Gerd Adloff

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Gerd Adloff (born on August 28, 1952 in East Berlin ) is a German poet , photographer , cultural journalist and literary scholar.

Life

After three years of military service, Gerd Adloff initially worked as a bookseller and packer in a printing company. From 1976 to 1981 he studied German at the Humboldt University in Berlin. From 1981 to 1992 he worked at the Central Institute for the History of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , including a lexicon on German-language literature. He is married to the poet Elisabeth Wesuls, and they have two children together.

In 1973 he published a review of Ulrich Plenzdorf's much-discussed short story " The New Sorrows of Young W. ", which had appeared there the year before, in the leading literary magazine Sinn und Form of the GDR . At the end of the 1970s, poems by him appeared in the Berlin paper dove, a self-image "literary leaflet" (1978) or "irregularly appearing leaflet of literary color in the Neue Fanal Verlag". He published poems in literary magazines and in the anthology Vogelbühne , which was published by Verlag der Nation . 1985 published a first book of poems progress . In 1989 he was editor of the fourth volume of the series Bizarre Cities with Asteris Kutulas . From 1992 to 1999 he worked with the Orplid literary association and was temporarily editor of the poetry booklet series Poet's Corner .

Adloff has also emerged as a translator of poetry from Hungarian.

Since 1993 Adloff has been intensively involved in photography, exhibiting his work in Irish Berlin , in Aufsturz , in the Theater unterm Dach and in Café Cralle and published in the magazines Magazin , irland almanach , Oya , Partisanen and Poetry album , among others . Poems and literary journalistic articles appear regularly in the daily newspaper Junge Welt .

Gerd Adloff lives and works in Berlin.

Works

  • Poems in: All the happiness of this earth. With graphics by Klaus Zylla. Corvinus Presse 2017. ISBN 978-3-942280-36-5
  • Poems in: paper dove. Literary pamphlet (edited by Dieter Kerschek, Lothar Feix), No. 2 and No. 3, Berlin (GDR) 1978
  • Poems in: paper dove. Irregularly published leaflet of literary color (edited by Dieter Kerschek, Lothar Feix), edition February / March, Neuer Fanal Verlag, Berlin (GDR) 1979
  • Progress. Poems. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1985
  • Poems, Versensporn series . Booklet for lyrical charms No. 4, Edition Poesie Schmeckt gut, Jena 2011
  • We expect the future shortly . With a monotype by Silka Teichert. Part 2012, January in the epidemic of the arts series: shock edition: five times twelve poems. Edited by Kai Pohl. Distillery, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941330-32-0
  • Between history and September. Poems. Graphics by Horst Hussel . Corvinus Presse, Schöneich 2015, ISBN 978-3-942280-33-4 ( Review by Walter Delabar , November 28, 2015)
  • Furnish your heart with confidence. Poems 1977 to 2017. Selected by Ralf Friel. With montages by Gregor Kunz . Molokoprint, 2019, ISBN 978-3-943603-47-7

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This and all following data, if not stated, according to HP "fixpoetry", see: [1] ; see HP of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district office: [2] .
  2. ↑ See Anne Dorothee Vogel (arrangement): Finding aid on the Samizdat inventory in the GDR , Robert Havemann Society (ed.), Berlin 2006, p. 170.
  3. ↑ Dorothea von Törne (Ed.): Vogelbühne. Poems in dialogue. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1983.
  4. ↑ Bizarre Cities Bibliography
  5. ↑ See for example: [3] , [4] .
  6. ↑ See HP: [5] .
  7. ↑ Review: Peter Wawerzinek , "There are no monsters", in: Junge Welt, June 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Adloff, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, photographer, cultural journalist and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH East Berlin