Erasmus Schöfer

Erasmus Schöfer (4 June 1931 – 7 June 2022) was a German writer. He was a member of the German Communist Party and took part in resistance against the Vietnam War and rearmament, among others, and became the chronicler of resistance in Germany in his main work, a tetralogy of novels, Die Kinder des Sisyfos (The Children of Sisyphus). It is based on recent history, from the protests of 1968 in West Germany up to the political and social developments of the 1980s until German reunification. He also wrote poetry, stories, plays and audio plays.

Career Schöfer was born on 4 June 1931 in Altlandsberg and grew up in Berlin.

Schöfer then worked, first in Freiburg and then in Munich, as a freelance correspondent of several newspapers, focused on cultural topics. He also wrote audio plays for broadcasters in both parts of Germany. He wrote three plays which premiered in Freiburg, Dortmund, and Bruchsal. The authors encouraged literature focused on the work place. He served as its speaker until 1973, and was editor of many of the collected writings. In the 1980s, Schöfer lived in Greece for several years. It deals, as a , with the history of the Protests of 1968 in West Germany, developing biographies of characters in the context of the political and social battles of the 1970s and 1980s. A novella, "Der Sturm" (The storm), appeared by Kiepenheuer & Witsch, more stories entitled Flieg Vogel stirb (Fly bird die) were published by Weltkreis-Verlag. After one year in Greece, his first novel was called Tod in Athen (Death in Athens), published in 1986.

From 2001, the volumes of his epic tetralogy Die Kinder des Sisyfos were published by Dittrich Verlag in Berlin. in 2011, and a selection of his audio plays, Na hörn Sie mal!, in 2012.