Bernd Späth

Bernd Späth (born December 9, 1950 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) is a German writer .

biography

Späth attended grammar school in Fürstenfeldbruck. He passed his first state examination in law in Bonn . In March 1982 Späth founded an advertising agency in Bonn, with which he a. a. looked after the EU Commission, the Federal Government and various commercial enterprises and associations. From 1984 to 1988, Späth was Secretary General of the “Golden Bridge” junior economics prize. Parallel to his entrepreneurial activity, he discovered his passion for the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitzbergen , where he undertook five expeditions between 1982 and 1995, each lasting four months, covering around 10,000 km over the inland ice and pack ice. For weeks he lived alone in a hut on the Arctic Icefjord. In 1983 he was the first German to reach the northern tip of Spitzbergen across the inland ice. He has published three Arctic novels about his experiences in the ice.

Späth wrote three plays for the Badische Kammerschauspiele , with which the stage went on tour with great success. His black comedy The Execution became the most played play in the history of the Bregenz State Theater and is now heading for the 300th performance. The post-war atmosphere in the small Bavarian town of Fürstenfeldbruck is the subject of the very controversial novel Rubble Child from spring 2002 (Lübbe). After Späth received anonymous letters and phone calls as a result of the novel, he left his home district and moved to Munich in 2007. He has been living in Starnberg since April 2018, where he runs a coaching practice for business executives.

Works

Film, TV

• Seitenstechen - Roxy-Film, Munich, (1985) with Mike Krüger and Thomas Gottschalk
• The execution - TV recording in Bayern-Alpha and ORF (2003)

Novels

• Seitenstechen , Econ-Gruppe, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3547786371
• The grinding track in nowhere , Novelle, Knaur 1986
• Robbenfraß , Edition Erpf, Bern, Munich, 1992, ISBN 390551737X
• Kaltes Fleisch , Edition Erpf, Bern, Munich, 1994, ISBN 3905517817
• Trümmerkind , Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 2002, ISBN 378572084X
• Is there ice cream in Oklahoma? , Roman, IL-Verlag, Basel (Switzerland), 2012, ISBN 978-3-905955-34-7
• Morten's Long March , Arctic Stories, IL-Verlag, Basel (Switzerland), 2012, ISBN 978-3-905955-49-1
• Three decent ladies , Roman, IL-Verlag, Basel (Switzerland), 2013, ISBN 978-3-905955-54-5
• About the luck of the idiot , novel; IL-Verlag, Basel (Switzerland), 2013, ISBN 978-3905955-57-6
• Through the Arctic, to myself , Arctic stories, Belle-Epoque-Verlag, Dettenhausen, 2019, ISBN 978-3963570582

Non-fiction

• For God's sake, no coaching! , humorous guide, Belle Époque Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-96357-055-1
• Just no coaching, or is it? (New edition of the coaching book), Silberschnur-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3898456319

Plays

• Change of clothes - Badische Kammerschauspiele
• Longing for Bang Yai - Badische Kammerschauspiele
• Open the window, take a deep breath - Badische Kammerschauspiele
• The execution - Landestheater Bregenz and various others
• Old people's steam, Munich slaughterhouse, April 2017

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Späth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Späth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bernd Späth in the author's lexicon of literaturportal-bayern.de