Martin Stephan (writer)

Martin Stephan (born August 10, 1945 in Koethen ) is a German writer .

Life

Martin Stephan grew up in Koethen . After a broken apprenticeship , he worked as a steel and transport worker in the chemical industry in Wolfen and Leuna and from 1972 to 1975 in a Berlin printing company. Since 1975 he has lived as a freelance writer in Berlin . In 1987 he took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt .

Martin Stephan is the author of short stories and radio plays .

Martin Stephan was a member of the GDR Writers' Association ; he is now a member of the Association of German Writers . In 1978 he received the art prize of the Free German Trade Union Federation , in 1982 the radio play prize of the GDR radio and in 1995 a grant from the Prussian Sea Trade Foundation .

Works

• The vat. In: The anti-ghost train. Stories, cheerful, funny, bizarre, fantastic , book publisher Der Morgen, Berlin 1973, pp. 81–87.
• Ships go down occasionally , Berlin 1975
• Banquet for Achilles , Berlin 1977
• The dragon in love , Berlin 1978
  • Excerpt in Horst Heidtmann, ed .: The improvement of people. Fairy tale. Contributions by Franz Fühmann u. a.- Luchterhand Literaturverlag , Darmstadt 1982 ISBN 3-472-61413-7 pp. 156–161
• Later guest of the poor widow , Berlin 1984
• Run away, hide, capture , Berlin 1988
• Farewell to the hairdressers , Edition Mariannenpresse , Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-926433-29-9 .

Editing

• Das Erste Haus am Platz , Berlin 1982 (together with Fritz-Jochen Kopka )

literature

• Brigitte Böttcher (Ed.): Inventory. Literary profiles . Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle (Saale) 1976, Martin Stephan, p. 104 f .

Web links

• Literature by and about Martin Stephan in the catalog of the German National Library