Background
Gauch is the son of Hermann Gauch, a Nazi official and member of the Steamship He was born in Offenbach-Hundheim in the last few weeks of the Second World War.
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Sigfrid Gauch
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He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Mainz.
Career
He lives in Mainz. He worked as a school teacher, teaching German, philosophy and ethics at the Integrierte Gesamtschule in Mainz. He was awarded a doctorate from the University of Mainz in 1985 for a dissertation on "Overt and covert spellings in literary Jacobinism". lieutenant was later published as Friedrich Joseph Emerich – ein deutscher Jakobiner.
Studien zu Leben und Werk.
In the 1970s Gauch published essays and poetry. He made his name with his book Vaterspuren (Traces of My Father) in 1979, an influential memoir that began what later became a genre of literature about children of Nazi parents attempting to come to terms with their family"s past
He later published Fundsachen. Die Quellen zum Roman Vaterspuren, a collection of primary source material related to the book
His novels Winterhafen (2010) and Schattenbilder (2012) explore the same issues through fiction.
In addition to his novels, short stories and poetry collections Gauch has co-edited numerous anthologies, especially with regard to literature from Rhineland-Palatinate, including, from 1994, the Rheinland-pfälzisches Jahrbuch für Literatur (Rhineland-Palatinate Yearbook of literature) published by Brandes & Apsel. Since 2002 this has come out under the title Jahrbuch für Literatur (Yearbook for Literature). Since 2004 he has edited the Edition Schrittmacher series of books, of which 30 volumes have been published.
Membership
German Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center.
