Willi Meinck

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Book bazaar with Ilse Korn and Willi Meinck in Berlin at the May 1st Volksfest in the "Ernst Thälmann" Wuhlheide pioneer park (May 2nd 1954)

Willi Meinck (born April 1, 1914 in Dessau , † April 7, 1993 in Zittau ) was a German writer .

Life

Willi Meinck came from a working class family. From 1929 to 1933 he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter and was active in the workers' sports movement .

After the seizure of power of the Nazis and the arrest of several members of the family emigrated it in 1933 to France , but from where he returned in 1934 to Germany. He exercised various auxiliary activities, including as a publishing volunteer . In 1936 he tried to evade the threat of being called up by fleeing again, this time to Hungary . He was expelled to the German Reich and drafted into the Wehrmacht as a medic in 1938 .

After participating in the Second World War and subsequent American captivity , Meinck returned to Germany in 1946. He went to the Soviet Zone , where he worked as a new teacher and later as the head of a teacher training institution . From 1950 he worked as an editor and editor- in- chief at the textbook publisher Volk und Wissen . After 1955 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin and later in Zittau. From the 1960s onwards he made extensive trips, especially to India and the PR China .

Willi Meinck's work consists primarily of books for children and young people , which often deal with historical topics in an exciting way and which had a large readership in the GDR . His two-volume work on Marco Polo in particular received critical acclaim. In addition, Meinck published two autobiographical novels, Das Hidden Light and The Second Life, as well as books with reports on his travels to India and Southeast Asia .

Works

  • The secret of the Finnish birch , Berlin 1951
  • Henri, the brave sailor , Berlin 1952
  • The uprisings of the citizens of Worms and Cologne , Berlin 1953
  • The autumn storm sweeps through Hamburg , Berlin 1954
  • together with Hans Mau : The strange adventures of Marco Polo (= Marco Polo. Volume 1). 1st edition, Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1955.
  • together with Hans Mau: The strange travels of Marco Polo = The strange travels of Marco Polo (= Marco Polo. Volume 2). 1st edition, children's book publisher, Berlin 1956.
  • The King of the Fields , Berlin 1956
  • Kuddel and Fietje , 3rd edition, Berlin 1958
  • Hatifa , Berlin 1958
  • The red pearl , Berlin 1958
  • Die Moorbande and other stories , Berlin 1959 (together with Horst Beseler and Michael Deutsch)
  • The hidden light , Berlin 1959
  • Mermaid and the lonely one , Berlin 1960
  • Hatifa , screenplay 1960
  • The negro Jim , Berlin 1961
  • The second life , Berlin 1961
  • Salvi Five or The Torn Thread , Berlin 1966
  • Fall of the Jaguar Warriors , Berlin 1968
  • The pepper dealer , Berlin 1969
  • The captured sun , Halle (S.) 1971
  • The beautiful Madana , Berlin 1973
  • Deadly silence , Berlin 1974
  • The Ramayana , Berlin 1976
  • Delibab or game with colored stones , Berlin 1978
  • Waiting for the silent moment , hall u. a. 1980
  • Suddenly a giant came , Berlin 1981
  • How Pandschi Puthan tamed the mighty river and other fairytale stories from Sri Lanka , Berlin 1981 (together with Kaluacci Jayatilaka)
  • The flower meadow at the Eye of Heaven , Berlin 1983
  • Drinking coffee in the Grand Hotel , Halle u. a. 1984
  • In the gardens of Ravanas , Halle u. a. 1986
  • Hangover dreams , Berlin 1988 (together with Karl-Heinz Appelmann)
  • The Oybin burns , Waltersdorf 1992
  • Jumps over the years 1983–1992 , unpublished

Editorial activity

Awards

Study trips

  • People's Republic of China, 1955
  • Sicily, 1957/58
  • Iraq, 1965
  • India, 1967/69/71/75/79
  • Nepal, 1969/71
  • Hungary, 1976
  • Italy, 1977

literature

  • Benno Pludra u. a. (Ed.): Willi Meinck on his 70th birthday , Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1983

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personal data
SURNAME Meinck, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1993
Place of death Zittau