Waldemar Dege

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Waldemar Dege (born February 26, 1934 in Supraśl , Powiat Białostocki , Poland ; † November 17, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German mathematician , specialist translator, popular science author , literary translator , poet and poet in the GDR .

life and work

After various interim stays in transit camps, Dege and his family were relocated from Supraśl to Luckenwalde . Here he attended elementary and high school until 1952, where he wrote his first poems. From 1952 to 1957 he studied mathematics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and worked as a co-author on the translation of Russian textbooks. Then he was employed as a mathematician in the GDR aircraft industry in Pirna. From 1959 to 1978 he built up the EDP in the VEB Turbines and Generators and wrote a popular science book about the development of electronic data processing during this time . First poems were published and private readings of his works took place. He began to translate poetry from Eastern European languages ​​in 1979, and he also got his first post-poetry orders. As a freelance lyricist and re-poet, Dege published from 1980 to 1999 for Eulenspiegel-Verlag . Many of his song-like texts were set to music. Over half of his work remained unpublished at first. They were printed in 2000 and in 2003 included in the archive for suppressed literature in the GDR, which is currently being established.

Volumes of poetry

  • The paler of the blue days , poems, with illustrations by Wolfgang Würfel, Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin 1988
  • Praise of the weeds , poems, with illustrations by Günter Lerch, Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin 1984
  • Fire in cherry orchards , poems, with illustrations by Wolfgang Würfel, Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin 1981, 1983, 1986

Popular scientific literature

  • EDP ​​machine computing. Mathematical student library No. 57. Illustrations by Heinz Bormann, Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1971.
  • ĖVM dumaet, sčitaet, upravljaet. (Russian edition), Izdatel'stvo Mir, Moscow 1974.

Children's books

  • The morning comes, the day begins , illustration by Gretel Salomo, Verlag Karl Nitzsche, Niederwiesa 1988, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin
  • The fire department has a hard time today , illustration by H.-J. Blank, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1984
  • Plitzeplisch , illustration by Barbara Schumann, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1985

Poems in anthologies for children

  • Mother Miezen's children , in: Water cows are mostly blue and other stories, illustrations by Erich Gürtzig , Ed .: Annemarie Lesser, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1984
  • School child Juliane in: blackboard, sponge and chalk, stories about the start of school, illustrations by Cleo Petra kurz, Ed .: Erika Schröder, Der Kinderbuchverlag Berlin 1990

Re-seals

  • It was covered with tear smoke , poems against fascism and war, 33 poems by various authors of the Soviet Union and 19 poems from Mongolian by W. Dege, published by Volk und Welt Berlin 1981
  • Song of love for life , contemporary Czech poetry, 31 poems by various authors retouched by W. Dege, Ed .: Manfred Jähnichen, artistic equipment: Václav Bláha Artia, Prague 1983

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personal data
SURNAME Dege, Waldemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, specialist translator, popular science author, literary translator, poet and re-poet in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Supraśl , Powiat Białostocki , Poland
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1999
Place of death Berlin