Emil Merker

Emil Merker (born April 7, 1888 in Mohr, Podersam ; † July 23, 1972 in Ebratshofen ) was a Sudeten German writer.

Life

Emil Merker attended high school in Komotau , then the University in Prague to study natural sciences and received his doctorate. phil. After four years as an assistant, he worked for 20 years as a professor at the Higher German Forestry School in Reichstadt . An eye disease forced him to retire early. He lived in Nestomitz from 1935 until the expulsion and resettlement in 1945 , afterwards in Ginselsried, municipality of Hochdorf, today in Bischofsmais in the Bavarian Forest and since 1948 in Ebratshofen . Emil Merker was awarded an honorary gift from the East German Literature Prize of the Künstlergilde e. V. ( Esslingen am Neckar ) excellent; In 1966 he received the Sudeten German Culture Prize and in the same year the Johannes von Saaz plaque.

Works

Volumes of poetry

• "Ecstatic Earth" (1931)
• "The Way of the Cross" (1933)
• "Peasant Year Book" (1939)
• "The Arch" (1940)
• "The Great Drunkenness" (1950)
• "Burning amazement" (1958)

Novels

• "The Children" (1933)
• "The Way of Anna Illing" (1939)
• "The Wild Secrets" (1941)
• "Autumn" (1947)
• "Front against Death" (1954)

Stories and short stories

• "The young teacher Erwin Moser" (1932)
• "The Abyss", (1931)
• "The Dear Summer" (1941)
• "Winter in Buchberg" (1943)
• "A handful" (1945)
• "In the Labyrinth" (1948)
• "Game of Hearts" (1949)
• "In the reflection of happiness" (1958)

• the monograph "Adalbert Stifter" (1939)
• the founder biography "The gentle law" (1959)
• the life report "On the way" (1952)
• the memories “Bohemian Ore Mountains” (1965) and “Aufbruchende Welt”. Youth in Bohemia "(1959)

literature

• Gero von Wilpert : Deutsches Dichterlexikon, p. 40.

Web links

• Estate in the Bavarian State Library