Gerti Tetzner

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Gerti Tetzner (born November 29, 1936 in Wiegleben , Thuringia ) is a German writer .

Life

Gerti Tetzner attended secondary school in Gotha from 1951 to 1955 . After the Abitur studied it from 1955 to 1959 at the University of Leipzig Law and graduated studies with the state examination from. She then worked for three years as a notary in the Leipzig district. She gave up this job and has been a freelance writer since 1962. At first she practiced sideline jobs, including a. in a spinning mill and at the post office. From 1966 she completed a course at the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in Leipzig , from which, however, she was forcibly de-registered in 1968. In the following years she was under surveillance by the Stasi as part of an " operational process " . After the reunification , Tetzner was temporarily employed as an ABM worker and worked in a debt counseling center .

Gerti Tetzner became known in the 1970s for her novel "Karen W.", which she had been working on since the mid-1960s and in which, in a similar way to Brigitte Reimann and Christa Wolf, she describes the fate of a woman who is in conflict between the desire is after self-realization and personal happiness and the demands of GDR society; The way out for Tetzner's protagonist is to leave her professional career and return to her homeland in the provinces.

Gerti Tetzner, who is a member of the PEN Center Germany , received the award from the Johannes R. Becher Literature Institute in 1975 . She is married to Reiner Tetzner .

Works

  • Karen W. , Halle (Saale) 1974
  • Maxi , Berlin 1979
  • The Metamorphosis House , Berlin 1986
  • In the land of ferries , Halle [et al.] 1988 (together with Reiner Tetzner )

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SURNAME Tetzner, Gerti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiegleben , Thuringia