Tine Schulze-Gerlach

Tine Schulze-Gerlach (born April 21, 1920 in Hellerau near Dresden as Christine Martha Gerlach ; † October 11, 2011 in Radebeul ) was a German writer and poet . She also wrote under the names Christine Schulze , Tine Schulze and is also led under the name addition Tine Schulze Gerlach .

Live and act

Tine Schulze-Gerlach was born in 1920 as the first of four children of the teacher and writer Kurt Gerlach . One of the two younger brothers is the writer Hubert Gerlach , born in 1927 ; the other brother was "picked up by the Russians [and] did not come back" in July 1945.

After school she went to work for the farmers as well as for the Reich Labor Service , from which she returned home in 1940 to work as an office assistant. After their marriage in 1941, she had two children during the Second World War . While her husband was still a prisoner of war, she had to take the children through the cold winter of 1945/1946. Her first poem, The Elderberry Song , was created through this experience under the name Christine Schulze , in which she describes how she steals elderberries in foreign gardens in order to be able to cook soup for the children. In the years up to 1954, two more children were born, including the singer and television presenter Hartmut Schulze-Gerlach , who was born in 1948 .

In 1954, thanks to an inheritance from the mother, the company moved to Radebeul to its own house with a garden, which the husband and father, who had returned from captivity, converted into garden food to supply fresh fruit and vegetables. Tine Schulze processed her homecoming and other experiences in her first novel Kreuzotter und Lerche , which was published in 1963 by Union Verlag . In addition to her work as a housewife and mother, she worked for 25 years as an office assistant in the mothers' advisory service.

Union Verlag made it possible for her to take part in reading tours as well as congresses and conferences where she met writers such as Johannes Bobrowski and Marianne Bruns . In 1981, DEFA filmed its 1978 novel in the feature film of the same name, Guarantee for a year . While Tine Schulze-Gerlach , as she then called herself, became known with her stories , which were often set in the Loessnitz area around her home, her husband worked in shifts or in his own garden until he became seriously ill. She wrote down this final experience and thereby processed it in her work My End of Life with You .

She planned her provisional farewell at the age of eighty in 2001 with the poems in Abschiedskrümel , which she wrote in 2004, Abschiedskrümel II. Your horizons. followed. Tine Schulze-Gerlach died in 2011 at the age of 91 in her Niederlößnitz home.

Honors

Schulze-Gerlach received the Johannes-Bobrowski-Ehrengabe , the art prize of the East CDU , in addition the Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Kunstpreis in 1982 , and in 1999 her hometown presented her with the art prize of the large district town of Radebeul for her extensive life's work .

literature

• Thomas Gerlach : about Tine Schulze-Gerlach, Radebeul . In: Frauenzimmer - women in the room? Text collection. City of Radebeul, Radebeul 2005, pp. 72–75.
• Dietrich Lohse: "Tine Schulze Gerlach for her birthday" -. In: Preview & Review ; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, April 1, 2004, accessed on September 1, 2015 . 
• Thomas Gerlach: Tinechen's way. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, November 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011 (literary obituary). 
• Wolfgang Zimmermann: “Bye, all of you!” -. The writer Tine Schulze-Gerlach died at the age of 91. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, November 2011, accessed on November 1, 2011 (obituary). 
• Tine Schulze Gerlach: Birthday greetings . In: wanted. 22 authors about themselves . With an afterword by Karl Bongardt. 1st edition. Union Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 61-69 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Tine Schulze-Gerlach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Photo of a book reading in 2006, with Tine Schulze-Gerlach and Thomas Gerlach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See obituary notice on sz-trauer.de
2. ↑ ^{a b} Information from the author Thomas Gerlach
3. ↑ The Radebeul writer Tine Schulze Gerlach has passed away  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   in: dnn-online.de