Rainer Vollath

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Rainer Vollath (born December 28, 1966 in Marktredwitz ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

Rainer Vollath grew up as the son of a teacher in the Upper Palatinate . After graduating from high school, he studied Romance studies (French and Spanish literature) and German at the universities in Munich , Paris and Kiel . He completed his studies with a doctorate on the Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo . He lives in Munich and in the south of France .

In 2010 his novel Zwei Lieben was published . He traces the life story of the homosexual Fritz Weiss, who was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen and Flossenbürg concentration camps at the time of National Socialism and who fought for compensation after the war for the pain suffered in the Nazi camps.

Rainer Vollath's play The Angels. The abbey. The Erinyes. , a confrontation with the abuse scandal in a monastery, as well as his monodrama Mutti, Richie and the presenter , which is inspired by Patrick Süskind's The Double Bass , were published in 2015.

Awards

1st prize in the short story competition of Literareon Verlag 2012

Publications (selection)

  • "Grandma in Bangkok", short story, in: At home in a foreign country (anthology 26th Würth Literature Prize), Künzelsau 2015, ISBN 978-3-89929-320-3
  • The angel. The abbey. The Erinyes. , Drama, Eschach 2015
  • Mutti, Richie and the presenter , monodrama, Braunschweig 2015
  • Zwei Lieben , Roman, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3896561756
  • World of origin and heterotopias. Deconstruction and construction of literary spaces in the work of Juan Goytisolos (European University Writings Series 24: Iberoromanic Languages ​​and Literatures), Volume 62, Frankfurt / Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna 2001, ISBN 978-3-631-37453-5

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personal data
SURNAME Vollath, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Marktredwitz