in November. Miniatures. Illustrations by Gerhard Seidel. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1983, OCLC 11949488 (autobiographical).
• Around the fire. Poems. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1984, OCLC 923446094 .
• Bog smoke. Essays. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1985, OCLC 14692069 .
• The four currents behind Eden . Novel. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-372-00028-5 .
• Stopping one morning. Poems. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-372-00099-4 .
• The way to Leiningen . Stories. With illustrations by Horst Hussel . Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-372-00241-5 .
• Goethe's garden at the star. Biography. With 40 photographs by Jürgen Pietsch. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-371-00205-5 .
• Space of his grace. Images of Romanesque churches in Central Germany. Text for the illustrated book. St. Benno Verlag , Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-746-20583-2 .
• Elly-Viola takers . One life - one work. Biography. Photographs by Jürgen M. Pietsch. St. Benno Verlag, Leipzig 1992, ISBN 3-7462-1040-2 .
• Jena in front of us in the lovely valley. Text for the illustrated book. With Jürgen Michel. Tourist Office of the City of Jena, Publishing Department, Jena 1992, ISBN 3-910054-23-4 ; Jena-Information, Jena 1993 ² , ISBN 3-910054-23-4 .
• Landscape and cultural images around Jena. Text for the illustrated book. With Jürgen Michel. Tourist Office of the City of Jena, Dept. Jena Advertising, Jena 1993, ISBN 3-910054-27-7 .
• Be friends with this romantic valley. Contributions to the romantic circle in Jena . (Co-author). With Hartwig Schultz and Heinz Härtl. Tourist Office of the City of Jena, Dept. Jena Advertising, Jena 1993, ISBN 3-910054-30-7 .
• Questionnaire: censorship . On literature before and after the end of the GDR (= Reclam Library. Vol. 1541). Edited by Richard [A.] Zipser. Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-379-01541-5 , p. 154 f. (Answers from the authors, here: Uwe Grüning).
• From the life of the spirit. An essay. In: Lectures from the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism eV at the TU Dresden , Issue 7. Ed. By the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-929-04867-1 . [The lecture was given on December 12, 1995 on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Hannah Arendt's death .]
• Wandering without reason. Poems. Oberbaum Verlag, Chemnitz and Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-928254-52-9 .
• Paulinzella Monastery . Essay for the illustrated book. Photographs by Jürgen M. Pietsch. Pietsch, Edition Schwarz-Weiss, Spröda 1999, ISBN 3-00-004050-1 .
• Farewell and welcome . Goethe pictures. Photography by Jürgen M. Pietsch. Edition Akanthus, Spröda 1999, ISBN 3-00-004694-1 .
• Goethe's house on Frauenplan . Text for the illustrated book. Photos by Jürgen M. Pietsch. Edition Akanthus, Spröda 1999, ISBN 3-00-004692-5 .
• Goethe's garden house . Text for the illustrated book. Photographs by Jürgen M. Pietsch. Pietsch, Edition Schwarz-Weiss, Spröda 1999, ISBN 3-00-004693-3 .
• Jerichow Monastery . Essay for the illustrated book. Photographs by Jürgen M. Pietsch. Edited by the Friends' Association “Get Jerichow Monastery!” E. V. Edition Schwarz Weiss, Spröda 2001, ISBN 3-00-006919-4 .
• Double chapel St. Crucis Landsberg . Essay for the illustrated book. Photographs by Jürgen M Pietsch. Pietsch, Edition Schwarz Weiss, Spröda 2002, ISBN 3-00-009297-8 .
• Untimely homecoming: vignettes and landscapes. Radius, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-87173-282-6 .
• Queen bee time. Poems (= Zeitzeichen series . Literature in the gray courtyard; a reading series by the Aschersleber Art and Culture Association . Booklet 21). Un Art Ig publishing house, Aschersleben 2005, ISBN 3-98103-790-1 .
• Schiller's house in Weimar. Text for the illustrated book. Photographs by Jürgen M. Pietsch. Edition AKANTHUS, Spröda 2005, ISBN 3-00-015721-2 .
• Uwe Grüning. (= Poetry album . 280). Märkischer Verlag, Wilhelmshorst 2008, ISBN 978-3-931329-80-8 .
• [Essay]. In: ORPHEUS gathers the spirits - voices from the center of Europe OCLC 699818280 (= [3.] special publication by Ostragehege ), ISSN  0947-1286 . Literary arena e. V., Dresden 2005.
• The romantic understanding of art. In: Ostragehege - magazine for literature and art. No. 35. Literary Arena e. V., Dresden undated , ISSN  0947-1286 .

Translations / revisions

• Ossip Mandelstam : The horseshoe finder. Russian and German (= Reclams Universal Library . Vol. 612). From the Russian. Adaptations by Paul Celan , Rainer Kirsch , Hubert Witt , Uwe Grüning, Roland Erb . With excerpts from essays by and about Mandelstam. Edited by Fritz Mierau Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1975.
• Jean Arthur Rimbaud : Poems. French German. With 10 etchings and 8 hallmarks by Hermann Naumann . Edited by Karlheinz Barck . Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1976, OCLC 74413900 ; 2nd, change Edition (= Reclam Library. Vol. 1271), Reclam Verlag, Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-379-00398-0 ; Claassen, Düsseldorf 1976, ISBN 3-546-47790-1 .
• Valery Bryusov : I foresee the proud shadows ahead. Poems. Russian German. Adapted from the Russian original by Elke Erb , Roland Erb and Uwe Grüning. Edited and with an afterword by Klaus Städtke . People and World, Berlin (GDR) 1978, OCLC 311650191 .
• Anna Akhmatova : Poem without a hero. Poems and Poems (= Reclam's Universal Library. Vol. 795). From the Russian. Adaptation by Heinz Czechowski, Uwe Grüning, Rainer Kirsch and Sarah Kirsch . Interlinear translation by Oskar Törne. Translated from the prose texts by Fritz Mierau, Werner Rode and Eckhard Thiele . Edited by Fritz Mierau. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1979, OCLC 832462924 .
• Old French love poetry , old French and German (= Reclams Universal Library. Vol. 802). Translated from the Old French by Philipp August Becker and Elisabeth Lea, retouched by Uwe Grüning. Edited by Elisabeth Lea. With 8 illustrations of medieval miniatures and tapestries and with notes for 5 songs. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1979, ISBN 3-379-00583-5 ; 2., through 1982 edition.
• A thing of beauty is happiness forever. Poems of the English and Scottish Romanticism , English and German. From the English. Adaptations by Wolfgang Breitwieser, Günter Deicke , Adolf Endler , Roland Erb, Uwe Grüning, Werner Günzerodt, Helmut T. Heinrich , Stephan Hermlin , Rainer Kirsch, Günter Kunert , Erhard Mehnert, John B. Mitchell, Heinz Piontek , Walter Wilhelm and Hubert Witt . Edited by Horst Höhne . Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1980, OCLC 310668389 ; 1983 ² , ISBN 3-921695-41-4 . License edition: Fourier , Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-921695-41-4 . [The book title comes from a verse in John Keats ' Endymion , Book I, here: p. 477.]
• English poetry 1900–1980 (= Reclams Universal-Bibliothek. Vol. 1019). From the English. Translated and retouched by Karl Heinz Berger , Gabriele Bock, Gunter Böhnke , Heinz Czechowski, Susanne Emmrich, Egbert Faas, Erich Fried , Peter Große, Christiane Groß, Uwe Grüning, Kurt Heinrich Hansen, Helmut Heinrich, Eva Hesse , Wolfgang Hilbig , Ernst Jandl , Gerschon Jarecki, Klaus Gunther Just, Erich Kahler, Uwe Kolbe , Jack Mitchell, Bert Noglik , Walther Petri , Richard Pietraß , Heinz Piontek, Odwin Quast, Arno Reinfrank , Jürgen Rennert , Thomas Rosenlöcher , Susanne Schaup , Bernhard Scheller, Christa Schuenke , Martin Seletzki, Klaus-Dieter Sommer, Christoph Sorger, Heide Steiner, Werner Vordtriede , Hannelore Winter, Nora Wydenbruch. With 68 original poems. Edited by Angus Calder. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1983, OCLC 803626177 .
• John Keats: Standard of the beautiful. Letters (= Reclams Universal Library. Vol. 1099). From the English. Translated by Christa Schwenke. With adaptations by Adolf Endler, Uwe Grüning, Stephan Hermlin, Reiner Kirsch, Christa Schuenke. Edited by Horst Höhne. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1985, OCLC 317858211 .
• [Volume I:] The sundial. Czech poetry from 11 centuries. [Volume I:] Part 1 and 2: 10. – 19. Century. Part I: The tree wraps the leaf dress around it. 10th to 18th centuries. Part II: Don't quarrel that I'm shaking the building for you. 19th century (= Reclams Universal Library. Vol. 1153). From the Czech [by Ludvík Kundera (interlinear translation)]. Copies by Otto F. Babler , Heinz Czechowski, Elke Erb, Franz Fühmann , Louis Fürnberg , Barbara Grüning, Uwe Grüning, Uwe Kolbe, Kito Lorenc , Walther Petri, Richard Pietraß, Brigitte Struzyk . Translated from the introductions by Karl-Heinz Jähn . Edited by Ludvík Kundera. Publishing house Philipp Reclam jun. , Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-379-00045-0 (Vol. I / II), ISBN 3-379-00043-4 (Vol. I).
• [Vol. II:] The sundial. Czech poetry from 11 centuries. [Vol. II:] Part 3: 1900-1950. III. Part: Linger, Live. 1900–1950 (= Reclam's Universal Library. Vol. 1154). From the Czech [by Ludvík Kundera (interlinear translation)]. Copies by Otto F. Babler, Heinz Czechowski, Stefan Döring , Elke Erb, Roland Erb, Franz Fühmann, Louis Fürnberg, Barbara Grüning, Uwe Grüning, Peter Hacks , Uwe Kolbe, Ludvík Kundera, Walther Petri, Richard Pietraß, Odwin Quast, Vilém Reichmann, Jürgen Rennert. Translated from the introductions by Karl-Heinz Jähn. Edited by Ludvík Kundera. Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-379-00044-2 (Vol. II).
• Guillaume de Machaut : praise of women. Edited by Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. Reclam, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-379-00194-5 . [Licensed edition:] With 21 miniatures and a sheet of music from a 14th century manuscript. Interlinear from Old France. by René Pérennec. Re-seals by Uwe Grüning. Book guild Gutenberg , Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-379-00194-5 .
• Fyodor Tyuttschew . Poems (= poetry album. 249, ISSN  1865-5874 ). Selection of this issue: Klaus Müller. Transferred from Uwe Grüning. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-355-00740-4 .
• Afanassi Fet : Poems (= Reclam Library. Vol. 1358). Russian and German. Retouched by Uwe Grüning. Edited by Klaus Müller with a story and an essay by the poet in the appendix. Translated by Andreas Tretner . Reclam, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-379-00563-0 .
• Milan Rúfus : Strict bread. Post-poetry from Slovakia. by Uwe Grüning and Richard Pietraß. With an afterward by Manfred Jähnichen and Illustr. by Dušan Kállay. Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1998, ISBN 3-930008-85-8 .
• Pejo Jaworow : Following the shadows of the clouds. Collection of the last hand. Bulgar. and German. Re-composed and trans. by T. N. Braron, Uwe Grüning u. a. Edited by Norbert Randow . C. Weihermüller, Leverkusen 1999, ISBN 3-929325-04-7 .
• Further updates in the series Zeitzeichen: Heft 145 (1979, David Samoilow ), 147 (1979, Julian Przyboś ), 151 (1980, Arthur Rimbaud ), 157 (1980, Alexander Gerow ), 191 (1983, Nikolai Majorow ), 201 ( 1984, Vladimir Semjonowitsch Vysotsky ), 217 (1985, Francisco de Quevedo ), 229 (1986, Antonio Machado ), 240 (1987, Anna Akhmatova ), 249 (1988, Fyodor Tjuttschew ), 264 (1989, Tadeusz Nowak ).

Editorships

• Arthur Schopenhauer : I tread the wine press alone. Aphorism from his work, selected by Uwe Grüning. Edited and with an afterword by Uwe Grüning. Union Verlag Berlin, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-372-00007-2 (The title is a quote from Isaiah 63.3  LUT .).

PhD thesis

• Some aspects of machine technological production preparation. Diss. From May 20, 1970. Technical University, F. f. Engineering, Ilmenau 1970, DNB 482009217 .

Awards

• Andreas Gryphius Prize of the Esslingen Artists' Guild (1997, sponsorship award)
• Eichendorff Literature Prize of the Wangen Circle - Society for Literature and Art of the East e. V. (2005)

literature

• Short biography for:  Grüning, Uwe . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Peter B. Schumann: About this issue. In: alternative. Journal for literature and discussion. Edited by Hildegard Brenner. Volume 13, issue 58 of the complete series. Alternative Verlag Berlin, February 1968, p. 1.
• Heinz Czechowski : Memorial sheet for U. G. In: From the taste of words. Miniatures . Edited by Joachim Walther . With miniatures by Waltraut Fischer. Book publisher Der Morgen , Berlin 1980; DNB 810078597 ; 2nd, modified edition, ibid 1983, DNB 204404649 ; 3rd, change Ed., Ibid. 1987, ISBN 3-371-00103-2 .
• Ian Hilton: Reality and Imagination: The Poetic World of Uwe Grüning. In: GDR monitor. Vol. 21, Rodopi , Amsterdam a. a. 1989, ISSN  0144-6355 , pp. 21-38.
• Christian Bergmann: “Our word is in return.” On the 50th birthday of the writer Uwe Grüning. In: Free Press . "Calendar sheet " heading . Chemnitz, January 16, 1992, ZDB -ID 1085204-9 (The title takes up the end of the poem Lines, written on New Year's Eve 1972. In: Spiegelungen. P. 75).
• Norbert Randow : The Bulgarian literature in German translation. In: Bulgarian literature from an old and a new perspective. Introductory reflections (= Opera Slavica. New series. Vol. 26). Edited by Reinhard Lauer . In conjunction with Alexander Kiossev and Thomas M. Martin. Harrassowitz , Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-447-03724-5 , pp. 127–140, here p. 135 (on Grüning's work as a translator, namely the poem Epitaph (1956) by Atanas Daltschew , and on the dispute with censorship and self-censorship by publishers. Facsimile in the Google book search).
• Peter Gehrisch : Euridice ! you song of the shining summer. In: Ostragehege - magazine for literature and art. No. 35. Literary Arena e. V., Dresden no year, ISSN  0947-1286 (on Uwe Grüning: “Untimely homecoming” ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Uwe Grüning in the catalog of the German National Library
• J. David Sullivan: [Review] (1983) Uwe Grüning: Behind Gomorrha. Stories. In: GDR Bulletin. Vol. 9, Ed. 2 (1983) (19831017), Art. 14 , pp. 8 f., Doi : 10.4148 / gdrb.v9i2.675 .
• Mark Gruettner: [Review] (1988): Uwe Grüning: Das Vierstromland behind Eden. In: GDR Bulletin. Vol. 14, Ed. 2 (1988), Art. 15 , pp. 52-54, doi : 10.4148 / gdrb.v14i2.866 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uwe Grüning. (No longer available online.) In: lyrikwelt.de. Doris and Hans-Werner Gey, archived from the original on April 8, 2016 ; Retrieved December 3, 2018 (originally accessed March 8, 2016). 
2. ↑ Title of the dissertation: Some aspects of mechanical technological production preparation. See the dataset at DNB 482009217 .
3. ↑ For legal reasons, the assumption of the office as media council required the resignation of the parliamentary mandate on July 12, 2004 shortly before the end of the third electoral term and the constitution of the state parliament for the fourth electoral term.
4. ^ Media Council ( Memento from May 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: slm-online.de, accessed on January 21 ("The five-member SLM Media Council elected the new leadership for the next six-year term from among its members on December 1, 2010 at its constituent meeting.").
5. ↑ Dr. Uwe Grüning - Short CV ( Memento from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). In: slm-online.de, accessed on January 21, 2017.
6. ↑ With the poem: Landscape. Quote n .: alternative. 13. Jg. (1968), Heft 58, p. 39 (see literature ; here also a reprint of this poem.)