Martin Grzimek
Martin Grzimek ( born April 8, 1950 in Trutzhain, Hesse ) is a German writer.
Life
Martin Grzimek grew up as the youngest of four sons of a newly settled Silesian refugee family in the former prison camp Trutzhain in Hesse. After high school he studied from 1968 Theatre Studies in Berlin and from 1972 Philosophy and German at the University of Heidelberg. From 1977 he worked as a teacher for German as a foreign language. From 1984 to 1986 he was professor of German literature at the private Schiller International University in Heidelberg. From 1986 to 1992 he worked as a freelance writer in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where he belonged to the next Board of the Goethe -Institut. The years 1997-2000 spent Grzimek in Santiago de Chile. He currently lives with his family in Nussloch near Heidelberg.
Martin Grzimek is a member of the PEN center of Germany and the Academy of Liberal Arts in Mannheim. He has received, among others 1980 Hermann Hesse Prize, 1981 Rauris Literature Prize, the 1983 Award of the Cultural Committee of the Federation of German Industry and the 1993 Friedrich Glauser Prize of the " group of authors German -language crime fiction " - The Syndicate.
Works
- Berger, Munich 1980
- Stopping of the heart, Munich 1982
- Trutzhain, Munich 1984
- The shading, Munich 1989
- El factor tropical, Caracas 1992
- Feuerfalter, Munich 1992
- A bear lives, Munich 1995 ( together with Marcus Mr. Berger)
- Mostar - Sketches and splinters, Heidelberg 1995
- From one who is desperately trying to fall in love, Munich 1995
- Rudi strong as an ox, Munich 1998 (together with Marcus Mr. Berger)
- The Oyster Festival, Hamburg 2004
- The infinite road, Munich 2005
- Tristan - novel about loyalty, love and betrayal, Munich 2011