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German poet and journalist (1922–2006)
Günther Deicke (21 October 1922 – 14 June 2006) was a German poet and journalist.
Life
Born in
Hildburghausen , in 1940 Deicke joined the
NSDAP .
[1] Under the Nazi regime he was
Hitler Youth Führer .
[2] From 1941 to 1945, he was deployed as a sailor in World War II.
[3]
In 1947, he became cultural editor in
Weimar , and from 1951 to 1952
literary editor in Berlin. From 1951 to 1958, he worked for the literary magazine
neue deutsche literatur [
de ] . From 1959 to 1970, he again worked as a publishing house editor. Deicke worked as an author with the leading
GDR publishers and magazines (
Aufbau-Verlag ,
Verlag der Nation [
de ] ,
Verlag Volk und Welt [
de ] ,
Sinn und Form ). He was also active as a translator of works by
Boris Pasternak ,
Mihai Eminescu ,
Ivan Vazov ,
Lőrinc Szabó , Vojtech Mihálik.
He has been a freelance writer since 1970 and has published numerous volumes of poetry, such as Du und Dein Land und die Liebe sowie Die Wolken. .
Deicke was a member of the
German Academy of Sciences at Berlin and the
PEN Centre Germany . In 1964, he received the
Heinrich Heine Prize and the
Attila József plaque of the Hungarian P.E.N. Centre; in 1970, the
National Prize of the GDR . He received the
Berliner Zeitung Critics' Prize in 1968 and 1977, and the
Patriotic Order of Merit in silver in 1982.
[4] In 1987, he was honoured with the Order of
Star of People's Friendship in Silver.
[5] Deicke was an active member of the German-Hungarian Society and an honorary member of the
Hungarian Writers' Association .
Deicke died at the age of 83 during a spa stay in
Mariánské Lázně and is buried at
Cemetery Pankow III [
de ] . His grave is a private grave in the
Honour Grove [
de ] area.
Quotes
Kampf und Widersprüche sind stärkere Farben als Frieden und Zuversicht.
[6]
War ich ein Faschist gewesen? Ja.
[7]
Work
1954 Liebe in unseren Tagen (Poetry).
1959 Taum vom glücklichen Jahr (Poetry).
1960 Du und Dein Land und die Liebe.
1965 Die Wolken (Poetry).
1966 Esther (opera libretto). Premiere:
Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin .
1966 Reiter der Nacht (opera libretto).
1968 Reineke Fuchs opera libretto).
1972 Ortsbestimmung (Poetry).
1973
Poesiealbum 70 (Poetry).
1975 Dass der Mensch ein Mensch sei, ein poetische Dialog in Bild und Wort. With Michail Trachmann.
1981 Das Chagrinleder (opera libretto for
Fritz Geißler ).
2011 Daheim. Gedichte aus dem Nachlaß anlässlich des fünften Todestages am 14. Juni 2011. Published by the Deutsch-Ungarischen Gesellschaft (DUG) in Berlin. With three translations into Hungarian by
Sándor Tatár and an enclosed original lithograph by Volker Scharnefsky. DUG, Berlin 2011,
ISBN
978-3-9809551-0-2 (text partly in German, partly in Hungarian).
Anthologies and literary journals
References
^
Harry Waibel : Diener vieler Herren. Former Nazi functionaries in the SBZ/DDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2011,
ISBN
978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 67.
^ Olaf Kappelt: Braunbuch DDR. Reichmann, Berlin 1981,
ISBN
3-923137-00-1 , p. 20 2nd edition. Berlin Historica edition, Berlin 2009,
ISBN
978-3-939929-12-3 .
^
Deicke, Günther, Nachlass on Thueringen.de
^
Berliner Zeitung . 5 October 1982, p. 4.
^
Neues Deutschland . 6 October 1987, p. 2.
^
Deicke, Günther.
Archived 2021-08-11 at the
Wayback Machine In dunkelgraefinhbn.de, retrieved 11 July 2021 (private
Hans-Jürgen Salier [
de ] 's website, Ines Schwamm; ohne nähere Quellenangabe zum Zitat).
^ Günther Deicke: Arbeit mit Michail Trachmann. In Auskünfte zur Zeit von Mitgliedern der NSDAP aus vier Jahrzehnten. Aus Anlaß des 40. Jahrestages der Gründung der
National-Demokratische Partei Deutschlands . Edited by
Günter Hartmann , Gert Walter. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1988,
ISBN
3-373-00226-5 , pp. 153–159, here p. 158.
External links
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