Volker von Törne

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Volker von Törne (born March 14, 1934 in Quedlinburg , † December 30, 1980 in Münster ) was a German writer who sometimes published under the pseudonym Waldemar Graf Windei . From 1963 until his death during a lecture tour, he was the managing director of Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste .

Life

Volker von Törne was the son of the SS-Standartenführer Hermann von Törne and his wife Martha. He went to school in Seesen and Gandersheim and studied pedagogy in Braunschweig from 1954 to 1956 and from 1956 the combined course of politics / economics / work at the University of Labor, Politics and Economics in Wilhelmshaven- Rüstersiel. He was editor of the student newspaper Zoon Politikon in Wilhelmshaven until it was banned in 1958. He then worked for three years as a “stone mason, civil engineering worker in Lutter and Niedeck near Göttingen”.

Since 1962 he lived in Berlin , where he was initially editor and employee of the magazine Alternative and from 1963 managing director of Aktion Sühnezeichen . In this function he traveled frequently to Eastern Europe and Israel , where he gave lectures for reconciliation, understanding and peace .

Volker von Törne was buried on January 13, 1981 in the St. Annen churchyard in Berlin .

Services

His literary work consists to a large extent of committed poetry , not infrequently sonnets , with which von Törne reveals a great artistry . Although the author largely stayed away from the literary scene, his work met with great approval both in Germany and in translated form abroad.

Works

  • Official communication . Berlin 1961
  • Heel money. Twenty-five poems . Ansgar Skriver, Berlin 1962
  • The dragon flies to the Mi-Ma moon . Munich 1964 (together with Lilo Fromm )
  • News of the Leviathan . Stierstadt im Taunus 1964 (together with Uwe Bremer )
  • Stupidity delivers us to the knife . Berlin 1967 ( Sonett - Tenzone with Christoph Meckel )
  • Phallobst . Berlin 1968
  • Wolf fur. Poems, songs, montages . Wagenbach, Berlin 1968
  • 10 years of Action atonement . Berlin 1968 (together with Franz von Hammerstein)
  • The monkey doesn't want freedom . Berlin 1971 (together with Irmgard Sedlmeier)
  • Thalatta . Berlin 1971 (together with HD Rudolph)
  • Volker von Törne . Berlin 1972
  • Recipes for peacetime . Construction, Berlin, Weimar 1973 (together with Nicolas Born and Friedrich Christian Delius )
  • If you have a kite . Ravensburg 1973 (together with Lilo Fromm)
  • Management report . Kassel 1976 (together with Christoph Heubner )
  • Anti-Semitism in the 19th century . Berlin 1977 (together with Karl Kupisch and Herman Müntinga)
  • Upside down. Forty-eight poems . Wagenbach, Berlin 1979
  • Neck overhead: Arcadian days. Sonnet wreath, allegro molto . Harald Schmid, Berlin 1980
  • In the wind . Berlin 1980
  • Don't fly away, my white raven . Berlin 1981
  • Bird-free in the country. Collected poems . Wagenbach, Berlin 1981 (with an afterword by Christoph Meckel )
  • Between history and future. Essays, speeches, poems . Action Reconciliation for Peace Services, Berlin 1981
  • Declaration of peace . Bremen 1985

literature

  • Biogram in: Thomas Leiberg: The St. Annen churchyard in Berlin-Dahlem. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-87776-423-1 , pp. 48-49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biogram in: Törne, Im Lande Vogelfrei - Gesammelte Gedichte , Wagenbach 1981, page 233
  2. ↑ Article on the conflict over the magazine Zoon Politikon see Dieter E. Zimmer : Three sore points of German university life , in: ZEIT, August 15, 1958 online


personal data
SURNAME Törne, Volker von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldemar Graf Windei (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1980
Place of death Muenster