Harald Groehler

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Harald Gröhler (2013)

Harald Gröhler (born 1938 in Hirschberg) is a German writer . His work includes novels , short stories , poetry and plays . Gröhler emerged as an essayist and editor of literary texts.

life and work

Harald Gröhler grew up in the Fichtel Mountains . As a schoolboy he undertook (sometimes high-risk) trampoline trips through southern Europe and Asia Minor. In Hof he graduated from the Albertinum (the humanistic grammar school). He studied psychology, philosophy and history in Göttingen , Kiel and Cologne . At first he worked as a freelance literary critic (including for WDR and FAZ ) and as a press photographer, then as a freelance writer. In 1972 he founded the “group intermedia”. It included two authors, a composer, two interpreting musicians, a painter, a graphic artist, and a photographer; joint public actions took place e.g. B. in Wuppertal and Cologne. The group existed until 1974. From 1976 to 1984 Gröhler was a member of the board of the “Literary Society Cologne”.

In 1976 he held two visiting professorships in literature / literary sociology at US state universities (in Texas and New Mexico ). From 1976 he smuggled manuscripts from the GDR to the West twice. In 1981 he went to Moscow as a delegate of the Association of German Writers (delegation of two) .

By 1995 he realized and moderated (as a literary event service manager, leading) over 950 writer events, including B. an anti-golf war event with authors in exile from Iraq (including Khalid Al-Maaly ) and Iran, a panel discussion (including the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia and the VS federal chairman), events for Amnesty International and others. a. with Helmut Frenz, and he led a bilingual authors' event at the Goethe Institute in Ankara .

He had readings (e.g. at the Goethe Institute in Prague ) and took part in literary events such as the “Darmstädter March” (finalist in the Leonce and Lena Prize ). He was a juror at a literary competition in the city of Cologne, gave lectures and presentations on literary theory and philosophy, e.g. E.g. at the FÖN federal meetings of environmentally committed writers or the 3rd Weimar Dialogue between politicians and writers and organized and conducted a public interview with Stasi victims in 1992.

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany , Union des poètes & Cie, the Association of the Association of German Writers in ver.di, Kogge, the Wangener Kreis (Ges. Für Lit. und Kunst), Rhein-Erft, German Society for Philosophy . He has been the chair in Plesse since 2017. He was a founding member of the Literaturhaus Köln and the group of authors of historical novels Quo vadis .

For 1994 to 1996 he was a delegate a. Coordinator of the representatives of those affected at Helmholtzplatz Berlin elected and again as a delegate for 2001 until its dissolution in 2015.

Harald Gröhler lived in Cologne from 1960 to 1990, and has lived in Berlin and Cologne since then.

Works

Single track

  • Fresh snow. Poems. Lyric Edition Rhineland. Funded by the Nyland Foundation Cologne. Edition Virgines, Düsseldorf 2020. ISBN 978-3-948229-09-2 .
  • Poet! Poet! That's how they met me. With photographs by Brigitte Friedrich . Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-82606884-3 .
  • In a hurry, in a coat. New stories. Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-86356-219-9 .
  • Never die. Live forever. Memorial to Cologne members of the Association of German Writers. (Together with Anne Jüssen). Literature Atelier, Bonn 2016, ISBN 978-3-940482-98-3 .
  • Inside intelligence. The BND and the network of the major western secret services. Photo Brigitte Friedrich. Verlag Neuer Weg, Essen 2015, ISBN 978-3-88021-409-5 .
  • A suicidal woman. Stories - Samobójczyni. Opowiadania, ed. And foreword by Dr. Kalina Mróz-Jablecka, photo Steffen Marciniak, German and Polish, Neisse Verlag, Dresden 2015, ISBN 978-3-86276-155-5 and Oficyna Wydawnicza ATUT, Wrocław 2015, ISBN 978-83-7977-097-7 .
  • The jump through the pond. The metaphysics of poetry . Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86356-105-5 .
  • Read book 122 . Poems. With 5 graphics by Peter Angermann. Aphaia Verlag, 2nd edition Berlin 2015. Article no. 5122-2.
  • Disturbed sleep. Wytrącony ze Snu . Poems. Edited and translated into Polish by Małgorzata Płoszewska. Bilingual. Poetry Poezja. Oficyna Wydawnicza Ars per Memoria, Starachowice 2013. ISBN 978-83-62359-51-6 .
  • Störtebeker. Folk hero and pirate . The biography. With 6 drawings by Ekkehard Drefke. Bergstadtverlag WG Korn, 2nd, extended edition, Freiburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-87057-277-8 .
  • Word home . Poems. Edition L by Czernik-Verlag. Speyer 2010, ISBN 978-3-934960-88-6 .
  • The stone eye . Historical episode novel. Groehler et al. Ed. Dr. Ruben Wickenhäuser, Bookspot Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-937357-35-5 .
  • Mr. Gehlen without a photo . A report about the founder of the Federal Intelligence Service. trafo Verlagsgruppe, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89626-583-0 .
  • Who was Klaus Störtebeker? Verlag Barbarossa, Zülpich 2001, ISBN 3-935274-01-7 .
  • Suspension of the machine. drive . Two pieces. Vol. 11 of the series theater pieces. Teiresias Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-934305-19-9 .
  • Exits with the chaise . A novella on Goethe. Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-910172-67-9 .
  • The mineral of the romantics . Poems and their original text. Frontispiece by Yannis Dimitrakis, Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-910172-37-7 .
  • The Ville , a poem and his journey from 1956 to 1996. mMt 19 full-page color watercolor illustrations by Ekkehard Drefke. Landpresse Verlag, Weilerswist 1996, ISBN 3-930137-49-6 .
  • Tetzner . Novella. Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-87173-857-3 .
  • This doubled this side . Poems and narrative poems. With 8 illustrations by Peter Angermann . Radius-Verlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-87173-829-8 .
  • Red . Novel. Munich edition published by Schneekluth Verlag, Munich 1984.
  • Stories with and without children . Munich edition published by Schneekluth Verlag, Munich 1981.

Anthology · magazine · radio

  • Crossroads. Annual font for skeptical thinking. , Ed. Walter Sauer, Max Himmelheber Foundation. Essay Time takes. S. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 2019. ISBN 978-3-7776-2811-0 .
  • Nahe Ferne - Cercana distancia, A Mexican-German anthology, Spanish a. German , Eds. Graciela Salazar Reyna and Regine Kress-Fricke, UANL, Leon 2015.
  • Literaturuli Gazethi , No. 19 (131), Georgian lit. Zeitschr., Poems, translated into Georgian by Maya Gogoladze, Publishing House Sitkva, Tbilisi Oct. 17, 2014.
  • Stadtlandfluss, poetry from NRW , ed. Hajo Steinert, Jürgen Nendza, Lilienfeld Verlag, Düsseldorf 2014.
  • Versnetze_neun , Ed. Axel Kutsch, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2016. ISBN 978-3-944566-58-0
  • Got The Who The That. The queen of poetry . Friederike Mayröcker . Ed. Erika Kronabitter, Edition Art Science, 2014, ISBN 978-3-902864-41-3 .
  • The German poetry calendar . Ed. Shafik Naz, alhambra publishing, Bertem (Belgium) 2008 and 2010.
  • Thought of Germany , poetry on the state of the country. Edited by Axel Kutsch, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2009.
  • Time bandits . Edited by Joachim Christian Huth, Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008 and several times
  • The outside of the element, literature box , eds. Jan Wagner and Thomas Girst, No. 10, Güldene jubilee edition, engl. u. German, New York a. Berlin 2001.
  • D'un pays et de l'autre . Ed. Jacques Darras, publisher hui Le Cri, Brussels 1998.
  • Deutsche Landschaftsgedichte , Ed. Manfred Kluge, Heyne Verlag, Munich 1986.
  • German poems since 1960 , ed. Heinz Piontek, Reclam, Stuttgart 1972 and 1984.
  • Hans Bender (Ed.): Ring of the year . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1973.
  • We children of Marx and Coca Cola . Edited by Armin Juhre, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1971.

Furthermore, Gröhler published texts in numerous periodicals, including in the time , in the Horen , the Akzent, in the Merkur , in the FAZ and in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , in Rhein !, poems in recours au poème (issue 41/2012, translated by Brigitte Gyr). Gröhler's texts were broadcast on radio, including on WDR, Deutschlandfunk, SFB, RIAS, and Bayerischer Rundfunk. Gröhler's texts have been translated into 10 languages. Gröhler's poem Vorstadtgelände was filmed on video by Phil Wohlleben / Pudel Crew (video DVD, 2010)

Release

  • Happiness. Anthology and documentation for the Plesse readings in September 2018. Cover photo Steffen Marciniak . Verlag Frauenmuseum, Series Literatur Atelier, Bonn 2018, ISBN 978-3-946430-19-3 .
  • ... on road. Anthology and documentation for the Plesse readings in September 2017. Cover photo Steffen Marciniak . Verlag Frauenmuseum, Series Literatur Atelier, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-946430-13-1 .
  • Josef Hruby: The networks. Poetry . Translated from the Czech by I. Hesova, Corvinus Presse, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-910172-69-5 .
  • Co-editing and editing of the literary magazine Gazette , Cologne 1991.
  • For example Cologne. A reading book , Lamuv Verlag, Bornheim 1980.
  • Gerhard Uhlenbruck: Into your own network. Aphorisms , Stippak Verlag, Aachen 1977.

Dubbing

  • Friedemann Holst-Solbach (2012), music for Panung : Andante by Joseph Haydn, underlaid and arranged for guitar and violoncello. In: Bild der Zeit / artist's joy and suffering - poems and epigrams set to music for choir, individual voices or readings with orchestra or solo instruments. ISMN 979-0-50075-016-1.
  • Helmut Schmale (1999) Score for the poem I hear rumors, nobody.

Awards

  • Literature work grant from the Minister of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia (several times).
  • Honorary membership in the Literary Society Cologne.
  • 1974/75 residential grant at the studio house Worpswede , supported by the Minister for Science and Art of Lower Saxony.
  • 1974/75 scholarship, literature, city of Cologne.
  • 1980 1st prize, lyric section, lit. Competition "Cologne am Dom".
  • 1986 elected literary godfather to Bergkamen, winner of the literary prize.
  • 1986 Prize in the German-political literary competition of Lower Saxony (Minister for Federal Affairs).
  • 1991 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (March 6, 1991).
  • 1992 residency scholarship at Schloss Wiepersdorf .
  • 1991–1995 work contracts (scholarships) with the Berlin Senate, several times.
  • 1997 1st prize in the drama category at the North Rhine-Westphalian authors' meeting.
  • 2001 City Clerk of Minden .
  • 2002 UNESCO residency at the Baltic Center for Writers , Visby , Sweden, and travel grant from the Kulturfonds Foundation.
  • 2010 Inge Czernik Prize for Poetry.
  • 2019 KOGGE Ring of Honor , Minden .

literature

  • Jörg Drews, A (preliminary?) Requiem . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from October 19, 1970.
  • Wolfgang Michael, Harald Groehler . In: TAGS , p. 1, No. 5, Austin / Texas, March 1976.
  • Günter Lanser: Repressed childhood. An attempt on the themes of Harald Gröhler . In: Authors' sponsorships . Ed .: Guido Hildebrandt and Rainer Terhorst, Gilles & Francke Verlag, p. 32 f, Duisburg 1978.
  • Hartmut Wilmes: The monstrous behind nursery rhymes. The writer Harald Gröhler . In: Kölnische Rundschau (series 'Artists live in Cologne') from March 1, 1980.
  • Christa Melchinger: Told against the grain . About stories with and without children. In: FAZ of May 12, 1981.
  • Jürgen Beckelmann: The twists and turns of reality are funny . In: Spandauer Volksblatt from July 5, 1981.
  • (MN) [= Michael Neumann, editor-in-chief]: Defense of the children . In: Westermannsmonthshefte , special issue 7/1981.
  • Beatrice Eichmann-Leutenegger: Stories with and without children . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of July 22, 1981.
  • Hermann Glaser: Armored love . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten , 1984.
  • Heinz Piontek: Two girls from Cologne. Deutsche Welle , Bücherkiste, July 8, 1985.
  • Matthias Buth: From the read-in to 'Literatur aktuell'. Harald Gröhler honored . In: Neues rheinland , Cologne, September 1991.
  • Michael Hochheuser: Stasi Victims: No resentment and no vengeance. Spied citizens of the former GDR reported . In: Generalanzeiger Bonn of November 5, 1992.
  • Hans-Jürgen Heise: The imagination makes leaps and bounds . About the doubled this side . In: the hear . No. 168, p. 193, 4/1992, Wilhelmshaven.
  • Jan Brandt: A rift in the adult world of literature . Review (published at University College London) January 1998.
  • Niki Niedermeier: Poetry reading Harald Gröhler . 3.18, in the annual report of the Emil-von-Behring-Gymnasium Spardorf-Erlangen 1998.
  • Theo Breuer : The mineral of the romantics and ... In: Without point and comma. Poetry in the 90s . Wolkenstein Verlag, Cologne 1999, p. 35 ff.
  • Christina Kleine: The development of a poem. Away from one-dimensionality and how a writer came to write (interview), Wortspiegel, p. 56 ff, 10/1999, Berlin
  • Andreas Fasel: A poet you can touch . In: Welt am Sonntag of March 11, 2001.
  • Robin Mishra : What do you think of Minden? Town clerk / poor poet, friendly chronicler or fiction seasonal worker . In: Rheinischer Merkur . No. 50 , December 2001.
  • (js) = Holger Jergius: The truth about Klaus Störtebeker. Unusual historical short novel - factual and entertaining . In: Nürnberger Zeitung No. 30, 2003.
  • Anja Probe: Capture trip to Castile : In: Neues Deutschland from July 2nd, 2003.
  • Maik Trettin: Book about Störtebeker: His name was Johann and not Klaus. Historian Harald Gröhler found the hiding place of the legendary pirate . In: Ostsee-Zeitung of July 23, 2003.
  • Gizela Igracki: Only second set? Störtebeker in Swedish-Marstrand . In: the hear . No. 3-2003.
  • Theo Breuer: From the hinterland. Poetry after 2000 . Edition YE, Sistig 2005.
  • Wolfgang Gessler: Hanseatic muscle games. Biography and novel about folk hero and pirate Störtebeker published . In: Ostsee-Zeitung of July 22, 2006.
  • Jürgen Kisters: Magical pirate . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from February 8, 2007.
  • CL (= Christiane Landgraf): Read donations for a good cause . Report. In: Prenzlberg views , Berlin. Edition November 2009.
  • Igor Solotarieff: To Harald Gröhler's Mr. Gehlen without a photo . Moscow. Radio Moscow (in Russian), January 2010.

Web links

Further biographical information and publications about Harald Gröhler:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ http://www.bovenden.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=129&topmenu=12 Plesse group of authors
  3. ↑ Start - Mindener Tageblatt. Retrieved October 19, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gröhler, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Hirschberg