Werner Liersch

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Werner Liersch (born September 23, 1932 in Berlin ; † August 23, 2014 ibid) was a German journalist , writer and literary scholar .

Life

Werner Liersch grew up in Berlin, where he trained as a toolmaker . He completed his German studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1953 to 1957 with a diploma in German studies. He then worked as a publishing editor and editor. From 1987 to 1990 he was a member of the jury of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt. From 1990 to 1992 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine neue deutsche literatur .

Werner Liersch was the author of narrative and biographical works as well as radio features mainly on topics from German literary history; he also worked as an editor of anthologies .

Werner Liersch belonged since 1963 to the Writers' Union of the GDR and since 1982 the PEN -Zentrum the GDR on. Later he was a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center Germany .

Liersch worked together with the writer Sabine Lange to come to terms with the Stasi past in the Hans Fallada Society. In 2004, together with other Fallada researchers, they founded the International Fallada Forum.

In June 2008, after his own source studies, he drew attention to the secret membership of the late writer Erwin Strittmatter in an SS police unit during the Second World War .

Liersch died of old age in his Berlin apartment in August 2014 .

Honors

Works (selection)

As an author

  • Hans Fallada . His big little life; Biography . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1997, ISBN 3-499-13675-9 (reprint of the Berlin 1981 edition).
  • The songwriters and the Niedermacher. A bit of dealing with literature . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 1982.
  • Poet's place. a literary guide . 2nd edition. Greifen-Verlag, Rudolstadt 1987, ISBN 3-7352-0092-3 .
  • A killing in the face of Mr. Goethe. a German travel novel . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-355-00965-2 .
  • A beautiful love. Novel . Claassen, Düsseldorf 1991, ISBN 3-546-46089-8 .
  • Hans Fallada - at home with us back then. Places of his life . Edition Libresso, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-546-00048-X (LiteraTours; 1).
  • A certain amount of nonsense . Anecdotes by Theodor Fontane . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-359-00953-3 .
  • Goethe's doppelganger. The secret story of Dr. Riemer . Aufbau-Taschenbuchverlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-7466-1748-0 .
  • Long second reminder. Location & time views . Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1999, ISBN 3-928678-48-5 .
  • The romantic mountains. On old ways through Saxon Switzerland . Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 2001, ISBN 3-928678-68-X .
  • The poet land of Brandenburg. Literary forays between the Havel and the Oder . Artemis & Winkler, Düsseldorf 2004, ISBN 3-538-07199-3 ; extended new edition: Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942476-27-0 ; Revised new edition, ibid, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947215-17-1 .
  • Stories from the second-hand bookshop . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-936618-32-1 .
  • Fallada. The book collector, the literary critic, the photographer, the abused . Edition Individuell, Schöneiche near Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-935552-12-2 .

As editor

  • The novel between classical and critical realism. Texts from contemporary theory and criticism . Language and Literature Publishing House, Halle / Saale 1963.
  • 19 West German storytellers . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1964 (explorations).
  • The impossible fact. German poets, cheerful and so on . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 1967.
  • Experiences . Halle / Saale 1969 (together with Harald Korall).
  • Pieces from the FRG. Martin Luther & Thomas Münzer or the introduction of bookkeeping . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • Helmut Qualtinger : In the Prater the trees are blooming again. Satires . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977.
  • 24 storytellers from the FRG and West Berlin Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977 (explorations).
  • Günter de Bruyn : prose, essay, biography . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle / Saale 1979.
  • Willibald Alexis : The Vow of the Three Thieves. Crimes of the New Pitaval . Verlag das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1981.
  • Fish with parmesan. Recipes from the Goethe house . Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1991, ISBN 3-928678-05-1 .
  • Willibald Alexis : Witches, Robbers and Masters. A Prussian Pitaval . Verlag das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-359-00871-5 .
  • The power of sensitivity. Essays 1949 to 1990 . Faber & Faber, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-928660-97-7 .

As translator

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Liersch. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 635, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ Werner Liersch: SS past. Erwin Strittmatter's Unknown War . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from June 8, 2008
  3. ^ Writer Werner Liersch has died. Announcement on the homepage of the ORF from August 29, 2014 (accessed on August 29, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Liersch, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, writer and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 23rd August 2014
Place of death Berlin