Volcker braun biography

Volker Braun was.
Volker Braun (born 7 May 1939 in Dresden) is a German writer.
Volker Braun is a German writer.

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Volker Braun

Biography

Volker Braun was born in Dresden on the 7th of May 1939. After he finished school he was refused entry to university, he then worked in a printing firm, in civil engineering for the collective combine Schwarze Pumpe, and as a machine operator. From 1960 to 1964 he studied philosophy in Leipzig, in 1965 Helene Weigel called him to the Berliner Ensemble, where his first play Die Kipperwas staged and then prohibited. From 1972 to 1977 he worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlinand from ’79 to ’90 again at the Berliner Ensemble. Volker Braun received numerous prizes, he lives as a writer in Berlin.

Volker Braun is a political poet with very distinct aesthetic qualities, and the significance of his writing extends to all genres. He was one of the most exciting voices of the “dramatic” life in the GDR of the sixties and seventies. His novel Hinze-Kunze-Roman, a satirical description of GDR-reality, is a showpiece of German prose.
When he was awarded the Büchner Preisin 2000, it was confirmed: “What Heiner Müller means for the history of German drama

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Volker Braun

Provokation für mich
Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Halle, 1965

Wir und nicht sie
Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Halle, 1970

Das ungezwungene Leben Kasts
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1972

Gegen die symmetrische Welt
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1974

Es genügt nicht die einfache Wahrheit
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1976

Training des aufrechten Ganges
Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Halle, 1981

Gedichte
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1983

Verheerende Folgen mangelnden Anscheins innerbetrieblicher Demokratie
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1988

Guevara oder der Sonnenstaat
Büchergilde Gutenberg
Frankfurt/Main, 1984

Hinze-Kunze-Roman
Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Halle, 1985

Die Übergangsgesellschaft
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1987

Unvollendete Geschichte
Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Halle, 1990

Langsam knirschender Morgen
Mitteldeutscher Verlag
Halle, 1988

Bodenloser Satz
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1990

Der Stoff zum Leben. 1 – 3 Gedichte
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1990

Iphigenie in Freiheit
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1992

Böhmen am Meer
Suhrkamp
Frankfurt/Main, 1992

Das

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Volker Braun

Given the dramatic economic and political failure of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, 1949-1990) it is perhaps surprising that the same landscape has produced some of the most important German writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Volker Braun, together with Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller, is clearly amongst them. Perhaps their personal experience of living in a dictatorship and being confronted with the glaring mismatch between official ideology and personal socialist convictions allowed them to see reality more clearly. In Braun's case this has produced an œuvre which looks beyond the ideological justifications of the powers that rule our societies, be it “really existing” socialism or globalised capitalism. Braun's method has been called “archaeology of the…

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