Gerold Tietz

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Gerold Tietz (born November 27, 1941 in Horka b. Dauba , Bohemia ; † July 24, 2009 in Esslingen am Neckar ) was a German writer.

Gerold Tietz at the presentation of his work 'Böhmisches Richtfest' (2007)
Gerold Tietz at his desk in Esslingen (2008)

Life

Gerold Tietz came from Bohemian. From there he came as a child after the expulsion to Bavaria and later to Baden-Württemberg . He studied history, politics and French in Tübingen , Berlin and Paris . Gerold Tietz was a doctor of history. For the last decades he lived in Esslingen am Neckar and taught as a high school teacher in Wendlingen . In 1989 he published his first book. In 2006 he received the first prize for prose from the Esslingen Artists' Guild and was elected to the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 2007 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize for Literature .

His wife Anne Birk was also a writer. The couple were childless; Anne Birk died a few days after her husband on July 29, 2009.

Works

Gerold Tietz wrote the prose Satiralien - Reports from Beerdita (1989) and the four standing in close relation novels Bohemian Groove (1997), Great Times - Little Pleasures (2005), Bohemian topping (2007) and Bohemian Tackle (2009). The sequel to the book Great Times - Little Happiness was no longer published during his lifetime.

The Bohemian Fugue was translated into Czech in 2005 under the title Česká Fuga . The translation of Bohemian Straddles could not be completed during his lifetime, but was published posthumously in 2012 under the title České Kotrmelce .

Trivia

The Bohemian Fugue is illustrated with ink drawings by the Esslingen painter Georg Koschinski.

The chapter Anna's Ascension from the work Bohemian Topping-Out Ceremony was set to music as melodrama by the composer Dr Dietmar Gräf and premiered in Bad Wörishofen with the Malinconia Ensemble in 2008 .

The cover picture of the Bohemian tackle comes from Jindrich Streit, one of the most important contemporary documentary photographers in the Czech Republic .

literature

  • Kateřina Kovačková: Figures of the "Others" in German-Bohemian exile literature: using the example of Gerold Tietz, Josef Holub and Johannes Urzidil (= Tea edition ), Rogeon, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-943186-14-7 Dissertation University of Munich 2013, 309 pages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b author website
  2. ^ Works by Gerold Tietz at the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d ROGEON Verlag
  4. ↑ Esslinger Zeitung
  5. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine
personal data
SURNAME Tietz, Gerold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Horka
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 2009
Place of death Esslingen am Neckar