Frank Geerk

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Frank Geerk (born January 17, 1946 in Kiel , † February 7, 2008 in Basel ) was a German writer . Geerk became known as a poet , playwright and prose writer , but also in the field of painting .

Life

The artist, best known for his poetry, grew up in Weil am Rhein and has worked in Basel since 1966. Already during his studies ( philosophy and psychology ) he published literary works. In 1980 he spent a time in Texas as a professor of German literature, about which he published the book Heart of Survivors in 1984 . Autobiographical parallels to Geerk's own fate can often be found in the writer's work; so he processed in day of violence z. B. also his post-war childhood in a small town near the border. Again and again he works on his own experiences in his works, processes them and helps the reader to more easily deal with the confrontation with his own fate (such as death).
In 1988 Geerk was awarded the Welti Foundation Prize for drama for his play Der Genetiker .

Works

drama

  • Hawk - 1976
  • King Mockery - 1978
  • The Reichstag fire - 1983
  • The geneticist - 1989
  • Paracelsus - 1991
  • The seventh patrol - 1995

Novels

  • Thunderstorm Trees - 1968
  • Heart of the Survivors - 1984
  • The end of the green dream - 1987
  • The Dictator's Roses - 1990
  • Violence Day - 1995
  • The Pope's love life - 1997

prose

  • Don't forget to kill love - 1982
  • Heart of the Survivors - 1984
  • Indian Resistance - 1985
  • The eviction - 1988
  • The seventh patrol - 1995
  • Congress of the Wise Men - 1995
  • The birth of the future - 1996
  • Paracelsus, Doctor of Our Time - 1992
  • Word Medicine - 2001
  • The world is the eye of the seer - 2003

Poetry

  • Bar Songs - 1974
  • Self Defense - 1975
  • Prose. Poems - 1979
  • Anger & Tenderness -1981
  • Handbook for the Willing to Live - 1983
  • Praise of Man - 1986
  • From the light of disease - 2000
  • Of wounds and wonders - 2003
  • The book Dominika - 2006

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Writer Frank Geerk died in Basel" , Die Berliner Literaturkritik, February 11, 2008