Werner Lindemann

Writer

Birthday October 7, 1926

Birth Sign Libra

Birthplace Wolfen, Germany

DEATH DATE 1993-2-9, Zickhusen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany (66 years old)

Nationality Germany

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1926

Werner Lindemann (7 October 1926 – 9 February 1993) was a German writer and poet.

He was the father of Till Lindemann, the lead vocalist of German industrial metal band Rammstein.

Werner Lindemann was born into a family of farm workers.

He grew up in Alt-Jeßnitz Gutsdorf near Wolfen in Saxony-Anhalt.

1941

In 1941, aged 15, he was apprenticed to a farmer.

1943

Between 1943 and 1945, he served in the German Army.

After the end of World War II, he studied natural sciences at Halle.

1949

In 1949, he began to teach agriculture-related subjects at a vocational school.

1955

Between 1955 and 1957, he studied at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature at Leipzig.

1959

There, he worked as editor of the student magazine Forum, became director of the city House of Culture, and from 1959, worked as a freelance writer.

He co-founded the Künstlerkolonie Drispeth ("Drispeth Artist's Colony"), where he lived for over 20 years, along with Joachim Seyppel, Joochen Laabs, and Gerhard and Christa Wolf.

Lindemann wrote his first poems shortly after the war.

They were published in a 1959 book Stationen, which also included autobiographical material.

1970

The writer became for his children's books in the 1970s, in which he showed a poetic vision of the everyday.

1980

In addition to his children's poetry, from the 1980s, he published several books of prose, such as Aus dem Drispether Bauernhaus ("From the farmhouse at Drispeth") and The Roggenmuhme.

These and other books were based on observations and memories of his youth.

He describes nature, family life in the countryside, and day-to-day life under the socialist regime.

For example, in the book Mike Oldfield im Schaukelstuhl: Notizen eines Vaters ("Mike Oldfield in the Rocking Chair: Notes of a Father"), Lindemann contrasted the memories of the narrator, a parent, the views and ambitions of his son; the book remarked on the differences of character among educated people in different social systems, but also showed their similarities.

On many occasions, he gave talks in schools to bring poetry to children.

He was a frequent visitor to the Grundschule Elisabethwiese elementary school in Rostock.

1985

In 1985, the Academy of Arts in Berlin awarded him the Alex-Wedding-Preis, for his merits in the field of socialist children's literature.

1994

After his death, the school changed its name to Werner-Lindemann-Grundschule on 7 October 1994.

The ceremony was attended by his widow, journalist Gitta Lindemann.