Wolfgang Held (writer, 1930)

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Wolfgang Held (* July 12, 1930 in Weimar ; † September 17, 2014 there ) was a German writer and screenwriter who wrote novels as well as books for young people and screenplays.

Life

Wolfgang Held grew up in a consistently social democratic family . He was strongly influenced by the experience of the Buchenwald concentration camp when he was looking for an uncle arrested by the Gestapo in April 1945 . Held attended an elementary school and commercial building school in Weimar. In 1948/1949 he was a volunteer construction worker as a people's police officer . a. clearing the rubble and building the Maxhütte water pipeline . After suffering from tuberculosis, he had a meeting in the sanatorium that was decisive for his future life and lived together for months in a room with a vicar of the same age . He processed these experiences in the script for the DEFA film One carries the other's burden… . Held then began training as a journalist and worked as an editorial assistant. His first book was published in 1959. From 1964 Held was a freelance writer. His literary work was influenced by Louis Fürnberg , Hans-Joachim Malberg , Bruno Apitz and Walter Janka .

Held died in September 2014 in his hometown at the age of 84.

Awards

Works

Novels and short stories

Books for children and young readers

  • Mosquito and his great race . Knabes Jugendbücherei , Weimar 1961 (NA: Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1963; Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-940442-86-4 )
  • You should live, Mustapha . Knabes youth library, Weimar 1962 (NA: Kulturni, prosvetni in zdogovinski zavod Borec, Ljubljana 1965)
  • Quirl holds out . Children's book publisher Berlin 1964
  • Help, a boar is coming . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1964 (NA: BS-Verlag-Rostock Bruhn, Rostock / Bargeshagen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86785-060-5 )
  • The devil's name is Jim Turner . Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1964 (NA: Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1966)
  • The stone face of Oedeleck . Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1966 (NA: Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1980)
  • Peter and three PS . Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1966 (NA: Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1968)
  • Firebirds over Gui . Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1969 (NA: Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1971)
  • Blue light and black eagle . Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1969 (NA: Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1974)
  • Zwirni dreams of a world record . Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1971 (NA: Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1972)
  • In the web of the white spider . Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1973 (NA: Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1984)
  • Macaws and the cactus gang . Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 1982 (NA: Knabes Jugendbücherei, Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-940442-22-2 )
  • ... even without gold and a laurel wreath . Children's book publisher, Berlin 1983 (NA: Edition DB Verlag , Erfurt 2003, ISBN 978-3-936662-05-4 )
  • Meadow pipit . Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-358-00364-7 (NA: Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-358-00364-7 )

Filmography

Non-fiction

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Held. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, pp. 405-406, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ↑ Screenwriter Wolfgang Held is dead. Message on the homepage of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from September 18, 2014 (accessed on September 18, 2014).
  3. ↑ Lavinia Meier-Ewert: The writer Wolfgang Held is dead ( Thüringer Allgemeine , September 18, 2014, accessed September 19, 2014)
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland , September 28, 1984, p. 6
personal data
SURNAME Hero, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH 17th September 2014
Place of death Weimar