Yaak Karsunke
Yaak Karsunke ( born June 4, 1934 in Berlin, was Georg Karsunke ) is a German writer and actor. He began with political poetry; from the late 1960s, he also wrote plays and radio plays increased. In 1989 he published a crime novel Dead Man, for which he received the 1990 2nd place at the German Thriller Prize. Furthermore him 2005 Erich Fried Prize.
Biography
Yaak Karsunke is the son of the graduate engineer and factory director Hans Karsunke and Verlagsprokuristin Annemarie Karsunke, born Polit. He grew up in East Berlin's Pankow district. 1949 the family moved to the West Berlin district of Friedenau. There Karsunke attended high school, made 1953, the High School and then studied three semesters of law. After termination of studies, he completed from 1955 to 1957 an acting training at the Max Reinhardt School of Acting. From 1957 to 1964 he lived from odd jobs.
Karsunke 1964 went to Munich, where he became involved in the extra-parliamentary opposition; In 1968 he was speaker of the Easter march campaign for democracy and disarmament. In 1965 he founded with other left-wing authors, the literary magazine pumpkin seed, the co-publisher and editor in chief, he was until 1968. After the invasion of the Warsaw Pact in Czechoslovakia in August 1968, he left the editorship in protest against the Soviet policy.
Since 1969 he is a freelance writer. At first, he wrote theater reviews for magazines and worked as a theater critic for the 'Culture mirror " the Bavarian Radio. He also wrote his own texts as mainly poetry, from 1972, he also writes plays and radio plays.
Since the early 1970s Karsunke shared a friendship with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, in whose films he worked as an actor for the part of various supporting roles. From 1976 to 1979 he worked as a consultant for screenplay and dramaturgy at the German Film and Television Academy and from 1981 to 1999 as a visiting professor for " Creative Writing " at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where he now lives.
First name " Yaak "
Yaak Karsunke ie whose real name George. From this it was the abbreviation Jörg in adolescence. If we take the name ( for example, when loud calls ) in length, so it sounds like Yaak. This name is used Karsunke later as a writer.
Works
- Kilroy & other poems, Wagenbach, Berlin 1967 (reprinted in " Kilroy & others. speak & finish. " Lyrikedition 2000, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3935284264. )
- Talk finish, poems, Wagenbach, Berlin & 1969 ( reprint in " Kilroy & others. speak & finish. " Lyrikedition 2000, Munich 2000, ISBN 978-3935284264. )
- Hi, Irina, Picture Book, Weinheim, 1970 ( together with Dietlind sheet )
- The Apotse come, Picture Book, Munich 1972 (together with Riki Hachfeld )
- Listen to Liston, radio play, 1972
- & Now Bachmann. Training of a perpetrator, radio play, 1972
- The farmer opera, theater, Frankfurt, 1973 ( together with Peter Janssens )
- Josef Bachmann / Sonny Liston, get out experiments in the subclass, Berlin 1973 Precursor text, only the text on the Liston & Boxes: They'll never come back, in German: Renate Matthaei ( Hg'in ): Trivial myths, March Verlag, Frankfurt, 1970, again in this. Ed ' in: March - texts 1 & Trivial myths, Area, 2004 ISBN 3899960297 Erftstadt S. 461-470
Filmography
Yaak Karsunke played in several films in smaller supporting roles:
- Gods of the Plague, Commissioner, 1969, (directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- Love is Colder Than Death, Commissioner, 1969, (directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
- From a German life, Sergeant, 1977 ( Director: Theodor Kotulla )
- Berlin Alexanderplatz (directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder): Episode 1 - The punishment begins, Jailer, 1980
- Episode 14 - My dream of a dream of Franz Biber head of Alfred Döblin: An Epilogue, Jailer, 1980
Translations
- Arnold Wesker: The friends, Frankfurt am Main, 1970 ( along with Ingrid Karsunke )