Gerd Scherm

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Gerd Scherm (* 1950 in Fürth ) is a German writer and visual artist. Gerd Scherm's work comprises the literary genres of poetry , novels , drama , essays and narrations .

Life

In the 1970s he edited the literary magazine UmDruck together with Godehard Schramm . He was an employee of Eugen Gomringer , the founder of Concrete Poetry, and worked for environmental art projects as an assistant to the ZERO artist Otto Piene . He then organized the Selber Literature Days and the Rosenthal Artists Days in Darmstadt . Together with his wife Friederike Gollwitzer, he ran the Kulturgut studio gallery - space for art , which now organizes cultural events. Scherm was a guest lecturer for cultural and religious sociology at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Sankt Gallen .

His best-known work is the novel Der Nomadengott (2003). The satirical novel is set in ancient Egypt and deals with the Egyptian gods and the Old Testament religion. At the Leipzig Book Fair in 2004, Scherm received the “Books on Demand Author Award” for this novel.

In 2006 he received the Friedrich Baur Prize for Literature from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts , which is endowed with 10,000 euros. In 2012, his documentary episodic novel The Dark Mill or The Saga of the Gollwitzer Family was included in the Vito von Eichborn edition as Book of the Month for March.

Gerd Scherm lives in Binzwangen near Colmberg in a half-timbered yard from the 17th century. Scherm is an avowed Freemason and a member of the Lodge Zu den Drei Türme Rothenburg - Dinkelsbühl .

Literary works

  • Novels: "The Nomad God" (2003); "Shaman Child" (2004); "The Irrfahrer" (2007); "Die Weltenbaumler" (2008); "The Dark Mill. A Gollwitzer Saga" (2011); "Zeitzittern. The records of Leopold Branntwein" (2018) ISBN 9783752828900 ; "The Templar and the Cathars" (2019)
  • Experimental texts: "112 reflections in different rooms" (1970); "Spiegeleien" (1971); "conception music to be" with Günter Guben (1973); "WordSpaces" (1987)
  • Stories: "Die Karpfenburg" (1997); "Hope costs nothing" (2002); "The Tower of the Talkative Birds" (2010); "Mantakor's Journey" (2012); "They call me the Retti-Palais" (2014)
  • Satires: "The Breviary of Ultimate Truths" (2005)
  • Poetry: "On the Other Side of the Night" (1987); "The Poetic Kabbalah" (1992); "Between the Times" (1994); "Shaman's Journey" (1995); "Vision Quest" (1995); "The Widow's Son" (1996); "Astarte and Venus" (1996); "The Path to Light" (1997); "Schrödinger's Cat" (1997); "Wolfram" " (1997); " Le Roi Bérenger " (1998); " The Other Place " (2000); " Ich, Medea " (2002); " The circles of the witch Antra " (2002); " Earth Guardian " ( 2005); "Kraftzeichen" (2007); "Der Sohn der Witwe / The Widow's Son" (2007); "Inmitten der Brombeerhecke" (2008); "Lilith" (2014); "Rabengesang" (2016); "Kassandra" (2019)
  • Stage works: "Der Clan" (first performance April 1972 Studio Bühne Fürth); "Visions" , composition by Werner Heider (world premiere November 23, 2007 Kulturforum Fürth); "Alexander the Last Margrave" (premiere 19 March 2010 Theater Ansbach); "Adam and Eve to Paradise" ; "The Portrait of the Wild Margrave" (world premiere October 6, 2012 Theater Ansbach); "The teacher, the student and the soldiers or the stolen life" (staged reading by the theater company "Eratheco" (Frankfurt) in the Ansbach palace library, August 5, 2016); "The Law of Freedom", composition Max Maxelon (world premiere April 30, 2017 Logenhaus Düsseldorf); "The shameful Heine-Platen scandal" (Staged reading by Holger Stolz & Dave Wilcox in the Ansbach Palace Library July 13, 2018)
  • Libretto: "The Labyrinth. The Magic Flute, Second Part" (2012) (opera, composition by Franck Adrian Holzkamp); "Luther Rock", (2019) (rock oratorio, composition Manuel de Roo)
  • Non-fiction books: diversity in unity. Positions of a Masonic Aesthetic (2002)

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SURNAME Scherm, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Fuerth , Germany