Klaus Gerisch

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Klaus Gerisch (born January 15, 1936 in Stollberg / Erzgeb. ) Is a German writer who was also a cabaret director in the GDR .

Life

Klaus Gerisch was born in Stollberg in the Ore Mountains in 1936. At a young age he trained as an electrician . He then attended the state sports school in Werdau and the workers and farmers faculty of the German University for Physical Culture (DHfK) in Leipzig, where he subsequently passed his Abitur.

Gerisch initially worked as an electrician, then as a specialist methodologist in the district cabinet for folk art . As a writer, he was a member of the Young Authors Working Group (AJA) Cottbus. From 1960 he was a freelance author. He wrote poems , reports and short stories for magazines and anthologies as well as plays for the workers' theater.

His entry into the cabaret "Hornets" took place in 1966, about ten years after it was founded by workers from the Schwarze Pump gas combine in Schwarze Pump near Spremberg . Later the famous cabaret moved to Cottbus. Gerisch acted as copywriter and artistic director ; he was only on the stage temporarily himself. The cabaret troupe , for example, also included Helga Zerrenz . The "hornets" were awarded gold medals three times at the GDR Workers' Festival. The experience in this area helped Gerisch to practice the writing profession: “In cabaret, for example, you learn to deal with punch lines . At readings I have repeatedly experienced the 'wrong laugh' and the sudden shock of it, so reactions that are the order of the day in cabaret. "

In 1973 he became party secretary of the basic organization of the GDR writers' association in the Cottbus district . The year before, Hinstorff Verlag had published his first novel Das Jahr und Katrin , for which he also presented a stage version. The play had its world premiere in 1974 at the Stadttheater Cottbus .

style

Characteristics of his books are the colloquial narrative tone and the episodic narrative form. They are about the arrival of young people in the socialist working and living conditions and the probation and realization associated with it.

Works

prose

  • But the fourteenth. (= Amateur theater ). Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1964.
  • Burned evidence. Crime story (= blue light ; Volume 67). Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1966.
  • Joseph is dead. In: The fourth lantern. Pre-registration. Anthology. Joachim Schmidt, Günter Schubert, Klaus-Dieter Sommer, Klaus Walther (eds.), Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1971, pp. 195–208.
  • The year and Katrin. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1972. (Also as a play: Theater der Stadt Cottbus, premiere September 28, 1974.)
  • Daniel and Dagmar. Novel. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1979.
  • It only affected us. In: Sense and Form. Contributions to literature , vol. 35, issue 2/1983, pp. 369-375. (Excerpt from the novel The Girl from the Poster .)
  • The girl from the poster. Novel. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 1983.

Full-page newspaper content

Television features

  • The girl from the poster. In the series: We introduce. Design and direction Michael Unger, first broadcast on September 27, 1984, DDR TV (DDR I).

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Klaus Gerisch, p. 34 f .
  2. ↑ a b Our author . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . February 10, 1984, LR supplement Our world.
  3. ↑ a b Biographical Notes . In: Joachim Schmidt, Günter Schubert, Klaus-Dieter Sommer, Klaus Walther (eds.): The fourth lantern. Pre-registration. Anthology . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1971, Gerisch, p. 281 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Gerisch: Being there and experiencing success . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . Cottbus April 11, 1981.
  5. ↑ Helga Zerrenz. In: ddr-tanzmusik.de. July 10, 2018, accessed August 10, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Hinnerk Einhorn: My hero provokes. Klaus Gerisch on his new route novel . In: Sunday . The weekly political newspaper. No. 8/1983 , February 20, 1983, Art and Literature. Before the Literature Congress, p. 4 .
  7. ↑ Hinnerk Einhorn: The book of the route. To Klaus Gerisch's novel “The Girl from the Poster” . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . 4th September 1984.
  8. ^ Sybille Ebelt: Site manager on the route. Klaus Gerisch: "The girl from the poster" . In: The morning . February 23, 1985.
  9. ^ Gerhard Fugmann: Being able to be there as confirmation and evaluation of artistic work. Conversation with comrade Klaus Gerisch, writer . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . Cottbus March 29, 1986.

literature

  • Wulf Kirsten, Andreas Klimt: Gerisch, Klaus . In: Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Continued by Carl Ludwig Lang. Eleventh volume: Gellert - Gorski. KG Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-908255-11-6 , Sp. 103 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gerisch, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and cabaret director
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Stollberg / Erzgeb.