Sigfrid Gauch

Sigfrid Gauch ( born March 9, 1945 in Offenbach am Glan ) is a German writer. He lives in Mainz.

Life

Gauch is the son of the physician and Nazi racial scientist Hermann Gauch (1899 - 1978). He grew up in Lower Saxony and the Palatinate. His high school, he took off in Kaiserslautern and then studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mainz, where in 1985 he was a PhD in German literature on the subject of " Overt and covert spellings in the literary Jacobinism ". He worked as a teacher of German, philosophy and ethics, most recently at the comprehensive school in Mainz. Since 1988, he worked in Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Culture, where he directed until 2010 the Department for promotion of literature and librarianship. He is a member of the PEN center of Germany and there from 1998 to 2004 on the board. 2007 to 2009 he was its vice-president and Writers in Exile officer.

Gauch was best known for his 1979 short story father traces, in which he intensively with the past of his father, a Nazi the first hour, and with the conflict, to love him on the one hand and on the other hand does not get rid of their own guilt, dealing. The book first appeared in the Athenaeum Verlag ( Königstein / Taunus ), and was released in 1982 by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback. Published in 2005 a revised and expanded edition published by Brandes & Apsel (Frankfurt aM ). In the wide band " lost property. Sources for Roman father traces " he documents the "father traces " underlying released in 2010 and leave those archives in November 2012, the Palatine Regional Library Speyer. The 2012 published novel " silhouettes " describes the dark side of a family in which two generations of women try to assert themselves - it appears in the provisional accounts of the dramatic aspects of a well in the novel "Winter Harbour " ( new edition 2010) to be taken up family history.

In addition to other novels, short stories and poetry volumes Gauch is best known as the editor or co-editor of numerous anthologies, especially with reference to the literature in / from the Rhineland- Palatinate, emerged, including since 1994 the Rhineland- Palatinate Yearbook of literature published by Brandes & Apsel ( since 2002 under the title yearbook for literature) and, since 2004, the book series Edition pacemaker with now 30 volumes in the Rhein -Mosel -Verlag.

His credits also include radio and television broadcasts such as labyrinth of the fathers (ZDF 1980) and double valences or Rhineland Palatinate and (ZDF 1987, ARD and third programs 1989).

Awards

Works (selection)

  • . Scherenschnitte "Poems Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe messenger, 1968.
  • Jacob M. Gauch, Poems 1662-1688 " Karlsruhe. Karlsruhe messenger, 1973.
  • Shibboleth. Poems. Karlsruhe: Karlsruhe messenger, 1974, 2nd edition 1975..
  • Identifications. Poetic texts. Munich: Relief -Verlag, 1975.
  • Wed - divisions and other non- options. Poems. Pfaffenweiler: Pfaffenweiler Press, 1976.
  • Learning disability. Handouts and discussion landscapes. Munich: . Relief, 1977 ( with Clas DS Steinmann )
  • Father tracks. A story. Königstein / Taunus: Atheneum, 1979. Paperback edition: Frankfurt aM: Suhrkamp, 1982. Revised and expanded edition: Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel, 2005. Translations into Hebrew: Ikwot Av, Jerusalem ( Israel): Tiltan Publishing, 2001; and into English: Traces of My Father, Evanston / Illinois (USA): Northwestern University Press, 2002.
  • Desired days. Poems. Mainz: Despalles Edition, 1983.
  • Frederick Joseph Emerich - a German Jacobins. Studies on life and work. Frankfurt aM [ ua]:. Lang, 1986 ( Zugl.: Mainz University, Diss, in 1985 under the title. Overt and covert spellings in the literary Jacobinism )
  • Second hand. Novel. Landau / Palatinate Palatinate Verlags-Anstalt, 1987. Re: Blieskastel: Gollenstein, 1997.
  • Goethe's photo and other stories. Landau / Palatinate Palatinate Verlags-Anstalt, 1992.
  • Winter Harbor. Novel. Blieskastel. Gollenstein, 1999 Revised edition Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel, 2011.
  • Counter lights. Poems. Q.s. Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel, 2005.
  • Lost property. The sources for Roman father tracks. Norderstedt: BoD, 2010.
  • " Silhouettes ". Novel. Frankfurt: Brandes & Apsel, in 2012.

As editor

  • Literature from the Rhineland- Palatinate. An Anthology " Mainz. Hanns crash in 1976 (together with Oskar Bischoff and others).
  • In terms of literature. Contributions from Rheinland-Pfalz " Mainz. Hanns Barney, 1979 (together with Susanne Faschon ).
  • From the disappearance of the present. Mainz anthology. Frankfurt: Brandes and Apsel, 1992 (together with Jürgen Kross ).
  • Time comparison. Rhineland- Palatinate anthology. Frankfurt: Brandes and Apsel, 1993 (together with Jürgen Kross ).
  • Insights. Confessions from the poet workshops. Zell / Mosel: Rhein-Mosel -Verlag, 2010 (together with Friederike Harig ).

Rhineland- Palatinate, Yearbook of literature (1994-2001)

Yearbook of literature ( since 2002)

  • 2002: At eye level
  • 2005: time window
  • 2006: The end, we offer the life
  • 2007: do not write is also no solution
  • 2008: Before the transfer
  • 2009: The Brazen presence
  • 2010: hidden In the Spotlight
  • 2011: About the end of addition,
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