Background
Gerhard Roth was born on June 24, 1942, in Graz, Styria, Austria, into the family of Emile and Erna (Druschnitz) Roth.
Gerhard Roth was born on June 24, 1942, in Graz, Styria, Austria, into the family of Emile and Erna (Druschnitz) Roth.
In 1961 - 1967 Gerhard attended University of Graz Medical School.
Gerhard Roth started his working career as a computer operator, then manager at Graz Center for Statistics in Styria, but he quited the job in 1977. Since 1978 he is a freelance writer. He published a photo essay volume, two very unconventional literary travel guides about Vienna, two autobiographical books, some novels, a crime story, some travel and adventure literature, and a report.
Gerhard has just finished the second of his two big cycles of works with his latest book "Orkus." "The story of darkness" is the real life story of Karl Berger, a Viennese Jew who had to flee Austria and returned in 1962.
But Gerhard Roth is also a writer of fiction and his novel "The lake" is an uncommon crime story about a man who would like to reconnect with his father and instead finds himself trying to find out why and where his father disappeared just a few hours before they were supposed to meet. His two mostly autobiographic works "Das Alphabet der Zeit" and "Orkus" complete the second cycle. The book "Die Zeit, das Schweigen und die Toten" edited by Jürgen Hosemann contains a collection of materials by different writers on the works of Gerhard Roth. They were published in newspapers and magazines throughout the years, and the book also contains a recent interview with Roth.
From 1973 to 1978, he was member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung before he moved to Hamburg in 1979.
On September 16, 1963 Gerhard married Erika Wolfgruber, but they divorced in 1986, After that he married Senta Thonhauser in 1995. Gerhard is the father of three children: Eva, Petra, and Thomas Roth.