- Peter Huchel
Peter Huchel (
April 3 ,1903 –April 30 ,1981 ), born Hellmut Huchel, was a Germanpoet .Life
Huchel was born in Lichterfelde near
Berlin . From 1923 to 1926 Huchel studied literature and philosophy in Berlin,Freiburg andVienna . Between 1927 and 1930 he travelled to France, Romania, Hungary and Turkey. In 1930, he changed his first name to Peter and befriendedErnst Bloch ,Alfred Kantorowicz andFritz Sternberg . His early poems, published from 1931 to 1936, are strongly marked by the atmosphere and landscape ofBrandenburg . In 1934, Huchel married Dora Lassel. The couple would divorce in 1946 and Huchel would marry Monica Rosental in 1953. Between 1934 and 1940, Huchel wrote plays for German radio. During the Second World War, he served as a pilot in theLuftwaffe until he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1945. After his release, he began working for East German radio and in 1949, he became editor of the influential poetry magazine "Sinn und Form" ("Sense and Form"). After the building of theBerlin Wall in 1961, Huchel came under attack from the East German authorities and the following year he was forced to resign the editorshop of "Sinn und Form". From 1963 to 1971, he lived in isolation under police surveillance in his house in Wilhelmshorst near Berlin. In 1971, he was finally permitted to leave the German Democratic Republic and move, first to Rome, then toStaufen im Breisgau , where he later died.Works
*Gedichte (Poems) (1948)
*Chausseen, Chausseen. Gedichte (1963)
*Die Sternenreuse. Gedichte 1925-1947 (1968)
*Gezählte Tage. Gedichte (1972)
*Die neunte Stunde. Gedichte (1979)
*Gesammelte Werke (Collected Works); 2 vols., Vol. 1: Poems, Vol. 2: Miscellaneous Writings; ed. Axel Vieregg, Frankfurt am Main, 1984References
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