Dieter Kalka

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Dieter Kalka (born 25 June 1957) is a German writer, songwriter, poet, dramatist, musician, editor, translator and speech therapist.

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Biography

Dieter Kalka was born on 25 June 1957 in Altenburg. He began the study of electrical engineering and mathematics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau in 1978. In 1980, he was forced to abandon his studies due to the distribution and possession of illegal publications. He was a member of the folk group "Feuertanz", founded in 1978, while in 1984 he founded Dieters Frohe Zukunft (Dieter's Happy Future). He wrote his own folksongs, together with Uwe Schimmel on the French horn, Uta Mannweiler on the viola, while he himself played Bandoneon. With this group he organised the illegal artists' meeting "Ringelfolk" in Wurzen, which was devoid of censorship. The unauthorized promotional material for this, and other actions, he copied at the photo lab of Petra Lux.

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Leipziger Liederszene, Dieter Kalka with bandoneon

Dieter Kalka was "the fiercest among the Leipzig song singers". [1] Since the mid-1980s he has worked as a freelance singer and has repeatedly participated in the Chanson days Kloster Michaelstein (GDR-open Chanson days in the Monastery at Michaelstein). He made samizdat productions in the private studio of Hubertus Schmidt in 1987, with Peter Gläser in 1988 and at the official Kölling studio in Leipzig in 1989. After collaborating with Werner Bernreuther in 1987, he received a professional certificate as a songwriter, won a prize at the Chanson days of the GDR (Chanson days in Frankfurt/Oder) and a prize at the Leipzig Songwriter Workshop, which he later publicly returned as they wanted to dictate to him which song he should sing at the final concert. He has received several scholarships of Saxony and was, for a time, a member of the Independent Writers Association "ASSO" Dresden, the NGL/New Society for Literature, the Writers Association "VS" and the "Förderkreis Freie Literaturgesellschaft Leipzig".

Dieter Kalkas first published book was entitled "Eine übersensible Regung unterm Schuhabsatz" (An Over Sensitive Motion Under the Heel) and released in 1987 as samizdat. In 1990 he prepared as project manager for the first Alternative Leipzig Book Fair. [2] [3] Within the Association of German writers he organized in 1995 in Leipzig, the German-Polish poets’ festival "wortlust". [4] He has translated Polish poetry into German. The sunken GDR reality is the subject of his "Der ungepflückte Apfelbaum", published in 1998. [5] Kalka's texts have been published in German, Polish, Austrian, Canadian and Belarusian literary magazines.

Kalka was twice in Belarus for the songwriter's festival "Bardentreffen", and appeared with his Belarusian colleague Victor Shalkevich. At the Saxon Literature Spring in 2003, he dedicated his "Freiheitslied Nr. 2" (Freedom Song No.2) to his Belarusian colleague Victor Shalkevich in the hope that better times will come. [6] He participated in the German-Polish poets steamer on the border river Oder and the Orpheus Project in Wroclaw, Bad Muskau and Lwówek Śląski. At the poets steamer the Poet's wedding also took place [7] in 1998 between Dieter Kalka and Zielona Góra fairy tale author, Agnieszka Haupe, [8] at the Frankfurt Oderbrücke. [9]

Kalka has appeared on various programs with his bandoneon and playing his own songs, such as in 1988 with the theme "Noch habe ich die Freiheit zu lieben" (I still have the freedom to love). He also sang at times at the songwriter-festival Burg Waldeck. His songs "are not without a bitter aftertaste. He puts his finger on compromises that everybody engages in almost every day of their life, or feel compelled to close. Former ideals are often forgotten”. [10] He has written lyrics for folk opera [11] and has written about "The revival of the East German singer-songwriter scene". [12] His concerts have taken him to Poland, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and Denmark. His songs are on numerous CDs.

Dieter Kalka works as a speech therapist and lives in Leipzig and Meuselwitz.

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Dieter Kalka with bandoneon at Literary Autumn in Poznań 2018

Works

Books

Anthologies

  • Mein heimlicher Grund, Kiepenheuer 1996.
  • Nach den Gewittern, Steidl 1999, Nachdichtung.
  • Literatur aus Polen. (editor) Poetry in: Muschelhaufen. Jahresschrift für Literatur. Nr. 41. Viersen 2001. ISSN   0085-3593.
  • Żywe oczy wiersza / Augen des Gedichts, anthology, Polish-German, translation, publisher Jolanta Pytel and Czesŀaw Sobkowiak, Organon Zielona Góra 2001. ISBN   83-87294-25-X
  • Jak podanie ręki / Wie ein Händedruck, anthology Polish-German, Libra, Poznań 2017.
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Flyer
  • Helikopter, Tak trafiłem do Słowian/So kam ich unter die Slawen, prose, translation by Marek Śnieciński Wrocław 2016, [17]
  • Afront, Oświęcim. Auschwitz. 13 wizyt, prose, translation by Agnieszka Haupe, Bukowno 2022 [18]
  • Libertas, Jahrbuch der Meinungsfreiheit, LIT-Verlag, Münster 2022.

CD/MC

Song programs

Theater

Translation

Dieter Kalka translated Polish poets: Marek Śnieciński, Jan Strządała, Krzysztof Paczuski, Waldemar Dras, Józef Baran, Marta Fox, Katarzyna Jarosz-Rabiej, Agnieszka Haupe, Jolanta Pytel, Wladyslaw Klepka, Ludmiła Marjańska, Bogdan Kos, Grzegorz Stec, Jakub Malukow Danecki, Bohdan Zadura, Waldemar Michalski, Alekzander Rozenfeld and others. The poetry was published in Ostragehege, Muschelhaufen, the anthology Lubliner Lift/Lubelska winda, manuskripte, the anthologies "Es ist Zeit, wechsle die Kleider", "Nach den Gewittern" and at PortalPolen. [25]

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References

  1. Steffen Mohr in Leipziger Volkszeitung
  2. also look at Anarchist Bookfair
  3. see also, for German speaking, the video-documentation of the Book Fair and cuttings of the readings by Christian W. Staudinger on YouTube, retrieved 9 December 2015
  4. wortlust, Lublin, teatr NN
  5. Irmtraud Gutsche: Unter der Rinde. In: Neues Deutschland vom 20. Juni 1998
  6. Marika Ratthei: 12. Sächsischer Literaturfrühling vom 22. Mai bis 14. Juni 2003. Eröffnungsveranstaltung am 22. Mai 2003 in der Stadtbibliothek Leipzig. Archived 22 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine Abruf: 19. November 2010
  7. "'poets Steamer' donates a wedding amongst authors" Oberbayrisches Volksblatt 6 August 1998
  8. "happy end of a steamer-love, German, Polish author wedding", Märkische Oder Zeitung, 6 August 1998
  9. Märkische Oder Zeitung, 14 September 1998 "Congratulations instead passport control: BGS-police chief Ralf Bednarek congratulated ... to the wedding"
  10. Moritz Jähnig: Standortbestimmung persönlicher Natur. In: Die Union, Oktober 1989
  11. Compositions: Feuertanz. Premiere Ilmenau 1997
  12. Dieter Kalka: Das Wiederaufleben der ostdeutschen Liedermacherszene. Teil 1 – Die Chansontage in Kloster Michaelsstein. In: http://www.chanson.de. Das Online-Magazin für Lied, Chanson und feine Zwischentöne
  13. all data: book, Cds and the most of biography from „Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Das 20. Jahrhundert, Fünfundzwanzigster Band“, De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston, ISBN   978-3-11-040434-0
  14. "Lubliner Lift/ Lubelska winda". Archived from the original on 29 October 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  15. Review at pressetext.com
  16. Google Books
  17. Helikopter, Textlink
  18. Website literary magazine Afront
  19. CD/MC 2
  20. CD & MC
  21. "Richard Hawey, Quebec, Canada/ Prog-résiste 91, Thierry Istace, Belgium/ eclipsed - Rock Magazin, Joe Asmodo". Archived from the original on 16 September 2019. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  22. Moritz Jähnig: Standortbestimmung persönlicher Natur. In: Die Union, October 1989
  23. Das mysteriöse Ende des montrösen Diktators H. Gelungene Schreiber-Inszenierung von Kalkas „Experiment“ im „theater fact“. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung vom 25 September 1998
  24. Folkoper Feuertanz
  25. Portalpolen