Wolfgang Herzberg

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Wolfgang Herzberg (* 1944 in Leicester ) is a German publicist of biographical interview books, author of rock texts, songs and poems .

life and work

Wolfgang Herzberg was born in Leicester / England in 1944 as the son of Jewish-German emigrants . He has lived in Berlin since 1947 . He studied cultural studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1974 to 1979 he worked as a freelance researcher, editor and assistant director for documentary film and television in the GDR . From 1980 he worked as a freelance writer.

Wolfgang Herzberg is the brother of André Herzberg .

He became known to a broader public in the GDR through the lyrics for the rock spectacles Paule Panke and Hans im Glück , which were written by him under the pseudonym Frauke Klauke and musically staged by the Berlin rock band Pankow .

The book Der Sturz: Honecker in cross-examination , which was written together with Reinhold Andert , received a lot of attention , in which the authors try to penetrate into the thoughts of Erich and Margot Honecker after the end of the GDR.

Works (selection)

  • Paule Panke. Hans im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . Henschelverlag Art and Society , Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00292-7 .
  • That's how it was - life stories 1900–1980 . Mitteldeutscher Verlag , Halle 1985.
  • To survive is to remember. Life stories of German Jews . Construction Verlag , Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-351-01626-3 .
  • with Reinhold Andert: The fall. Honecker in cross-examination . Construction Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-351-02060-0 .
  • It all depends on the beginning. Social democratic new beginning in the GDR . Dietz , Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-8012-0198-8 .
  • Gerry Wolff: The rose was red . Dietz, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-320-02070-5 .
  • I am a pine tree in the Brandenburg sand: songs and poems before and after the fall of the GDR . Self-published, Berlin 1993.
  • Manifesto of participation: basic programmatic building blocks of civil society movements and democratic means of control red-green-red future alliances for a socio-ecological turning point . Verlag am Park, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945187-89-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elfriede Brüning: Wolfgang Herzberg. In: elfriede-bruening.de. 2009, archived from the original on August 24, 2013 ; accessed on June 25, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Herzberg: Paule Panke, Hans Im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1990, dialog, ISBN 3-362-00292-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Herzberg, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publicist, lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicester