Gunther Tietz

Gunther Tietz (born May 24, 1961 in Adelebsen ; † June 16, 1993 in Berlin ) was a German writer , poet and editor . He wrote poems , short stories and feature pages and wrote a city novel .

Life

Tietz grew up in a large family in Kassel . Gunther Tietz began to write at the age of 15 and read the poet Johannes Bobrowski . Since 1978 he has been working for Christine Brückner as a student . He took on secretarial work for the writers Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner and handled the English and French-language correspondence . In 1979 he passed his Abitur examination at the Heinrich Schütz School in Kassel . In 1980 Tietz received a literary scholarship (VS) in Berlin and has lived in Berlin ever since. He had a weekly exchange of letters with Christine Brückner. Gunther Tietz studied history in Berlin andGerman studies at the Free University of Berlin . In 1981 Gunther Tietz published his volume of poetry The Defense of the Butterflies equipped with etchings by the Swiss artist Georg Gessler from the cycle Downfall and New Creation . The introduction was written by the writer Ingeborg Drewitz . In 1983 he and Berta Schleicher wrote a collection of biographical texts on Malwida von Meysenbug .

In 1988 Gunther Tietz wrote the foreword to Christine Brückner's Has man roots? Gunther Tietz edited Caroline von Humboldt's A Life in Letters and with Sigrid Bauschinger in 1989 the biographical texts, essays, reviews , and interviews about Christine Brückner . In 1991 Tietz published his Berlin city novel, Kartoffel is Kartoffel , based on Alfred Döblin . His work was literarily influenced by Franz Hessel and Christopher Isherwood . Until his untimely death, Tietz was friends with the writer couple Otto Heinrich Kühner and Christine Brückner, who lived in Kassel. He was intended to be the administrator of the estate of the writer couple Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner, who lived in Kassel.

Tietz died while studying as a cand. Phil. Dr. 1993 at the age of 32 in the Auguste-Viktoria-Hospital in Berlin- Schöneberg from the effects of AIDS and was buried in the cathedral cemetery.

Works

• unsolicited . Poems. Packpapier Verlag, Osnabrück 1979 ("Literatenpack" series).
• Defending the Butterflies . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 978-3-87173-586-8
• Stadtsparkasse Kassel (ed.) Malwida von Meysenbug: ideal of a woman figure of the 19th century . With contributions by Berta Schleicher
• Contribution to the boundaries and borderline cases of the self-confidence of the Malwida von Meysenbug in the 1986 yearbook of the Malwida von Meysenbug Society Kassel, 1986
• Potato is potato . Ullstein, Berlin and Frankfurt / M. 1991, ISBN 978-3-550-06188-2

Quotes

Christine Brückner quotes Gunther Tietz in her letters Dear old friend

"I did not choose this predisposition"

- From: Christine Brückner Dear old friend . Ullstein Buchverlag GmbH, Berlin, 1992 p. 83

literature

• Friedrich W. Block (ed.): Christine Brückner and Otto Heinrich Kühner. "The only functioning authors' association". euregioverlag, Kassel 2007
• Christine Brückner: Dear old friend . Ullstein, Berlin, 1992 pp. 82-86
• Christine Brückner: Do people have roots? Autobiographical texts . Ullstein Verlag, Berlin, autobiographical information about Gunther Tietz in the cover, 1988

Web links

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