Friedrich Grotjahn

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Friedrich Grotjahn (born April 3, 1935 in Hary , Bockenem , Lower Saxony ) is a German writer and theologian .

Career

Friedrich Grotjahn says of himself that he has two lives.

  • Life until 1991: Study of theology and then active in various church fields: as a student pastor in Braunschweig (1968–1973), then general secretary of the Protestant student communities in the Federal Republic and West Berlin in Stuttgart (1973–1982), collaborator in the development of an international one Student project in Norway (1985–1987)
  • Life since 1991: leaving church service, working as a magazine editor for “Evangelical Aspects” (1991–1995); as a literary pedagogue for "Creative Writing", today mainly as a radio and book author, which he had already practiced before.

Grotjahn is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and the European authors' association Die Kogge . He lives in Bochum .

Publications

Standalone publications

  • Stories by Pastor Schäfer (published three times): (1) The white negro wonderful, Radius / Stuttgart 1989; (2) The bride said no, Herder / Freiburg 1993; (3) God's shoe size, agency Bülbül / Bochum 2001
  • The third panel / Trois plaques commemoratives, story, German / French; edition sisyphos, Cologne 1997
  • The taste of brass, Roman, Radius / Stuttgart 2001
  • A fair one, narrative, with woodcuts by Horst Dieter Gölzenleuchter , Edition Wort and Bild / Bochum 2002
  • The exposed book, stories, with woodcuts by Horst Dieter Gölzenleuchter, Edition Wort and Bild / Bochum 2005
  • “I have sworn not to be silent” - The life story of Eva Bormann, Lutherisches Verlagshaus / Hannover 2006
  • One Just and Two Sisters, two stories, with a foreword by Hugo Ernst Buyer and ink drawings by Horst Dieter Gölzenleuchter. Brockmeyer Verlag / Bochum (September) 2009
  • Audiobook (together with Anna Barbara Hagin): Nicholas and Santa Claus and other heavenly interviews. Herder Verlag - in cooperation with SüdwestRundfunk - Freiburg (October) 2009
  • Helga in the fireplace - and other stories; with brush drawings by Horst Dieter Gölzenleuchter, Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2011
  • A grave in Casablanca, Roman, Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3897332911
  • Ants in the city. Novel. Projektverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-89733-409-0 .

Release

  • Pain - experiences and help, Burckhardthaus-Laetare Verlag, Offenbach 1984
  • Going to Galilee - Ecumenical Theology in the Federal Republic (together with Hans Martin Gutmann), edition liberación, Münster 1989
  • Step out of your shoes - paths in the peace service of the elderly (together with Rüdiger Mack), Komzi Verlag, Idstein, o. J.
  • Schnittwege, homage to Horst-Dieter Gölzenleuchter on his 65th birthday (together with Hugo Ernst Buyer), Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2009
  • You read the letters in your sleep, poetry and prose, Russian and German (in the name of the “Bochumer literati” together with Heide Rieck), Brockmeyer Verlag, Bochum 2011

Radio

  • Since 1991 about 120 features on topics from culture, literature, religion in all German channels.

reception

To the novel Ants in the City :

"It's about the (fictional) ant breeder and SS officer Karl Stiefel. What he did during his lifetime has an effect in the present. Because now the ants (...) come on the scene and, like an ant road, cross the path of his life and his Way of those who follow the Nazi thugs. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Grotjahn. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 340, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. https://www.evangelische-aspekte.de/
  3. Bochum 2016
  4. WAZ / Bochum, December 22, 2016