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Karl Mickel

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  • 1 Hofgeschrei | Translations: bg
  • 2 Bier
  • 3 Der Brocken
  • 4 Die Arena
  • 5 Tereszin mit Reisegruppe | Translations: bg
  • 6 Die Jahre
  • 7 Das Idyll
  • 8 Lineares Labyrinth | Translations: bg
  • 9 Zweite Ode an Czechowski | Translations: bg
  • 10 Paragraph Aids | Translations: ru
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Bier
Für Leising

Maulfaul, schreibfaul bist du, Richard, gern
Stemm ich aufn Tisch zwei Ellenbogen
Und denke, es sind viere. Was steht zwischen
Uns? Bier. Helga! noch zwei große

Weiße Blumen auf dem gelben Stiel.
Was tue ich? sagst du, ich deute
An, sag ich. Die Wirklichweisen
Wenn die was sagen, sagen die: Naja

Ich kenne diese Frau, vom Hörensagen
Aber verbürgt: dreißig, neun Jahre am Fließband
Der zucken, wo sie geht und liegt, die Arme
Die läuft zum Psychiater, denn sie wünscht

Zu kündigen. Der Wunsch, klagt sie, sei krankhaft.
Wer Ohren hat zu sehen der wird schmecken.

© Carla Lehmann, Berlin
From: Schriften 1. Gedichte 1957-1974.
Halle, Leipzig: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1990
Audio production: Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

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Karl Mickel

photo © gezett.de
* 12.08.1935, Dresden, Germany
† 20.06.2000, Berlin, Germany

Karl Mickel was born 1935 in Dresden/GDR. He studied economic planning and economic history in East-Berlin. From 1959 till 1963 he was editor of the literature magazine Junge Kunst. Afterwards Mickel worked as a scientific assistant at the Academy for Economics in Berlin. He was also co-director of the Berliner Ensemble, where he worked with Ruth Berghaus, last professor at the Academy for Acting Ernst Busch, Berlin.

Mickel got famous as a poet, playwright and essayist. Together with Volker Braun, Heinz Czechowski, Bernd Jentzsch, Rainer Kirsch, Sarah Kirsch and Richard Leising, he belonged to a circle of friends that later got called the Sächsische Dichterschule. Also Elke Erb and Adolf Endler, together with whom Mickel edited the legendary anthology In diesem besseren Land in 1966, where close to that circle.

 photo © gezett.de
In 1959 for the first time a poem of Mickel, then 24 years old, was published in an anthology. 1963 saw his first own volume of poetry Lobverse & Beschimpfungen. In 1966 Vita nova mea got published in East Germany and, one year later, also in the West. His following book Eisenzeit, too, got published in both Germanys (1975/77).

Mickel wrote poetry, plays, libretti, prose, a novel, speeches, articles and essays, a screenplay, laudations and obituaries. His poems got translated into English, Russian, Chinese and Hungarian. He translated a.o. Shakespeares Sonetts and poetry by Marina Zwetajewas and Jewgeni Jewtuschenko into German.

Between 1990 and 2000 his Complete Works where edited in six volumes by the Mitteldeutsche Verlag, Halle.

Publications
  • Lobverse und Beschimpfungen

    Gedichte

    Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1963

  • Vita nova mea. Mein neues Leben.

    Gedichte

    Berlin und Weimar: Aufbau-Verlag, 1966

  • Einstein / Nausikaa

    Die Schrecken des Humanismus in zwei Stücken

    Berlin: Rotbuch-Verlag, 1974

  • Eisenzeit

    Gedichte

    Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1975

  • Gelehrtenrepublik

    Aufsätze und Studien

    Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1976

  • Odysseus in Ithaka

    Gedichte 1957-74

    Leipzig: Reclam-Verlag, 1976

  • Mottek sagt

    Gedichte

    München : Carl-Hanser-Verlag, 1990

  • Aus der Anderwelt

    Erzählungen

    Warmbronn: Verlag Ulrich Keicher, 1998

  • Schriften in sechs Bänden

    Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2000

  • Der Besuch

    Lyrik und Texte aus dem Nachlaß

    Verlag UN ART IG, 2003

  • Geisterstunde

    Gedichte

    Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, 2004

Awards
  • 1978 Heinrich-Mann-Preis

  • 1983 Nationalpreis der DDR

  • 1997 Wilhelm-Müller-Preis des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt

  • 1998 Christian-Wagner-Preis

Links
  • Karl Mickel

    Betreut von Mickels Erben / Edited by Mickels inheritors. Enthält u.a. einen vom Autor persönlich erstellten Lebenslauf als Faksimile.

    Website (1)
  • Tondokument: ein poetologisches Gespräch zwischen Stephan Hermlin, Adolf Endler und Karl Mickel

    In der Reihe „Die Jahrzehnte. Das deutsche Gedicht in der 2. Hälfte des XX. Jahrhunderts“ präsentierten Autoren je ein frei gewähltes „fremdes“ und ein eigenes Gedicht aus einem Jahrzehnt. So entstanden Zeitbilder und eine poetologische Materialiensammlun

    Website (de)

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