Wolfgang Gabel

Wolfgang Gabel (born October 22, 1942 in Königsberg ; † December 18, 2015 ) was a German author and journalist .

Life

Wolfgang Gabel grew up in Halle and Freiburg im Breisgau . After completing secondary school at a Jesuit boarding school , doing a newspaper internship and graduating from high school , he studied journalism. He then worked as a freelancer for radio, television, newspapers and youth book publishers. The first publications were made in 1963. He founded a workshop for scribes, the later Werkkreis Marburg .

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Wolfgang Gabel became known in the late 1960s as an author of books for young people who dealt with individual and social conflicts in his works and thus opened up realistic topics for young people.

Prices

• Friedrich Bödecker Prize 1976
• State Bavarian Award for Young Writers and Artists 1981

Works

• Fix und ready , Beltz, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-407-78707-3 .
• The beginning of the end , Signal, Baden-Baden 1976, ISBN 3-7971-0159-7 .
• Valentine's Dream , Signal, Baden-Baden 1975, ISBN 3-7971-0151-1 .
• Places outside , narration. Anrich, Mülheim an der Ruhr 1972, ISBN 3-920110-13-7 .

literature

• Renate Elbrechtz : The handicapped problem in children's and youth books . In: Jutta Grützmacher (HG): Didactics of youth literature. Analyzes and models for reading-oriented German lessons. Stuttgart, Metzler 1979, ISBN 3-476-30138-9 on Valentine's Dream

Web links

• Literature by and about Wolfgang Gabel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wolfgang Gabel in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice at mainpost.de ( Memento from January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ^ DLL 20th century
3. ↑ Ursula Kirchhoff: Wolfgang Gabel . in: KLG Critical Lexicon of Contemporary German Literature , edition text + kritik
4. ↑ Art Promotion Prize in the Literature section: Prize Winner 1981 ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.