Roland Adloff

Roland Adloff (* 1956 in Mustin , Lauenburg district ) is a German writer .

Life

Adloff grew up in the castle of Bad Berleburg , where his parents were employed in the Princely House of Sayn-Wittgenstein . After secondary school , Adloff did an apprenticeship as a nurse . After a few years in Münster and working in cardiac surgery , psychiatry , orthopedic care and rehabilitation as well as community service in a school for the physically handicapped, the company moved to Berlin in 1981 . In addition to working in nephrology , geriatrics and outpatient care, he graduated from high school and studied political science at the Otto Suhr Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , Adloff was a local political advisor for a small community in Brandenburg and co-author of a village development study and a study on local politics in transition (on behalf of the State Agency for Civic Education of the State of Brandenburg). Since 1995 he has been working as an expert for long-term care insurance .

In 1992 Adloff came across the story of Eva von Buttlar and her “Rotte”, which caused a sensation in his Wittgenstein homeland at the beginning of the 18th century . After two years of research, he wrote Even's book , his first novel.

From 1999 to 2001 he was a participant in a project-accompanying seminar by Textwerk / Literaturhaus München on historical storytelling. Adloff lives with his children in Berlin-Charlottenburg .

Works

• Even's book , 1996
• The advocate , 1999
• The Gold Boiler , 2002
• The Monbijou Conspiracy , 2007

Web links

• Literature by and about Roland Adloff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and information on Roland Adloff's work at Literaturport