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Tiny Stricker (2018)

Tiny Stricker (born Heinrich Stricker on August 23, 1949 in Gundelfingen an der Donau ) is a German writer .

life and work

Tiny Stricker attended the Musisches Gymnasium in Lauingen (Danube) . After graduating from high school in 1968, he brought a Mercedes to Tabriz . He reported on the trip and the stay in Iran in his book A Mercedes for Tabriz . In 1969 he traveled to India and worked for some time in the port of Chittagong in Bangladesh . On the way, the travel novel Trip Generation was created , which was published by Maro-Verlag in 1970 and was voted alternative book of the year at the Mainz mini press fair . In 1970/71 Stricker worked as a singer in the music group Siloah , which then released the LP Siloah . He processed his experiences with the band in the book Unterwegs nach Essaouira . Tiny Stricker is considered one of the pioneers of German pop literature. The novel Trip Generation in particular shaped the style of the road novel genre in Germany. His books have been compared with the works of Jack Kerouac , but also with the films of Jim Jarmusch .

Tiny Stricker studied English / American and German language and literature in Munich . After graduating , he went to England as a lecturer for two years in 1975 , then worked as a teacher in Bavaria and from 1980 at the Goethe Institute .

Single descriptions

Trip Generation is a literary road trip that leads from Istanbul via the "hippie trail" to India. At the same time, it is an experimental work that mixes the Kerouac- style travel novel with pop and comic elements.

On the run from the Flickerkisten Mafia is a fantastic saga in which characters from the media world interact with each other. A radio play version of the book was broadcast by Austrian Broadcasting Corporation .

Soultime is about a high school graduation class in 1968: a coming-of-age novel that also describes the atmosphere of the provinces and the influence of American soul music.

Spaghetti Junction tells of the diverse encounters and constellations on a journey that leads from Malta via London to Scotland .

Walking in Greek cities captures impressions from a multi-year stay in northern Greece: a picture of Greece off the beaten track.

A Mercedes for Tabriz describes an adventurous drive from Munich to Iran and a longer stay there. An east-west love story and the beginnings of the hippie movement are further topics of the book.

In readings in Sarajevo , explorations in Bosnia-Herzegovina are mixed with readings of oriental and ancient texts.

On the way to Essaouira deals with the atmosphere and the feeling of departure from 1970/71: The Munich scene and the emergence of a music group are contrasted with the hippie scene in Essaouira.

Grenzland is a kind of new homeland novel: the main character, a young teacher, is sent to an area on the German-German border, but he also comes across an inner border, that between youth and the adult world.

In Player in the Park , a young lecturer, new to campus in southern England, befriends an outsider, an actor. They travel together through England, en route to a legendary park.

Works

  • Trip Generation Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 1970 ff., New edition 2014
  • Trip Generation Rowohlt , Reinbek 1972
  • On the run from the Flimmerkisten Mafia Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 1977
  • Soultime Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 1989, new edition 2014
  • Spaghetti Junction Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 1995
  • On walking in Greek cities p.machinery, Murnau 2010, new edition 2017
  • A Mercedes for Tabriz Maro-Verlag, Augsburg 2012
  • Readings in Sarajevo p.machinery, Murnau 2015
  • On the way to Essaouira p.machinery, Murnau 2017
  • Grenzland p.machinery, Murnau 2018
  • Players in the Park , p.machinery, Winnert 2019

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Bremmer: Hippie for three summers, Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 3, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Stricker, Tiny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stricker, Heinrich (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Gundelfingen on the Danube