Gunter Gerlach

This article deals with the writer Gunter Gerlach. For the sculptor see Gunther Gerlach ; for other persons see Günter Gerlach .

Gunter Gerlach (born December 27, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German writer ; Author of radio plays , radio series, short prose, crime thrillers and novels .

Life

Gunter Gerlach is a trained electrical mechanic. He completed an apprenticeship at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 1961 to 1967 . In 1965 he founded with Dieter Glasmacher and Werner Nöfer, among others. the artist group Cruizin for-Syndikat für Kunstbetrieb , from 1980 to 1983 the Hamburg artist group E & A and from 1986 the author group PENG . In 1999 he was one of the signatories of the literary manifesto Hamburger Dogma . He lives in Hamburg.

Gunter Gerlach is primarily active as an artist in the areas of performance and visual poetry . Among other things, he set a world record in continuous painting. Since the 1980s he has mainly been writing prose. After surrealist beginnings, he switched to writing crime novels in the 1990s . In 2011 Gerlach received a residency grant from the artist residence Chretzeturm , Stein am Rhein .

Gunter Gerlach is a member of the Association of German Writers and the authors' association Das Syndikat .

Works

• 1984 The Cat's Cross (novel), Zurich: Eco. ISBN 3-85647-071-9
• 1986 Tazzan's death (novel), Nördlingen: Greno. ISBN 3-89190-100-3
• 1988 Catastrophe wonderful (novel), Nördlingen: Greno. ISBN 3-89190-435-5
• 1991 St. Pauli Weekend (Roman), Hamburg: Waiter. ISBN 3-927623-68-7
• 1994 Cortisone (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-88022-351-3
• 1994 Sieben (Roman, together with Lou A. Probsthayn), Cadolzburg: Ars Vivendi. ISBN 3-927482-82-X
• 1994 Weißer went black overnight (with Olaf Oldigs & Lou A. Probsthayn), Munich, Zurich: Piper. ISBN 3-492-11960-3
• 1995 cat hair and pollen (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-88022-384-X
• 1996 Laughing gas in the airbag (with Olaf Oldigs & Lou A. Probsthayn), Munich, Zurich: Piper. ISBN 3-492-22226-9
• 1996 Neurodermatitis (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-88022-374-2
• 1997 Hole in the head - a future novel (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-88022-378-5
• 1998 Herzensach (Heimatroman), Zurich: Haffmans. ISBN 3-251-00388-7
• 1998 Suspicious noises (novel), Hamburg: Hamburger Abendblatt. ISBN 3-921305-45-4
• 1999 Der Hammer von Wandsbek (novel), Hamburg: Hamburger Abendblatt. ISBN 3-921305-68-3
• 2000 Falsche Flensburger (Roman), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-434-54023-7
• 2000 Hamburger Verkehr (novel), Hamburg: Hamburger Abendblatt. ISBN 3-921305-91-8
• 2001 I'm still alive, I'm fine (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-434-54030-X
• 2002 Pauli, Tod und Teufel (novel), Hamburg: Hamburger Abendblatt. ISBN 3-921305-13-6
• 2003 Der Haifischmann (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-434-53120-3
• 2004 Bergedorfer Therapy (novel), Hamburg: Hamburger Abendblatt. ISBN 3-921305-55-1
• 2004 Somewhere in Hamburg (novel), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-434-54049-0
• 2005 I'm not (novel), Riemerling near Munich: Yedermann. ISBN 3-935269-29-3
• 2006 I know (novel), Hamburg Rotbuch. ISBN 3-434-54059-8
• 2007 Engel in Esslingen (novel), Hamburg: Nautilus. ISBN 3-89401-541-1
• 2007 Melodie der Bronchien (short stories), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 3-86789-014-5
• 2008 death in Hamburg (novel), Hamburg: Ellert & Richter. ISBN 3-8319-0299-2
• 2008 Love and Death in Hamburg (novel), Hamburg: Ellert & Richter. ISBN 978-3-8319-0329-0
• 2008 Hunter of the Alphabet (Roman), Hamburg: Rotbuch. ISBN 978-3-86789-042-7
• 2009 Murder without a corpse (novel), Hamburg: Ellert & Richter. ISBN 978-3-8319-0341-2
• 2010 About girls and murderers (short stories), Hamburg: Ellert & Richter. ISBN 978-3-8319-0390-0
• 2010 Burglary Murder (novel), Hamburg: Ellert & Richter. ISBN 978-3-8319-0409-9
• 2010 Cemetery of Relations (Roman), Cadolzburg: Ars Vivendi. ISBN 978-3-86913-031-6
• 2012 Throwing women from bridges - Handel's Munich case (novel), Saarbrücken: Conte. ISBN 978-3-941657-62-5
• 2013 Poppies like blood stains - Handel in Stein (novel), Saarbrücken: Conte. ISBN 978-3-941657-99-1
• 2014 Man thinks (novel), Hillesheim: KBV. ISBN 978-3-95441-167-2
• 2015 Deputy of Wut (Roman), Hillesheim: KBV. ISBN 978-3-95441-237-2

Audio books

• 2006: Herzensach , TechniSat Digital, Radioropa , 2 MP3 CDs unabridged 983 min, read by Cathrin Bürger , ISBN

978-3866674219

Awards

• 1986: Tuttlinger Literature Prize
• 1992: Prize for Literature from the Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• 1995: German detective award
• 2003: Friedrich Glauser Prize for the best short story
• 2004: MDR Literature Prize
• 2004: Literature Prize of the 42 authors
• 2005: Friedrich Glauser Prize for the best short story
• 2013: Friedrich Glauser Prize (Honorary Prize)

Web links

• Literature by and about Gunter Gerlach in the catalog of the German National Library
• gunter-gerlach.de
• Survey at alligatorpapiere.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bücherhallen Hamburg Short biography of Gunter Gerlach ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ See Vita remarks in "PENG - Autorgruppe", Munich 1995 (Dolphin Seas Art), p. 58