Erhard Scherner

Erhard Scherner (born January 12, 1929 in Berlin ) is a German writer, poet, post-poet and Germanist.

Life

Erhard Scherner grew up in the Scheunenviertel in Berlin. His marriage to the sinologist and translator Helga Scherner brought him to China for the first time in the 1950s. Returned to the GDR, he worked as a locksmith and new teacher. He studied German and received his doctorate. For some time he was deputy editor-in-chief of Neue Deutsche Literatur (NDL), then looked after the literary estate of Alfred Kurella , whose collaborator he was when he headed the cultural commission at the Politburo. As an employee of the cultural commission at the Politburo, he asked those present at the poetry evening on December 11, 1962 to read their own poems. That was the trigger for the wave of poetry in the GDR. Erhard Scherner has three children. The family lived in Schöneiche near Berlin for a long time.

Works

The Chinese parrot. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945187-40-1 .
Stories from the Lao Wai. In the sky of the dogs from Beijing and other interior views from China. Eisbär, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-930057-12-3 .
Editor: Despatch to my future parents - Texts for Peace. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1984.

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personal data
SURNAME	Scherner, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, lyric poet, rewrite and Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin