Gerald Zschorsch

Gerald Zschorsch (born December 25, 1951 in Elsterberg ) is a German writer .

Life

He was arrested in 1968 because of Gerald Zschorsch's expressions of solidarity with the Prague Spring reform project and the distribution of anti-Soviet leaflets. From 1970 to 1971 he worked as an assistant director and stage worker at the theater in Plauen. At a four-country meeting in Plauen in 1972, Zschorsch, who had recited his own poems there, was arrested again and sentenced to five and a half years of more stringent prison sentences. In 1974 he was stripped of his citizenship of the GDR . Zschorsch was ransomed as a political prisoner at the instigation of the federal government and moved to the Federal Republic.

He studied literature and philosophy in Giessen with Odo Marquard . Since then he has lived as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main . In 1982 he was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize . Zschorsch was awarded a scholarship in 1980 at the Villa Massimo and in 2001 received the Adolf Mejstrik Prize for Poetry , a prize from the German Schiller Foundation from 1859 . In 2006/2007 he received a scholarship from the international artist house Villa Concordia in Bamberg . Since 2010 he has been a member of the Saxon Academy of the Arts .

Poems and prison notes under the title “Don't just believe that I'm sad” (with a foreword by Rudi Dutschke ) were followed by poems with terse sarcastic and erotic puzzles, sayings and then again song-like verses. Gerald Zschorsch remains a poet, even if he rarely writes prose. "Gatehouses of Happiness" contains all previously published poems and in the last chapter, "Egg Tooth", 50 new poems.

Works

• Just don't think that I'm sad. Prose, songs ; 1977. With a foreword by Rudi Dutschke , an afterword by Karl Corino and graphics by Sieghard Pohl, verlag Europäische ideen, ISBN 978-3-921572-02-3 .
• Just don't think that I'm sad. Prose, songs ; 1981. With the text by Rudi Dutschke at the end. Suhrkamp Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-11071-3 .
• The scent of the other skin. Poems : 1982
• Jackknife. Poems ; 1983
• City dogs. Poems ; 1986
• Stormtroopers. Poems ; 1987
• Gambit. Poems and drawings ; 1988
• Pointed noses. Poems ; 1990
• In the streets ; 1994
• Iron Felix. Poems ; 1996
• Gatehouses of happiness ; 2004. With an afterword by Lorenz Jäger . Suhrkamp-Verlag, ISBN 3-518-45683-0 .
• Czerwonka ; 2006. With an afterword by Artur Becker . Suhrkamp-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-518-41836-9 .
• Once upon a time there was a woman chosen by Lorenz Jäger . With an afterword by Ingo Schulze . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8270-0991-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerald Zschorsch in the catalog of the German National Library