Reinhard Groeper

Reinhard Gröper (born February 23, 1929 in Bunzlau , Silesia) is a German writer . The name is the pseudonym of Egbert-Hans Müller.

Life

youth

In 1933, after the political dismissal of the father (librarian), the family moved to Leipzig and in 1935 to Stuttgart , where the father was again employed. Gröper grew up in Fellbach and Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, went with his secondary school to the children's country deportation to Rottweil in 1943 , experienced the end of the war as a war volunteer. He then completed a year and a half construction internship, after which he returned to school. He studied law in Tübingen.

Professional activities and memberships

After two state exams, he joined the cultural administration of the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1959, initially worked at the Tübingen High School Authority, from 1963 in the responsible ministry, there in the art department as a consultant for art schools and music funding, later for art collections and the visual arts as deputy head of the department and with a focus on literature funding. He was u. a. Representative of the federal states on the board of trustees of the German Academy for Language and Poetry Darmstadt , member of the committee of the German Schiller Society , of the board of trustees of the Institute for German Language in Mannheim, board member of the Calwer Hermann-Hesse Foundation, co-initiator of today's Südwestrundfunk and the state of Baden- Wuerttemberg-borne Peter Huchel Prize and there, as a representative of the Ministry (without vote), jury member 1984 - 1994, initiator of the Baden-Wuerttemberg and Saxon-Baden-Wuerttemberg Literature Days and after reunification advised the art department in the responsible ministry of Free State of Saxony. From 1973 to 1982 he was honorary chairman of the Swabian regional association of the German Youth Hostel Association. He is a senior ministerial advisor. D. He has been working as a freelance writer since 1994. From 1997 to 2002 he was jury spokesman (chairman) of the German Schiller Foundation from 1859 in Weimar, the oldest German institution for the promotion of writers. a. Advisor to the Calwer Hermann Hesse Foundation and chaired its selection committee for the Calwer Hermann Hesse grant until 2011. He was chairman of the jury for the Ludwig Uhland Prize . Gröper is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He lives in Stuttgart.

Works

• Limfjord mussels . Novel. Velcro cotta. Stuttgart 1979. ISBN 3-12-905940-7
• Nine faces . Poems. Chirp. Leonberg-Warmbronn 1987. ISBN 3-924316-13-9
• Nice days in Ratswyl . Novel. Velcro cotta. Stuttgart 1988. ISBN 3-608-95557-7
• Mr. Arnold's garden . Novel. Velcro cotta. Stuttgart 1990. ISBN 3-608-95732-4
• Hans Christian Andersen in Stuttgart . Essay. German Schiller Society Marbach 1990.
• Eusserthal . Narrative. Velcro cotta. Stuttgart 1992. ISBN 3-608-95898-3
• Hoped-for jubilation over the final victory . Diary of a Hitler Youth 1943-1945. Thorbecke. Sigmaringen 1996. ISBN 3-7995-2310-3
• Post-war molt . Diary of a German puberty. Thorbecke. Sigmaringen 1998. ISBN 3-7995-2311-1
• To Venice . Novella. DRW publishing house. Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002. ISBN 3-87181-482-2
• From Igran to Egran and back via Vladivostok . Talking about a theater. Narrative. demand publisher. Waldburg 2005. ISBN 3-935093-35-7
• The happiness of living near large gardens . A childhood in Silesia, Saxony and Württemberg. Memories. Bergstadt Verlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn. Würzburg 2006. ISBN 3-87057-278-7
• My literary salon . Notes from a passionate bookman. Klöpfer & Meyer. Tübingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-940086-02-0
• Experiences from the ends of the world . Prose poem. JF Hagenlocher Verlag, Tübingen 2015. ISBN 978-3-931838-13-3
• One franc for two sandwiches! Hans Christian Andersen travels in Baden and Württemberg. Essay . JF Hagenlocher Verlag, Tübingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-931838-14-0
• Schiller had red hair. Hans Christian Andersen and the Swabian poets. Essay. JF Hagenlocher Verlag, Tübingen 2017. ISBN 978-3-931838-15-7
• The laundress was already paid . Hans Christian Andersen in Bad Wildbad . Essay. JF Hagenlocher Verlag, Tübingen 2018. ISBN 978-3-931838-16-4
• The child war. Narrative. JF Hagenlocher Verlag, Tübingen 2019. ISBN 978-3-931838-17-1

Awards

• 1950 Scheffel Prize of the Karlsruhe Literary Society
• 1978 Richard Schirrmann Medal from the German Youth Hostel Association
• 1993 Mörike-Nadel of the Association of Publishers and Bookshops in Baden-Württemberg
• 1994 Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
• 1994 Literature Prize of the City of Stuttgart

Quote

“What a snow! No dog was chased out. And that on April twenty-ninth! It sweeps up horizontally. I put my left shoulder against it and ducked my head. Nothing stops you on the plateau, not the few apple trees along the road - they are crooked on top of that. "

literature

• Renate Schostack: An illuminator of literature. A ministerial advisor who moves things: Egbert-Hans Müller . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of July 14, 1987.
• Renate Schostack : The Literature Council . In: FAZ of March 2, 1994.
• Thomas Knubben: Gröper's days in Ratswyl . German Schiller Society Marbach / History and Antiquity Society Rottweil 1994.
• Wolfgang Heidenreich: The jury thanks Egbert-Hans Müller . In: Peter Huchel Prize 1994. A yearbook . Elster Verlag Baden-Baden and Zurich 1998. ISBN 3-89151-251-1 .
• Ekkehard Schulreich : Egbert-Hans Müller (Reinard Gröper), lawyer, writer, born in 1929 . In: Dölitzer Lebensbilder . Volume 2. Pro Leipzig, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-936508-51-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To Venice . Echterdingen 2002. p. 5

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhard Gröper in the catalog of the German National Library
• About From Igran to Egran