Wolfgang de Bruyn

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Wolfgang de Bruyn (* 1951 in Berlin ) is a German writer and was director of the Kleist Museum in Frankfurt (Oder) .

Life

Wolfgang de Bruyn was born in East Berlin in 1951. Since the parents were divorced, from the age of three he lived alternately with his father, the writer Günter de Bruyn , and with his mother in Berlin and with his grandmother in Zernsdorf .

Vocational training and studies

As part of his vocational training, de Bruyn graduated from high school as a skilled worker for ornamental plants and was named the best gardener apprentice in the GDR . Drafted into the National People's Army , he was supposed to guard the inner-German border with a dog squadron, whereupon he became mentally ill. After a stay in the clinic, a long and arduous journey back to civilization began. He processed his ordeal in 1991 in the Rosenhof plant : Notes from the barracks. Key themes in this 1970 diary include conscription and psychosis .

Because the desired course in landscaping could only be started every three years, de Bruyn decided in 1971 to study English and German at the Humboldt University in Berlin . Between 1978 and 1981 he completed a distance learning course at the "Johannes R. Becher" literature institute in Leipzig . In 1985 he was at the Humboldt University with the work of Ernest Hemingway and the autobiographical basis of selected works doctorate .

Professional background

The Kleist Museum Frankfurt (Oder), which Wolfgang de Bruyn was director from 2007 to 2016.

In parallel to his training, Wolfgang de Bruyn worked as a teacher at the Institute for Intensive Language Training in what is now the German Historical Museum from 1975 . He had to give up this position in 1986 under pressure from the authorities because he was allegedly the only one of his colleagues who refused to join the SED . According to another account, he was dismissed because, as part of his doctorate on Hemingway, he had often worked in the library of the American Embassy in East Berlin (in the building of the former Army and Navy department store ). These visits were classified as forbidden contacts with the West.

He then worked as a freelance author, translator and editor as well as an English teacher at the Königs Wusterhausen adult education center . After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, he became Head of Culture and Monument Preservation in the then Beeskow district , and from 1993 the Oder-Spree district . During the time of his administration, which lasted until 2007, the renovation of the medieval town center of Beeskow and the start of the reconstruction of the monastery complex in Neuzelle . From 2007 to August 1, 2016, de Bruyn was director of the Kleist Museum in Frankfurt (Oder).

In 1988 de Bruyn was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . He was temporarily part of the jury of the Brandenburg Art Prize, which has been awarded since 2004 . He sits on the board of the Heinrich von Kleist Society , the Chamisso Society and the Gerhart Hauptmann House Foundation in Kloster on Hiddensee .

Wolfgang de Bruyn lives like Günter de Bruyn in Blabber near Görsdorf , a district of the Tauche community in the Oder-Spree district . Here his father bought the former and secluded goofy sheep farm in 1968 . In the wasteland at Blabbergraben , Wolfgang de Bruyn does, among other things, silviculture and the cultivation of old fruit varieties to compensate for his career. On November 14th, 2015 he was elected first chairman of the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gesellschaft eV, Berlin.

Works

  • The last round: narratives. Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin / Weimar 1983.
  • Ernest Hemingway and the autobiographical based on selected works. Diss. A at the Humboldt University , Berlin 1985.
  • Variants of a life: stories about five women. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1988, ISBN 3-351-01174-1 .
  • Rosenhof: Notes from the barracks. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin / Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-351-01891-6 .

Editorial activity

  • Indian tent painting. Introduction and explanations by Wolfgang de Bruyn and Helmut Petersen. Prisma Verlag, Leipzig 1990 ISBN 3-7354-0031-0 .
  • Beeskow in pictures: district town in the Oder-Spree-Land. On behalf of the Beeskow city administration. Stapp Verlag, Berlin 1995 ISBN 3-87776-062-7
  • Fidus . Artist of everything light , Berlin 1998.
  • Carl Petersen : The history of the Beeskow-Storkow district. Reprint of the 1922 edition. Ed .: Wolfgang de Bruyn. Findling Verlag, Neuenhagen 2002 ISBN 3-933603-19-6 .
  • Geo-Radar and Other Non-Destructive Land Monument Surveying Methods: Limits and Possibilities; international conference in Storkow (Mark), 14./15. May 2004. On behalf of the Oder-Spree district, Culture and Sports Office, Lower Monument Protection Authority. Findling-Buch-und-Zeitschr.-Verl., Neuenhagen 2005 ISBN 3-933603-32-3 .
  • Playing Kleist: on performance history. Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name on the occasion of the 16th Kleist Festival and Theater Days in the states of Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. Kleist-Museum, Frankfurt (Oder) 2007 ISBN 978-3-938008-19-5 .
  • Gerhart Hauptmann and his houses: Hiddensee - Erkner - Schreiberhau - Agnetendorf. Wolfgang de Bruyn, Antje Johanning, Association for the Promotion of Gerhart-Hauptmann-Houses e. V. (ed.). Findling, 2007, ISBN 978-3-933603-39-5 .
  • Kleist meets Goethe / Kleist incontra Goethe . Bilingual catalog for the exhibition "On the knees of my heart. Kleist meets Goethe" of the Kleist Museum Frankfurt / Oder in cooperation with the Casa di Goethe . Ursula Bongaerts, Wolfgang de Bruyn (ed.). Rome: Casa di Goethe, 2010. ISBN 978-3-930370-24-5 .
  • Public leaves in the world: Caroline de la Motte Fouqué and Sophie Tieck-Bernhardi-von Knorring . Women writers in Prussia. Wolfgang de Bruyn, Barbara Gribnitz (ed.), Wehrhahn Verlag, Hanover 2011 ISBN 978-3-86525-195-4 .
  • Heinrich Mann in Berlin. Wolfgang de Bruyn, Hans-Jürgen Rehfeld (eds.). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-94247-667-6 .
  • Mystery. Struggles. Fractions. The Kleist exhibition. Texts by Barbara Gribnitz. Kleist-Museum, Frankfurt (Oder) 2013 ISBN 978-3-938008-40-9 .
  • Gerhart Hauptmann and the music , Wolfgang de Bruyn, Stefan Rohlfs (ed.), Quintus-Verlag , Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-947215-10-2 .
  • The Kulturbund at the Eibenhof. Place of culture and encounter , Wolfgang de Bruyn, Angela Grabley (ed.), Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg , Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947215-20-1 .

Articles, collective works, translations

  • Reinhard Kiesewetter: Bad Saarow-Pieskow: at the Brandenburg Sea. Ed .: Bad Saarow-Pieskow Kur- und Tourismus-GmbH. Ed. Wolfgang de Bruyn. Bad Saarow-Pieskow, 1996 ISBN 3-00-000838-1 .
  • Elizabeth Shaw : Irish Berlin. Translated by Wolfgang de Bruyn. Construction, Berlin 1990. New edition under the title How I came to Berlin. An Irish woman in the divided city. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-942476-57-7 .
  • Trademark of a region - monuments in the eastern part of the Dahme-Heideseen nature park. In: NABU RV Dahmeland e. V: JahreBuch 2001 , Prieros ISSN  1869-0920 pp. 49-54. ( PDF ).
  • Heinrich von Kleist in Brandenburg and Berlin. The poor fellow from Frankfurt (Oder) (Wolfgang de Bruyn, Hans-Jürgen Rehfeld, Martin Maurach, Wolfgang Bartel, Horst Häker, Eberhard Siebert) In: The Mark Brandenburg. Issue 78, Marika Großer Verlag Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-910134-07-2 .

literature

  • Elke Lang: The scientist, writer and publicist Wolfgang de Bruyn. In: Kreiskalender Oder-Spree 2013. Ed .: Landkreis Oder-Spree, Office for Education, Culture and Sport, Beeskow, editorial deadline September 30, 2012, pp. 80–84.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Elke Lang: The scientist, writer and publicist Wolfgang de Bruyn.
  2. ↑ Go your own way. Dr. Wolfgang de Bruyn reported. In: Der Oderlandspiegel, May 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ a b Uwe Stiehler: Wolfgang de Bruyn is 60. In: Märkische Oderzeitung , February 14, 2011 (MOZ-Online).
  4. ↑ Press release | Kleist Museum | 05/31/2016
personal data
SURNAME Bruyn, Wolfgang de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin