Walter Werner (writer)

Walter Werner (born January 22, 1922 in Vachdorf ; † August 6, 1995 in Untermaßfeld ) was a German writer .

life and work

After training as a painter , serving as a soldier in the Wehrmacht and as a prisoner of war, Werner worked, among other things, as a worker at the Simson factory in Suhl and as a press officer and culture association secretary in the Meiningen district . From 1956 to 1959 he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature in Leipzig. He then lived as a freelance writer in Untermaßfeld until his death in 1995.

Werner was one of the most prominent natural lyricists in the GDR . His poems are mainly dedicated to the landscape of Thuringia , especially the Rhön . As a convinced, but not fanatical socialist , he was involved in building a GDR culture and especially in promoting young literary talents, e. B. as a leader of “ circles of writing workers ”.

Awards

• 1962: Max Reger Prize
• 1965: Heinrich Heine Prize from the GDR Ministry of Culture
• 1975: Louis Fürnberg Prize
• 1982: National Prize of the GDR, 2nd class for art and literature
• 1992: Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation

Works

• Light in the night. Poems. Volksverlag, Weimar 1957.
• According to the echo. Poems. People and World, Berlin 1958.
• Moving landscape. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1959.
• The human becomes visible. A poem. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1960.
• Born in the songs. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1963.
• The straw flute. Sketches and Studies. Records. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1965.
• The unsteady wood. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1970.
• Border landscape. Walking hours through the grave field. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1972.
• Words for elderberry. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1974.
• Poetry album 95: Walter Werner. Selected by Bernd Jentzsch . New life, Berlin 1975.
• The seductive thoughts of the butterflies. Poems. Edited by Adolf Endler . Reclam, Leipzig 1979.
• The dream of hiking. From the seasons and decades. Life memories. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, Leipzig 1979.
• The tree grows through the mountains. Poems. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, Leipzig 1982.
• The grass holds my shadow. Poems - prose - essays. Ed. And with an afterword by Gerhard Wolf. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle, Leipzig 1982.
• Dew under the rainbow. Poems. With an introduction by Gerhard Wolf and an essay by the poet. Frankenschwelle, Hildburghausen; Südthüringer Verlag, Barchfeld 1992, ISBN 3-86180-021-7 .
• Foot in the rubble. Poems, with an afterword by Wilhelm Bartsch. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 1996, ISBN 3-354-00887-3 .
• Dive into white moonlight. Poems. Edited by Astrid Debes. Goldhelm, Manebach 2001, ISBN 3-931101-05-3 .
• Ordinary landscape. Thuringian poems. Edited and with an afterword by Wulf Kirsten . Quartus, Bucha bei Jena 2002, ISBN 3-931505-92-8 .
• Knock sign. Texts from the estate. Selected by Cornelia Cieslar. Wartburg, Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-86160-307-1 (Muschelkalk edition of the Thuringian Literary Society, Volume 7).

literature

• Manfred Behn-Liebherz: Werner, Walter. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon , Volume 9, Gütersloh 1991.
• Heinz Czechowski : World - Immediately. Notes on two poets: Walter Werner and Wulf Kirsten. In: Sinn und Form , 23rd year, issue 6, 1972, pp. 1278–1292.
• Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th / 21st Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Walter Werner (1922–1995), pp. 203-209 .
• Horst Haase: The contradictions of our time in the aesthetic image of nature. In: Weimar Contributions , Volume 29, Issue 1 (1983), pp. 18-23 (about the tree grows through the mountains ).
• Heinz Linke: Walter Werner. In: Hans Jürgen Geerdts (ed.): Literatur der DDR , Volume 3, Berlin (East) 1987.
• Holger Uske: The words leave behind resistance. The poet Walter Werner (1922-1995). (PDF; 193 kB) In: Critical Edition - Journal for German Studies & Literature , Volume 8, No. 2, 2004.

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Werner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Online search book for the holdings of the Walter Werner estate of the Meiningen State Archives in the Thuringia archive portal , where the estate has been on deposit since 2007.
• Walter Werner - short biography. In: www.thueringer-literaturrat.de. Retrieved June 15, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner, Walter In German Literature Lexicon. Werenberg - Wiedling Walter de Gruyter, 2011, p. 152.