Hubert Gerlach

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Hubert Gerlach (born July 8, 1927 in Hellerau , today a district of Dresden ; † September 30, 2015 in Dresden) was a German writer.

Life

Hubert Gerlach, younger brother of the writer Tine Schulze-Gerlach (1920–2011), spent his childhood and early youth in Dresden. The Nazis , it was possible school and leisure time of children to dominate. At the age of sixteen, Gerlach volunteered and barely survived the war and imprisonment. His stay in an American prison camp in France was ended by the Red Cross .

After returning to his hometown of Dresden, Hubert Gerlach began an apprenticeship as a locksmith and worked as an equipment designer. He also wrote and was able to publish his first texts. In 1976 he decided to work as a freelance writer.

Through the experiences of the wartime and the experience of where manipulation can lead, he had a critical, alert view of people and society. His writing style was also characterized by keen observation, which found expression in ironic and sarcastic means.

At the same time one notices Gerlach's stories the joy of writing. In addition to novels and crime stories, hundreds of short stories, satires and grotesques , aphorisms and limericks were created . He illustrated some of his books himself with the economical, concise lines that characterize the caricatures he published.

Hubert Gerlach also dealt with historical topics, for example in his novel Jonas Daniels Schatten . He shared this interest with his father Kurt Gerlach , who was a historian, teacher and writer in Dresden- Rähnitz .

But it was only with his outstanding story Paris is beautiful , published in 2006, that he addressed his time in the war and drew a link with the present, which he also saw as being shaped by repression and absorbed memories.

The rather satirical writer Hubert Gerlach was the father of the rather lyrical author Thomas Gerlach .

Works (excerpt)

  • 1975 - When they go in the evening, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1976 - Resignation of the technical draftsman Gerald Haugk, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1977 - Der Fledderer, detective novel, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1980 - Der Joker / Der Fledderer, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1983 - The pigeon on the shed roof, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1987 - Jonas Daniels Schatten, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt
  • 1988 - Nobody's Brother, Union Verlag Berlin, ISBN 3-372-00202-4
  • 1990 - The man in my grave, Greifenverlag Rudolstadt, ISBN 3-735201-81-4
  • 1998 - The Blue House, Die Scheune Verlag, ISBN 3-931684-19-9
  • 1999 - A small guide through the garden city of Hellerau, Hellerau-Verlag Dresden, ISBN 3-910184-67-7
  • 2001 - Paris is beautiful, Die Scheune Verlag, ISBN 3-931684-49-0
  • 2003 - bestseller, satires, Notschriften-Verlag Radebeul, ISBN 3-933753-47-3
  • 2004 - The whole truth, Notschriften-Verlag Radebeul, ISBN 3-933753-67-8
  • 2006 - Am Jordan, Notschriften-Verlag Radebeul, ISBN 3-933753-84-8
  • 2008 - three o'clock in the morning, Notschriften-Verlag Radebeul, ISBN 978-3-940200-18-1

Quote

my at all
because
I was wrong
and I was standing in the
rain -

it was a long way to get
upright

but finally now I
stand or walk
upright -
under the eaves

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Gerlach: Obituary notice. (PDF; 18 kB) In: sz-trauer.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 7, 2015, accessed on February 10, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Magical readings in the forge . In: sz-online.de of December 13, 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Gerlach, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hellerau , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 2015
Place of death Dresden , Saxony , Germany