Gerhard Mumelter

Gerhard Mumelter (* 1947 in Bozen , South Tyrol ) is a South Tyrolean journalist and author.

Life

Gerhard Mumelter was a teacher and innkeeper and currently lives in Rome as a freelance journalist. He reports for ORF , Deutsche Welle , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Der Standard .

With his anthology New Literature from South Tyrol , he brought together contemporary authors from South Tyrol for the first time after 1945 and helped South Tyrolean literature to gain self-confidence and identity as an independent literature. In his texts in the cultural magazine sturzfluege , which he co-founded , he tried to bring up for discussion the previously taboo topics of option in South Tyrol , bombing nights and collaboration in South Tyrol , by combining fiction and journalism .

bibliography

• (Ed.) New literature from South Tyrol , Bozen 1970
• (Ed.) The South Tyrolean Volksschullesebuch . Working group "Compulsory School / Teacher Training", Bolzano / Innsbruck 1971.
• (Ed.) Literatur in Südtirol , Arunda 13, Schlanders 1983
• The Hutterites [Tyrolean Anabaptist communities in North America], Innsbruck 1986, ISBN 3-85218-016-3
• Fire night , Bolzano 1992, ISBN 88-7283-010-9

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