Berthold Bruges
Berthold Bruges (born October 1, 1909 in Rostock ; † May 31, 1979 there ) was a Low German radio writer in the GDR who also wrote for newspapers.
Life
Berthold Bruges was born the son of a bookbinder. After attending secondary school in Rostock, he completed an apprenticeship as a textile merchant from 1924 to 1927. Then Bruges worked as a seller and decorator. In 1931 he fell ill with polio . From 1932 to 1934 he was a salesman. Until the end of the Second World War , Bruges was an office messenger, draftsman and finally a designer at Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in Rostock. After a stay in Denmark from 1945 to 1947, he returned to Rostock and from 1948 worked as a standards clerk at VVB Maschinenbau Metallwaren Rostock . From 1951 Berthold Bruges worked as a designer in the Neptun shipyard . In 1974 he retired.
Bruges wrote radio plays and radio scenes for radio. He wrote short stories, short stories and reports for both radio and newspapers .
Book publication
This work for radio and press resulted in an extensive narrative, from which, however, the band Mit Oll Topp bie Kap Huurn un anner histories (1977) was only published two years before his death . This was expanded in the following years. Mainly the fishing and seafaring milieu and everyday events were the subject of his stories and reports, which had titles such as Bloomen vör dat Warftdur or De Kraepelstruuk .
Bruges also wrote poetry, which was sometimes set to music (e.g. Up de Mol ).
meaning
Despite only being published in book form, Bruges has been perceived as a Low German writer to this day. So Dr. Karl Homuth from the University of Rostock while still in the GDR in observations on the Low German literature Berthold Bruges diverged with Bruges' work; after reunification appeared z. B. Stylistic observations on texts by Berthold Bruges in the Low German Yearbook 121 (1998); Most recently, the Wossidlo Archive published studies on Fritz Reuter , Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg and Berthold Bruges with the treatise Oral Telling and Dialect Literature (2002) . Bruges is still the subject of lectures and seminars at the German, Folklore and Low German Institutes of German universities.
Works
- With oll Topp to Cape Huurn . Reports and stories in Low German for radio and newspapers. 3rd edition Rostock: Hinstorff, 1987.
Web links
- Literature by and about Berthold Bruges in the catalog of the German National Library
- Berthold Bruges in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bruges, Berthold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German radio author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1979 |
| Place of death | Rostock |