Günther Deicke

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Günther Deicke (21 October 1922 – 14 June 2006) was a German poet and journalist.

Günther Deicke's grave at Friedhof Pankow III [de] in Berlin

Life

Born in

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

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

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
    ISBN 978-3-9809551-0-2
    (text partly in German, partly in Hungarian).

Anthologies and literary journals

References

  1. ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1
    , p. 67.
  2. ISBN 978-3-939929-12-3
    .
  3. ^ Deicke, Günther, Nachlass on Thueringen.de
  4. ^ Berliner Zeitung. 5 October 1982, p. 4.
  5. ^ Neues Deutschland. 6 October 1987, p. 2.
  6. ^ 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).
  7. ISBN 3-373-00226-5
    , pp. 153–159, here p. 158.

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