Berlin –
The author and satirist Lothar Kusche is dead, he died on August 20 at the age of 87 years in. Berlin. This was announced by the chief editor of the satirical magazine Eulenspiegel, Mathias Wedel with. Lothar Kusche was one of the most famous columnists of the GDR.
With a keen sense of everyday absurdities he commented on the life in the country for 40 years in his lyrics. So he also liked to questions that no one else dared ask about, about: What is a Schdordpongpong? And how much expenses needed a world traveler like Marco Polo? Kusches answers were no less original than the questions. This author knew where Zwergenland located (ie everywhere) and how to withstand a budget -. That was the title of only two of his books
From Billposters for satirists
On May 2 born in 1929 in Berlin, Lothar Kusche came from middle-class background. Claims to he began his career as chocolate slide and poster glue. First texts he published in satirical magazines like Ulenspiegel, Fuffzehn and fresh breeze.
Later Kusche worked in East Berlin as an editor for various magazines. At times, he was deputy editor of the world’s stage and playwright at cabaret Die Distel. But he also wrote humorous Reiseskizzen over Siberia ( “No vodka for the Prosecutor”, 1967) and the UK ( “Across England in a half hour,” 1961) and screenplays, co-wrote about that for the successful DEFA comedy “The man who came to the grandmother “(1972) with Winfried Glatzeder, Marita Böhme and Rolf Herricht in the lead roles.
Lothar Kusches satires were geared to large German models. “Quite standing in the tradition Tucholsky, who Kusches primeval humor and mocking doubting irony of native Berliner found in countless texts and under several pseudonyms reflected,” it said in a eulogy for Kurt Tucholsky Prize, which he in 2007
Kusche received together with Otto Köhler. was an honorary member of the new Friedrichshagener poets district of Johannes Bobrowski and a member of the PEN center Germany. Three dozen books he has written in total, including witty chats and snappy comments. That loved him the reader, is the total circulation of his books: it is more than 2.5 million copies
After the turn Lothar Kusche had not lost his sense of humor.. He brooded for example, by the reunion of the potato buffer. Kusche one of the few East German writers who were still printed after 1989th Of course, he also administered the current media operation before – then he sounded at times more severe than in previous years
After a Kusche Reading in Lower Saxony, the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung called him once the “Kishon from Alexanderplatz” what Kusche. has accepted – after he was grown up in Berlin-Mitte. Yet in 2009 he published the Eulenspiegel Verlag, where he almost belonged to the inventory, the band “I’m dead, and how it happened …”. How did ultimately, he now maintains for itself. (With AP)
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