Gerhard Roessler
Gerhard Rößler (born December 21, 1926 in Wittgensdorf / Chemnitz ; † October 8, 2013 in Radebeul ) was a German writer . He worked as a deacon and cantor, later as a lecturer at the Diakonenhaus Moritzburg and worked part-time as a narrator and poet in the GDR. In GDR socialism, he was critical and disappointed - the immediate continuation of the methods of the Third Reich: abuse of power, militarization and spying on intellectuals.
Life
After primary school in Wittgensdorf, he attended high school in Chemnitz. From 1944 to 1946 he was drafted as a soldier and in 1946, after a year of being a prisoner of war in the United States, he finished high school. After graduating from high school, he taught as a new teacher at his home school. He married Maria Börner and had four sons with her.
Gerhard Rößler was soon suspended as a teacher because of his criticism of the way socialism was built up. He completed his training to become a cantor-deacon of the Evangelical Lutheran Lutheran Church. Diakonenanstalt Moritzburg and then worked in the St. Afra parish in Meißen. In 1964 the deacon house appointed him lecturer for catechetics , later for literature and psychology. He filled this position until he retired in 1991. After the political change he was subsequently awarded the diploma as a teacher.
Gerhard Rößler died in 2013 at the age of 86.
Create
Gerhard Rößler worked on literary texts part-time. Increasingly, he summarized his observations in poetry. A breakthrough for him was his participation in the poetry competition of the Styria publishing house in Austria. He was the first GDR prize winner to receive a visa for the award ceremony. For years he fought in vain to get his poetry published in the GDR. His autobiographical novella “Das kleine No”, printed in 1990 by the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig, was not delivered, but instead was taken straight to the recycling center in the course of the turmoil. This prevented Rößler from pushing through the planned publication of his works with West German publishers.
The “book priest” Martin Weskott saved part of the inventory from the recycling yard to Katlenburg. Gerhard Rößler was invited to the reading.
His estate is unpublished.
Prices
- 1983 winner of the competition for Christian short prose at Styria-Verlag Graz
- 1989 3rd prize winner in the authors' competition of the Evangelical Publishing House in Leipzig
Works
Poems
- Calls - Religious Poetry of the Present 1 . Gütersloh publishing house Gütersloh 1979
- Seismograms . Anthology of the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 1981, containing the text "Reluctantly in Advent"
- Take the word in prayer . Styria-Verlag Graz; Vienna; Cologne 1981, ISBN 3222113734
- No sky can be brighter . Competition anthology Styria-Verlag Graz 1984, ISBN 3-222-11558-3
- Cherry blossoms in the smoke . St. Benno Verlag Berlin 1984
- Easy praise . Anthology of the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 1985, containing the texts "Die Wende", "Du Bibel", "Why only", "Lieben"
- Ask me why . St. Benno Verlag Leipzig 1988
Narrative prose
- Not written for the drawer . Anthology of the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig 1989, including the text "Vita ipsa - life itself".
- The little no. Remembrance work for today and tomorrow . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-374-00989-1
- Shadow walk . Hellerau-Verlag Dresden 1996, series YESS Volume 16, ISBN 3-910184-46-4
- My first nineteen years. After all, and something like that, it was . Self-published in 2003
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roessler, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 21, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wittgensdorf / Chemnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 2013 |
| Place of death | Radebeul |