Wolfgang Knape

Wolfgang Knape (born September 18, 1947 in Stolberg (Harz) ) is a German writer .

Life

Wolfgang Knape studied scientific librarianship. He is a graduate of the Institute for Literature "Johannes R. Becher" in Leipzig and has been working as a freelance writer since 1981.

Wolfgang Knape publishes prose , poetry , radio plays and features. Some of his works have been translated into Korean and Chinese.

Wolfgang Knape lives in Leipzig. He is a member of the Johann Gottfried Schnabel Society eV , Stolberg / Südharz.

Works (selection)

• Snails for France , Berlin, 1983
• Leipzig , Munich a. Berlin, 1991
• Stolberg , Wernigerode, Schmidt 1995
• Felix Graf Luckner, the monkfish from Saxony , Taucha, 1999
• Little Peter's journey to the moon. Retold. , Würzburg, 2000
• Baedeker Leipzig . 5th and 6th edition, Karl Baedeker Verlag, Ostfildern-Kemnat 1997, 2002
• Ringelnatz from Saxony , Taucha, 2005
• Robinson Crusoe. Retold. , Würzburg, 2005
• Weimar , Wernigerode, Schmidt 2008
• Erfurt for the back pocket , Leipzig, 2008
• Nutcracker and Mouse King , Würzburg, 2008

Radio documentaries (selection)

• The way to Waldersbach (MDR 1992)
• A booth at Trude (MDR 1993)
• The divided mountain - on the road with Brocken-Benno (MDR 1996)
• Where men cut their stebbel - digressions about the Questfest of the Questenburger (MDR 1996)
• Gardener of the English Queen - Or: a lucky Saxon (MDR 1997)
• Pull the witches to the Brocken (MDR 1997)
• Praise to a stinker. Or: digressions when eating Harz cheese (MDR 1998)
• Felix Graf von Luckner - Pirate, Adventurer and Gentleman (MDR 1999)
• Where the winemaker is Saxon (MDR 1998)
• The Hermit from Achtermannstrasse - A feature about the Bulgarian Norbert Randow (MDR 1999)
• The fleet Otto. About charcoal , charcoal and the Harzköhlerei am Stemberghaus near Hasselfelde (MDR 1999)
• City - Name - Country: Bad Düben (MDR 2000)
• City - Name - Country: Sangerhausen (MDR 2000)
• A Harzer in Brazil - The Story of Hermann Blumenau (MDR 2001)
• City - Name - Country: Dippoldiswalde (MDR 2001)
• I send my greetings to Mr. Junkers - About the inventor, aviation pioneer and philanthropist Hugo Junkers (MDR 2001)
• The Prophet vom Arendsee - the itinerant preacher, naturopath and eccentric gustaf nagel (MDR 2002)
• I come and go again - The wondrous life of Joachim Ringelnatz (MDR 2002)
• Comedian by mistake - The life of actor Theo Lingen (MDR 2003)
• Where the teacher Lämpel lives - In the footsteps of Wilhelm Busch in Ebergötzen (MDR 2003)
• Without four, play five - cheerful incidents about the Germans' favorite card game (MDR 2004)
• The Magdeburg Horseman - Discoveries in a Millennia-Old City (MDR 2005)
• Thumbnail with the red pointed cap. In the footsteps of Selma Lagerlöf in Mårbacka (MDR 2005)
• The Vogtland . A race of people and a landscape (MDR 2006)
• The man who found out who B. Traven was: Rolf Recknagel (MDR 2007)
• A veteran from Saxony: Heinrich Zille (MDR 2007)
• The builder of the Göltzschtalbrücke : Johann Andreas Schubert (MDR 2008)
• Heinrich Ernemann : The pioneer of the Dresden photo and cinema equipment industry (MDR 2008)
• Tangermünde - the thousand-year-old imperial and Hanseatic city on the Elbe (MDR 2009)
• Der Bergmann von der Feder or Der Rechenmeister from Annaberg : Adam Ries (MDR 2009)
• School trip and herbal tea: 100 years of the youth hostel (MDR 2009)
• The little history of language: Saxony-Anhalt - or: Why they speak so differently (DLF 2011)
• The builder of the Göltzschtalbrücke - A brief industrial history of Saxony (DLF 2011)
• With the " Queen Maria " on the Elbe. The golden era of paddle steamers (MDR 2012)
• Nikolaus von Dreyse : From traveling journeyman to manufacturer of the primer and ammunition factory Dreyse & Collenbusch Sömmerda (MDR 2012)
• Mephisto is not a Saxon! - The actor Gert Fröbe in portrait (MDR 2013)
• Millers, bakers and patrons: Gottlieb Traugott Bienert . On the trail of a Saxon entrepreneur. (MDR 2013)
• Yenidze Dresden: From Atika to F6 - History of a Cigarette Factory (MDR 2013)

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Knape in the catalog of the German National Library