Wolfgang Eckert (writer)

Wolfgang Eckert, 2012

Wolfgang Eckert (born April 28, 1935 in Meerane ) is a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Eckert's father was an appreteur , weaver and transport worker . The mother was a spinner, preparatory worker and warper in the weaving mill. Eckert attended the Meeraner Tännicht School as a primary school student from 1941 to 1949. Until 1952 he attended the Meeraner weaving school with a degree as a woolen fabric maker. From 1952 to 1958 he was a preparatory worker and primarily a hand weaver in the mechanical weaving mill of Ernst Dressel in Meerane . Until 1960 he worked as a preparatory worker and hand weaver in the Meeraner VEB "Palla".

From 1960 to 1963 he completed a university course at the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig. He then returned to the VEB "Palla" as head of the union library. He worked there part-time and devoted himself to his writing activities in his free time. During his time as head of the library, he founded the VEB “Palla” literature club. There he introduced authors of world literature, the GDR and the FRG and invited writers to readings. His successor, the librarian Helga Döbler, continued to run the club. He continued to oversee the program until the literary club was dissolved in 1989.

From 1964 to 1990 he was the artistic supervisor of the circle of writers of the Kulturbund of the Glauchau district. This circle received a gold medal twice at the workers' festival in Neustrelitz and Magdeburg. The writer Hans Brinkmann emerged from the circle . In 1990 the circle broke up.

In 1970 the Stasi led him for a short time as an unofficial employee . According to his autobiography I was a spy , he refused to work and has been monitored by the Stasi ever since.

Eckert joined the SED after the events in Chile in 1973, with the deaths of Salvador Allende and Pablo Neruda . From 1976 to 1981 he was a member of the district assembly for the Karl-Marx-Stadt district . There he was active in the commission for art and culture and represented the writers' association of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district. In 1978/79 and 1981/82 he attended two special courses at the Leipzig Institute of Literature.

In the 1980s Eckert founded the literature club of the VEB Meßgerätewerk Zwönitz in the Ore Mountains, which he ran together with the librarian Ilona Holley until it was dissolved in 1989.

Before the fall of the Wall in 1989 , he asked to acknowledge the declaration he had submitted in 1988 to leave the SED, which then happened accordingly. He has not belonged to any party since then.

From 1989 to 1992 he was an editor at Meeraner Blatt , after which he was unemployed for a short time and from 1992 to 1993 adviser to the Saxon state parliament member Joachim Schindler ( SPD ). Eckert has been working as a writer again since 1993.

Eckert is married and has one son.

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From 1970 to 2016 Eckert wrote two television plays, a play, two novels, short stories, feature articles, stories, aphorisms, autobiographies, a biography and poems as a freelance writer. He has also contributed to 24 anthologies and articles for numerous newspapers. Eckert's narrative style ranges from humorous, ironic-satirical, politically biting to serious tones. Primarily he turns to the present and takes the view that literature should interfere, i.e. be contentious. He names Erich Kästner as one of his role models in posture and writing . His birthplace and hometown Meerane provide the background in many of his works.

Awards

• Sponsorship award from the Institute for Literature "JR Becher" Leipzig and the Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1972
• Hans Marchwitza Prize of the GDR Academy of the Arts 1974
• Kurt-Barthel-Prize of the Karl-Marx-Stadt district 1983
• Johannes R. Becher Medal in silver and bronze of the Kulturbund der DDR
• City of Meerane's Citizen Medal 2016

Publications

• It all began with reverence in 1970
• One day in my life television game 1972
• Rail ballad drama 1973, world premiere in Rostock
• Pardon - shall we say you? Stories. Illustrations by Rolf Kuhrt. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1973 Order No .: 683 289 2
• Family photo Roman. Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1982 Order No .: 638 604 1 or Verlag BS Rostock 2004 ISBN 3-89954-081-6
• Suddenly Doctor Bunsen laughed at stories. Illustrations by Thomas Schleusing . Mitteldeutscher Verlag Halle 1990 ISBN 3-354-00549-1
• The Meeraner Bote feuilletons. Vignettes Egbert Herfurth. Chemnitzer Verlag 1991 ISBN 3-928678-00-0
• Saxony - serenely viewed Happy travel guide. Illustrations by Barbara Henniger. TOMUS Verlag Munich 1992 ISBN 3-8231-0560-4
• Then again I laugh at anecdotes and jokes. Illustrations Ralph Alex Fichtner. TOMUS Verlag Munich 1993 ISBN 3-8231-0333-4
• Erzgebirge illustrated book. Text by Wolfgang Eckert. Photos Alex. M. Mosler. Verlag CJ Bucher Munich 1994 ISBN 3-7658-0845-8
• Home, your stars. Life and death of Erich Knauf . Biography Chemnitzer Verlag 1998 ISBN 3-928678-40-X
• Saxon murders criminal cases. Verlag Neues Leben Berlin 1998 ISBN 3-360-00852-9
• I was an autobiography snitch . Ingo Koch Verlag Rostock 2002 ISBN 3-935319-58-4
• The Martinshorn feuilletons sounds softly . Ingo Koch Verlag Rostock 2004 ISBN 3-937179-44-5
• People are other people's aphorisms. Illustrations by Egbert Herfurth. Ingo Koch Verlag Rostock 2006 ISBN 3-938686-73-1
• Dear Honorable Member. A confidential exchange of letters . Satire. With Hanskarl Hoerning . Eulenspiegel Verlag Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-359-02216-9
• The distant glow of childhood autobiography. Mironde Verlag Niederfrohna 2010 ISBN 978-3-937654-40-9
• Save the clowns poems. Illustrations by Birgit Eichler. Mironde Verlag Niederfrohna 2011 ISBN 978-3-937654-61-4
• The children's tree novel. Ingo Koch Verlag Rostock 2015 ISBN 978-3-86436-390-0
• From the dream? Appeals against the decline of nature. Omnino Verlag Berlin , 2017 ISBN 978-3-958940-44-4
• Man has two eyes. So that he can blink at one. Aphorisms. Omnino Verlag Berlin, 2017 ISBN 978-3-958940-52-9 (book), ISBN 978-3-958940-53-6 (eBook)
• Home, your stars. Life and death of Erich Knauf . Biography, extended edition, Past Publishers Berlin 2018 ISBN 978-3-86408-242-9
• The loneliness of words. Essays on the meaning of writing. Omnino Verlag Berlin, 2019 ISBN 978-3-95894-118-2 (book), ISBN 978-3-95894-118-2 (e-book)
• You can't see the last flowers. Detective novel. Omnino Verlag Berlin, 2020 ISBN 978-3-95894-146-5 (book), ISBN 978-3-95894-147-2 (e-book)

literature

• Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Wolfgang Eckert, p. 26th f .

Web links

• Private homepage of Wolfgang Eckert
• Literature by and about Wolfgang Eckert in the catalog of the German National Library
• Doris Gey: Late processing of the Wolfgang Eckert case , Freie Presse , December 5, 2002