Gerald Grote

Gerald Grote (born June 9, 1955 in Kiel ) is the founder and director of the International Nature Film Festival Green Screen .

Life

Gerald Grote attended schools in Kiel and Berlin, where he also passed his Abitur exams. In August 1976 he completed an apprenticeship as an advertising technician. In October 1978 he enrolled as a student at the Braunschweig University of Art in the graphic design department. A year later he became editor-in-chief of the quarterly issues published there. He wrote articles for the radio and for the satirical magazine Pardon . From March 1984 onwards he was also a freelancer for various newspapers. In November 1983 he published his first book entitled "Got Away With Reading Again".

From February 1985 he improved his financial situation with a variety of cabaret performances. In the same year he brought out his second book: "Love and nothing else". From June 1986 on, he moderated the regional talk show "Wortwechsel".

After completing his degree in February 1987, he founded the publishing house "EinfallsReich", which presented itself to the international literary world for the first time in 1988 at the Frankfurt Book Fair . The Braunschweiger SprachFest in May 1990, planned by him and co-organized by many helpers, presented the publishing houses of the GDR for the first time in a free sales exhibition for four days and in August 1990 he was co-initiator of the Braunschweiger “ComicSpectakels”.

In December 1990 he became a member of the management of an advertising agency and, as co-editor of the city magazine COCKTA! L, he launched the monthly magazine from May 1991 onwards.

Born in Kiel, he returned to his hometown and in 1997 became editor-in-chief of a regional publication. From 1998 he worked as a freelance author. He wrote short stories , non-fiction and screenplays and produced films. Among other things, he used together with Claus Oppermann film and sound material that was collected by private persons from their holdings by means of public calls in the press and put together to documentations (example: Yesterday's Snow , a 55-minute documentary about the snow catastrophe of 1978 / 79 in Northern Germany ).

The largest European nature film festival Green Screen in Eckernförde is based on his idea and was directed by him from 2007 to 2016.

Book publications (selection)

• Got Away With Reading One More Time (November 1983)
• Love and nothing else (October 1985)
• With lust and love (October 1986)
• I love you (October 1987)
• with Astrid Zaunick (ed.): Heart head over , EinfallsReich, Braunschweig 1988, ISBN 3-926207-02-7 .
• Natural Bulenzy (October 1989)
• The commissioner. A series and its consequences . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, 2003, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-445-9 .
• The whole of Lechtenbrink (November 2000)
• with Michael Völkel, Karsten Weyershausen, Klaus Rathje, Holger Reichard : The Lexicon of Prominent Suicides , more than 300 dramatic résumés: Van Gogh and Hemingway, Kurt Cobain and Rex Gildo, Ulrich Wildgruber, Stefan Zweig u. a. Lexikon-Imprint-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-265-2 .
• The whole of Lechtenbrink , Bear Family Records, Hambergen 2000, ISBN 3-89795-734-5 .
• with Silke Böttcher, Lars Focke, Britta Kurth: Sea-dimensional: private photos from 125 years , illustrated book ... Ehlers, Kiel, June 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021700-5 .

Audiobooks (selection)

• Romeo & Juliet (Narrator: Volker Lechtenbrink - June 1996)
• What you want (Narrator: Volker Lechtenbrink - June 1997)
• Peter Pan (Narrator: Manfred Steffen - October 1997)

Films (selection)

• Deadly Novel (z) e (2004)
• Blind shadow (2005)
• Blow by Blow (2006)
• 8 millimeters Kiel Week (2007)
• Yesterday's News (2008)
• Burning Interest (2009)
• To the Limit (2011)
• I have Kiel to tell (2018)

Web links

• Gerald Grote in the Internet Movie Database (English)