Gerd Forster

Gerd Forster (born March 8, 1935 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a German writer .

Life

Gerd Forster attended high school in Alzey and then studied music , philosophy and German at the University of Heidelberg from 1955 to 1961 . After that he was a teacher at a grammar school in Kaiserslautern until 1998.

Gerd Forster is the author of novels , short stories and poems ; he also translates from French . He was part of the editorial team of the Palatinate cultural magazine Chaussee and edited the literary magazine Formation from 1976 to 1982 .

Gerd Forster is a member of the Association of German Writers , the Palatinate Literary Association and the Kaiserslautern authors' group. He lives in Eulenbis .

Works

• Zwischenland , Landau 1973
• Cut-off dates , Kaiserslautern 1975
• Unter dem Eulenkopf , Pfullingen 1977
• Layered summer , Munich 1978
• The absence of the other two , Neustadt / Weinstr. 1981
• Step change , Rhodt under Rietburg 1985
• Spine , Rhodt unter Rietburg 1987
• The Palatinate disease and other stories , Landau / Pfalz 1990
• Readings of love , Frankfurt a. M. 1995
• A desk in the desert , Annweiler 1999
• Death on the organ bench , Blieskastel 2004
• Fleeing fields , Alf / Mosel 2006
• Visit to the old Casanova, Zell / Mosel 2019

Editing

• Kaiserslautern writes , Kaiserslautern 3.Literature , 1978
• Once a month is Friday , Rhodt unter Rietburg 1984
• FluchtPoints , Frankfurt a. M. 1995
• Open landscape , Strasbourg [u. a.] 1997 (edited together with Adrien Finck)

Awards

• 1977: Palatinate Prize for Literature
• 1999: First “Writer in Residence” at the Center for German Studies at Ben Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel
• 2007: Book of the year (Rhineland-Palatinate) 2006 for the collection of poems Fliehende Felder

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Forster in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in the online literature dictionary of Rhineland-Palatinate
• Entry on the website of the Association of German Writers in Rhineland-Palatinate