Dieter Kalka

Leipziger Liederszene, Dieter Kalka with bandoneon, Photo: Jochen Janus

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

Biography

Dieter Kalka started to study electrical engineering and mathematics at the Technische Universität Ilmenau in 1978. In 1980 he had to quit his studies because of the distribution and possession of illegal publications. He was a member of the folk band founded in 1978, "Feuertanz", in 1984 he founded the band Dieters Frohe Zukunft (The happy Future of Dieter) with Folksongs and own texts together with Uwe Schimmel (Waldhorn), Uta Mannweiler (Viola) and himself Bandoneon. With this group she organized the illegal artists' meeting "Ringel Folk" in Wurzen where there was no censorship. The unauthorized promotional material for this and other actions he copied at the photo lab of Petra Lux.

Dieter Kalka was "the fiercest among the Leipzig song singers".[1] Since the mid-1980s he has worked as a freelance singer and was repeatedly participant of the Chanson days Kloster Michaelstein (GDR-open Chanson days in Monastery Michaelstein). He made samizdat productions in privat studio at Hubertus Schmidt 1987 and Peter Gläser 1988 and official at Studio Kölling (Leipzig 1989). After collaboration with Werner Bernreuther mentoring 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 of the Leipzig Songwriter Workshop, which he later publicly returned as they wanted to dictate to him what 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 book publication was entitled "Eine übersensible Regung unterm Schuhabsatz" (An Over Sensitive Motionless Under the Heel) and released in 1987 as samizdat. In 1990 he prepared a project manager before 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 translated Polish poetry. Sunken GDR reality is the subject of his "Der ungepflückte Apfelbaum" published in 1998.[5] Kalkas texts have been published in German, Polish, Austrian, Canadian and Belarusian literary magazines.

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

Kalka joined with his bandoneon various programs on own songs, such as 1988 with the theme "Noch habe ich die Freiheit zu lieben" (I still have the freedom to love). Sometimes he sang at the songwriter-festival Burg Waldeck. His songs "are not without bitter aftertaste. He puts his finger on compromises that each includes almost every day in life, or feel compelled to close. Former ideals are often forgotten.[10] He wrote the lyrics for the folk opera[11] and wrote 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.

Works

Books

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.[20]

Bibliography

External links

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. 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: 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
  15. ↑ CD/MC 2
  16. ↑ CD & MC
  17. ↑ Moritz Jähnig: Standortbestimmung persönlicher Natur. In: Die Union, October 1989
  18. ↑ Das mysteriöse Ende des montrösen Diktators H. Gelungene Schreiber-Inszenierung von Kalkas „Experiment“' im „theater fact“. In: Leipziger Volkszeitung vom 25 September 1998
  19. ↑ Folkoper Feuertanz
  20. ↑ Portalpolen
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