Gerhardt Gröschke

Gerhardt Gröschke (* 1948 in Brieskow-Finkenheerd ; † 1995 ) was a theater scholar , dramaturge and writer.

life and work

Gröschke attended school up to the 10th grade, then received a combined vocational training as an electrician with high school diploma in the Eisenhüttenkombinat Ost. He studied at the Hans Otto Theater Academy in Leipzig until 1973. Afterwards he was dramaturge at the Theater der Altmark Stendal and at the Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder) . Since 1981 he has been a freelance writer and since 1992 a member of the ZDF television council . After reunification, he headed the MIKADO youth center in Frankfurt (Oder).

He wrote poems, short stories, radio plays, plays, children's books and novels.

Prizes and awards

• 1985 Kleist Art Prize

Works

Poems and stories in anthologies and literary writings (ndl, Temperamente, Spiritus, die fehre / prom)

Radio plays for children on the radio of the GDR, "Our dear mad dog" (SFB 1994), "Should I be my brother's guardian?" (ORB radio play competition 1995, unfinished)

Plays

• "Flood", first performance 1978 Deutsches Theater Berlin
• "The Unusual King's Daughter", first performance 1980 Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)
• "Hermann or one part reason", first performance 1982 Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)
• "The woman there outside and the man", first performance 1984 Leipziger Theater
• "Moments in the Tunnel" premiere 1985 Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)
• "The Brothers", first performance 1988 Kleist-Theater Frankfurt (Oder)
• various unpublished plays (e.g. the Kohlhaas adaptation "In Nobody's House")

Novels, short stories

• "The forgotten invitation", 1989 Verlag Neues Leben
• "Das Schöpfwerk" appeared in 1990 as a serial novel in the "Märkische Oderzeitung"
• The story "Mondscheinthell" appeared in 1996 in the anthology "Evenings after 8" by Reclam
• "In the housing", 2007 Verlag Die Furt

Web links

• Short biography, catalog raisonné