Background
Gotthold Gloger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia.
Gotthold Gloger was born in Königsberg, East Prussia.
He attended the Kunstgewerbeakademie in Königsberg from 1941, simultaneously arose his first literary attempt. After the war, he graduated art studies in Frankfurt am Main and visited as a guest listener of romance studies and philosophy lectures.
He received painting and drawing lessons as a child. From 1942, Gloger participated in World World War II as a soldier of the Wehrmacht and later belonging to the 999th Light Afrika Division. 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 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 PEN Central of East Germany since 1954.