Werner Gnuechtel

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Werner Gnüchtel (born February 16, 1924 in Dresden ; † April 19, 2019 ) was a German author who wrote two novels during the GDR era and who wrote the original book for the GDR television series Mensch Hermann with grandfather wants to get married .

Trained at a finance school, after taking part in the war and spending five months in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp, the carpenter's son Gnuechel first became an employee of the State Finance Directorate Saxony, then district customs commissioner in Dippoldiswalde and tax auditor, before he was finally managing director of the purchasing and delivery cooperative (ELG) for the food and beverage industry for forty years the district of Dresden was active.

Since 1950 literary activities processed Gnüchtel his war experiences in a novel manuscript entitled escape from one's own self , the publication of the criticism of the 1959 as a freelance editor between his graduation in 1956, he moved to West Berlin for the publisher of the nation make Uwe Johnson failed . The first novel with the title Die Bitteren Freundschaften des Christof Lenk was not published until 1969 . The first edition of over 1,000 copies was followed by three further editions (1970, 1974, 1979) and a translation into Polish . In his second novel Auf des Messers Schneide (also Verlag der Nation, 1970) there was only one edition.

In 1982 Werner Gnüchtel wrote the fiction work Grandfather wants to marry , the film version of which was shown on GDR television in 1986/87 . In the book, in addition to everyday life in the GDR, the coexistence of different generations is ironically considered. The book was published three times (1982, 1984, 1987).

Before that, Gnuechel had already delivered the template for Police Call 110: One Madonna Too Many from 1973.

After German reunification, Werner Gnuechtel wrote a sequel entitled Grandfather Gets Rich (?) (Verlag der Nation, 1996) and books about his travel experiences.

He wrote a total of seven works:

  • The bitter friendships of Christof Lenk . Berlin 1969.
  • On the knife edge . Berlin 1970.
  • Grandfather wants to get married . Berlin 1982.
  • Grandfather gets rich (?) . Bayreuth 1996.
  • To Königstrasse and back . Dresden 2001.
  • Between the Eiffel Tower, the Western Wall and the monkeys of Gibraltar . Dresden 2002.
  • On the way . Dresden 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Werner Gnuechtel: Obituary notice: Saxon newspaper. Retrieved May 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Werner Gnüchtel. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 285.
  3. ↑ a b Mensch Hermann on fernsehserien.de: http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?serie=8905 . As of September 1, 2008.
  4. ↑ Reading sample: writers of the Dresden district. Dresden, Council of the District, 1974, p. 65.
  5. ↑ Uwe Johnson: "Where can the narrator be found?" Expert opinion for publishers 1956–1958 , edited by Bernd Neumann. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-518-40336-2 .
  6. ^ The bitter friendships of Christof Lenk in the DNB catalog: http://d-nb.info/456766928 . As of September 1, 2008.
  7. ^ Helgard Rost, Leipzig Literature Office (ed.): Authors in Saxony . Leipzig 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Gnuechel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 19th April 2019
Place of death Dresden