Dieter Grau (writer)

Dieter Grau (born March 19, 1927 in Jakobsdorf near Sensburg in Masuria ; † March 28, 2018 in Bonn ) was a German writer .

Life

Dieter Grau (2013)

Grau was the son of the teacher Franz Grau from the East Prussian Stallupönen and his wife Elfriede. Franz Grau got his first job as a young teacher in Jakobsdorf near Sensburg (today Mragowo, Poland), where Dieter Grau was born. In 1929 Franz Grau took over the elementary school in Bugdzen near Stallupönen, where Dieter Grau grew up and was taught by his father. He then attended the Stallupöner Gymnasium. Grau was drafted as an anti-aircraft helper in 1943, was wounded, was taken prisoner at Ludwigslust Palace and was taken to a British military hospital in Hamburg . He passed his Abitur in 1947 in Kappeln an der Schlei .

Grau studied German, Latin and history in Bonn, did his doctorate on the subject of The Midday Ghost (daemonium meridianum) and got a job in the North Rhine-Westphalian school service, where he taught at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Gymnasium in Bonn until 1990.

Grau was a member of the Free German Association of Authors , he was twice prize winner in storytelling competitions of the East German Cultural Council. On the occasion of poet anniversaries ( Heinrich von Kleist , Christian Morgenstern ), the Free German Authors' Association put texts from its pen on the Internet, as well as a text on Kafka . His Morgenstern presentation was exhibited at the commemorative exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Christian Morgenstern's death on the Bismarckhöhe in Werder / Havel . He had been married to Ruth Grau since 1955 and had three children.

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Grau has become known to a broader audience primarily through his self-illustrated volumes of stories, Stallupöner Stories - Stories and Pictures from the Land Between Trakehnen and Rominten , The Girl from Suwalki and other stories about East Prussia and dance in Masuria and other stories . In his stories he kept alive the landscape of Masuria and the East Prussian people, his way of life and dialect, which had been interwoven with it for several generations.

• Stallupöner stories , 1990, Husum Verlag, ISBN 3-88042-477-2
• The girl from Suwalki , 1996, Husum Verlag, ISBN 3-88042-706-2
• Tanz in Masuren , 2005, Husum Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89876-228-1
• Between Kreide und Computer , 2001, Husum Verlag, ISBN 9783880429888
• Searching for traces , in: polyphonic, 2003, Pandion-Verlag, ISBN 3-934524-46-X
• The cruise , in: Authors' Workshop 86, 2003, RGFischer-Verlag, ISBN 3-8301-0441-3
• Widow's Training, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-8150-5
• Quick-Quick-Slow , 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-7336-7
• The Rooster , 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-3607-3
• Susanne once sat in the bath , 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4923-7
• From “Apple Ballad to Tooth Elegy”, ISBN 9783741256783

• The midday ghost (Daemonium meridianum), studies of its origin, distribution and research into European folklore . Siegburg: F. Schmitt. Diss. Bonn 1966.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice of Dr. Phil. Dieter Grau. Retrieved April 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ FDA NRW e. V. | Gallery. Retrieved March 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ alfred2: In the lektoralen work: Kafka - a doppelganger of two worlds. Anthology poetry and prose. Edited by MariaLuise König. Literary Group Osnabrück eV, Free German Author Association eV NRW . In: Geest-Verlag . July 13, 2013 ( geest-verlag.de [accessed March 5, 2017]).
4. ^ Commemorative exhibition on the 100th anniversary of Christian Morgenstern's death with works by Dr. Dieter Grau, Maria Stalder and Marlies Strübbe-Tewes | FDA NRW e. V. Accessed March 5, 2017 .