Klaus Roehler

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Klaus Roehler (born October 25, 1929 in Königsee ; † February 9, 2000 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer and editor .

Life

At the age of 18, Klaus Roehler moved from Thuringia to West Germany, worked as a porcelain turner and studied history and philosophy in Erlangen from 1955–57.

In 1958 he married the writer Gisela Elsner . The marriage ended in divorce in 1963. Their son Oskar Roehler later dealt with his mother's life as a film director ( Die Unberührbare , 2000) and with his parents in the autobiographical novel Origin (2013) and the film Sources of Life (2013). In retrospect, his son accused him of being a "leftist disguised Nazi" who raved about his time in the Hitler Youth .

Klaus Roehler made his literary debut at the annual meeting of Gruppe 47 in 1955 , published his first book The Dignity of the Night in 1958 and has been a promising author ever since. The volumes of short stories A Blackened Man and Other Stories (1966), A Glimpse into the Future Right Now, in October (1978) and Attention Abyss (1985) were published. A lengthy novel called Samok , on which he had worked in the last decade of life, remained unfinished. Klaus Roehler, who according to Klaus Siblewski "had become the most stylistically confident post-war editor in more than 30 years", gained lasting importance through his work on the texts of others, the promotion of new talents and the development of a modern literature program at Luchterhand Verlag , for which he initially worked in Berlin. There he was involved during the 1965 Bundestag election campaign in the “Wahlkontor deutscher Writers” for the SPD under Willy Brandt . Together with Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Rainer Nitsche, he gave the three-volume material collection class register. A reader on the class struggles in Germany , a “radical democratic entry in the reader of the upper school at the time” ( Lothar Müller ). From 1973 until his death, Klaus Roehler lived in Darmstadt.

As a literary figure, he became the main character in Brigitte Burmeister's novel Without Paul (2008) .

Works

  • The dignity of the night: 7 stories. Piper, Munich 1958, DNB 454072368
  • A blackened man and other stories. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1966, DNB 457954817
  • A look into the future right now, in October. Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1978, DNB 780428218
  • Attention abyss: narrative. Transit, Berlin 1985, DNB 850916690
  • Gisela Elsner, Klaus Roehler: Triboll, curriculum vitae of an amazing man. Walter, Olten u. Freiburg 1956, DNB 451096746
  • Gisela Elsner, Klaus Roehler: Wasps in the snow: 99 letters and a diary. Structure, Berlin 2001, DNB 963109499

Editions

  • Class register 1-3. A reader on the class struggles in Germany 1765–1850. Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1972 (with Hans Magnus Enzensberger and Rainer Nitsche), DNB 730 061 906
  • The car book: stories and views. Luchterhand, Darmstadt and Neuwied 1983, DNB 831199628
  • Love poems: a Luchterhand anthology. Darmstadt and Neuwied 1983, DNB 840061722
  • The electoral office of German writers in Berlin 1965: attempt to take sides. Transit, Berlin 1990 (with Rainer Nitsche), DNB 901228036

credentials

  1. ^ Oskar Roehler: Origin , Berlin: Ullstein, 2013, DNB 1022397281 .
  2. ↑ "We are poor pigs and always driven" , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin , May 4, 2018, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Klaus Roehler, Samok , manuscript in the German Literature Archive Marbach
  4. ↑ Brigitte Burmeister - Novels. (No longer available online.) October 11, 2015, archived from the original on August 11, 2015 ; Retrieved October 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / brigitte-burmeister.de

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SURNAME Roehler, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and editor
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsee
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2000
Place of death Darmstadt