Gerd Gaiser ( Gerd Gaiser German ; September 15, 1908 , Oberriksingen - June 9, 1976 , Reutlingen ) - German writer and art historian. Ph.D. Winner of a number of West German literary awards.
| Gerd Geizer | |
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| Date of Birth | 1908 |
| Place of Birth | Oberriksingen |
| Date of death | 1976 |
| Place of death | Reutlingen |
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| Occupation | novelist , art historian |
| Genre | prose |
| Language of Works | Deutsch |
| Debut | 1941 |
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Biography
The son of a protestant pastor . He studied at the monastic schools. He studied theology and history of art and painting at the Academies of Arts of Stuttgart and Konigsberg , Dresden and Tübingen .
Since 1933, a member of the NSDAP and the National Socialist Union of Teachers . In 1934, he received his doctorate at the University of Tübingen, having defended a thesis on the theme “Sculpture of the Renaissance and Early Baroque in New Castile”. He worked in schools as an art critic. Printed in the magazines of the Third Reich.
Member of the Second World War. In 1939-1945 - Wehrmacht officer, pilot . At the end of the war he was captured in Italy.
After his release he worked as an artist. Since 1956 - member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Since 1962 he taught at the Higher School of Pedagogy in Reutlingen. He was a teacher of poetics at the University of Munich .
Creativity
In 1941 he published a collection of poems "Heavenly Riders" ("Reiter am Himmel") about German military pilots.
The author of novels about the last days of the Second World War. War and post-war life - the main themes of the novels "And the voice will rise" ("Eine Stimme hebt an", 1950) - about the tragic story of a soldier returning from the war, and "Dying fighter jets" (1953), heroizing the war days German Air Force. Criticism of the consumer society is in the center of the original in the form of the novel “The Ball” (“Schlußball”, 1958), consisting of 30 monologues of various people.
G. Gaizer is the author of works on the history of art: "Plastic Art of the Renaissance and Early Baroque New Castile" ("Die Plastik der Renaissance und Frühbarock in Neukastilien", 1938), "Contemporary painting" ("Moderne Malerei", 1963), etc. .
Selected Works
- Reiter am Himmel (Gedichte), Munich, Albert Langen / Georg Müller, 1941.
- Zwischenland (Erzählungen), Munich, Hanser, 1949.
- Eine Stimme hebt an (Roman), München, Hanser, 1950.
- Die sterbende Jagd (Roman), München, Hanser, 1953.
- Das Schiff im Berg (Roman), München, Hanser, 1955.
- Einmal und oft. Erzählungen, München, Hanser 1956.
- Gianna aus dem Schatten. Novelle, Munich, Hanser 1957.
- Aniela (Erzählung), München, Hanser 1958.
- Schlußball (Roman), München, Hanser, 1958.
- Gib acht in Domokosch (Erzählungen), Munich, Hanser, 1959.
- Revanche (Erzählungen), Stuttgart, Reclam, 1959.
- Sizilianische Notizen, Munich, Hanser, 1959.
- Am Pass Nascondo (Erzählungen), München, Hanser, 1960.
- Tempel Siziliens, Frankfurt / Main, Insel 1963, mit Konrad Helbig.
- Gazelle, grün. Erzählungen und Aufzeichnungen, München, Hanser 1965.
- Der Mensch, den ich erlegt hatte (Erzählungen), München, Goldmann 1965.
- Merkwürdiges Hammelessen, (Erzählungen), Frankfurt / Main u. Hamburg, Fischer, 1971.
- Der Motorradunfall (Erzählungen), München, Heyne 1972.
- Ortskunde (Heimatschilderungen), Munich, Hanser, 1977.
Awards
- 1951: Fontane Award
- 1955: Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts Prize
- 1959: Immerman’s Literary Prize in Düsseldorf
- 1960: Wilhelm Raabe Literary Prize
- 1976: Order of Merit for Baden-Württemberg
Literature
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia. - M .: Soviet encyclopedia. 1969-1978.
- Encyclopedic Dictionary. 2009