Wolfgang Hädecke

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Wolfgang Hädecke (born April 22, 1929 in Weißenfels ) is a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Hädecke spent his childhood and youth in his hometown Weißenfels . After graduating from high school , he studied English and German from 1947 to 1951 at the Martin Luther University in Halle (Saale) .

Then he was a German teacher in school service at the traditional Pforta state school in Schulpforte near Naumburg (Saale) . His former student Karlheinz Klimt , who later also worked as a writer and artistically, set a literary monument to these years together. At that time, Hädecke published his first poems in addition to his teaching activities . a. in the magazine " Sinn und Form ". After his first volume of poetry was received negatively in the GDR, he moved to West Germany in 1958 . There he found a job as a teacher for German and English at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium in Bielefeld .

In addition to his professional activity, Hädecke went on extensive trips, including a. to the Middle East and the Soviet Union . After his retirement he moved to Dresden in 1994 , where he still lives today.

While Hädecke's early work consists mainly of poetry , after moving to the Federal Republic of Germany he published travel reports , the fantastic novel "The People of Gomorrah", in which he describes a society after an environmental disaster , biographies (on Heine and Fontane) and essays .

Hädecke is a member of the Association of German Writers and the PEN Center Germany .

Awards

Works

  • The questions arise , Halle 1958.
  • Tracer in the snow , Munich 1963.
  • The stones from Kidron , Hamburg (among others) 1970.
  • A trip to Russia , Munich 1974.
  • The people of Gomorrha , Munich (among others) 1977.
  • The Gründler scandal , Ebenhausen (Isartal) 1979 (see: Hartmut Gründler ).
  • Attempt on Ernst Friedrich Schumacher , Baiersbronn 1982.
  • Heinrich Heine . A biography, Munich / Vienna: Carl Hanser, 1985 (Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1989).
  • Poeten und Maschinen , Munich (among others) 1993.
  • Theodor Fontane . Biography, Munich / Vienna: Carl Hanser 1998 (Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag, 2002).
  • Dresden . A story of shine, catastrophe and new beginnings, Munich Vienna: Carl Hanser, 2006, supplemented and reissued in 2009.
  • Novalis. Biography. Munich: Carl Hanser, 2011.

Editing

  • Panorama of modern poetry from German-speaking countries , Gütersloh 1966 (together with Ulf Miehe )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karlheinz Klimt : A new class - memories and evaluations of someone who was there in the school gate. Projekt-Verlag Cornelius, Halle / Saale 2009, p. 36, ISBN 978-3-86634-819-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Hädecke, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Weissenfels