Uwe Kant

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Uwe Kant (born May 18, 1936 in Hamburg-Lurup ) is a German writer.

Life

Uwe Kant, born as the fourth child of a gardener, spent the first years of his life in Hamburg . Because of the threatened bombing raids, the family (including his older brother Hermann Kant ) moved to his grandfather's house in the small town of Parchim in Mecklenburg in 1940 . Uwe Kant attended high school there and graduated from high school in 1956 . He then studied German and history, first at the University of Rostock , then from 1958 to 1961 at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

From 1961 to 1964 Kant worked as a teacher in Lübbenau -Neustadt and at the same time published his first literary works in the student magazine Forum as well as in Sonntag and in the ndl . In 1964 he returned to Berlin and worked until 1967 as the magazine's literary editor . He has been a freelance journalist and writer since 1967. He was a book reviewer for the magazine until the 1990s.

Uwe Kant was primarily known in the GDR as the author of successful books for children and young people translated into several languages. Two of his works were filmed by DEFA : 1971 The Class Festival (under the title Men without Beard ; Director: Rainer Simon ) and 1977 The Little Magician and the Big Five , directed by Erwin Stranka . In October 1978 he received the National Prize III “for his entire literary work to date” . Art and literature class.

In addition, Kant wrote and spoke the commentary on Grace not saves effort (1979) from the documentary series The Children of Golzow by Winfried Junge . In 1981, Kant received another National Prize III together with Junge and Hans-Eberhard Leupold . Class.

Kant has lived in Neu Ruthenbeck in the Friedrichsruhe community since 1999 .

Works

  • The class party . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1969. Illustrated by Volker Pfüller
  • The dear long week . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1971. Illustrated by Heinz Handschick
  • The little magician and the big 5 . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1974. Illustrated by Manfred Bofinger
    • first published in West Germany under the title Der kleine Oliver und die große 5 with illustrations by Brigitte Smith (F. Schneider, Munich 1975), then as Rowohlt Rotfuchs- Taschenbuch under the original title illustrated by Hans Poppel (Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1982).
  • Red Square and around. From a Puyovka to Moscow . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1977. Illustrated by Manfred Bofinger
  • Before peace. A picture book story . Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1979. Illustrated by Steffi Bluhm
  • The journey from Neukuckow to Novosibirsk . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980. Illustrated by Volker Pfüller
  • How Janek went to get a story . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1980. Illustrated by Egbert Herfurth
  • The eighth kid. Stories from Meckentosch . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1983. Illustrated by Klaus Vonderwerth (written by Kant, Peter Abraham and Hannes Hüttner under the common pseudonym Karl Georg von Löffelholz )
  • Breakdown on Poseidon seven . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1987. Illustrated by Lothar Otto . ISBN 3-358-00052-4
  • Alfred and the strongest great grandmother in the world . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1988. Illustrated by Cleo-Petra short . ISBN 3-358-00363-9
  • Hatschplatschmaxmux . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1989. Illustrated by Manfred Bofinger. ISBN 3-358-01440-1
  • Heinrich sells Friedrich . elefanten press, Berlin 1993. Illustrated by Thomas Mattheus Müller . ISBN 3-88520-454-1
  • Who saw the bear? Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 1995. Illustrated by Gesa Denecke . ISBN 3-407-79669-2
  • Christmas stories . Ravensburger Buchverlag, Ravensburg 1999. Illustrated by Rolf Bunse . ISBN 3-473-34507-5
  • With thanks back. Novel . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-359-00981-9

Radio plays

  • The night with flour pants . 1972
  • Drive with Persigehl . 1985
  • The carrier - a radio monologue . 1986 (in: ndl 12/1986)

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 9, 1978, p. 4
personal data
SURNAME Kant, Uwe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg-Lurup