Robert Gernhardt
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Robert Gernhardt
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| Born |
13 December 1937 Tallinn, Estonia |
| Died | 30 June 2006 Frankfurt on Main, Germany |
| Occupation | poet, cartoonist, short story writer |
| Nationality | German |
Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist and poet.
Robert Gernhardt was born the son of a judge and a chemist in Tallinn, where his family was part of the Baltic German minority. In 1939 they had to relocate to Poznań. In 1945 his father was killed in the war, and after the end of the war his mother fled west with her three sons Robert, Per and Andreas, finally ending up in Göttingen, where Robert Gernhardt finished school in 1956.
Afterwards he studied painting, first in Stuttgart and then at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, also doing German Studies at Berlin's Freie Universität.
Beginning in 1964, he lived in Frankfurt, working as a freelance artist and writer. In 1965 he married his first wife, Almut Gernhardt, née Ulrich, who died in 1989. In 1990 he married his second wife, Almut Gehebe.
Since purchasing a house in Tuscany in 1972, he regularly spent many months in Italy.
In 1996 he had to undergo a multiple bypass operation and, in 2002, he was diagnosed with Colorectal cancer, which he succumbed to in 2006.
Robert Gernhardt was a regular contributor to the satirical magazine Pardon, where he edited the section Welt im Spiegel (World in the Mirror) with F. K. Waechter and F. W. Bernstein, using the pseudonym Lützel Jeman until 1971.
Gernhardt co-founded the satirical magazine Titanic in 1979. He is part of the so-called New Frankfurt School together with artists like F. K. Waechter, Chlodwig Poth and Hans Traxler. Gernhardt's satirical style combines social critique with a self-consciously irreverential attitude to cultural and literary traditions.
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