Gerhard dancer

Gerhard Tänzer (born March 18, 1937 in Nordhausen ) is a German writer .

Life

After graduating from school in his hometown, Tänzer moved to West Germany in 1955 because he was unable to study in the GDR . From 1956 to 1962 he studied German , history and art history in Göttingen . He then worked for a few years in the Lower Saxony school service. From 1967 until his retirement in 2000, Dancer taught at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium (Saarlouis) .

Gerhard Dancer appeared in public primarily as a poet . From 1970 onwards he published numerous poems in magazines and anthologies, and from 1979 onwards, volumes of poetry appeared as monographs. He also wrote plays and radio plays . He wrote the text of the Saarlandlied , the official Saarland national anthem , which has been in effect since 2003 . Dancer lives in Berus .

Works

Poems

• Here and elsewhere. Poems. Queißer Verlagsgesellschaft, Dillingen 1979. ISBN 3-921815-09-6
• Beautiful field of flowers. Small erotic school of verse. Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt, Landau 1985. ISBN 3-87629-081-3
• CRICRI. Concrete poetry. Queißer Verlagsgesellschaft, Lebach 1987. ISBN 3-921815-57-6
• Beautiful field of flowers. Small erotic school of verse. Extended edition. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988. ISBN 3-596-29221-2
• Summer trip = Voyage d'été. Poems, German-French, with drawings by Aloys Ohlmann . Editions Voix, Metz 1992
• Summer trip = Voyage d'été. Poems, German-French-Georgian edition, with drawings by Aloys Ohlmann Editions Voix. Metz, s. a.
• The country before your eyes. A selection of already published and new poems, with typographical design by Petra Weiter. Gollenstein Verlag, Blieskastel 1999. ISBN 3-930008-88-2
• Here and elsewhere = Sdjes i gdje-to. Poems, German-Russian. Tipografija OOO IPK Biont, St. Petersburg 1999
• Actaeon or The Divine Beloved. Sonnets, hand set by Francis van Maele, with serigraphs by Aloys Ohlmann . Redfoxpress, Redfox (Ireland) 2002
• Lands = paysages. Poems, German-French, with woodcuts by Gabriele Eickhoff. Conte Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006. ISBN 978-3-936950-51-9
• "Fisherman, how high is the water?" Poems and pictures. Self-published, Überherrn 2012. ISBN 978-3-00-035513-4

narrative

• "Himmelbrand" - memory of a childhood and youth. Conte Verlag, Saarbrücken u. St.Ingbert 2012. ISBN 978-3-941657-74-8

translation

• "Frouwe, frouwe, frouwe mîn!" Thuringian Minnelieder . With a transmission edited by Gerhard Tänzer. Quartus-Verlag, Bucha bei Jena 2005. ISBN 3-931505-87-1

Plays

• The night watch. One act. First performance Studiobühne Bayreuth 1984. Director: Werner Hildenbrand
• The Scream. One act. First performance Studiobühne Bayreuth 1986. Director: Thomas Krauß
• The night watch. Three little pieces. Queißer Verlagsgesellschaft, Lebach 1987. ISBN 3-921815-58-4

Radio plays

• At the end of the park. Director: Ferdinand Ludwig. Prod .: SR 1981.
• An old story. Director: Peter König. Prod .: SR 1987.

Awards

• 1984 - Co-winner of the play competition "Spielzeit-Zeitspiel" Bayreuth
• 1999 - Culture award for art and science of the Saarlouis district

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Tänzer in the catalog of the German National Library