Gerhard Ortinau
Gerhard Ortinau (born March 18, 1953 in Borcea , Călărași district , People's Republic of Romania ) is a German writer .
Life
Gerhard Ortinau was born as a member of the Romanian German minority during the deportation to the Bărăgan steppe . He grew up in Săcălaz ( German Sackelhausen ) in the Banat . Between 1972 and 1976 he studied German and Romanian at the University of Timișoara (today University of the West ). He was a member of the writers' group Aktiongruppe Banat , to which Richard Wagner , Rolf Bossert , William Totok , Johann Lippet and Ernest Wichner belonged and to whom Herta Müller and Horst Samson were close.
In 1976 he resigned from the Romanian Communist Party in protest and applied for permanent emigration to the Federal Republic of Germany . In the same year the Romanian secret service Securitate opened an operational case against Ortinau. In 1980 Gerhard Ortinau was able to leave Romania, since then he has lived and wrote in Berlin .
Works
- Defense of ball lightning. (Short stories) Dacia-Verlag, Klausenburg / Romania, 1976.
- A pronoun has been arrested. Texts by the Banat Action Group. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main, 1992, ISBN 3-518-11671-1 .
- The country at the next table. (Anthology, ed. Ernest Wichner). Reclam, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-379-01468-0 .
- An easy death. Narrative. In: Drucksache 16 of the Berliner Ensemble (Ed. Heiner Müller ). Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-923854-11-0 .
- An easy death. (Two stories). Oberbaum-Verlag, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-928254-53-7 .
- Beetle. A German comedy. (Play), Henschel drama. In: Theater der Zeit , No. 6/1997 World premiere: June 6, 1999 at the Theater der Stadt Heidelberg .
- Beetle. (Radio play) Deutschlandradio 1999.
- Wehner monologist. In: Sinn und Form , 3/2000.
- The sleepless waiter's night. (Play), Henschel drama, 2001 world premiere: 2002 at the Staatstheater Oldenburg .
- Wehner on Öland. (Theater monologue) 2002, Henschel drama.
- On the verge of something. (Early poems & texts 1970–1978). Ed. Ernest Wichner. hochroth Verlag , Berlin 2010.
- German storytellers from Romania after 1945. Anthology, 2013
Scholarships and Awards
Ortinau received several grants, including the grant from the German Literature Fund and the author grant from the Berlin Senate. In 2005 he was awarded the Würth Literature Prize (3rd prize).
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Ortinau in the catalog of the German National Library
- Broadcast manuscript Deutschlandradio , comprehensive description of the persecution of the Banat action group by the Securitate
- 40 years of the Banat Action Group. In: Half-yearly publication - hjs-online , April 2, 2012
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Totok : The Securitate opens an operational process , September 20, 2009 (cf. "Raport", September 17, 1976, signed by Securitatemajor Rudolf Köpe, ACNSAS, I 233471, vol. 1, Bl. 105-105v)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ortinau, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Borcea , People's Republic of Romania |