Gotthold Gloger

Gotthold Gloger was a German writer and painter.

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 held 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 of East Germany.

Philomela Kleespieß trug die Fahne, Berlin 1953
Der Soldat und sein Lieutenant, Berlin 1955
Die auf den Herrn warten, Berlin 1958
Der dritte Hochzeitstag, Berlin 1960
Rot wie Rubin, Berlin 1961
Der Bauerbacher Bauernschmaus, Berlin 1963
Frido, fall nicht runter, Berlin 1965
Meininger Miniaturen, Berlin 1965
Das Aschaffenburger Kartenspiel, Berlin 1969
Kathrins Donnerstag, Berlin 1970
Der Mann mit dem Goldhelm, Berlin 1972
Der Bäckerjunge aus Beeskow, Berlin 1974
Ritter, Tod und Teufel, Berlin 1976
Das Rübenfest und andere Geschichten, Berlin 1979
Berliner Guckkasten, Berlin 1980
Freundlich ist die Nacht, Berlin 1980
Leb vergnügt oder Die Ermordung des Hofmarschalls von Minutoli zu Meiningen, Berlin 1981
Meine Feder für den König, Berlin 1985