Gerold Tietz

During the last decades he lived in Esslingen and worked in the nearby city of Wendlingen as a grammar school teacher.

In 2006 he received the first prize for prose by the Künstlergilde Esslingen, and he was elected to become a member of the Sudetendeutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste (Sudeten German academy of science and art).

[1] The painter Georg Koschinski from Esslingen contributed the ink drawings for the novel Böhmische Fuge.

[1][4] The chapter Annas Himmelfahrt from the novel Böhmisches Richtfest was set to music as a melodrama by the composer Dr.Dietmar Gräf.

[2][5] The title photo of the novel Böhmische Grätschen is taken by Jindřich Štreit, one of the most important Czech documentary photographers.