Detlef Merbd

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Detlef Merbd (born May 19, 1948 in Radebeul ; † October 4, 2019 ) was a German writer .

Life

Merbd attended the polytechnic high school and completed an apprenticeship as a gardener. After three years of military service in the National People's Army , he became an editor and worked in public and cultural work. From 1975 to 1978 Merbd studied at the Leipzig Literature Institute "Johannes R. Becher" and from 1982 worked as a freelance author. He wrote several cabaret pieces, including Organize yourselves! (1974) and, together with Wolfgang Schaller , the pieces I love to wander (1976) and Not just one nudes (1983). It emerged cabaret texts, among others, for the laughter card and Dresdner Herkuleskeule , radio plays and screenplays, including for the GDR television series actor gimmicks . His debut novel Risk , which is about the final exercise of a reservist company of the National People's Army, was published in 1988 by the GDR military publishing house .

From 1986 to 1990 Merbd headed the Dresden District Literature Center. After the fall of the Wall , he published several satirical stories about the characters Faust, Mephistopheles and the writer Dietmar Herbst, including Faust, first part , The attack of the dwarfs on the Nudelturm zu Dresden and Pantheon . In addition, several booklets with collections of regional sagas were created. In his novel Abwegiges vom Franziskusweg , published in 2017, he processed a pilgrimage from Florence to Assisi that he had undertaken in 2014.

Merbd was the owner of the publishing house The Special. Verlag Dresden Johannstadt

From 1992 Merbd was a member of the Association of German Writers for around 20 years . He lived and worked in Dresden.

Works

Fiction

  • 1987: The story of the fearful bear child - Kinderbuchverlag Berlin
  • 1988: Risk - Military Publishing House of the GDR
  • 1998: Faust, first part - Edition Reintzsch, Radebeul
  • 2001: Bachauers Keller - Notschriften-Verlag, Radebeul
  • 2002: The attack of the dwarfs on the Noodle Tower in Dresden - Gryphon, Munich
  • 2009: Pantheon - BoD, Norderstedt
  • 2013: The Alberich-Code - Verlag The Special, Dresden
  • 2017: Abwegiges vom Franziskusweg - Verlag Das Sonder, Dresden

Further

  • 1985: Die Brücke, radio play
  • 1987: Acting - The Temptation (TV series, screenplay)
  • 1990: Acting - The Morning After (TV series, screenplay)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Detlef Merbd . In: Landesverband Sachsen in the Writers' Union of the GDR: Writers. Dresden district . Demo, Dresden 1989, p. 39.
  2. Detlef Merbd: Obituary notice: Saxon newspaper. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  3. ^ Jürgen Hart : Business: Texts for amateur cabarets . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, pp. 103-107.
  4. Not just a file . In: The punchline. Texts - Tones - Tips for cabaret practice , No. 49. Zentralhaus, Leipzig 1989, pp. 17-20.
  5. Carmen Schumann: Would Jesus have chosen SED? In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 29, 2001, p. 11.
  6. Peter Anderson: In the Elbland the ghosts are loose . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 5, 2004, p. 10.
  7. Publishing house website, imprint
  8. Detlef Merbd: The story of the fearful bear child . In: Erika Schröder (Ed.): Hundred sheep and other bedtime stories . Der Kinderbuchverlag, Berlin 1987, pp. 63–65.
  9. Detlef Merbd: Bachauer's cellar . In: Steinlese . Notschriften-Verlag, Radebeul 2001, pp. 115–122.