Gerold Tietz

Gerold Tietz ( born November 27, 1941 in Horka b Dauba, Bohemia, . † 24 July, 2009 Esslingen ) was a German writer.

Life

Gerold Tietz came from Bohemia. From there he was as a child after the expulsion first to Bavaria and later to Baden- Württemberg. He studied history, politics and French in Tübingen, Berlin, and Paris. Gerold Tietz was a PhD in history. The last decades he lived in Esslingen and taught as a high school teacher in Wendlingen. In 1989 he published his first book. In 2006 he received the first prize of Esslinger Künstlergilde for prose and was elected to the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2007 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Sudeten Germans.

His wife Anne Birk was also a writer. The couple was childless; Anne Birk died a few days after her husband on July 29, 2009.

Works

Gerold Tietz wrote the prose Satiralien - Reports from Beerdita (1989 ) and the four standing in close relation novels Bohemian Groove (1997), Great Times - Little Happiness ( 2005), Bohemian topping (2007) and Bohemian Slide Tackle ( 2009). The continuation of the book Great times - little luck was not published in his lifetime.

The Bohemian Groove 2005 was translated into Czech under the title Česká Fuga. The translation of Bohemian slide tackle could not be completed in his lifetime, but was published posthumously in 2012 under the title České Kotrmelce.

Trivia

The Bohemian joint is illustrated with ink drawings of Esslinger painter Georg Koschinski.

The chapter Anna's ascension from the factory Bohemian topping was set to music by the composer Dr.Dietmar Graef as melodrama and premiered together with the Malinconia ensemble in 2008 in Bad Woerishofen.

The cover picture of the Bohemian Tackling comes from Jindrich Streit, one of the most important contemporary documentary photographers of the Czech Republic.