Peter Drescher (writer)

Peter Drescher (born January 14, 1946 in Brüx, today's Most , Czech Republic ) is a German writer who published both in the GDR and in reunified Germany .

Life

Peter Drescher was born in 1946 in Brüx in the Sudetenland (today Most, Czech Republic). After the expulsion , he grew up in the southern Brandenburg lignite district , in the Brieske miners' community , where he attended elementary school. He developed his passion for writing as a child and lived it out in school essays, for example. In Senftenberg he attended high school and began as a people's correspondent for the district newspaper Lausitzer Rundschau to report, among other things, on local football matches. Every now and then he contributed a little self-written story.

In 1962 he started training as a technical draftsman in the heavy machinery construction company in Lauchhammer and passed his Abitur at the same time. As a result he joined the circle of writing workers . He had to drop out of professional training when he was diagnosed with a tumor. After a brain tumor operation , he was a disability pensioner in the long rehabilitation phase. During this time he devoted himself to various paperwork. He was a guest of the Writers' Union (SV) in the Cottbus district , had his manuscripts appraised there and got ideas. His re-entry into professional life took place in the form of a clerk at the Senftenberg lignite combine . By means of a funding contract, the SV enabled him to be released from the company for a week once a month to write. His sideline now consisted of freelance work for newspapers. Numerous press articles as well as short stories and reports appeared in Protestant newspapers in the GDR, for example in Thuringia in the church paper Glaube und Heimat .

The creative period that produced children's and youth stories as well as short stories and novels for older readers was around 1977. The first major publication was the novel Monday I Begin Again ( Evangelische Verlagsanstalt , Berlin 1977). After working as an office assistant in the industry, he completed a bookseller's training and subsequently managed a book and art shop, namely the Senftenberg office of "Wort und Werk", a trading facility of the CDU .

In 1987 the first version of his youth novel Die Mühle am Ogowe was awarded the main prize in the literary competition of the Albert Schweitzer Committee at the President of the German Red Cross of the GDR . The final version did not appear until 2003; Union Verlag Berlin promptly printed an extract from it in an anthology . Also in 1987, Drescher's second novel, Halbe Portion, was published by Neues Leben , Berlin, the protagonist of which has to settle back into life after a brain tumor operation - a literary appraisal of his own life. At this peak of success he was accepted into the Writers' Union.

Between the novels being published, the short story volume Auf der Suche (1979) and the youth book Birkenhof (1982) appeared, both in the Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin, as well as the story Der Wunschbriefkasten in 1989 . The next book publication, winner on the sidelines , about a young football player in the existence-threatened local club who is thrown off the track by a brain tumor diagnosis, then appeared in a West publishing house (Tiger-Verlag, Greven 1993).

In 1994 Peter Drescher moved with his wife and daughter to Tiefenort near Bad Salzungen in Thuringia . In 1999 he created an illustrated book about the new place of residence. In the same year he had to undergo a bypass operation, which again impaired his life. Regardless of this, he continued to be productive as a writer and received a grant from the Thuringian Ministry of Culture in 2010 .

Peter Drescher is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS).

style

The accuracy of his representations is based on his own experience, extensive research and the exchange with the readers. The former is part of the patient's own convalescence with regard to the disease and disability issue that often occurs and should at the same time be a life orientation for those affected and a knowledge aid for their contemporaries. Peter Drescher's literary work corresponds with his wife's profession, because Erika Drescher was a teacher at a special school where she prepared needy children for life. Also in books like Die Mühle am Ogowe , Aus! Gone or Paradies mit Linden is always about people in need or helpers.

But Drescher also paid literary visits to past habitats: putting roots in the Sudetenland and Lusatia in slogan black gold . To represent the GDR everyday life in general remarked Susanne Schmidt-Knaebel in its review of fantasies (Nora, Berlin 2016) on literaturland-thueringen.de : "In the text itself the documented stereotypical tense exchange between present and past tense , how closely the two layers of experience are intertwined: the present and the past. The attention to detail with which the author conjures up the sunken world of everyday life in the GDR is also remarkable. "

Awards

• 1987: Main prize in the literary competition of the Albert Schweitzer Committee with the President of the German Red Cross of the GDR
• 1999: Ellwanger Youth Literature Prize

Works

Books

• I'll start again on Monday. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1977.
• In search. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1979.
• Birkenhof. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1981.
• Half portion. Illustrations by Jürgen Wagner . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-355-00344-1 .
• The wish mailbox. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-374-00810-0 .
• Winner offside. A story from Niederlausitz in the sixties. Tiger-Verlag, Greven 1993, ISBN 3-929302-01-2 .
• In the headwind. Tower hat, Mellrichstadt 1998.
• Deep spot on the Werra. From then until now. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-549-7 .
• On the run. A historical novel. Rhön-Verlag, Hünfeld 2002, ISBN 3-934893-08-2 .
• Slogan black gold. Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, Schkeuditz 2003, ISBN 3-935530-22-6 .
• The mill at Ogowe. Verlag Die Scheune, Dresden 2003, ISBN 3-931684-86-5 .
• A special church visit. Short stories. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach 2004, ISBN 3-931431-34-7 .
• Out! Past! Machtwortverlag, Dessau 2007, ISBN 978-3-938271-81-0 .
• Paradise with linden trees. Tower hat, Mellrichstadt 2007, ISBN 978-3-936084-22-1 .
• Put down roots. Edition Winterwork, Grimma 2010, ISBN 978-3-942150-17-0 .
• Rhön-Paulus and the son of the court music director. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2013, ISBN 978-3-86777-437-6 .
• Lighthouse. Dorise-Verlag, Erfurt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-942401-67-8 .
• Pipe dreams. The thing with the head and everything that was attached to it. Nora, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86557-412-1 .
• Team XXZ7 does not give up. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-96008-888-2 .
• Salt prairie. The fight for the white gold. Engelsdorfer Verlag, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96145-388-7 .
• Fictional report. Rotabene Data Service, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 2019, ISBN 978-3-944109-33-6 .

Anthology contributions (selection)

• Sebastian. In: Flying with music in the rain wind. Compiled by Evelyn Konschak. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1985, pp. 84–86.
• Just a little something? In: Siegfried Pitschmann (Ed.): Wendezeiten. Texts from the Thuringian literature competition "Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow" 1995. Stories on German history. Quartus-Verlag, Jena 1997, ISBN 3-931505-19-7 , pp. 92-97.
• Arrival in everyday life. In: Dorothea Iser (Ed.): I die when I don't write. Dorise, Erfurt 2013, ISBN 978-3-942401-56-2 , pp. 441-447.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter Drescher. In: lesezeichen-ev.de. Bookmarks eV, Andreas Berner, accessed on October 28, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Peter Drescher: Peter Drescher. Short biography. In: sammlerhaus-koethen.de. Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Dieter Fechner : Personal encounters with Thuringian authors in the 20th and 21st centuries. Century . Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2014, ISBN 978-3-86777-718-6 , Peter Drescher (born 1946), p. 39-42 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter Drescher: Biography. In: peter-drescher-tiefenort.de. Retrieved October 28, 2019 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Verena Ehnert: Stories about direct help in life. How writing became a great need for Union friend Peter Drescher . In: Märkische Union . Potsdam August 13, 1987.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jana Arlt: The author Peter Drescher reads in his "old home" / 27.9.2019 / 4 pm / literature center "I write!" In Brieske-Marga. In: nlz-ich-schreibe.de. Young Literature Center “I write!” EV, September 20, 2019, accessed on October 28, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} He started with articles in the press. Two questions for the young author Peter Drescher . In: New Time. Central organ of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . No. 53/1979 . Berlin March 3, 1979, course GDR 30. Encounters in 30 district towns, p. 4 .
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Horst Buder: Telling stories as a way of life. The writer Union friend Peter Drescher . In: New Time. Central organ of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany . No. 286/1987 . Berlin December 5, 1987, Feuilleton / Roman, p. 4 .
9. ↑ Susanne Schmidt-Knaebel: Peter Drescher - "fantasies. The thing with the head and what it was all about ”. A jet fighter shot through the window. In: literaturland-thueringen.de. Thüringer Literaturrat eV, accessed on October 28, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Drescher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Drescher's website