Helmut Baierl

Helmut Johannes Baierl ( born December 23, 1926 in Rumburk, Czechoslovakia, † September 12, 2005 in Berlin) was a German writer and vice-president of the Academy of Arts of the GDR.

Life

Baierl, since 1944 a member of the Nazi Party, was after his expulsion from Bohemia farm workers and teachers of Russian. From 1949 to 1951 he studied Slavic Studies at the University of Halle (Saale ) and was then a lecturer in Russian in qualifications for adults. 1955 to 1957 he studied at the Institute of Literature " Johannes R. Becher ", until 1959 was chief editor of the Hofmeister Verlag Leipzig until 1967 and author and dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble.

Baierl was from 1945 to 1947 a member of the LDP, then until 1989 the SED. 1961 to 1967 he was party secretary of the Berliner Ensemble, then to 1968 and to 1989, candidate member of the SED district leadership Berlin.

Since 1967 Baierl was a freelance writer. He was from 1970 to 1974 secretary of the Section and poetry to 1990 Vice -President of the Academy of Arts. Since 1968, he was under the cover name " Flinz " as an unofficial member (IM) of the Stasi recorded.

His grave is located on the Dorotheenstädtischer cemetery.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Gladioli, an inkwell and a brindled cow, 1953
  • A signpost, 1953
  • The finding, 1958
  • Woman Flinz, 1961
  • The finding in 1961
  • The red Veit, 1962
  • Five Stories of the Thirteenth, 1963
  • H. Baierl, M. Wekwerth woman Flinz, 1965
  • Joan of chubs, 1969
  • The long road to Lenin, 1970
  • The turtle dove, UA 1974
  • The heads or even smaller Organon, 1974
  • Rhyming speeches ( agitation poetry ), 1976
  • Leo and Rosa, 1982
  • The second life of F.G.W.Platow, 1983
  • Polly says. Childhood memories of a city dog., 1986, ISBN 3-7684-3604-7
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