Gerd Fuchs

Gerd Fuchs 1964

Gerd Fuchs (born September 14, 1932 in Nonnweiler , Saarland , † April 13, 2016 in Hamburg ) was a German writer .

Life

Gerd Fuchs was born in Nonnweiler (then Trier district , now Saarland) as the first child of a trade teacher who joined the NSDAP at an early age . In 1935 the family moved to Hermeskeil near Trier , only a few kilometers away , where the father was appointed head of the newly founded vocational school. Up to the 10th grade Fuchs attended elementary school and Progymnasium in Hermeskeil and then switched to the Hindenburg-Gymnasium in Trier, where he graduated from high school in 1952. He then studied German and English in Cologne , where, after studying in Munich and London in 1959, he passed the first state examination for teaching at secondary schools. In 1963 the 2nd state examination followed in Wuppertal . From 1964 he worked as a journalist: initially as a member of the features editorial team of the world , in 1967/68 as a culture editor at Spiegel , later as a freelance worker at Koncrete . In 1967 he received his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on "Rilke in England" . Since 1968 he has been a freelance writer and editor.

Gerd Fuchs took part in the meeting of Group 47 in Berlin in 1965 at the invitation of Hans Werner Richter .

On behalf of the WDR he wrote in 1986 for the TV series Weekend stories the script more year and 6 days , film debut for Peter Lohmeier. Alexander von Eschwege directed.

From 1973 to 1982 Gerd Fuchs was co-editor of the Authors Edition , which also published his own realistic and time-critical novels during this time . In 1982 he was “Writer in residence” at Dartmouth College in Hanover , and in 1992 at New York University .

Gerd Fuchs joined the German Communist Party in the mid-1980s , but his membership lasted only half a year. He was also a member of the Association of German Writers (VS) and a member of the board of the Hamburg district. Since 1980 he was a member of the German PEN .

In 2007 Gerd Fuchs was awarded the Italo Svevo Prize . In 2010 the autobiography Heimwege was published by Nautilus Verlag .

Awards

• 1974: Scholarship for the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• 1985: Prize for Literature from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• 1992: Art Prize of the City of Saarbrücken
• 2007: Italo Svevo Prize

Fonts

As an author

• Landru and others. Narratives . Piper, Munich 1966.
• Beringer and the long anger. Novel . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1976, ISBN 3-499-11980-3 .
• A man for life. Narration . Verlag Authors Edition, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-570-00232-2 .
• Elise's drive home . Matthews, Hamburg 1981 (illustrations by Florian Köhler ).
• Zero hour . Munich 1981. New edition. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89401-459-8
• The Americans are coming. A Hitler Youth experiences the end of the war. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-20359-6 .
• Schinderhannes . Novel . 2nd Edition. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-89401-422-9 .
• Katharina's night. Novel . Dtv, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-12092-4 .
• Easy and Scheer. Youth novel . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2003, ISBN 3-596-80207-5 .
• Shot run. Novel . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-455-02272-3 .
• Charly, the master mouse . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 1999, ISBN 3-596-80235-0 .
• Fuffy and Max . Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-596-80265-2 .
• Labor of love . Publishing house of the authors, Frankfurt / M. 1999
• The emigrants. Novel . Special edition, Edition Nautilus Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89401-560-2 (with an afterword by Uwe Timm ).
• Cicadas. Summer stories . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-89401-434-2 .
• Eckermann's dream. 15 scenes from classic Weimar . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-89401-483-0 .
• Ways home . Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-89401-721-7 (autobiography).
• Liebesmüh Novelle Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-89401-819-1

As editor

• Literature and reality . Bertelsmann, Munich 1976 (together with Uwe Timm)

Film adaptations

• His third novel Ein Mann fürs Leben (1978) was made into a film by Erwin Keusch for ARD with Manfred Krug and Hannelore Hoger in the leading roles .

Literature (under construction)

• Helmut Kreuzer : "Schinderhannes" - a robber around 1800 with Clara Viebig, Carl Zuckmayer and Gerd Fuchs. On the 200th anniversary of the execution of Johannes Bückler in Mainz on November 21, 1803 . In: "Stuttgarter Arbeit zur Germanistik", No. 423. Stuttgart: Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz, Akademischer Verlag Stuttgart 2004 [2005], ISBN 3-88099-428-5 , pp. 179–197; here pp. 191–195: Gerd Fuchs: “Schinderhannes. Roman "(1986) with notes 9-12 on p. 197.
• Jürgen Heizmann: The fires in the woods. History and topicality in the Schinderhannes by Gerd Fuchs. In: GegenwartsLiteratur . A Germanistic Yearbook 1/2002. ISBN 3-86057-981-9 , pp. 215-246.
• Jürgen Heizmann: Interview with the author Gerd Fuchs . In: Seminar 36.4 (2000), pp. 383-398.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerd Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Gerd Fuchs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Gerd Fuchs in the literature dictionary Rhineland-Palatinate
• Gerd Fuchs in the Critical Lexicon of Contemporary German Literature
• Günther Stamer: On the death of the writer Gerd Fuchs , kommunisten.de, accessed on May 20, 2016.
• Klaus Nilius: On the death of Gerd Fuchs , Ossietzky 11/2016

Individual evidence

1. ^ Writer Gerd Fuchs died in Leipziger Volkszeitung , accessed on April 27, 2016.
2. ↑ Gerd Fuchs. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 284, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
3. ↑ Elmar P. Ittenbach: Gerd Fuchs - the (almost) unknown author from Hermeskeil. In: Trier-Saarburg District Yearbook 2019, Trier-Saarburg District Administration, Trier 2018, pp. 155–164. ISSN 0942-0835
4. ↑ Gerd Fuchs ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the literature lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate 
5. ↑ Elmar P. Ittenbach: Gerd Fuchs - the (almost) unknown author from Hermeskeil. In: Trier-Saarburg District Yearbook 2019, Trier-Saarburg District Administration, Trier 2018, pp. 155–164. ISSN 0942-0835
6. ↑ Portrait for the book journal about his novel Zero Hour , 1980 (youtube video)
7. ^ A man for life , accessed May 20, 2016.
8. ↑ Film list Erwin Keusch: A man for life , accessed on May 20, 2016.
9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLtRjCDDmyE&t=1279s