At 74 years old
Writer Thomas Rosenlocher died
The author Thomas Rosenlocher died at the age of 74. Photo: Frank Rumpenhorst/dpa
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He reflected on the sensitivities of East Germans in his work. The Dresden author Thomas Rosenlocher has now died.
The poet Thomas Rosenlöcher is dead. The 74-year-old died on Wednesday night after a serious illness in Kreischa near Dresden, his family told the German Press Agency.
The “Sächsische Zeitung” previously reported. Rosenlocher had made a name for himself primarily as a poet. He also wrote essays on the sensitivities of East Germans. He received numerous awards for his work.
Rosenloch’s best-known works include the reversal diary “The Sold Cobblestones” and the volume “Ostgezeter”. In addition to volumes of poetry and prose, he also published children’s books. In 2010 he was city clerk of Bergen-Enkheim. He was known not least for his descriptions of nature. “In his descriptions of nature, he challenges the reader to watchful observation and active political thinking with a sharp ironic tone,” praised the Bergen-Enkheim cultural society at the time.
Dresden’s cultural mayor Annekatrin Klepsch (left) described Rosenlocher’s death as a “sad loss for German-language literature and the cultural city of Dresden”: “Thomas Rosenlocher was a person with backbone and a political attitude and an author with sensitive irony.”
With his volumes of poetry and diaries, he enriched the literary scene as a sensitively humorous and empathetic observer. “As a lyrical and prosaic chronicler of the political upheavals of 1989/90 and the transformation processes in East and West Germany, he transformed the moods and feelings of his contemporaries into literature and linguistic works of art.”
Born in Dresden, he studied at the Literature Institute in Leipzig from 1976 to 1979 and lived as a freelance writer in the Eastern Ore Mountains. His first volume of poetry, “I lay in the garden in Kleinzschachwitz” was published in 1982. His hometown of Dresden appears again and again as a motif in Rosenlocher’s texts. Thomas Rosenlocher was a member of the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Academy of Arts in Berlin.