Aloys Terbille
Aloys Terbille (born December 30, 1936 in Vreden ; † October 30, 2009 there ) was a German teacher and Low German author .
Life
Aloys Terbille grew up in Vreden, on the German - Dutch border , among the Low German-speaking farmers of the small town. After attending the humanistic grammar school , he began a teaching degree with Low German literature in Münster and then studied curative education and psychology in Dortmund . After that he became a teacher at special schools .
From 1978 poetry and prose texts were published in West Munsterland dialect in anthologies and magazines, as well as small radio contributions. In the 1980s he drew attention to himself with unusually harsh Low German poetry in which he addressed the persecution of the Jews in his home town and their extermination. Terbille was a compassionate and relentless word fencers for the marginalized and against the Stammtisch majority . He deliberately used authentic language material.
Works
In 1983 his book about the suffering of the Vreden Jews in the Holocaust was published : Spoor van Lieden allevedan , which was published in the Netherlands and received great attention on both sides of the border. In 1997 the poetry book Welldage was published .
Honors
- 1984: Klaus Groth Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
- 1994: Freudenthal Prize
- 2010: Freudenthal Prize ( posthumously for the second time for his complete works )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DIALECTKRING ACHTERHOOK EN LIEMERS: Friedrich Hans Schaefer
- ↑ Reinhard Goltz , Ulf-Thomas Lesle (ed.): Dat Land so free un wiet . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-40026-4 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Terbille, Aloys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and Low German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vreden |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 30, 2009 |
| Place of death | Vreden |