Background
Gerold Tietz was born in Bohemia.
Gerold Tietz was born in Bohemia.
He studied history, politics and French in Tübingen, Berlin and Paris.
As a child he and his family were banished. They first moved to the federal state of Bavaria in Germany, and later to Baden-Württemberg. Gerold Tietz held a doctor"s degree in history.
During the last decades he lived in Esslingen and worked in the nearby city of Wendlingen as a grammar school teacher.
He published his first book in 1989. Gerold Tietz is one of the few writers to address the banishments of the 20th century in the region of Bohemia critically from all sides, avoiding to subjectively consider only one side as aggressor and the other as victim.
The couple was childless. The painter Georg Koschinski from Esslingen contributed the ink drawings for the novel Böhmische Fuge.
The chapter Annas Himmelfahrt from the novel Böhmisches Richtfest was set to music as a melodrama by the composer Doctor.Dietmar Gräf.
lieutenant was premiered by the Malinconia-Ensemble in 2008 at Bad Wörishofen. The title photo of the novel Böhmische Grätschen is taken by Jindřich Štreit, one of the most important Czechoslovakian documentary photographers.