In his life he had many roles: Gerhard Zwerenz was author of thrillers and pornography, coppersmith, Marxist and member of parliament. Well died “one of the great misfits” at 90 years old.
Gerhard Zwerenz worked tirelessly to old age. More than 100 books published the award-winning writers – of novels about detective stories and children’s books to erotic-pornographic texts. Since 2007, he wrote on the internet at his political biography. But the last grown to 3500 pages weblog Roman came after a serious fall earlier this year to a halt. Now living in Hesse Author and former member of parliament died on Monday after a long illness.
A few weeks ago Zwerenz had celebrated his 90th birthday. How does it go to health him, he was asked to mark the anniversary on June 3: “If it were better, I might still be religious,” said the well-known for his irony publicist has
In his life. the crosshead Zwerenz who belonged in the 1970s to the most famous writers of the West German left (he wrote about for “concrete”, “Twen” and “Pardon”), rotated some Volte. Born in 1925 in Saxony Gablenz son of a brick factory worker and a textile worker, he made for the elementary school trained as a coppersmith. In 1942 he volunteered for the Wehrmacht. Two years later deserted the young man.
In the East of his proletarian origin always proud Zwerenz 1952-1957 was able to study with special matriculation examination at the famous German philosopher Ernst Bloch in Leipzig. Zwerenz went to Stalinism from a distance and was expelled from the SED in 1957. He went to the West to get to the turn to turn back to decades later the old country
For the SED’s successor party, the PDS Zwerenz then sat from 1994 to 1998 in the Bundestag -. And lamented the “bleeding of the East” , His frustrations as a deputy processed Zwerenz in a book (“War in the glasshouse or Bundestag as windmill”).
Left Party leader Gregor Gysi praised the “extraordinary courage” and the humor and wisdom of the author. The GDR had left him because he had refused the emerging hostility towards intellectuals. In the Federal Republic he remained true to his convictions.
“He was one of the great misfits”, the president of the German PEN Centre, Josef Haslinger, the German press agency said. “He had a pugnacious public appearance, but also an great persuasiveness.”
Zwerenz lived his wife Ingrid – himself a writer and lecturer top of her husband – in the Taunus. For his works Zwerenz received several awards, such as the Ernst Reuter Prize (1974), the Carl-von-Ossietzky Prize (1986) and in 1991 the alternatives Georg Büchner Prize.
In recent years Zwerenz werkelte the “magnum opus” on the Internet. Its scale fragments in Saxon autobiography bears the bizarre title: “The defense of Saxony and why Karl May Indians loved”
The heavy fall slowed Zwerenz then made at the beginning.. In January, he had arrived at the “52nd obituary”. “Merkel, Troika, Acropolis and Plato” this is plastic – a real Zwerenz title
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