Werner Wilk

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Werner Wilk (born September 6, 1900 in Neubrandenburg ; † January 14, 1970 in Berlin ) was a German writer , lecturer and editor .

Life

After training as a design engineer, Wilk worked in various professions, such as an actor, editor, advertising manager, publishing editor, freelance writer and literary critic. Also worked as an assistant director at the theater. This in the 1920s, in which he hired himself mainly as a stage actor until 1927. In 1930 Wilk published a short-lived Osnabrück bi-monthly publication together with the painter and graphic artist Wilhelm Hildebrandt .

In the post-war period he became a senior editor at Rütten & Loening .

As a writer, he initially devoted himself primarily to narrative forms in which he knew how to entertain in an exciting and time-critical manner. In his works he was primarily interested in war and post-war topics. In the 1950s, literary criticism and radio drama were added as a focus. He published his most famous novel in 1957 with The Treason . He received the Bertelsmann Prize in 1959 for his story Hellriegel .

From 1958 to 1967, in addition to his work as a freelance writer, he headed the literature department at RIAS Berlin .

Born in Mecklenburg, Wilk lived in Potsdam until he fled to West Berlin in 1951, where he lived until his death. His grave is in the New Cemetery of the St. Mathäi Congregation in Berlin.

The Berlin State Library honored Wilk posthumously on his hundredth birthday with an exhibition.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Wesenholz (1949/50)
  • Between Two Shores (1954)
  • Treason (1957)
  • ... down to Jericho (1960)
  • Fortuna's Afflictions (1962)
  • Werner Bergengruen (1968)

Radio plays

  • 1954: Following a few rules of tactics - Director: Peter Thomas
  • 1956: The cartoonist and the miracle - Director: Hanns Korngiebel
  • 1957: Nobody knows where they are fleeing to - Director: Hanns Korngiebel
  • 1959: The Controller - Directed by Heinz von Cramer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mitteilungen - Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, 2001. S. 87f. To be more precise: Half-monthly publication for sensible work in politics, business and art, Osnabrück , ed. together with Wilhelm Hildebrandt (born 1899 in Klötze).

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personal data
SURNAME Wilk, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, lecturer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubrandenburg
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1970
Place of death Berlin