Hans Jörgen Gerlach

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Hans Jörgen Gerlach (born November 23, 1950 in Altshausen ; † January 7, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German banker, social worker and publicist.

Life

From 1984 until the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gerlach worked on behalf of the Federal Government on a negotiating mandate with the GDR for the humanitarian sector (exit negotiations with a focus on marriages). He then became a freelance journalist in the fields of politics, literature and local history researcher on the history of Gutenstein an der Donau in the district of Sigmaringen . He was the administrator of the literary legacy of the writer and art historian Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889 to 1967).

Works (selection)

  • "Heinrich Eduard Jacob: Between Two Worlds - Between Two Worlds" (bio-bibliographical information) Aachen 1997 ISBN 3-8265-2567-1 .
  • Author of numerous press and radio reports as well as author of several forewords and afterwords for books and catalogs as well as encyclopedia articles and reviews of exile literature, etc.

Co-author:

  • “Freelance winners - The co-earners in the West” together with Wolfgang Brinkschulte and Thomas Heise; Frankfurt / M. 1993 ISBN 3-548-36611-2 .
  • German-language exile literature since 1933. (Volume 3 USA Part 1), Ed .: John M. Spalek u. a .; Bern and Munich 2000, "Heinrich Eduard Jacob" there, ISBN 3-908255-16-3 , pp. 215-257.
  • "German-language exile literature since 1933" (Volume 3 USA Part 2), ed. John M. Spalek et al. a .; Bern and Munich 2001, “Ernst Angel” there, pp. 34–59 ISBN 3-908255-17-1 .

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