Detlef Merbd
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
- Literature by and about Detlef Merbd in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Merbd . In: Landesverband Sachsen in the Writers' Union of the GDR: Writers. Dresden district . Demo, Dresden 1989, p. 39.
- ↑ Detlef Merbd: Obituary notice: Saxon newspaper. Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
- ^ Jürgen Hart : Business: Texts for amateur cabarets . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, pp. 103-107.
- ↑ Not just a file . In: The punchline. Texts - Tones - Tips for cabaret practice , No. 49. Zentralhaus, Leipzig 1989, pp. 17-20.
- ↑ Carmen Schumann: Would Jesus have chosen SED? In: Sächsische Zeitung , November 29, 2001, p. 11.
- ↑ Peter Anderson: In the Elbland the ghosts are loose . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 5, 2004, p. 10.
- ↑ Publishing house website, imprint
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Detlef Merbd: Bachauer's cellar . In: Steinlese . Notschriften-Verlag, Radebeul 2001, pp. 115–122.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Merbd, Detlef |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1948 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Radebeul |
DATE OF DEATH | 4th October 2019 |