Bernhard Schorbach

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Bernhard Schorbach (* 1897 in Hundshausen ; † 1964 ) was a North Hessian farmer and local poet.

Life

Schorbach was born into a farming family in the small village of Hundshausen, today part of the community of Jesberg in the Schwalm-Eder district , and became a farmer himself. His poems, published in the 1920s, were about life and work in the country.

A street is named after him in his home village today.

Works

  • Verses behind the plow . Poems of a hess. Farm boys. NG Elwertsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Marburg 1922.
  • Country youth, out! Heimatschollen-Verlag, Melsungen 1924.
  • Sickle sound and rustling ears . New poems by a farmer. Bernecker, Melsungen 1925.

literature

  • Heinrich Ruppel (Ed.): Beloved home earth. Contributions to more modern German local art in the field of literature by Heinrich Ruppel, Nikolaus Schwarzkopf, Bernhard Schorbach, Gottfried Buchmann, Max Beck, Ernst Eimer, Mimi Kraft, Gabriele Richter, Wilhelm Reuter . Neuborn-Verlag, Kassel (no year, approx. 1950).
personal data
SURNAME Schorbach, Bernhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and poet from North Hesse
DATE OF BIRTH 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hundshausen
DATE OF DEATH 1964