Walter Stranka

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Walter Stranka (born January 30, 1920 in Kaaden , Czechoslovakia , † February 7, 1992 in Weimar ) was a German poet , radio play and television author.

Mother of Gori - how big is your son. German poets sing about Stalin. 1952. With a contribution by Walter Stranka.

Life

Walter Stranka was the son of a glove maker and also learned this trade. At the age of twelve he became a member of the Communist Youth Association of Czechoslovakia. In 1938 Stranka joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia . After the occupation of the Sudetenland by German troops in 1938, the family fled to Prague from the National Socialists . With the end of Czechoslovakia in 1939, Stranka became a German citizen and was subsequently drafted into the navy in 1940 during World War II . After the end of the war, like almost all Germans, Stranka had to leave Czechoslovakia. From 1946 to 1948 he acquired the higher education entrance qualification at a workers and farmers faculty , followed by a study of social sciences in Halle, Jena and Leipzig. Stranka had lived in Weimar since 1947. From 1951 he was a freelance writer. From 1955 to 1958 Stranka was secretary of the writers' association in the districts of Erfurt, Gera and Suhl. From 1958 to 1960 he was administrative director of the Wartburg Foundation .

Stranka initially emerged mainly through political songs, youth and soldier songs. The song "Fritz, der Traktorist" , set to music by Eberhard Schmidt , is often cited today as a typical example of a mass or agitation song in the GDR. Together with Armin Müller , Günther Deicke and Harry Thürk , Stranka belonged to a group of strictly ideologically oriented authors ( Kunert : “Thuringian Mafia”) with a blind commitment to the SED . From 1960 to 1981 Stranka headed the circle of writing workers in the Weimar factory . He later shifted the focus of his work to radio and television plays.

tomb

He is buried in the historical cemetery in Weimar .

His younger brother Erwin Stranka was a film director and screenwriter in the GDR.

Works

Fiction

  • Travel notes from the People's Republic of Romania , Berlin 1952
  • Songs of our strength , poems, Weimar 1954
  • Home, I call your restless heart , poems, Weimar 1959
  • A mother's journey , narrative, Weimar 1963
  • The Last Judgment , Novella, 1965
  • The wind and the stones , story, Weimar 1976

Plays

  • Das Goldkind , youth piece, 1970
  • Brothers , drama, 1974

TV games and movie scenarios

  • Hunting party , television play, 1966
  • The Journey , television play, 1968
  • On a free Saturday , television play, 1968
  • Bettina von Arnim , television play, 1972
  • The hour of the daughters , film scenario, with Erwin Stranka , 1981
  • The beekeeper , movie narration, 1982

Radio plays

  • The dispute over the beehive , radio play, 1970
  • The trip to Wiepersdorf , radio play, 1971
  • Here I am , Feature, 1975
  • Early Decision or The Trip to Kadan , Feature, 1977
  • Pepe , radio play, 1980
  • Tessi , five-part radio play, 1982
  • Khalid and the Queen of Sheba , children's radio play, 1984
  • Muchachos , three-part radio play, 1986.

honors and awards

literature

  • Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Walter Stranka (1920–1993), p. 169-174 .
  • Günter Gerstmann: On the death of the writer Walter Stranka. In: palm tree . Issue 2, Jena, 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kindler's literary history of the present in individual volumes: authors, works, topics, tendencies since 1945. The literature of the German Democratic Republic. Kindler Verlag, 1971, p. 588
  2. ^ "Fritz, the tractor driver" , 1952: text , audio
  3. ^ Treibhaus: Yearbook for the literature of the fifties. Volume 4, Iudicium, 2008, p. 68 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Stranka, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, radio play and television author
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaaden
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1992
Place of death Weimar