Detlef Grumbach

Detlef Grumbach (* 1955 in Detmold ) is a German journalist , publicist and book author . In addition, Grumbach is one of the publishers of the Männerschwarm Verlag GmbH.

Life

His work focuses on literary criticism , LGBT politics, sexuality , AIDS and everyday reporting. Grumbach has worked for numerous broadcasters ( NDR , DLF , DLR , WDR , SR , RB and HR ), daily newspapers and magazines ( Die Zeit , Die Woche , Freitag , Junge Welt , Deutsches Allgemeine Sonntagsblatt , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Hannoversche Allgemeine , Frankfurter Rundschau , Berliner Zeitung and the taz ).

The spectrum of his work ranges from the distribution of heroin to the severely addicted to the report 100 years Edeka to the private confession of a politician and his political dimensions : I am gay - and that's a good thing! or the report If you don't feel, you come to the home! about home education in West Germany between 1950 and 1970. Grumbach wrote radio features about Martin Dannecker , Lion Feuchtwanger , Christian Dietrich Grabbe , Christian Geissler , Hermann Kesten , Richard Plant , Uwe Timm and Feridun Zaimoglu . Grumbach lives in Hamburg . Since 2014 he has been chairman of the Christian Geissler Society.

Award

In 1999 Detlef Grumbach was awarded the Felix Rexhausen Prize of the BLSJ for special journalistic engagement in reporting on lesbians and gays, for a feature on Deutschlandfunk about gay history: "Citizens against their will - the gay movement between revolt and integration", a portrait of Martin Dannecker, broadcast on June 13, 1998 on Deutschlandfunk. Dannecker was the sociologist and sex researcher who gave Rosa von Praunheim 's first major film success the title. It is not the homosexual that is perverse, but the situation in which he lives .

For his program on the history of Edeka and its proximity to the NSDAP , he was awarded the first Hans Strothoff Journalist Prize in November 2008. The prize for reporting on owner-managed specialist retailers is awarded in three ranks and as a prize for young talent. Detlef Grumbach received the third prize.

Works (selection)

• Deletion of § 175 StGB [manuscript]. Broadcast contribution WDR 3, radio ' Kritisches Tagebuch ' January 8, 1991.
• The left and the vice. Workers' Parties and Homosexuality: Tradition and Situation [manuscript]. Radio feature. Deutschlandfunk February 19, 1991.
• (Ed.): The Left and the Vice. Gay emancipation and left prejudice. Hamburg 1995. ISBN 3-928983-30-X
• (Ed.): What does gay mean here? Politics and identities in transition. Hamburg 1997. ISBN 3-928983-54-7
• (Ed.): Over the Rainbow. A reading book for Christopher Street Day . Hamburg 2001. ISBN 3-928983-94-6
• "... and nothing but despair can save us". An audio book on Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801–1836). Aisthesis-Verlag 2001.
• Cooperatives. Committed communities for independence, quality and social innovation, with drawings by Tom Krüger. Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-937683-08-9
• (Ed.): Gay neighbors. 22 experiences. Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-939542-02-5

• with Dr. Burchard Bösche : Economic associations - village shops as economic associations - Economic associations as small cooperatives , Central Association of German Consumer Cooperatives , Hamburg 2010. ISBN 978-3-839190-41-8
• (Ed.): Meeting point in infinity: Fredric Kroll - A life for Klaus Mann . Hamburg 2015. ISBN 978-3-86300-191-9
• (Ed.): The radical. Christian Geissler's literature on crossing borders. Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3-95732-275-3
• Andreas Meyer-Hanno. A biographical sketch. In: Detlef Grumbach (ed.) Great Opera. Andreas Meyer-Hanno , the gay movement and the Hannchen multi-purpose foundation . Swarm of men. Hamburg. 2018. Pages 7–89. ISBN 978-3-86300-253-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Detlef Grumbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the author
• Thomas Andre: Swarm of men - Hamburg's pink pages. 20 years of men's swarm and more than 300 own titles. The publisher Detlef Grumbach looks back on the history of his publishing house. Hamburger Abendblatt v. July 19, 2012. Online (accessed May 16, 2019).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deutschlandfunk : "If you don't feel, you'll come to the home!" , January 22, 2009 (accessed: April 4, 2019).
2. ^ Citizens against their will. The gay movement between revolt and integration. A portrait of Martin Dannecker. (Deutschlandfunk) . June 13, 1998 (19 pages, detlef-grumbach.de [PDF; accessed June 26, 2019]).