Sigfrid Gauch

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Sigfrid Gauch (2008)

Sigfrid Gauch (born March 9, 1945 in Offenbach am Glan ) is a German writer . He lives in Mainz .

Life

Gauch grew up in Lower Saxony and the Palatinate. He passed his A-levels in Kaiserslautern and then studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mainz , where he received his doctorate in German in 1985 on the subject of "Open and covert writing in literary Jacobinism ". He worked as a teacher for German, philosophy and ethics, most recently at the Integrated Comprehensive School in Mainz . Since 1988 he has been working in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture , where he headed the department for literary funding and library affairs until 2010. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany and was on the board there from 1998 to 2004. From 2007 to 2009 he was its vice-president and Writers in Exile Commissioner.

Gauch became famous for his story Vaterspuren , published in 1979 , in which he met intensely with the past of his father, the physician and Nazi racial researcher Hermann Gauch ( 1899-1978 ), a National Socialist from the very beginning, and with the conflict of loving him on the one hand and on the other hand, not getting rid of your own guilt. The book was first published by Athenaeum Verlag (Königstein / Taunus) and was published in 1982 by Suhrkamp Verlag as a paperback. Translations appeared in Israel in 2001 and in the USA in 2002. In 2005 a revised and supplemented new edition was published by Brandes & Apsel Verlag (Frankfurt a. M.). In the extensive volume “Lost and Found. In 2010 he published the documents on which the traces of the father were based and in November 2012 left these archives to the Palatinate State Library in Speyer . The novel Schattenbilder , published in 2012, describes the dark sides of a family in which two generations of women are trying to assert themselves - it seems to be the provisional conclusion to the dramatic aspects of a family history also taken up in the novel Winterhafen (new edition 2010).

In addition to other novels , short stories and volumes of poetry , Gauch has emerged as editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies , especially with reference to literature in / from Rhineland-Palatinate, including since 1994 the Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook for Literature published by Brandes & Apsel ( since 2002 under the title Yearbook for Literature ) and since 2004 the book series Edition Pacer with meanwhile 30 volumes in the Rhein-Mosel-Verlag .

His work also includes radio and television programs such as Labyrinth der Fathers (ZDF 1980) and double valences or Rhineland and Palatinate (ZDF 1987, ARD and Third Programs 1989).

Awards

  • 1976: Sponsorship award from Südwestfunk
  • 1977: Palatinate Prize for Literature (sponsorship)
  • 1979: Sponsorship award for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate Art Prize

Works (selection)

  • Paper cutouts . Poems. Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Bote, 1968.
  • M. Jacob Gauch, poems 1662-1688 . Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Bote, 1973.
  • Shibbolet . Poems. Karlsruhe: Karlsruher Bote, 1974. 2nd edition 1975.
  • Identifications . Poetic texts. Munich: Relief-Verlag, 1975.
  • Mitt partitions and other non-possibilities . Poems. Pfaffenweiler: Pfaffenweiler Press, 1976.
  • Learning disability. Handouts and discussion landscapes . Munich: Relief, 1977. (with Clas DS Steinmann )
  • Father tracks. A story . Königstein / Taunus: Athenaeum, 1979.
    Paperback edition: Frankfurt a. M .: Suhrkamp, ​​1982.
    Revised and supplemented new edition: Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes & Apsel, 2005.
    Translations into Hebrew: Ikwot Av , Jerusalem (Israel): Tiltan Publishing, 2001; and into English: Traces of my Father , Evanston / Illinois (USA): Northwestern University Press, 2002.
  • Desired days . Poems. Mainz: Edition Despalles, 1983.
  • Friedrich Joseph Emerich - a German Jacobin. Studies of life and work . Frankfurt a. M. [u. a.]: Lang, 1986. (Zugl .: University of Mainz, Diss. , 1985 under the title: Open and hidden spellings in literary Jacobinism .)
  • Second hand . Novel. Landau / Pfalz: Pfälzische Verlags-Anstalt, 1987.
    New edition: Blieskastel: Gollenstein, 1997.
  • Goethe's photo and other stories . Landau / Pfalz: Palatinate publishing company, 1992.
  • Winter harbor . Novel. Blieskastel: Gollenstein, 1999. Revised new edition Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes & Apsel, 2011.
  • Back lights . Poems. Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes & Apsel, 2005.
  • Lost property. The sources for the novel Vaterspuren . Norderstedt: BoD, 2010.
  • Silhouettes . Novel. Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes & Apsel, 2012.

As editor

  • Literature from Rhineland-Palatinate. An anthology . Mainz: Hanns Krach 1976 (together with Oskar Bischoff and others).
  • In terms of literature. Contributions from Rhineland-Palatinate . Mainz: Hanns Krach, 1979 (together with Susanne Faschon).
  • About the disappearance of the present. Mainz anthology . Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes and Apsel, 1992 (together with Jürgen Kross ).
  • Time comparison. Rhineland-Palatinate anthology . Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes and Apsel, 1993 (together with Jürgen Kross ).
  • A rain of pebbles will fall. Texts from exile . Frankfurt a. M .: Brandes & Apsel, 2009 (together with Claudia C. Krausse ).
  • Insights. Confessions from the poet's workshops . Zell / Mosel: Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, 2010 (together with Friederike Harig ).

Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook for Literature (1994–2001)

  • 1994: Strange in our midst
  • 1995: Escape Points
  • 1996: Horizons
  • 1997: On the way
  • 1998: Word breaks
  • 1999: local memory
  • 2000: approximations
  • 2001: flight words

Yearbook for Literature (since 2002)

  • 2002: at eye level
  • 2003: In the near distance
  • 2005: time window
  • 2006: The forehead we offer to life
  • 2007: not writing is not a solution either
  • 2008: Before changing
  • 2009: The Outrageous Present
  • 2010: hidden in the spotlight
  • 2011: Beyond the end

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personal data
SURNAME Gauch, Sigfrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Glan