Volker Braun
Volker Braun was born in Dresden, Saxony, Germany on May 7th, 1939 and is the Poet. At the age of 84, Volker Braun biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Volker Braun (born in Dresden, 7 May 1939) is a German writer.
Provokation for mich (Provocation for Me), a collection of poems written between 1959 and 1964 that was published in 1965, Die Kipper (The Dumpers) (1972), and Das ungezwungne Leben Kast (1972).
Life
Volker Braun studied philosophy at Leipzig after completing his Abitur. He occupied himself with the inconsistencies and hopes of a socialist nation. In 1960, he joined the SED. Nevertheless, he was regarded as skeptic of the GDR state and he often succeeded in getting his prose and poetry published only through tactical skill.
His collection included poetry, plays, novels, and short stories.
His writings reflected a critical fascination with the emergence of socialism at the start. Braun served as artistic director at the Berliner Ensemble from 1965 to 1967, at Helene Weigel's invitation. He became more aware of life and the possibility of change under Socialism after the Prague Spring. He came under more intense scrutiny of the Stasi after that. Braun began working at the Deutsche Theater Berlin in 1972 (German Theatre Berlin). In 1976, he was one of those who signed a petition opposing Wolf Biermann's expatriation. He was active in the Berliner Ensemble beginning in 1979. In 1981, he received the Lessing Prize of East Germany, as well as the National Prize of East Germany.
Braun left the Writer' Union of the GDR in 1982. His works at the time described an increasingly sad life in the GDR. With resignation in immovable settings, the actors in his plays merrily moved about. In 1985, his Hinze-Roman, based on Diderot's Jacques le fataliste et son maître, received permission for publication. When it appeared that Annalise Loeffler's influential critic said it was characterized as "absurd" and "anarchistic." Klaus Hoepke, the former culture minister, was banned for having been granted permission for its publication.
Braun received the National Prize of the GDR in 1988. He was a promoter of an independent "third way" for the GDR during 1989's "peaceful revolution." He was one of the first signatories to the appeal "Fuer unser Land" protest. He became interested in investigating the reasons for the GDR's demise after reunification. He began work with "Das Argument," the west-Marxist journal, edited by Wolfgang Fritz Haug, in this connection.
Braun was given the Bremer Literature Prize in 1986. He received the Schiller Memorial Prize in 1992. In 1994, he was given a stipend at the Villa Massimo and was a visiting scholar at the University of Wales. He received the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung (German Critics Prize), the Sächsische Akademie of the Arts, in 1996, and occupied the position of Poet-lecturer at the University of Heidelberg. In 1998 and 2000, he was awarded the Erwin Strittmatter Award and the Georg Büchner Prize. He was the Brothers Grimm-professor at the University of Kassel from 1999 to 2000. In 2006, he will be elected Director of the Academy of Arts' Literature Section. He received the 2007 ver.di-Literature Award for his poem "Das Mittagsmahl" (Lunch).
Volker Braun lives in Berlin.