Detlef Grumbach

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Detlef Grumbach (born 1955 in Detmold) is a German author and journalist. [1]

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Life

After school Grumbach worked as a journalist. Topics of his works are literary critic, LGBT, sexuality, AIDS and events in life of people. Grumbach wrote as journalist articles for different German newspapers (such as Die Zeit, Die Woche, Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Hannoversche Allgemeine, Frankfurter Rundschau, Berliner Zeitung and taz). Grumbach wrote radio features over Martin Dannecker, Lion Feuchtwanger, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Christian Geissler, Hermann Kesten, Richard Plant, Uwe Timm and Feridun Zaimoglu. As author Grumbach wrote several books. He lives in Hamburg.

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References

  1. Mani, B. Venkat (2007-06-01). Cosmopolitical Claims: Turkish-German Literatures from Nadolny to Pamuk. University of Iowa Press. pp. 130–. ISBN   9781587295843 . Retrieved 1 August 2012.