Detlef Grumbach is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 and journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

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Life

After school Grumbach worked as a journalist. Topics of his works are literary critic, LGBT

LGBT

LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

, sexuality

Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...

, AIDS

AIDS

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 and events in life of people. Grumbach wrote as journalist articles for different German newspapers (such as Die Zeit

Die Zeit

Die Zeit is a German nationwide weekly newspaper that is highly respected for its quality journalism.With a circulation of 488,036 and an estimated readership of slightly above 2 million, it is the most widely read German weekly newspaper...

, Die Woche, Deutsches Allgemeines Sonntagsblatt, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Süddeutsche Zeitung

The Süddeutsche Zeitung , published in Munich, is the largest German national subscription daily newspaper.-Profile:The title literally translates as "South German Newspaper". It is read throughout Germany by 1.1 million readers daily and boasts a relatively high circulation abroad...

, Hannoversche Allgemeine, Frankfurter Rundschau

Frankfurter Rundschau

The Frankfurter Rundschau is a German daily newspaper, based in Frankfurt am Main. It is published every day but Sunday as a city, two regional and one nationwide issues and offers an online edition as well as an e-paper...

, Berliner Zeitung

Berliner Zeitung

The Berliner Zeitung, founded in 1945, is a German center-left daily newspaper based in Berlin, published by Berliner Verlag. It is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since unification. In 2003, the Berliner was Berlin's largest subscription newspaper—the weekend...

 and taz

Die tageszeitung

die tageszeitung , was founded in 1978 in Berlin. It is a cooperative-owned German daily newspaper which is administrated by a workers' self-management...

). Grumbach wrote radio features over Martin Dannecker

Martin Dannecker

Martin Dannecker is a German sexologist and author.Dannecker was born in Oberndorf am Neckar. After his school, he studied Industriekaufmann, and later, he studied as an actor at a theatre school in Stuttgart. During this time, Dannecker came out and started to read literature on homosexuality...

, Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger

Lion Feuchtwanger was a German-Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht....

, Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist.Born in Detmold, Lippe, he wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony. He suffered from an unhappy marriage...

, Christian Geissler, Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten

Hermann Kesten was a German novelist and dramatist. He was one of the principal literary figures of the New Objectivity movement in 1920's Germany.The literary prize Hermann Kesten Medal has been given in his honor since 1985....

, Richard Plant, Uwe Timm

Uwe Timm

-Life and work:Uwe Timm was the youngest son in his family. His brother, 16 years his senior, was a soldier in the Waffen SS and died in Ukraine in 1943...

 and Feridun Zaimoglu

Feridun Zaimoglu

Feridun Zaimoğlu is a German author and visual artist of Turkish origin.Zaimoğlu has developed since 1995 to have become one of the important poets of contemporary German language...

. As author Grumbach wrote several books. He lives in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

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Selected works

• Die Linke und das Laster. Schwule Emanzipation und linke Vorurteile. Hamburg 1995. ISBN 3-928983-30-X
• Was heißt hier schwul. Politik und Identitäten im Wandel. Hamburg 1997. ISBN 3-928983-54-7
• Over the Rainbow. Ein Lesebuch zum Christopher-Street-Day. Hamburg 2001. ISBN 3-928983-94-6
• "... und nichts als nur Verzweiflung kann uns retten". A book to Christian Dietrich Grabbe
  Christian Dietrich Grabbe
  Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist.Born in Detmold, Lippe, he wrote many historical plays and is also known for his use of satire and irony. He suffered from an unhappy marriage...
  
   (1801–1836). Aisthesis-Verlag 2001
• Genossenschaften. Engagierte Gemeinschaften für Unabhängigkeit, Qualität und gesellschaftliche Innovation, with drawings by Tom Krüger. Berlin 2006. ISBN 978-3-937683-08-9
• Schwule Nachbarn. 22 Erlebnisse. Hamburg 2007. ISBN 978-3-939542-02-5

External links

• Official Homepage by Grumbach
• Articles by Grumbach in DLF