Detlev Meyer

Detlev Meyer ( born February 12, 1948 in Berlin, † 30 October 1999 ) was a German writer and poet.

Meyer studied Library and Information Sciences in Berlin and Cleveland, was a librarian in Toronto and development workers in Jamaica. He was member of PEN and received numerous literary scholarship.

Detlev Meyer was one of the few openly gay writers in Germany. His subjects were the life in and with the scene and the threat of AIDS, the disease, the consequences of which he himself succumbed in the end. But he was not the "author of the scene ," but was, furthermore, represents an audience that has been discussed in the literature departments of FAZ and DIE ZEIT and was considered a " single Dandy contemporary German literature. " ( TIME ) known he was the biography of the dismay with the parts in the steam bath grabs me an angel, David gets on the Ferris wheel and a final thanks to the athletes (1985 to 1989). His last work, the child of the sun, an autobiographical novel colored childhood in Berlin during the fifties and sixties, appeared posthumously in 2001.

Work

Poetry:

  • Tonight in the jungle. 50 poems. Oberbaumbrucke Verlag, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-87628-192- X.
  • Men standing on the canals. Fifty poems. Publisher hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf, 1990, ISBN 3-87365-254-4.
  • Promise of a miracle worker. Fifty poems. Männerschwarm script -Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-928983-13- X.
  • Star in sight. Poems. Männerschwarm script -Verlag, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-928983-62-8.
  • Correct pickup line. Love poems. Männerschwarm script -Verlag, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-935596-61-8. (Choose from the four volumes of poetry and two unpublished poems from the estate )

Novels:

  • Biography of dismay ( trilogy ): Volume 1: In the steam room grabs me an angel. Publisher hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf, 1985, ISBN 3-87365-216-1.
  • Volume 2: David gets on the Ferris wheel. Publisher hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-87365-231-5.
  • Volume 3: A final thanks to the athletes. Publisher hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf, 1989, ISBN 3-87365-247-1.

Feature articles and short stories:

  • Expensive friends. Ten portraits. Publisher hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf 1993, ISBN 3-87365-283-8.
  • The PC - whore and the Sultan. Stories 1986 to 1996. Männerschwarm script -Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-928983-41-5.
  • Are you the Fraulein Riefenstahl? Short prose. Publisher hermit -Presse, Dusseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-87365-310-9.
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