Martin Gregor-Dellin

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Martin Gregor-Dellin ( pseudonym for Martin Gustav Schmidt , another pseudonym: Martin Gregor ; born June 3, 1926 in Naumburg (Saale) ; † June 23, 1988 in Munich ) was a German writer .

Life

Martin Gregor-Dellin was the son of a businessman. He grew up in Weißenfels / Saale . After graduating from high school in 1944, he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht until the end of World War II . Until March 1946 he was in American captivity at Camp Myles Standish , a barrack town south of Boston , Massachusetts , from which he returned to central Germany. In the following years he devoted himself to literary and musical studies. From 1951 to 1958 he was editor of the Mitteldeutscher Verlag in Halle (Saale) , where he was in charge of Bruno Apitz 's novel Nackt unter Wölfen . In 1958 Gregor-Dellin moved to the Federal Republic of Germany .

Gregor-Dellin lived as a writer in Bayreuth until 1961 , where he contributed to the publication of Richard Wagner's autobiographical writings . From 1961 to 1962 he was a member of the literature department of the Hessischer Rundfunk and from 1962 to 1966 he was chief editor of the Nymphenburger publishing house in Munich . From 1966 he lived as a freelance writer in Gröbenzell near Munich.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Martin Gregor-Dellin published novels and short stories that were stylistically influenced by Franz Kafka and Thomas Mann . His novel Jüdisches Largo , which was still published in the GDR, is one of the first novels in German post-war literature to deal with the persecution of the Jews in the Third Reich . After moving to the West, Gregor Dellin's narrative works took a back seat; the author was now mainly concerned with working on biographies ; In addition to numerous anthologies , he edited the diaries of Cosima Wagner and the editions of works by Klaus Mann and Bruno Frank . As a leading member of various cultural committees, Gregor-Dellin exerted significant influence on the German literature business .

Martin Gregor-Dellin had been a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1969 ; from 1982 until his death he was its president. In 1973, together with Jürgen Kolbe , Michael Krüger , Fritz Arnold, Paul Wühr , Inge Poppe , Christoph Buggert , Günter Herburger , Tankred Dorst and Peter Laemmle, he founded the first cooperatively organized author's bookstore in Munich . He was a member of the Association of German Writers (VS, today in ver.di ) and was chairman of the Bavarian region from 1972 to 1974. In 1976, he and Dieter Lattmann resigned from his position as a member of the VS federal executive board, elected in 1974, in protest against the association policy of the federal chairman Horst Bingel .

Since 1980 he has been a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and since 1981 of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt . In addition, he was sent from 1973 to 1978 by the VS as an author's representative in the Broadcasting Council of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation . Until 1979 he was also on the board of directors of VG Wort .

Works

  • Cathérine. Halle (Saale) 1954
  • Jewish largo. Halle (Saale) 1956
  • The man with the stopwatch. Halle / Saale 1957
  • Wagner and no end. Bayreuth 1958
  • The zero point. Munich [et al.] 1959
  • The candelabra. Olten [et al.] 1962
  • Possibilities of a ride. Munich 1964
  • One. Olten [et al.] 1965
  • Memo about a dictator. St. Gallen 1968
  • Departure into the unknown. Baden-Baden 1969
  • The little Wagner book. Salzburg 1969
  • Unsafe times. Karlsruhe 1969
  • Wagner Chronicle. Munich 1972
  • Richard Wagner, the revolution as opera. Munich 1973
  • Hairdryer. Munich 1974
  • The Ferris wheel. Munich [et al.] 1976
  • PEN, Federal Republic of Germany. Munich 1978
  • In the age of Kafka. Munich [et al.] 1979
  • Richard Wagner. His life, his work, his century. Munich 1980, ISBN 978-3492283182
  • Schlabrendorf or The Republic. Munich [et al.] 1982
  • Richard Wagner. A biography in pictures. Munich [et al.] 1982
  • Redemption to the Redeemer. Karlsruhe 1983
  • Luther. Munich 1983
  • Pompes funèbres. Bayreuth 1983
  • Heinrich Schütz. His life, his work, his time. Munich [et al.] 1984
  • Heinrich Schütz, master without legends. Lecture on May 24, 1985 in the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe 1985
  • Masters, monsters and mummies. Erlangen 1985
  • What is size Munich 1985, ISBN 978-3492029414
  • Memories of words. Reicheneck 1986
  • Italian dream book. Munich [et al.] 1986
  • Parthey's completely missed visit to Thomas Mann. Marbach 2002

Editing

  • Meeting point today. Halle (Saale) 1958
  • Stories of the world. Munich 1963
  • Richard Wagner : My life. Munich 1963
  • Twenty-four narrators of the world. Munich 1964
  • Before life. Munich 1965
  • Visit to the detention center. Munich 1966
  • Our whole life. Munich 1966 (with Geno Hartlaub )
  • The ghost chest. Munich 1967
  • Klaus Mann : Exams. Munich 1968
  • Klaus Mann : Today and tomorrow. Munich 1969
  • Where were we? Frankfurt a. M. 1969
  • The first exam. Munich 1970
  • PEN. Tübingen [et al.] 1971
  • The black chamber. Munich 1972
  • The ghost in the filing cabinet. Ghost stories from all over the world. Munich 1972, ISBN 978-3423005975
  • Klaus Mann : The visitation of the European spirit. Munich 1973
  • The bewitched place. Reinbek 1973
  • The wax museum. Munich 1974
  • German stories from three decades. Tübingen [et al.] 1975
  • Bruno Frank : The passport . Munich 1975
  • Bruno Frank : Days of the King and other stories. Munich 1975
  • Klaus Mann : Letters and Answers. Munich
  • The other Bavaria. Munich 1976
  • Klaus Mann : Adventure of the bride and groom. Munich 1976
  • Cosima Wagner : The diaries. Munich [among others] (with Dietrich Mack )
    • 1. 1869-1877. 1976
    • 2. 1878-1883. 1977
  • Bruno Frank : Trenck. Munich 1977
  • Klaus Mann : Escape to the north. Munich 1977
  • Klaus Mann : The volcano. Munich 1977
  • Bruno Frank : Cervantes. Munich 1978
  • The big ghost chest. Munich 1978
  • Carl Christian Bry : Religions in Disguise. Munich 1979
  • German school days. Munich 1979
  • Bruno Frank : The moon clock. Munich 1979
  • Klaus Mann : Symphonie pathétique. Munich 1979
  • Klaus Mann : Where do we come from and where we have to go. Munich 1980
  • Leonhard Frank : The sum. Munich 1982
  • PEN writer lexicon Federal Republic of Germany. Munich 1982 (with Elisabeth Endres )
  • Richard Wagner : My thinking. Munich [et al.] 1982
  • Bruno Frank : The daughter. Munich 1985
  • I hear the message. Stuttgart 1986
  • Klaus Mann : The inner fatherland. Munich 1986
  • Carl Christian Bry : The Hitler Putsch. Noerdlingen 1987
  • Richard Wagner : A German musician in Paris. Kassel [et al.] 1987
  • A pilgrimage to Beethoven. Munich [et al.] 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Gregor-Dellin, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Martin Gustav (real name); Gregor, Martin (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Naumburg (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1988
Place of death Munich