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Karl Mickel (12 August 1935 – 20 June 2000) was a German writer.




Life


Mickel was born in Dresden into a working-class family. There, he attended primary school from 1941 to 1949 and experienced together with his mother the bombing of Dresden in February 1945. The pictures of the following days never left him. From 1949 to 1953, he also attended secondary school in Dresden. He finished with the Abitur and was admitted to study in Berlin.
From 1953 to 1958, Mickel studied economic planning and economic history with Hans Mottek and Jürgen Kuczynski at the Hochschule für Ökonomie Berlin. In 1958, he was an employee of the magazine Die Wirtschaft, and from 1959 to 1963 editor of the magazine Junge Kunst. Afterwards, he was a scientific assistant at the Hochschule für Ökonomie in Berlin and a member of the management of the Berliner Ensemble, where he worked together with Ruth Berghaus, lastly professor at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin. Mickel was assigned to the Sächsische Dichterschule. Mickel had two children with his wife, furthermore, his relationship with the poet Sarah Kirsch gave a son.
Mickel worked from 1959 to 1964 as IM "Michael" and from 1987 to 1989 as IMS "Bert" for the eastgerman Stasi.
Mickel died in Berlin at the age of 64.




Work


Poetry and prose

Lobverse und Beschimpfungen. Poetry. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1963
Vita nova mea. Rotbuch Verlag 1966
Eisenzeit. Poetry. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 1975
Eisenzeit. Poetry. 1981. ISBN 3-880221-56-1
Odysseus in Ithaka. Poetry
Palimpsest. Gedichte und Kommentare 1975–1989. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1990. ISBN 3-354005-96-3
Lachmunds Freunde. Novel
Erstes Buch. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1991. ISBN 3-354006-00-5
Erstes (vom Autor revidierte Fassung) und Zweites Buch (unvollendet). Wallstein 2006
Die Jahre.
Aus der Anderwelt. Erzählungen. Verlag Ulrich Keicher, 1998. ISBN 3-932843-06-1
Gelehrtenrepublik. Aufsätze und Studien von Klopstock bis Papenfuß. Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2000. ISBN 3-932776-92-5
Der Besuch. Lyrik und Texte aus dem Nachlaß. Verlag UN ART IG 2003. ISBN 3-9807613-9-8
Geisterstunde. poetry, private impression, 1999. New edition: Wallstein Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-892447-41-1
Plays and libretti

Die Einverstandenen. Revue. Music Günter Kochan. UA 1958
Requiem für Patrice Lumumba. Cantata. Music: Paul Dessau. UA 1964
Nausikaa. Drama. Premiere 1968
Einstein. Opera, music Paul Dessau. Premiere 1974
Celestina. Tragicomedy after Fernando de Rojas. Premiere 1975 Berliner Ensemble
Bettina. Opera, Music (1982): Friedrich Schenker. Premiere 1987 Berlin (with Annette Jahns)
Gefährliche Liebschaften oder Der kalte Krieg. Opera seria. Musik (1993): Friedrich Schenker. Premiere 1997 Ulm
Volks Entscheid. Pieces. 1987
Halsgericht. Comedy after Apuleius). Mitteldeutscher Verlag 1994. ISBN 3-354005-97-1
Kants Affe. Ein Todtengespräch – Immanuel Kant / de Sade. Mit Grafiken von Nuria Quevedo. Edition Balance, 1994
Goldberg-Passion. Music (1998/99): Friedrich Schenker. Premiere 9 November 1999 in Leipzig
Editor

In diesem besseren Land (with Adolf Endler). Halle 1966
Jahrbuch der Lyrik (with Christoph Buchwald). Darmstadt 1990
Audiobook

in Dichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts: Meine 24 sächsischen Dichter, edited by Gerhard Pötzsch, 2 CDs, Militzke Verlag Leipzig 2009, ISBN 9783861899358




Honours


1978: Heinrich-Mann-Preis
1997: Wilhelm-Müller-Preis des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt
1998: Christian-Wagner-Preis




References






Further reading


Leon Hempel: Stillstand und Bewegung. Hoher Stil in der Lyrik Ost- und Westdeutschlands. GegenSatz Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814493-0-3
Rainer Zekert (1986). Die poetologische Konzeption des Lyrikers Karl Mickel : Genesis, Grundbegriffe, Wirkungsintention u. literaturgeschichtl. Umfeld. Leipzig, Univ., Diss. OCLC 165688400.




External links



Literature by and about Karl Mickel in the German National Library catalogue
Works by and about Karl Mickel in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Sarah Kirsch
• Vittaria
• Kapal perang Jepang Kotetsu
• Karl Mickel
• Deaths in June 2000
• Bettina (opera)
• Einstein (opera)
• The Tomten and the Fox
• Stephan Hermlin
• List of works by Günter Kochan
• Fritz Rudolf Fries
• Bettina (disambiguation)
• Friedrich Schenker