Occupation Writer, painter Name Gotthold Gloger Period 1950s–1980s | Citizenship German Nationality German Role Writer | |
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Born Gotthold Gloger
17 June 1924
Konigsberg, East Prussia, Weimar Republic ( 1924-06-17 ) Notable awards Heinrich Mann Prize
1954 Died October 16, 2001, Gransee, Germany | ||
Gotthold Gloger (17 June 1924 – 16 October 2001) was a German writer and painter.
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Life
Gotthold Gloger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia. He received painting and drawing lessons as a child. He attended the Kunstgewerbeakademie in Königsberg from 1941, simultaneously arose his first literary attempt. From 1942, Gloger participated in World War II as a soldier of the Wehrmacht and later belonging to the 999th Light Afrika Division.
After the war, he graduated art studies in Frankfurt am Main and visited as a guest listener of romance studies and philosophy lectures. In 1947 and 1948, he remained for a long time in Italy and Southern France. Because of his participation in a strike of the harbor workers in Marseille, he would be arrested and seized for a while in a military prison in Strasbourg. He moved to East Germany in 1954. He was a student at the Johannes R. Becher Institute of Literature in Leipzig. Subsequently he lived as a painter and freelance writer until 1967 in Meiningen and from 1970 predominantly in the city quarter of Kraatz, Gransee in Brandenburg. He died there in 2001.
Gotthold Gloger's authored works consist of novels, narratives, children's literature as well as screenplays to television plays. He had a preference for historical subject matter. His faithfulness to details and his way with stories would be emphasized by critics.
Gotthold Gloger was a member of the P.E.N. Central of East Germany since 1954. He received the 1954 Heinrich Mann Prize and the 1961 Children's Book Prize of the Ministerium für Kultur (Ministry of Culture) of East Germany.