Paul Gratzik (born November 30, 1935 in Lindenhof, Lötzen district (East Prussia)) is a German Writer.
Paul Gratzik is the son of a farm worker. He attended elementary school and afterwards completed an apprenticeship to a cabinet maker from 1952 to 1954. He worked in the Ruhr Area, in Berlin and Weimar then in the brown coal open mine in Schlabendorf. He was and official in the Weimar Kreis management of the Free German Youth. From 1963 to 1966, he studied at the Institute for Teacher Formation in Weimar and was afterwards active as a Educator until 1971. He began studies at the "Johannes R. Brecher" Literature Institute in Leipzig, he would however be relegated after a short time. From 1971, he was an Author and worked also part time in an industrial firm in Dresden. From 1977, Gratzik lived in Berlin and was a lecture author at the Berliner Ensemble. Afterwards he cooperated as an unofficial employee for the Ministry for State Security of East Germany between 1962 and 1981 then however he rejected continued service and was himself an Object to Watch of the Stasi from 1984.
Paul Gratzik is an author of drama and narrative works. He is allowed as an extreme outside into the authors of the DDR-Literature since he willingly return to the "Production" and - in one of the much of one's own mind from Expressionism influenced language - portrayed the everyday industrial worker of East Germany. He also stopped at nothing to make known child labor centers from his own experience, an East German taboo theme, difficulties with the state Censor had seized his work.
Paul Gratzik received the 1980 Heinrich Mann Prize.