Emil Waas

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Emil Waas (born July 13, 1919 in Wiesloch ; † November 27, 1981 in Östringen ) was a German author and commercial artist.

Captivity

During the Second World War, Emil Waas was a medical officer on the Eastern Front. He was taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1945 and did not return to his homeland in Baden until 1950. During the almost five years of imprisonment he created almost 1,000 miniature drawings, which were also smuggled out of the camps by fellow prisoners. He painted on the smallest scraps of paper from cement sacks, newspapers, forms, maps or calendars. When there was a lack of colored pencils or pencils, he would apply paint from leaves, grass, charcoal, soot, potato peels or his blood with his fingers, pointed pieces of wood or tufts of grass as a brush.

The British War Museum described his legacy from this period as the "largest collection of prisoner-of-war art in the world and in human history." A first exhibition took place in 2013 in Östringen. At the end of 2016 his miniatures will be exhibited in Trier and made available on the Internet.

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After the war, Waas worked as a graphic designer and ran an advertising agency. He published books that dealt with examples of the practical use of the German language and the obvious misunderstanding of terms. The success of the works on style flowers led to several editions of the books. This is also based on the reader's recognition of their own faultiness. He used elwa as a pseudonym .

He is the father of the linguist and partly co-editor Margit Waas .

Publications

  • It starts with a point missing at the end. Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), ISBN 3-423-00962-4
  • Cuckoo clock with quail. Advertisement of the turn of the century, from DTV Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1982
  • The great style blossom fun. Involuntarily weird from the forest of leaves and signs, Stalling, Oldenbg. 1985
  • Expect more details under four letters: Classifieds u. Press releases d. Turn of the century, ed., DTV. Munich 1976
  • Fun in the forest of signs. Herder Verlag, Freiburg 1975, ISBN 3-451-07525-3
Associate Editor
  • Dear Mr. Company !: Stilblüten from official and private letters by Emil Waas and Margit Waas, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv), 1997, ISBN 3-423-01160-2
  • Don't cross the children, wait for the teachers (style blossoms from official and private letters), Margit Waas and Emil Waas (1980), ISBN 3-423-03936-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miniatures by Emil Waas were created while he was a prisoner of war ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oestringen.de
  2. ^ Emil Waas: Art to Survive - Website and Exhibition
personal data
SURNAME What, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES elwa (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesloch
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1981
Place of death Oestringen