Werner Kilz

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Werner Kilz (born June 3, 1931 in Burg near Magdeburg ; † September 24, 2007 in Berlin ) was a writer and visual artist . The Berliner Zeitung described him as a "poetic archaeologist of the Berlin Wall ".

Life

Werner Kilz studied at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art in Halle (Saale) , then the subject " stage design " at the University of Fine Arts Weißensee in Berlin (East) and as a guest student at the University of the Arts in Berlin (West). In 1957 he worked as an editor for the magazine Junge Kunst , which was published by the Central Council of Free German Youth . With additional odd jobs like typing out other people's manuscripts and proofreading , he kept himself afloat financially. He belonged to the artist group around Alfred Matusche , Norbert Randow , Boris Djacenko , Eveline Kuffel, Manfred Bieler , Henryk Bereska and Jutta Petzold. In October 1961 he fled through the sewer system from East to West Berlin . He gave a manuscript of his novel Freibank to his friend Norbert Randow for safekeeping and later distribution in the Federal Republic. Randow was then imprisoned for three years. The novel Freibank or Das Projekt der Spaltung , published by Insel-Verlag in 1967 , deals in a complex form with the division of Germany and was the first German novel to focus on the Berlin Wall. In his History of Fine Literature in the GDR, Hans-Dietrich Sander declared it to be the “outstanding novel of the expellees”.

In the meantime he was a master student at the University of the Arts, but he lost interest in painting. In the 1980s, when he lived in various places in Bavaria, but mainly in Berlin, he published the short-lived series of poetry Baldhamer Lesebogen . He worked on the ambitious novel project inclined level until the end of his life. His grave, decorated with a bronze by Werner Stötzer , is located in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg .

plant

  • 1959: [under the pseudonym Werner Schilling] Die Talente. Comedy in five acts. In: Junge Kunst , issue 5/1959, pp. 13-27 and issue 6/1959, pp. 67-80.
  • 1960: [under the pseudonym Werner Schilling] calm. Narrative. In: Junge Kunst , issue 5/1960, pp. 60–64, 73–80 and issue 6/1960, pp. 49–56.
  • 1967: Freibank or The Split Project. Novel. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
  • 1971: letters. Radio play. First broadcast December 16, 1971, Hessischer Rundfunk.
  • 1980: [short text, starting with] I name the streets ... In: Henryk Bereska : Silent day. Poems. AmBEATion Verlag, Berlin 1980, p. [59].
  • 1999: The literary memory of Werner Kilz: "Freibank or the split project". In: Anke Gebert (Ed.): In the shadow of the wall. Memories, stories and pictures from the construction of the wall to the fall of the wall. Scherz Verlag, Bern / Munich / Vienna, ISBN 3-502-15238-1 , pp. 161-175.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Ines Geipel: The poetic archaeologist of the Berlin Wall: on the death of the writer Werner Kilz: On the high seas. In: berliner-zeitung.de. November 8, 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Karsten Kruschel : Kilz . In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Volume 27: Kelterborn - Kippenberger. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-045298-3 , Sp. 536-537 (temporal and conceptual inaccuracies).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Thomas Loy: Werner Kilz (born 1931). He ate, drank and wrote. So the years passed. In: tagesspiegel.de. October 26, 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Dates / Documentation 2011. Events. October 2011. In: efeu-ev.de. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Dietrich Sander: History of the beautiful literature in the GDR. A floor plan . 1st edition. Verlag Rombach Freiburg, Freiburg 1972, ISBN 3-7930-0100-8 , excursus: Displaced persons, p. 333 .
  6. ↑ Dates. Quarter II / 2013. Salon of Remembrance. Sunday, June 9th, 2pm. In: efeu-ev.de. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .

literature

  • Norbert Randow: The human network has eaten its way through the wall . In: Anke Gebert (Ed.): In the shadow of the wall. Memories, stories and pictures from the construction of the wall to the fall of the wall . 1st edition. Scherz Verlag , Bern / Munich / Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-502-15238-1 , p. 176-181 .
  • Karsten Kruschel : Kilz . In: Lutz Hagestedt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Volume 27: Kelterborn - Kippenberger. De Gruyter , Berlin / Boston 2017, ISBN 978-3-11-045298-3 , Sp. 536-537 .

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personal data
SURNAME Kilz, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schilling, Werner (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle (near Magdeburg)
DATE OF DEATH September 24, 2007
Place of death Berlin