Gregor Dorfmeister

Dorfmeister, who in addition to his journalistic work has been committed to the support for disabled people, lived in retirement in Bad Tölz. In 1981 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. He died in Bad Tölz in 2018.^[2]

Dorfmeister released three novels under the name Manfred Gregor:

• In his highly autobiographical first novel
  Second World War against the advancing Americans to defend a bridge. Six of the boys in the novel are killed, only one survives. The book was domestically in Germany, and internationally, a great success and the film of the same name by Bernhard Wicki (1959) is a classic anti-war film, Die Brücke.^[3] In 2007 ProSieben produced a television adaptation [de] directed by Wolfgang Panzer [de] with Franka Potente
  in the role of the teacher Elfie Bauer.
• Dorfmeister's second novel, Das Urteil (1960), The verdict, is about a rape case against a soldier of the American occupation troops in a southern German town. The book was made into a film by
  John Waters movie Hairspray
  .
• In his third novel, Die Straße (1961), The Road or The Street, Dorfmeister describes a group of young people whose inner emptiness and aimlessness can lead to a slide into crime.