Harri Engelmann

Harri Engelmann (born October 14, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German writer .

Life

Engelmann grew up in Rostock . At the age of 28, he lost his driving license due to drunk driving. This event led him to write stories. In the mid-1980s he belonged to the support class of the Rostock Writers' Association, at the same time he completed a distance learning course at the Institute for Literature in Leipzig. In 1987 his debut "Signals in the Rain" appeared, a collection of short stories. For this he received the New Life publishing house's debutant award in 1988 . After the fall of the Wall he worked as a car salesman in a Rostock car dealership. He processed the experiences he made there in the short story volume "Notes of a car salesman". In 2000 “Japanese Garden” was published, a book about life in the NVA .

Engelmann lives in Klein Nienhagen near Altenhagen near Kröpelin .

Works

• Temperaments . Verl. Neues Leben, Berlin 1984.
• Entry . Verl. Neues Leben, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-355-00322-0 .
• Signals in the rain . Verl. Neues Leben, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-355-00629-7 .
• Walking through the day . Verl. Tribüne, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-7303-0434-8 .
• Bere grie: 2nd annual reading book . Literature Funding Circle Kuhtor, Rostock 1997, ISBN 3-9805537-1-X .
• Range: 1st annual reading book . Literature Funding Circle Kuhtor, Rostock 1996, ISBN 3-9805537-0-1 .
• Car salesman's records . Weymann Bauer, Rostock 1998, ISBN 3-929395-28-2 .
• Japanese garden . Weymann Bauer, Rostock 2000, ISBN 3-929395-34-7 .
• Car . konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-88769-242-X .
• Russian blood: a novel about an unacknowledged agreement . Projekt-Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-86634-821-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Harri Engelmann in the catalog of the German National Library