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Place of Birth: Offenbach am Glan, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Sigfrid Gauch
- Sigfrid Gauch (born 9 March 1945) is a German writer.
- He lives in Mainz. Gauch is the son of Hermann Gauch, a Nazi official and member of the SS.
- He was born in Offenbach-Hundheim in the last few weeks of the Second World War.
- His parents separated when he was a young boy.
- He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and 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".
- It 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.
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