Thomas Rother (writer)
Thomas Rother (born May 6, 1937 in Frankfurt (Oder) ) is a German writer and visual artist .
Life
Thomas Rother is the son of a bookseller . After attending a grammar school in the GDR and completing his Abitur , he moved to the Federal Republic in 1955. There he completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer until 1958 , which he completed with the journeyman's examination. He then studied journalism , sociology and German at the University of Münster from 1959 to 1961 . From 1961 to 1962 he worked as an editor for Semesterspiegel . From 1962 he worked full-time as a journalist and was part of the Essen editorial team of the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In the late 1960s he began to publish literary works; from 1981 he appeared as a visual artist with sculptures made of wood, stone and steel, installations and graphic works; his works have been exhibited in numerous museums at home and abroad. In 1984/85 he was visiting professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen .
Rother lives and works today in the "Kunstschacht Zollverein" on the site of the disused Zeche Zollverein mine in Essen . Under the motto “Flowers instead of weapons”, he has so far set up 9 “border roses” in Forst (Lausitz) , the last one in the East German rose garden for the 750th anniversary of the city.
Rother is the author of novels, short stories, reports, poems and lyrics.
Rother is a member of the Association of German Writers . He received the Luise Rinser Prize in 1981 , a working grant from the Alfred and Cläre Pott Foundation in 1990 , the Culture Prize of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in 1995 and the studio grant in the “Art Cage” of the Sutter Group in 2000, among others
Works
- Ass leather tweaks , Mülheim (Ruhr) 1968
- Teufelszacken , Düsseldorf 1971
- When the crook blooms , Essen 1976
- Pong , Hamburg 1977 (together with Rainer Goernemann )
- Resistance and persecution in Essen 1933–1945 , Essen 1980
- The sudden silence of Wilhelm W. , Bern [u. a.] 1981
- Earth - my motherland and my fatherland , Essen 1983
- Born without a link , Essen 1985
- Magic words , Essen 1988
- Muttersuche , Vienna [u. a.] 1990
- Untermenschen, Obermenschen , Essen 1994
- Founders & Erben , Bottrop [u. a.] 1998
- The Krupps. Through five generations of steel , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2001
- The Thyssens , Frankfurt [u. a.] 2003
- Alfred - a veteran who came from the cold in the Ruhr area - what your children love about you and what they don't. Verlag Henselowsky Boschmann, Bottrop 2018. ISBN 978-3-942094-80-1
Editing
- Screws have a right-hand thread , Düsseldorf 1971
- Bomb atmosphere , Essen 1983
- The charity of the dwarfs , Essen 1984
- Toffte Kumpel , Essen 1984
- Everything paletti , Essen 1985
- When the pill flew into the Emscher , Essen 1985
- Border crossing ... , Marl 1985
Exhibition catalogs
- Thomas Rother, objects • sound objects • stone preservation • projects • drawings , Essen 1983
- Thomas Rother, wooden objects on Moltkeplatz and new works , Essen 1985
- Thomas Rother, large arch and other devices, objects, pictorial objects, drawings, drafts , St. Wendel 1990
Web links
- Literature by and about Thomas Rother in the catalog of the German National Library
- Thomas Rother on www.kunstkaefig.de
Sources and individual references
- swell
- Individual evidence
- ^ Martina Schürmann: Zollverein without make-up - in Thomas Rother's art shaft . In: WAZ , Essen category, May 14, 2013, accessed on September 22, 2019
- ↑ (red.): Ninth Forster Grenzrose inaugurated on November 9th, 2018 . In: Der Märkische Bote , category Forst und Döbern, November 16, 2018, accessed on September 22, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rother, Thomas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 6, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Oder) |