Wolfgang Mocker
Wolfgang Mocker (born May 2, 1954 in Plauen ; † July 24, 2009 in Berlin ) was a German aphorist and journalist .
Life
Wolfgang Mocker was born in 1954 as the youngest of three children in Plauen in Vogtland . After graduating from the Workers 'and Peasants' Faculty in Halle (Saale) in 1972, he studied until 1974 turbine in Wrocław and after completed basic military service from 1976 to 1979 history and German in teaching at the PH "Karl Liebknecht" . He did not complete both studies. After several short-term auxiliary jobs, from the beginning of 1981 Mocker worked as a salaried editor of the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel . In December 1981 Mocker, who had lived in Potsdam since 1976 , moved to Teltow . He had successfully completed the distance learning course in journalism in Leipzig , which began in 1983 . From 1992 Mocker, who had moved to Berlin in the summer of 1988, was a freelance journalist; however, he continued to write for Eulenspiegel . On July 24, 2009 Mocker died of a heart attack .
During his studies in Potsdam Mocker met Viola Petschick, whom he married in 1979. The marriage remained childless.
plant
Mocker, who came to aphorism as a lyric poet in the 1970s and exchanged letters with Erwin Strittmatter in the 1980s , named Lichtenberg , Kraus and Lec as aphoristic role models. His aphorisms, the number of which is estimated at around 2,000, are more concise and sharper than those of historical and contemporary authors. In addition, Mocker mainly wrote glosses and satires. He published in daily newspapers ( Lausitzer Rundschau , Sächsische Zeitung ), magazines, literary magazines , street papers and in ten anthologies .
Books
- Thoughts according to Canossa. Euphorisms and other one and a half truths . Illustrations by Hans Ticha . Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-359-00151-6
- No eye stays dry (texts on caricatures by Paul Pribbernow ). Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-359-00410-8
- Between the constraints. Selected aphorisms . Edited and selected by Tobias Grüterich and with illustrations by Werner Schubert-Deister . Mergard Verlag, Lauterbach 2013, ISBN 978-3-929359-23-7
literature
- Tobias Grüterich: Epilogue . In: Between the compulsions (2013), pp. 51–65
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Mocker in the catalog of the German National Library
- http://www.mocker-aphorismen.de/
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grüterich 2013, p. 54.
- ↑ Grüterich 2013, p. 55. with additional references
- ↑ a b Andreas Düllick: Our colleague and colleague Wolfgang Mocker has died. We mourn our friend . In: strassen | feger , issue 17, August 2009. ( full text on mocker-aphorismen.de , accessed on April 30, 2013).
- ^ Wolfgang Mocker: Diary Notes 1987, accessed on April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Viola Mocker: Note [2009], accessed April 30, 2013.
- ↑ Grüterich 2013, p. 60.
- ↑ Grüterich 2013, p. 52.
- ↑ List of publications .
- ↑ The year of publication was not 1987 - as stated in the book imprint - but 1988. Cf. Grüterich 2013, p. 58.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mocker, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aphorist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 24, 2009 |
| Place of death | Berlin |