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Bernhard Ficken , also known as Befi (born September 13, 1924 in Bockhorst ; † October 8, 2007 ), was a German homeland poet from Burlage (municipality of Rhauderfehn ).

Life

Ficken grew up in Bockhorst , a municipality in the northeast of the Emsland district in Lower Saxony, in a family with seven children, five boys and two girls. He later went to sea and worked on a herring logger until the beginning of World War II . He then worked on an ore freighter and then served on outpost boats or minesweepers in the Navy . After two years as a prisoner of war , he returned to his homeland and worked in peat extraction. In the course of time he became a peat master and when he retired he was the manager of a peat factory.

In his spare time, Ficken painted more than 300 pictures, mostly with motifs from home, in oil, chalk or pencil. As an author, he wrote a total of eight books, including a novel ( Traces of Life , 1980) as well as volumes of poetry, stories about the country and its people and chronicles. His Low German weekly review Telegram from Burlage appeared in the General-Anzeiger for decades .

In local politics he was councilor of the municipality of Rhauderfehn from 1973 to 1996 and deputy mayor of the village of Burlage. He was also a co-founder and long-term chairman of SV Burlage, whose development from a football club to a multi-discipline club he significantly influenced, and of the Burlage home club. He was also significantly involved in the reconstruction of the windmill in Burlage and the establishment of a small museum at the mill.

Ficken was married and had three children.

Awards

In 2001, Bernhard Ficken was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany by Andreas Schaeder , the then District Administrator of the District of Leer . In memory of him, a street in the municipality of Rhauderfehn was renamed Befi-Weg after his stage name in 2008 . In 2011, Ingo Rieken, grandson of Bernhard Ficken, founded Befis NaturGarten , the teaching and show garden of NABU Emsland Nord eV , on the Befi-Weg in Burlage on 10,000 square meters

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Books that are self-published by Bernhard Ficken:

  • Traces of Life - Novel from Northern Germany, Ficken, Bernhard, 1980, hardcover
  • Mien lütje Loeg - local chronicle of Burlage, hardcover
  • Mien lütje Loeg - Tales from Burlage, hardcover
  • Poems to smile up hochdütsch un platt, to frown öwer dit un dat . 1990, hardcover
  • De Lüü - Hear Land - Hear Life . 1994, softcover
  • Syracuse - The March of the Animals . Soft cover
  • Light and shadow of our time . 1997, paperback
  • Telegram from Burlage . Cheerful and reflective poems, 2003, softcover

Web links

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  • Justification of the municipality of Rhauderfehn for naming the street, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Fuck, Bernhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Befi (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland poet and painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Bockhorst
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2007