Yaak Karsunke

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Yaak Karsunke (born June 4, 1934 in Berlin ; actually Georg Karsunke ) is a German writer and actor . He started with political poetry ; from the end of the 1960s onwards he also began writing more plays and radio plays . In 1989 he published the crime novel Toter Mann , for which he received 2nd place at the German Crime Prize in 1990 . He was also awarded the Erich Fried Prize in 2005 .

biography

Yaak Karsunke is the son of the graduate engineer and factory director Hans Karsunke and the publisher's authorized signatory Annemarie Karsunke, nee Polit. He grew up in the East Berlin district of Pankow . In 1949 the family moved to the West Berlin district of Friedenau . There Karsunke visited the school in 1953 made the High School and studied then three semesters law . After dropping out of his studies, he completed an acting training at the Max Reinhardt School for Drama from 1955 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1964 he lived off odd jobs.

In 1964 Karsunke went to Munich , where he was involved in the extra-parliamentary opposition ; In 1968 he was the spokesman for the Easter March campaign for democracy and disarmament. In 1965 he founded the literary magazine kürbiskern with other left-wing authors , of which he was co-editor and editor-in-chief until 1968. After the crackdown on the Prague Spring in August 1968, he left the editorial team in protest against Soviet policy.

He has been a freelance writer since 1969. At first he wrote theater reviews for magazines and worked as a theater critic for the “Kulturspiegel” at Bayerischer Rundfunk . In addition, he wrote mainly poetry as his own texts, and since 1972 he has also been writing plays and radio plays.

Since the beginning of the 1970s, Karsunke had a friendship with Rainer Werner Fassbinder , in whose films he partly participated as an actor in various supporting roles. From 1976 to 1979 he worked as a consultant for screenwriting and dramaturgy at the German Film and Television Academy and from 1981 to 1999 as a visiting professor for "scenic writing" at the University of the Arts in Berlin, where he lives today.

First name "Yaak"

Yaak Karsunke's real first name is Georg . In adolescence, this became the abbreviation Jörg . If you stretch the name (for example when calling out loud), it sounds like yaak . Karsunke later also used this name as a writer.

Works

  • kilroy & others , Gedichte, Wagenbach, Berlin 1967 (new edition in "Kilroy & others. speak & ausreden.", Lyrikedition 2000, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3935284264 .)
  • speak & ausreden , poems, Wagenbach, Berlin 1969 (new edition in "Kilroy & others. speak & ausreden.", Lyrikedition 2000, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3935284264 .)
  • Hello, Irina , picture book, Weinheim 1970 (together with Dietlind Blech)
  • The apotse is coming , picture book, Munich 1972 (together with Riki Hachfeld)
  • Listen to Liston , radio play, 1972
  • & now Bachmann. Training a perpetrator , radio play, 1972
  • Die Bauernoper , Theater, Frankfurt 1973 (together with Peter Janssens )
  • Josef Bachmann / Sonny Liston , attempts to get out of the lower class , Berlin 1973
    • Forerunner text, only the text about Liston & boxing: They'll never come back, German in: Renate Matthaei (Ed.): Trivialmythen, March Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1970, pp. 141–150; again in: März-Texte 1 & Trivialmythen, Area, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3899960297 , pp. 461-470.
  • Germinal , Theater, Frankfurt 1974. Based on Émile Zola's novel
  • Ruhrkampf -Revue , Theater, Frankfurt 1975 (together with Peter Janssens)
  • 1525 - turn on! , Radio play, 1975
  • The double loser , radio play, 1976
  • The big ones are let go , radio play, 1979
  • da between, 35 poems & a piece , Rotbuch, Berlin 1979, ISBN 978-3880222069 (new edition in “da between / on the danger”, poetry edition 2000, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3865200099 .)
  • Our beautiful America , Theater, Frankfurt 1979 (together with Wilhelm Dieter Siebert )
  • on the danger , poems, Rotbuch, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-88022-262-2 (new edition in "da between / on the danger", poetry edition 2000, Munich 2003, ISBN 978-3865200099 .)
  • After midnight , Theater, Frankfurt 1982 (based on the exile novel After Midnight by Irmgard Keun )
  • Executioner of the Revolution , radio play, 1984
  • Circling the guillotine , Berlin 1984 (together with Arwed D. Gorella )
  • Children of love , Frankfurt 1986
  • Dead man , detective novel, Rotbuch, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-88022-051-4
  • talk with the stone , poems, Rotbuch, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88022-778-0
  • hand & Fuß , Gedichte, Buch & Media / Lyrikedition 2000, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-86520-044-3

Filmography

Yaak Karsunke played in various films in minor supporting roles:

Translations

  • Arnold Wesker : Die Freunde , Frankfurt am Main 1970 (together with Ingrid Karsunke)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bochum Crime Archive: The German Crime Prize 1985 - today , accessed on July 21, 2012
  2. Yaak Karsunke , KLG - Critical Lexicon for Contemporary German Literature, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on April 26, 2012 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  3. a b Literature Lexicon. Authors and works of German language. Ed .: Walther Killy, Vol. 6. 1988-92
  4. a b c d Yaak Karsunke , Internationales Biographisches Archiv, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on April 26, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
  5. a b Heinz Janisch: Yaak Karsunke turns 75 , June 7, 2009, oe1.ORF.at Kultur, accessed on July 20, 2012
  6. a b filmportal.de: Yaak Karsunke: Filmography , accessed on July 19, 2012
  7. ^ IMDb: Yaak Karsunke: Filmography , accessed July 21, 2012

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