Walter Foelske

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Walter Foelske ( April 9, 1934 in Cologne - May 3, 2015 ) was a German writer .

Life

Foelske was born in Cologne in 1934 and experienced a traumatizing childhood characterized by physical and psychological violence, which forms the background of his autobiographical debut novel Im Wiesenfleck . Before he appeared as an author, he completed an administration apprenticeship, became a civil servant, switched to industry and was a correspondent.

In the 1960s Foelske worked as a radio play author for WDR and Radio Bremen ; In 1980 the stories Anatomy of a Ghetto (dramatized in 1983 in the Theater am Turm ) appeared publicly rather unnoticed . Foelske wrote the breakthrough and a personal liberation with the 600-page novel Im Wiesenfleck , published in 1994 ; since then his literary production has not stopped.

The subjects and protagonists of Foelske's texts mainly belong to the gay scene; the subject of his books and pieces revolves around violence and obsession, sexual desire, relationship and generation problems, pedosexual contacts. His image of people and society was not shaped by optimism.

Walter Foelske was a member of the Association of German Writers ; he lived as a freelance author in Cologne.

Awards

  • 1985: Bertelsmann Literature Prize
  • 1986: Working grant from the NRW Ministry of Culture

Works

Radio plays

Books and pieces

Web links

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  1. Joachim Bartholomae : "Walter Foelske is dead" on schwule-literatur.de , May 3, 2015
  2. Walter Foelske. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . 2014/2015: Volume I: A – O. Volume II: P-Z. Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 , p. 268.
  3. ↑ Portrait of the author on Books on Demand
  4. nrw-literatur-im-netz.de: Walter Foelske ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nrw-literatur-im-netz.de
  5. FEKS, Leo in the Encyclopedia of German crime writers