Martin Grzimek

Martin Grzimek (born April 8, 1950 in Trutzhain , Hessen ) is a German writer .

Life

Martin Grzimek grew up as the youngest of four sons of a newly settled Silesian refugee family in the former Trutzhain prison camp in Hesse. After graduating from the Melanchthon School in Steinatal , he studied theater studies in Berlin from 1968 and philosophy and German at the University of Heidelberg from 1972 . From 1977 he worked as a teacher for German as a foreign language . From 1984 to 1986 he was a lecturer in German literature at the private Schiller International University in Heidelberg . From 1986 to 1992 he lived as a freelance writer in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , where he was also a member of the board of directors of the local Goethe Institute . Grzimek spent the years from 1997 to 2000 in Santiago de Chile . He currently lives with his family in Nussloch near Heidelberg.

Martin Grzimek is a member of the PEN Center Germany and the Academy of Fine Arts in Mannheim . He received the Hermann Hesse Prize in 1980, the Rauris Literature Prize in 1981, the sponsorship prize of the cultural group in the Federal Association of German Industry in 1983 and the Friedrich Glauser Prize of the “German crime literature group of authors” - The Syndicate in 1993 .

Berger , Munich 1980
Standstill of the heart , Munich 1982
Trutzhain , Munich 1984
Shading , Munich 1989
El factor tropical , Caracas 1992
Feuerfalter , Munich 1992
A bear life , Munich 1995 (together with Marcus Herrenberger )
Mostar - sketches and splinters , Heidelberg 1995
From someone desperately trying to fall in love , Munich 1995
Rudi bärenstark , Munich 1998 (together with Marcus Herrenberger)
The oyster festival , Hamburg 2004
The Infinite Street , Munich 2005
Tristan - novel about loyalty, love and betrayal , Munich 2011
Me, Hannibal and the flea . With pictures by Hildegard Müller, dtv, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-423-64043-5

Gerhard Grzimek, Rupprecht Grzimek: The Grzimek family from Oberglogau in Upper Silesia , in: "Deutsches Familienarchiv", Volume X, Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt (Aisch) 1958. - 4th, expanded and revised edition, Herder Institute, Reutlingen 2000.
Wolfgang Pollanz: The shading , in: The Science Fiction Year 1990 , edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1990, pp. 607–610. ISBN 3-453-03905-X