Walter Gröner

Walter Gröner (born November 25, 1950 in Heubach , Württemberg ) is a German writer .

Life

Walter Gröner attended a business school , which he dropped out in 1967. From 1969 he lived in West Berlin , where he worked as an unskilled worker , but also attended lectures on prehistory and early history . In the 1970s he was an excavator in the Rhenish monument preservation department. From 1978 to 1985 he worked in a metal processing company in Schwäbisch Gmünd . Until 2010 he was a metal grinder in a workshop in Upper Bavaria.

Walter Gröner is the author of prose texts and poems . With its idiosyncratic style , in which colloquial language and selected literary expression are combined, in the 1980s some literary criticism saw it as the ideal embodiment of their idea of ​​the reading and writing worker .

Fonts

• Factory, reader and poet . Elster Verlag, Bühl-Moos 1985; TB: Piper Verlag, Munich 1988, new edition Louisoder Verlag, Munich 2013
• A maddening autumn light. Bergell Poems - Puisia . edition suhrkamp, ​​Volume 371, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 978-3-518-11371-4
• Michael Krüger, Walter Gröner, Adolf Muschg : texts, documents, materials. Peter Huchel Prize 1986 . Elster Verlag, Bühl-Moos 1986, ISBN 978-3-89151-054-4
• Dandel: ballads and sayings . Rainer-Verlag, Berlin 1973 ( press print )

literature

• Peter Härtling : Writing in the sky . In: Die Zeit , No. 13/1986; about Walter Gröner

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Gröner in the catalog of the German National Library