Peter Grosz (writer)

Peter Grosz (born September 18, 1947 in Giarmata , German  fair , Kingdom of Romania ) is a German writer .

Life

Peter Grosz grew up as a member of the German minority in Romania . He studied German and Romance languages in Timișoara , where he also headed the group of authors, Working Group 74 . After attempting to escape in October 1974, he was arrested in Yugoslavia and extradited to Romania. Sentenced to 19 months in prison, he was paroled in late July 1975. As it became publicly known in February 2010, Grosz himself worked for the Securitate for some time . As IM “Gruia” he spied on members of the literary action group Banat over a period of four years . At the beginning of June 1977 he was able to travel to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Grosz worked as a grammar school teacher for German, initially in Mainz and from 1985 in Oppenheim at the grammar school in St. Katharinen, where he has also been teaching performing arts since the 2006/07 school year . He was also active as a writer.

Grosz's extensive cultural activities include leading the Mainz authors 'group (1978 to 1980), organizing various writing workshops and young literary competitions (including a member of the jury at the young authors' meeting ) and managing the Mainz Literature Office (1990 to 1994). In October 2008 he was entrusted by the Oppenheim City Council with the artistic direction of the Oppenheim Youth Festival and in October 2009 with the direction of the Oppenheim Youth Festival and Festival , which, however, was withdrawn from him in February 2010 after his work for the Securitate became known.

Peter Grosz is a member of the Mainz Literature Office, the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis Rhineland-Palatinate and the German Werkbund Rhineland-Palatinate. Today he lives in Nieder-Olm .

Works

Peter Grosz is the author of short stories , poems , plays , radio plays and scripts .

Individual publications

• Logs from the ambush , Nieder-Olm 1978
• At the other beginning , Dreieich 1979
• Driftwood , Mainz 1985 (with Michael Wolff)
• The beginning of the end of the beginning , Mainz 1986
• Merhaba , Munich 1993
• Sommerlang , Neuwied [u. a.] 1993 (together with Werner Feldmann )
• Die Bescherung , Münster 1995 (together with Ingrid Kesper )
• Alina, Aluna and the twelve monthly brothers , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1996 (together with Maja Dusíková )
• Kalk , (German, Polish, French), Mainz 1996
• The Nicolais , Gossau, Zurich [u. a.] 1998 (with Giuliano Lunelli)

Editorships

• Pampig , Kevelaer 1987
• Untitled anthology , Kevelaer 1988
• Mercilessly everything , Kevelaer 1989
• A literary-critical review , Mainz 1990
• Calm blood , Kevelaer 1990
• Completely normal , Kevelaer 1991 (together with Mirjam Pressler )
• Waiting for connection ... , Kevelaer 1991
• Upside down , Kevelaer 1992
• But nobody asks , Kevelaer 1993 (together with Bernd Goldmann )
• Winklings , Kevelaer 1993
• Under the stone skin , Kevelaer 1994
• At the edge of the sky / Na skraju nieba , (German, Polish), Mainz 1995
• Purpurflug , Weinheim 1995
• returned home. literature & jazz (CD), Mainz 1995
• Between the wheels , Weinheim 1996
• But my name is not Rilke , Berlin 1996
• Until the rope breaks , Berlin 1997
• Wolkenfischer , Frankfurt am Main 1998
• As if there was still time , Frankfurt am Main 1999
• There's a fire in my head , Frankfurt am Main 2000
• The air tastes like horizon here , Frankfurt am Main 2001
• My table is an island , Berlin 2002
• In the morning we straighten our horizon , Berlin 2003 (together with Barbara T. Pohle)
• Next to me sat someone , Weinheim 2004
• Behind the brow , Berlin 2005 (together with Barbara T. Pohle)
• Writing Worlds , Mainz 2005
• As if someone were nearby , Berlin 2006 (together with Barbara T. Pohle)
• Very close opposite , Berlin 2007 (together with Barbara T. Pohle)
• The horizon is crooked , Berlin 2008 (with Barbara T. Pohle)
• The future begins with passport photos. Young authors in Rhineland-Palatinate , Zell / Mosel 2008
• While you look away , Frankfurt am Main 2009 (together with Barbara T. Pohle)
• oblique against light , Frankfurt am Main 2010 (together with Christina Schulz)

Plays

• We're So Free (1989) (together with students)
• At times. A Rift (1991)
• Merhaba (1993)
• Kitty (2000)
• Tilt , Musical (2000) (together with TILT-Team)
• father-mother-child games (2004)
• Beelzebuben (2005)
• blublöblau (2006)
• WoMan.sys or men’s thing, women’s stuff (2007/2008) (together with students)
• over the clouds - borderline experiences (2008/2009) (together with students)
• rat catcher (2008/2009) (together with students)
• listening to the sea noise (2009)
• Until Death (2009) (with students)
• Made in Pandora - An Immoral Comedy (2010)
• Sommer.nacht.traum (premiere: November 15, 2010 in the lower house of Mainz ) (together with students)
• Kasimir and Karoline (premiere: June 22, 2011) (together with members of the Theater Youth Club "gaffa", Oppenheim)

Awards

• 1984: Foreign travel grant from the Association of German Writers and the German Foreign Office
• 1985: Bertelsmann Literature Prize
• 1985: Participation in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 1992: Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize
• 1993: Christoph von Schmid Prize
• 1998: Wilhelm Holzamer badge
• 2001: Prize of the LiteraturBüros Mainz (for special services to the promotion of literary culture in Rhineland-Palatinate)
• 2006: Oppinella, Kulturpreis der Freunde Oppenheims (for special merits in promoting young creative people)
• 2009: Culture Prize of the Foundation Culture Mainz Bingen

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Grosz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Grosz in the literature lexicon Rhineland-Palatinate
• Felicitas von Lovenberg : In conversation: writer Richard Wagner - “His friendship was prescribed by the Securitate” , FAZ , faz.net, February 21, 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nobel laureate in literature Herta Müller accuses spies ( Memento from February 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) , Allgemeine-zeitung.de from February 20, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2010. - Original IM reports from “Gruia” are available the website of the half-yearly publication for Southeast European history, literature and politics can be viewed: [1]
2. ↑ His students fight for him , Allgemeine Zeitung, February 26, 2010, accessed on March 17, 2010. (Only for registered subscribers.)
3. ^ City of Oppenheim on the dismissal of Grosz as festival director , accessed on March 16, 2010.
4. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: description of the piece including data on the homepage of the St. Katharinen high school in Oppenheim ) , accessed on October 5, 2010.
5. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: description of the piece on the homepage of the association "jugend.kultur.arbeit Rheinhessen eV" ), accessed on August 21, 2011.