August Straub (writer)

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August Matthäus Straub (born January 22, 1900 in Meschede , † January 11, 1986 in Kassel - Harleshausen ) was a German journalist and writer.

Life

Straub graduated from high school in Kassel and then studied in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and Gießen. He was a soldier in the First World War . He then worked as an editor in various places, including Karlsruhe. In 1933 he was banned from working. From 1928 to 1945 he was editor-in-chief of the weekly Das Literaturblatt . In addition, from 1953 he was a lecturer for German literature in Gießen. From 1954 he worked as a freelance writer.

Awards

  • Poetry Prize of the Austrian Association of Authors
  • 1964: Narrator award for master narration about the artist of the Western Last Supper in the Soest Wiesenkirche
  • 1976: Goethe badge

Works

  • Westerwald haunted stories . C. Wilken, Rengsdorf 1925.
  • The seven songs of spring, love and death . 1926.
  • Saw the moon's silver sickle. Poems . Romanticism, Berlin 1926.
  • The contemporary literature in the Nassauer Land . Klaesberger, Westerburg 1929.
  • Autumn mood. Poems . 1929.
  • From the Romanian war diary . 6th edition. Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1940.
as editor
  • The Marian Spring. Loud morning songs . 2nd Edition. A. Klein, Leipzig 1929.
  • Max Dauthendey: Far Eastern Stories . 1929.
  • The booklet love me . 3. Edition. Verlag der Regenbogen, Wetzlar 1931.
  • also as editor: Das Literaturblatt. Critical weekly paper 1931-1945 .
  • Emmy Kraetke-Rumpf: Legends about St. Elisabeth . 1931.
  • Erika Bundschuh: White birds over a blue sea. Sketches . 1931.
  • Hans Carossa: From the Romanian diary . 1931.
  • Heinrich Leis: The Judgment Day. Novellas . 1931.
  • Selma Lagerlöf: Adolescent years on Marbacka . 1931.
  • Sketches and legends . 1931, 1933.
  • The young song. Songs . 1932.
  • Friedrich Schnack: In the wonder realm of the butterfly . 1932.
  • Hans Gäfgen: Organ of the meadows. Poems and sketches . 1932.
  • Mother of God legends . 1932.
  • The beautiful old Königstein im Taunus . 1933.
  • Marian legends of German landscapes . 2 volumes. Vienna 1933/34.
  • with W. Kevels: The evening blessing. Evening prayers and evening songs . Wollermann, Braunschweig 1934.
  • The rainbow . Series, 5 episodes. Verlag der Regenbogen, Wetzlar 1935.
  • Wilhelm Wilhelmi: From my days on earth . 1936.
  • Comrade humor. Cheerful country on the Rhine and Main . 1939-1945.
  • Alfred Brehm: The life of the cuckoo . 1941, 1944.
  • Goethe anecdotes . Münchner Buchverlag, Munich 1941, DNB 985479817 and 1950, DNB 454924577 .
  • Papa Wrangel. Anecdotes . 1941, 1944.
  • Silhouettes from the time of Goethe . Münchner Buchverlag, Munich 1941, 1950, DNB 454924593 .
  • From the wild hunter. German folk tales . 1941, 1944.
  • Of golden keys and flowering cups. German flower sagas . Münchener Buchverl., Munich 1941, 1950, DNB 364675365 .
  • Rhine and Main in beautiful pictures . 1944.
  • The wind told me a song. German song stories . 1945, 1951.
  • Small encyclopedia for Goethe friends . Siegel, Frankfurt am Main 1946, DNB 454924585 .
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Register sheets . Siegel, Frankfurt am Main 1947.
  • The cheerful Goethe. Goethe's humor . Münchner Buchverlag, Munich [1950].
  • The wind told me a song. Stories from the German song . Münchner Buchverlag, Munich [1950], DNB 454924615 .
  • Beautiful Hessenland. Calendar . 1956-1966.
  • Travel Almanac. Essay . 1957.
  • And are eternal sound. Stories about folk songs . Baumann, Bayreuth [1957], DNB 454924607 .
  • Iceland fisherman. Narration . 1959, 1963.
  • Fairytale sites of the Brothers Grimm . 1963.
  • Crown of life. Essay . 1965.
  • Art treasures in Hessen. Essay . 1966.
  • North Hesse. Travel pictures . Volume 1 1969; Volume 2. 1970.
  • Thanks to Hannes Tuch. Essay . 1971.
  • Castles and palaces in Hessenland . Bernecker, Melsungen 1975, DNB 760069093 .
  • I hear the mill wheel go Stories about German folk songs. Thiele and Schwarz, Kassel 1984, DNB 850051932

literature

  • Hans Römhild: August Straub. From the way and literary work . 1970.
  • Hannes Tuch : August M. Straub. Work and life . 1970.
  • Jürgen Weishaupt (Ed.): August Straub. 80 years . Bernecker, Melsungen 1980, DNB 840112742 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Straub in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ Hessian Heritage Association , issue 1/1970, accessed on May 12, 2018th
personal data
SURNAME Straub, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Straub, August Matthäus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Meschede
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 1986
Place of death Kassel - Harleshausen