August Hild

August Hild, 1953

August Hild (born September 29, 1894 in Münchhausen , Westerwald , † November 27, 1982 in Rathenow ) was a German writer .

Life

August Hild was the son of a shoemaker . He grew up in the village of Münchhausen, which today belongs to the municipality of Driedorf, on the eastern edge of the High Westerwald. After working as a shepherd boy and training as a moulder , he worked in an iron foundry , most recently as a master . From 1939 he lived in Rathenow and after the Second World War he worked in a state-owned company , which he later also ran.

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Apart from a story “Das Dorf” that got lost in the chaos of war, August Hild's literary work was created since the early 1950s. Hild wrote novels and stories in which he mainly described his own experiences with the socialist restructuring of industry and agriculture in the early GDR .

In his poetry, Hild also processed personal experiences and memories from the rural world of his Westerwald homeland, such as in the "Westerwald Sonnet" and in "Mother".

The novel Das Lied über dem Tal , filmed by DEFA under the title Maturing Summer , premiered in 1959.

Works

• A man returns home. Halle (Saale) 1951.
• Who step out of the shadows. Halle (Saale) 1952.
• The song over the valley. Halle (Saale) 1954.
• The marriage of the assistant. Halle (Saale) 1957.

literature

• Ulrich Schuppener: August Hild (1894–1982) from Driedorf-Münchhausen. From Westerwald shepherd boy to successful GDR writer. Part 1. In: Nassauische Annalen 105, 1994, pp. 235-256.