Background
Ulrich Plenzdorf was born on October 26, 1934, in Berlin, Germany. He was a son of Martha and Ewald Plenzdorf. His parents were active members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Ulrich Plenzdorf
Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig University where Ulrich Plenzdorf studied.
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF where Ulrich Plenzdorf studied from 1959 to 1963.
Ulrich Plenzdorf with actor Frank Beyer during the filming of "The King and his Fool".
Ulrich Plenzdorf in the 1990s.
Ulrich Plenzdorf in 1996.
Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Leipzig University where Ulrich Plenzdorf studied.
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11, 14482 Potsdam, Germany
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF where Ulrich Plenzdorf studied from 1959 to 1963.
Ulrich Plenzdorf with actor Frank Beyer during the filming of "The King and his Fool".
Ulrich Plenzdorf in the 1990s.
Ulrich Plenzdorf in 1996.
(One of the most talked-about works ever published in the ...)
One of the most talked-about works ever published in the German Democratic Republic! This innovative novel by an East German writer is a worthy companion to the classic it parodies and parallels: Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther. Goethe and J. D. Salinger were the two greatest influences on Edgar Wibeau, “Young W.” Edgar is a 17-year-old with the frustrations of teenagers all over the world, living with the added pressures of an East-bloc state. A model all-GDR boy, the son of a factory director, he suddenly drops out. But not from socialism per se – just from conformity, picky regulations, and official disapproval of jeans, the blues, and girls. Hiding out, he finds and devours an old copy of The Sufferings of Young Werther. From then on he wards off reality with Goethe texts, and young Wibeau’s fate is superimposed on that of Werther like a transparent overlay. It is an ironic and revealing linkage.
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1979
Ulrich Plenzdorf was born on October 26, 1934, in Berlin, Germany. He was a son of Martha and Ewald Plenzdorf. His parents were active members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
Ulrich Plenzdorf studied Marxism-Leninism and philosophy at the Franz Mehring Institute of Leipzig University from 1954 to 1955. He also attended Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF from 1959 to 1963.
Ulrich Plenzdorf started his career as a stagehand at the theater in East Berlin in 1955. He held this post until 1958 and then he became a soldier of the National People's Army. In 1963 Plenzdorf took up a post of a Screenwriter at Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft studio.
Ulrich Plenzdorf published his first book Die Neuen Leiden des Jungen W. in 1972. In 1979 this book was translated in English as The New Sufferings of Young W. Later, Plenzdorf wrote such books as Die Legende von Paul und Paula, Legende vom Glueck Ohne Ende, Kein Runter Kein Fern and others. He also wrote the screenplays of the fourth of the five seasons of Jurek Becker's ARD television series Liebling Kreuzberg. Plenzdorf also served as a guest lecturer at German Institute for Literature from 2004 to 2007.
Ulrich Plenzdorf was a German writer, scriptwriter and educator who was famous for his book The New Sorrows of the Young W. He received the Art Prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation and the Heinrich Greif Prize in 1971. In 1973, he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. Plenzdorf received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1978. In 1991 he was awarded the Television Film Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts for Hüpf, Häschen hüpf film.
(One of the most talked-about works ever published in the ...)
1979Ulrich Plenzdorf's work, Die Neuen Leiden des Jungen W., explores issues of individuality and personal choice inside a socialist country attempting to discourage such so-called “decadent” desires. In his next works, the author raised issues that subtly questioned the socialist ideology.
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Siegfried Mews: Ulrich Plenzdorf attracted major attention for his treatment of the longings, problems, and doubts of young people in a socialist society that claimed to have eliminated the causes of individual maladjustment and unhappiness.
Ulrich Plenzdorf married Helga Lieske in 1955. The marriage produced three children.
