Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt
Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt also DH Schmidt (born June 26, 1933 in Leer , Province of Hanover ; † March 3, 2020 ibid) was a German author who published mainly in Low German .
Life
Schmidt grew up in East Frisia and attended elementary school in Leer . After the Second World War he worked in different places in different activities; He was a gardener's assistant, foundry and dock worker as well as sales representative and coffee roaster .
From 1971 until his retirement , Schmidt worked as a school assistant in Leer. Since 1969 he has been writing short stories , radio plays and novels in High and Low German .
Honors
- 1969: Sponsorship award for the Lower Saxony Art Prize
- 1971: Young Poetry Lower Saxony (2nd prose prize)
- 1972: Scholarship from the Federal Foreign Office and the German Writers' Association
- 1972: Fritz Reuter Prize from the Carl Toepfer Foundation FVS
- 1990: Freudenthal Prize of the Freudenthal Society
- 2005: Freudenthal Prize of the Freudenthal Society
- 2017: Borsla Prize
Works (excerpts)
- Gele Rosen: Körtgeschichten un Vertellen , DH Schmidt, Schuster Verlag , Leer 1970, ISBN 3-7963-0020-0
- Ligusterdrööm , Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg (Oldb) 2018, ISBN 978-3-7308-1502-1
- Dat groote plattdüütsche Leesbook , eds. Hartmut Cyriacks and Peter Nissen , authors: Oswald Andrae , Hermann Bärthel , Hertha Borchert , Magreta Brandt , Hans-Hermann Briese , Waltrud Bruhn , Traute Brüggebors , Klaus Groth , Irmgard Harder , Hein Hoop , Harald Karolczak , Rudolf Kinau , Elke Paulussen , Fritz Reuter , Alma Rogge , Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt, Gerd Spiekermann and Gernot de Vries , Quickborn-Verlag , Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-87651-195-X
Radio plays (excerpts)
- De Möhl , directed by Hans-Jürgen Ott , Radio Bremen and NDR , March 4, 1968
- De Bahndamm , directed by Dieter Ehlers , Radio Bremen and NDR, July 28, 1969
literature
- Awarded the Hans Böttcher Prize 1972 to Fritz Arend , Uphusen near Bremen and the Fritz Reuter Prize 1972 to Diederich Heinrich Schmidt, Leer on September 15, 1972 in the monastery church in Medingen, FVS Foundation in Hamburg, 1972
Web links
- “The Borsla Prize 2017 will be shared” In: NWZ ONLINE from October 14, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Hansen: Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt on niederdeutsche-literatur.de, accessed on July 24, 2019.
- ↑ a b Short biography of Diedrich Heinrich Schmidt in Dat groote plattdüütsche Leesbook , Ed .: Hartmut Cyriacks and Peter Nissen (see works)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Diedrich Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, DH |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leer , Lower Saxony |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 3, 2020 |
| Place of death | Leer , Province of Hanover |