Dieter Höss

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Dieter Höss (born September 9, 1935 in Immenstadt ; † March 11, 2020 in Cologne ) was a German writer .

Life

Dieter Höss came to Cologne in 1953 via Augsburg and Frankfurt am Main . There he attended the Cologne factory schools and trained as a graphic designer . He was self-employed in this profession for ten years. In addition, he attended an evening grammar school , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1960 . Parallel to a subsequent study, his first poems appeared in the satirical magazines " Simplicissimus " and " Pardon ". Later also the " Die Zeit ", the " Stern ", the " Süddeutsche Zeitung " and the " Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger " published his humorous works. Höss lived as a freelance writer in Cologne.

Dieter Höss was mainly the author of poems of a satirical and parodic character. Formally, he preferred Limerick , and later also the sonnet .

Dieter Höss had been a member of the Association of German Writers since 1970 . In 2000 he received the Rheinische Literaturpreis of the city of Siegburg .

He died in 2020 at the age of 84 and was buried in his place of birth, Immenstadt.

Works (selection)

  • Ali and the elephant , Kempen-Niederrh. 1961
  • ... you should recognize them by their books , Frankfurt a. M. 1966
  • You should recognize them by their dramas , Frankfurt a. M. 1967
  • Truisms , Bergisch Gladbach 1967
  • Black-brown-red songbook , Bergisch Gladbach 1967
  • Ghost science , Recklinghausen 1969
  • Goethe, Wanderers Nachtlied or Die Dirty Fantasy , Junkersdorf 1969
  • Sexzeiler , Frankfurt a. M. 1970
  • The best limericks , Esslingen 1973
  • Anyone who steps in the fat bowl , Munich 1973
  • From courteous to cheerful , Frankfurt am Main 1979
  • Canal full , Frankfurt am Main 1980
  • Editio diabolica specialis , Bielefeld 1981
  • The Rhine from Koblenz to Bingerick , 2002
  • Olympericks , Munich 1984
  • Human Progress , Freiburg i. Br. 1985
  • Ask Ms. Olga , Frankfurt am Main 1987
  • Cologne Limericks , Cologne 1994
  • Wilhelm Busch Breviary , Bergisch Gladbach 1994
  • Merry Christmas , Bergisch Gladbach 1996
  • Land of my fathers , Cologne 1997
  • An Imi in Cologne , Cologne 2004
  • Who was it? , Augsburg 2004
  • You have to know the gray everyday sky , Cologne 2006
  • Pasta sonnets , Oberhausen 2006
  • Shortage , Cologne 2007
  • Again in the Städtle , Immenstadt-Werdenstein 2008
  • Allgäuer Limericks , Edition Allgäu published by Hephaistos Verlag, Immenstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-931951-39-9
  • The Cologne joke , Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-7743-0478-9
  • Allgäu Reading Book , Edition Allgäu published by Hephaistos Verlag, Immenstadt 2011, ISBN 978-3931951559

Anthologies and literary journals (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Print edition of Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger No. 69 Saturday / Sunday, 21./22. March 2020 Page 03 Obituary notice of his family
  2. ↑ Dieter Höss. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 396.
  3. ↑ Obituaries of Dieter Höss | We are sad. Retrieved August 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Höss, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Immenstadt
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2020
Place of death Cologne