- Paul Gratzik
Paul Gratzik (born
November 30 ,1935 inLindenhof , Lötzen (East Prussia )) is a German Writer.Life
Paul Gratzik is the son of a farm worker. He attended elementary school and afterwards completed an apprenticeship to a cabinet maker from 1952 to 1954. He worked in the
Ruhr Area , inBerlin andWeimar then in the brown coal open mine inSchlabendorf . He was and official in the Weimar Kreis management of theFree German Youth . From 1963 to 1966, he studied at the Institute for Teacher Formation in Weimar and was afterwards active as aEducator until 1971. He began studies at the "Johannes R. Brecher" Literature Institute inLeipzig , he would however be relegated after a short time. From 1971, he was anAuthor and worked also part time in an industrial firm inDresden . From 1977, Gratzik lived in Berlin and was a lecture author at theBerliner Ensemble . Afterwards he cooperated as an unofficial employee for the Ministry for State Security ofEast Germany between 1962 and 1981 then however he rejected continued service and was himself an Object to Watch of the Stasi from 1984.Paul Gratzik is an author of
drama andnarrative works. He is allowed as an extreme outside into the authors of theDDR-Literature since he willingly return to the "Production" and - in one of the much of one's own mind fromExpressionism influenced language - portrayed the everyday industrial worker of East Germany. He also stopped at nothing to make known child labor centers from his own experience, an East German taboo theme, difficulties with the state Censor had seized his work.Paul Gratzik received the 1980
Heinrich Mann Prize .Works
* "Unruhige Tage" (Disquieted Days), Leipzig 1966
* "Umwege" (Detours), Berlin 1970
* "Transportpaule", Rostock 1977
* "Malwa", Frankfurt on the Main 1978
* "Lisa", Frankfurt on the Main 1979
* "Kohlenkutte" (Coal Cowl), Berlin 1982External links
* [http://dispatch.opac.d-nb.de/DB=4.1/REL?PPN=108929248 Literature bu and on Paul Gratzik] in the
German National Library
* [http://www.stiftung-aufarbeitung.de/service_wegweiser/personen_detail.php?ID=742 Profile] atStiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur
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