Gerhard Roth | |
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 Roth in 2012 | |
| Born | 24 June 1942 |
| Died | 8 February 2022 (aged 79) Graz, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
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Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer.
Gerhard Roth | |
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Roth in 2012 | |
| Born | 24 June 1942 |
| Died | 8 February 2022 (aged 79) Graz, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation |
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Gerhard Roth (24 June 1942 – 8 February 2022) was an Austrian writer.
Roth was born in Graz. The son of a medical practitioner, Roth, too, originally wanted to study medicine himself, but soon turned his attention to literature. Initially, he earned his living as a computer programmer.
He was a freelance writer from 1976. From 1973 to 1978, he was member of the Grazer Autorenversammlung before he moved to Hamburg in 1979. Since 1986, he divided his time between Vienna and Styria.
He won many literature prizes, among which are the literature prize of Styria (1976), the Alfred Döblin Prize (1983), and the Bruno-Kreisky-Prize (2002). In 1995, he was awarded the Golden Romy for his screenplay of Schnellschuss. He was also the recipient of the 2012 Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis.
Roth died on 8 February 2022, at the age of 79.[1]
Roth referred to himself as "someone obsessed with writing in the best sense." In the focus is the hero, struggling in vain, to whom the world appears to be a torturous, intolerable state. Often Roth externally couched his writings in the form of a crime novel, in which he emphasised the unravelling of the hidden, in a figurative sense.
The focus of his main opus, Die Archive des Schweigens, is the re-appraisal of Austrian history in today's political and social systems.
