Mathias Schröder

Mathias Schröder

Mathias Schröder (born September 28, 1941 in Kassel ) is a German writer and doctor .

Life

Mathias Schröder was born on September 28, 1941 in Kassel as the son of an attorney general. He studied medicine at the Saarland University , the University of Marburg , the Sorbonne in Paris and as a research fellow in the special field of nuclear medicine at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. With a dissertation on pyeloplasty with CE Alken, Homburg he received his doctorate in 1967 , Dr. med. .

After long years abroad and a few months as a ship's doctor in the Caribbean, Schröder began working as a general practitioner in Munich in 1972 . In 1997 he relocated to Utting am Ammersee . In 2001 he completed a tropical medicine course at the Catholic University of Lyon, a prerequisite for being able to work in Cameroon from 2002 to 2004 as a missionary doctor for the European Baptist Mission (EBM). The aid organization ADAMS (Association des amis de Mathias Schröder), founded out of gratitude and recognition for Schröder's work in Yaoundé , is committed to humanitarian programs. Schröder was also active as a writer during his years abroad in several countries and in his work as a practicing doctor.

His sister was the doctor and Baptist deaconess Mechthild Schröder and his brother is the physician Fritz H. Schröder .

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Mathias Schröder was placed in the "tradition of storytellers like William Faulkner , Somerset Maugham or Elsa Morante ". Between his first and most recent poetic works, he wrote four novels, many poems and a dozen short stories, all of which were published either by Verlag Ullstein, Verlag Langen-Müller, Verlag Mathes und Seitz, or editionRester. The main theme that runs through all works is love, which tries to overcome materialism, often fails because of it, but never gives up. "And what his poems have in common is their accurate, pictorial, concise language. Every word is right, none too little, none too much".

Schröder made his debut as a writer in 1976 with the novel Der Krähenbaum . His topic is the "oppressed childhood brutally surrounded by fascist power in a narrow village world that is totally dominated by the Nazis and their supporters" ( Monika Sperr , editor and author). The action takes place - mostly - in 1944 on an old manor near Marburg , which is inhabited by a few women and their children. The fascist mob breaks loose when it is discovered that one of the children is an adopted Jewish boy. The villagers are completely incited by the Nazi propaganda. The Marin family resisted the injustice of this regime until their death. The novel The Crow Tree was founded in 1987 under the direction of Frank Guthke for ZDF filmed and broadcast in several countries. The 5th edition of the Krähenbaum was published in 2016.

His second novel Linda , published in 1978, is shaped by his impressions in America, especially the “icy” social climate he experienced there.

Schröder's medical experience is also reflected in some of the stories that were published in the anthology The Fall of the Seepdancer . In White Christmas , for example, a man is depicted hopelessly suffering from cancer who feels that he is not being told the truth.

In the novel The Road to Lampedusa , one of the boys, actually the main character from the crow's tree , reappears as an adult. It is the story of a doctor who rebels against the materialism of our time.

Sinai , a book about the love of a doctor for his wife, who is also his doctor's assistant, tells of the everyday life of a family doctor in Munich . The couple suffer from the pressure of a zeitgeist in which power and money seem to be more important than friendly interaction between people. In addition to the setting of the family doctor's practice, the book is about how the couple falls into a deep crisis due to the woman's life-threatening illness. The accident happened during a trip to Mount Sinai.

According to the author, the three novels The Crow Tree , The Road to Lampedusa and Sinai belong together. They were subsequently published in one volume as a novel trilogy with the title Marin by the publisher editionRester in 2004. In the center is the figure of the doctor Marin. His life is described from 1943 to the turn of the millennium, the love and suffering of a man against the background of German history. Schröder's novels have been recorded as audio books in the libraries for the blind in Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich and Vienna. In 2009 editionRester published the audio book Mein Afrika . It contains poems and ballads, accompanied by Michael Ponti at the piano in unpublished archive recordings. In November 2013 editionRester published an anthology with stories, impressions of Cameroon in prose, speeches, essays, reviews and poems. In 2014 Gegen den Strom was published , the last volume for the time being with poems about politics, religious tensions and more humanity.

Awards and honors

• 1977 Prize for Literature from the State of Bavaria
• 1980 Literature Prize of the City of Munich
• 2012 Appointment as "Important Kirchhainer" with entry in the Golden Book of the city of Kirchhain on January 26th (PDF; 2.1 MB)

Works (selection, chronological)

• The urinary stasis kidney and its plastic treatment , dissertation , Saarbrücken, 1968
• Der Krähenbaum , Roman, 1976, ISBN 3-7844-2107-5 , ISBN 3-9809144-0-2 ( ISBN 978-3-9809144-0-6 ); New edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-945685-00-6
• Linda , Roman, Langen-Müller, 1978, ISBN 3-9809144-3-7 ; New edition published by editionRester, 2012, ISBN 978-3-9809144-3-7
• The fall of the tightrope walker , stories, Langen-Müller, 1979, ISBN 3-7844177-4-4 ( ISBN 978-3-7844177-4-5 )
• Screenplay for the novel Der Krähenbaum , 1984
• White Christmas , radio narration, 1988
• Job under the morning star , feature film script, 1992
• The way to Lampedusa , Roman, 1995, ISBN 978-3-9809144-1-3 ( ISBN 3-9809144-1-0 )
• In a Blue Dream , Poems, 1995
• At the red edge of the night , poems, 1997
• Sinai , Roman, 2000, ISBN 978-3-9809144-2-0 ( ISBN 3-9809144-2-9 ) and ISBN 3-88221-826-6
• Marin (Subtitle: The Crow Tree / The Road to Lampedusa / Sinai - Romantic Trilogy), 2004, ISBN 3-9809144-4-5 ( ISBN 978-3-9809144-4-4 )
• Love , Poems, 2006, ISBN 978-3-9809144-5-1
• Love , ballads and poems, 2008, audio book read by the author, musical accompaniment (Michael Ponti, piano, Berit Schrijvershof, piano, Fritz Schröder, cello), audio CD, ISBN 978-3-9809144-6-8
• My Africa , Poems and Ballads, 2008; Published as an audio book in 2009, ISBN 978-39809144-8-2 .
• AS A DOCTOR AND POET - Parzival and the night sea voyage , celebratory speech on the occasion of the appointment as "Important Kirchhainer" and entry in the Golden Book of the city of Kirchhain on January 26, 2012, link to the celebratory speech (PDF; 3.0 MB)
• If you don't die, you won't live , anthology with stories, impressions of Cameroon in prose, speeches, essays, reviews, and poems, 2013, ISBN 978-39809144-9-9 .
• Against the Current , Poems, 2014, ISBN 978-3-945685-00-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ADAMS in the press
2. ↑ eulogy Erich Kiesls to award the literary prize of the city of Munich in 1980 to Mathias Schröder
3. ↑ Carla Straach, Medical Practice, June 9, 1992
4. ^ Comment in the Basler Zeitung of October 14, 1978
5. ^ TV film "Der Krähenbaum", The Internet Movie Database
6. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from September 28, 2016

Web links

• Mathias Schröder , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1983 of October 24, 1983, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Literature portal Bavaria
• Literature by and about Mathias Schröder in the catalog of the German National Library
• in WorldCat, the network of library content and services
• Homepage Mathias Schröder