Paul Gratzik
Paul Gratzik ( born November 30, 1935 in Lindenhof, circle Lötzen, East Prussia ) is a German writer.
Life
Paul Gratzik is the son of a farm laborer. He attended elementary school and then graduated from 1952 to 1954 trained as a cabinetmaker. He worked in the Ruhr, Berlin and Weimar, then in a lignite mine in Schlabendorf. In 1962 he was a functionary in the district leadership Weimar FDJ. From 1963 to 1966 he studied at the Institute of Teacher Education in Weimar and then worked as a teacher until 1971. In 1968 he began studying at the Literary Institute " Johannes R. Becher " in Leipzig, but was relegated after a short time. From 1971 he was a freelance writer; In 1974, he worked next as a part-time employee in an industrial plant in Dresden. From 1977 lived Gratzik in Berlin; he was contract author at the Berliner Ensemble. After he had worked 1962-1981 as IM under the code name "Peter" with the Ministry of State Security of the GDR, but then refused any further service, he was from 1984 self- observation object of the State Security Service. Since 1981 he lives in the Uckermark.
Gratzik Paul is the author of dramas and narrative works. He was among the authors of the GDR literature as rank outsiders, since he volunteered in the " production " returned and - in a highly unique, influenced by expressionism language - described the everyday life of industrial workers in the GDR. Even before the GDR taboo subject known to him from his own experience of the Youth Courts, he did not shrink, which earned him trouble with the state censorship.
Paul Gratzik in 1980 he received the Heinrich Mann Prize. 2011 was about the writer of the documentary traitors by Anne Katrin Hendel.