Gerdt Fehrle

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Gerdt Fehrle (2017)

Gerdt Fehrle (born November 23, 1961 in Stuttgart ) is a German author, PR specialist and publisher. Since 1984 he has published poetry and prose. In 1998 he founded the PR agency Prospero, which specializes in press work for technical companies and publishers. In 2012, Louisoder Verlag was founded with the focus on "Forgotten Modernism", "International Literature" and "Current Topics".

Life

Fehrle, who grew up on the Swabian Alb in Giengen and Hermaringen , attended the Margarete-Steiff-Gymnasium Giengen until he graduated from high school and began studying modern German literature and philosophy at the University of Konstanz in 1987 . Graduated with a Magister Artium in 1993.

Fehrle volunteered at Carl Hanser Verlag in Munich and learned the PR trade at PPA, a Munich PR agency. In 2009 Fehrle completed a three-year NLP training with a master’s degree.

In 1984 Fehrle's first volume of poetry, Memento Mori , was published, and a year later he contributed twelve poems to the anthology of contemporary German poets . In 1986 his second volume of poetry, Carna Vale, and his debut novel Milan came out, for which he received the 1991 Literature Prize of the City of Constance. In 1997 he wrote the children's book I Wish I Didn't Have to Sleep on behalf of Prestel Verlag , about the modern art icon Keith Haring. Fehrle's second novel How Grandfather Lost the War (2009) tells from a very private perspective and gives rise to the image of an extended Swabian family in the first half of the last century. In 2010, Das Meer has Lust again, followed by his third volume of poetry, in 2013 the novel Noir And at night they flood the streets .

On the one hand, Fehrle belongs to the “no-future generation” of young people and is also known as a so-called war grandson . Both of these have a great influence on the author's work: Central themes are the "lack of housing of the individual in a world that is always threatened" and the events of World War II , whereby he combines historical facts, autobiographical experiences and fictions in his works.

Works

  • Memento Mori - remember that you have to die. Poems. Roderer, Regensburg 1984.
  • Milan. Novel. Roderer, Regensburg 1986.
  • Carna Vale - Festival of the Meat. Poems. Roderer, Regensburg 1986.
  • The sea feels like it again. Poems. Roderer, Regensburg 1991.
  • I wish I didn't have to sleep. Children's art book. Prestel, Munich 1997.
  • The fall of Paris. Novel. Buchbäcker, Munich 2008; as a revised new edition under the title And at night they flood the streets : Louisoder, Munich 2013.
  • How grandfather lost the war. Novel. Buchbäcker, Munich 2009, as well as audio book 2011; as a revised new edition: Louisoder, Munich 2017.
  • Below us the quiet land. Novel. Louisoder, Munich 2015.

Web links

Commons : Gerdt Fehrle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How was your year, Gerdt Fehrle? , December 20, 2013, interview in BuchMarkt
  2. ↑ Absolutely localized in Swabian , Heidenheimer Zeitung from December 4, 2015
  3. ↑ Gerdt Fehrle - How grandfather lost the war. Gute-literatur-meine-empfehl.de, accessed on April 10, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Reading with Gerdt Fehrle - How grandfather lost the war - 02/01/2018. soundcloud.com, accessed April 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ As an author on the way to fame. ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Heidenheimer Zeitung. dated August 10, 2011.
  6. ↑ Touch the heart with the force of words. In: Esslinger Zeitung . dated November 29, 2010.
  7. ↑ Antje Weber: Playing with pleasure with words . In: sueddeutsche.de . February 11, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 10, 2018]).
  8. ↑ Annual balance 7: Gerdt Fehrle, Louisoder Verlag / "In 2017 we want to focus on readings". Retrieved April 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH: Gerdt Fehrle: Why the book trade benefits from publishing PR | Book market. Accessed April 10, 2018 (German).
  10. ↑ Gerdt Fehrle from Louisoder. indie-publishing.com, accessed April 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Fehrle, Gerdt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart