Wolfgang Schreyer

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Wolfgang Schreyer (born November 20, 1927 in Magdeburg ; † November 14, 2017 in Ahrenshoop ) was a German writer .

Life

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Wolfgang Schreyer was the son of a chemist . He attended high school and was deployed as an anti-aircraft helper in the final stages of World War II . In 1944 he joined the NSDAP and served in the Wehrmacht until the end of the war . He became an American prisoner of war , from which he was released in 1946. From 1947 to 1949 he completed an apprenticeship as a pharmacist and then practiced this profession until 1950. From 1950 to 1952 he was managing director of a plant in the pharmaceutical industry . He has been a freelance writer since his debut novel Großgarage Südwest was published. Numerous trips took him mainly to the Caribbean and the USA . Since 1958, Schreyer has been under observation by the GDR State Security Service several times for a long time . Schreyer lived in Magdeburg until 1972; after that he was based in Ahrenshoop in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania until his death in November 2017 .

The writers Wolfgang Schreyer (left), Franz Fühmann (center) and Rudolf Fischer , who were awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize in 1956

Wolfgang Schreyer is the author of an extensive narrative work, which is largely attributed to entertainment literature, but has strongly socially critical features. Schreyer's novels, set in Central America and the Caribbean , were particularly successful , in which the author skilfully mixed fiction and documentary . In addition, he wrote detective novels , a science fiction novel, film and television scripts and radio plays . With a total circulation of more than five million copies, Schreyer is one of the most successful authors of GDR literature . Several of his novels were made into films by DEFA .

Wolfgang Schreyer had been a member of the GDR Writers' Association since 1952 and of the GDR PEN Center since 1974 ; later the PEN Center Germany . Since 1990 he has been a member of the Association of German Writers . In 1956 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize .

Works

  • Large garage south-west , Berlin 1952
  • With herbal schnapps and trust in God , Berlin 1953, yellow series
  • Company "Thunderstorm" , Berlin 1954.
  • The banknote , Berlin 1955.
  • Shots over the Baltic Sea , Berlin 1956
  • Captain Loy's dream , Berlin 1956
  • The assassination attempt , Berlin 1957.
  • The Akrotiri Spy , Berlin 1957.
  • Alaskan foxes. Five reports from three continents , Berlin 1959, contains the independent stories Alaska Foxes , The Assassination , Death of a Gunner , Banana Gangster and The Akrotiri Spy .
  • The green monster , Berlin 1959.
  • Decision on the Vistula , Berlin 1960
  • Temple of Satan , Berlin 1960.
  • The Pirate Chronicle , Berlin 1961
  • Vampires, tyrants, rebels , Berlin 1963 (together with Günter Schumacher)
  • Preludio 11 , Berlin 1964.
  • Fremder im Paradies , Halle (Saale) 1966 (published again in 1971 as part of the book series World of Adventure ).
  • Augen am Himmel (revision and updating of the pirate chronicle ), Berlin 1967; mostly updated and expanded several times.
  • Uprising of Sisyphus , Berlin 1969 (together with Jürgen Hell).
  • The yellow shark , Berlin 1969.
  • Banana gangsters , Berlin 1970.
  • Der Adjutant , Halle (S.) 1971.
  • The Resident , Halle (Saale) 1973.
  • Death of the Boss or Love for the Opposition , Berlin 1975
  • Black December , Halle (Saale) 1977.
  • The kidnapping , Halle [u. a.] 1979.
  • The reporter , Halle [u. a.] 1980.
  • The search or the adventures of Uwe Reuss , Roman, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1981. (New edition BS-Verlag, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-935171-65-X )
  • Ice cold in paradise , Halle [u. a.] 1982 (as TB 2009 in BS Verlag Rostock ).
  • The five lives of Dr. Gundlach , Berlin 1982
  • The man on the cliffs , novel, military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1987. ISBN 3-327-00380-7
  • The sixth sense , novel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle and Leipzig 1987. ISBN 3-354-00161-5
  • Inevitable , detective novel, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1988. ISBN 3-360-00260-1 (DIE series)
  • Die Beute , Roman, Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1989. ISBN 3-356-00258-9
  • End time of the winners , novel, Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle and Leipzig 1989. ISBN 3-354-00588-2
  • Nightmares. Thirteen erotic stories with a criminal touch , Ziethen-Verlag, Oschersleben 1991. ISBN 3-928703-03-X
  • Nebel , detective novel, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1993. ISBN 3-359-00685-2 (DIE series; 2010 under license from Weltbild)
  • The Quartet , crime novel, Das Neue Berlin publishing house, Berlin 1994. ISBN 3-359-00745-X
  • The second man. Review of life and writing , Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-360-00932-0
  • The loss or the adventure of Uwe Reuss , BS-Verlag, Rostock 2001. ISBN 978-3-935171-66-3
  • Das Kurhaus , story, BS-Verlag, Rostock 2002. ISBN 3-89954-014-X
  • The legend. What happened on September 11th , Roman, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-360-01289-0 (together with his son Paul Schreyer )
  • Ahrenshooper encounters. A house by the sea and its guests , BS-Verlag, Rostock 2008. ISBN 978-3-86785-030-8
  • The lighthouse , Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2009. ISBN 978-3-938398-81-4
  • The seduction , short stories, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-360-02108-3
  • The enemy in the house , novel, Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-360-02118-2
  • Last but not least. Memories, stories and essays , BS-Verlag, Rostock 2016. ISBN 978-3-86785-358-3

Film adaptations

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schreyer. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter De Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , pp. 903-904.
  2. ↑ Biography ( Memento from November 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Schreyer, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and film, radio and television author
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2017
Place of death Ahrenshoop