Gunnar Decker

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Gunnar Decker (born in 1965 in Kühlungsborn ) is a German author .

Life

Gunnar Decker grew up in Bad Doberan . He studied philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1994 after the political changeover with a dissertation on Gottfried Arnold . He has been working as a freelance film and theater critic since 1995 and as a book author since 1997. With his wife Kerstin Decker he published a volume of Essays in 2000. He is the author of biographical books on Ernst Jünger , Hermann Hesse , Gottfried Benn and Rilke's women. Since 2008 he has been an editor for the magazine Theater der Zeit . He lives in Berlin.

Decker was awarded the Heinrich Mann Prize in 2016.

Fonts

  • Ernst Barlach - The Floating One. A biography. Siedler, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8275-0106-6 .
  • Francis of Assisi. The dream of a simple life. Siedler, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8275-0061-8 .
  • 1965 - the short summer of the GDR. Hanser, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-24735-2 .
  • Hermann Hesse . Munich: Hanser, 2012.
  • Georg Heym "I, a torn sea". vbb, Berlin 2011.
  • Franz Fuehmann. Hinstorff, Rostock 2009.
  • Vincent van Gogh. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2009.
  • The magic of the beginning. Structure, Berlin 2007.
  • Gottfried Benn, genius and barbarian. Structure, Berlin 2006.
  • Rilke's women or the invention of love. Reclam, Leipzig 2004.
  • Hesse ABC. Reclam, Leipzig 2002.
  • with Kerstin Decker: Emotional outbursts or eternally pubescent the East German. Reports, polemics, portraits. Verlag das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2000.
  • Warrior Dawn. The Blue Owl, Essen 1997.
  • Protestant mysticism in the impartial church and heretic history with Gottfried Arnold. Dissertation. Humboldt University, Berlin 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Mann Prize to Gunnar Decker , BuchMarkt , February 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Decker, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Kühlungsborn