Ewald Rolf

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Ewald Rolf (born September 8, 1901 in Essen , † April 30, 1993 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German miner poet.

Life

Rolf was the son of a miner. He attended the mountain school in Bochum , did a mining apprenticeship. He then worked in various tasks in the Ruhr mining industry, initially as a fixture fitter , later as a technical draftsman, nurse, industrial electrician , switch attendant and commercial clerk. Until his retirement in 1987, he worked for over 50 years on 20 different shafts in the Ruhr area. After his retirement he lived in Gelsenkirchen-Horst and from 1993 in Essen.

He was a member of the “ Authors' Circle Ruhr-Mark ” and the “ Dortmund Group 61 ”.

Ewald's bequests are available at the Fritz Hüster Institute in Dortmund.

Awards

  • 1953: Award from the Federal Minister for Labor in Bonn for a story
  • 1966: Literature Prize from Gerhard Beer Verlag
  • 1972: Prize from the Stern Brewery for the city of Essen's best local poem

Works

Contributions to anthologies
  • New mining seal . Association d. Friends of art and Culture in Mining eV, Bochum 1949.
  • Hermann Bues (Ed.): Buddy, guys, comrades. Miners tell . Stories and poems from a competition in the "Bergbauindustrie" magazine, Bochum. Crüwell, Dortmund 1956.
  • Heinz Dramsch: Humor about coal and steel. With contributions by Matthias Ludwig Schroeder, Emu Ceka, Heinz Hoffmann, Otto Wohlgemuth, Ewald Rolf and Schmidhuber. Illustrations by Elisabeth von Steiger. Carl Lange Verlag, Duisburg 1957.
  • Fritz Hüser, Walter Köpping (ed.): We carry a light through the night. Poems from the world of the miner . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1961.
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): You, our time . European publisher, Vienna 1965.
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): This is my country . European publisher, Vienna 1966.
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): A word in the heart of the world . European publisher, Vienna 1967.
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): All wonders of the world . European publisher, Vienna 1968.
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): But we should love the enemy . European publisher, Vienna 1969.
  • Tedd Ursus (Ed.): After work. German workers seal today . Beer, Stadthagen [1970].
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): And yet we have to live . European publishing house, Vienna [1970].
  • Gottfried Pratschke (Ed.): The peace we long for . European publisher, Vienna 1971.
  • The dead colliery. Rainy night in spring . In: mirror image . 1978, p. 112 f.
  • The best friends. Poet and politician. The majority . In: mirror image . 1978, pp. 113-115.
  • The hayloft library. For escort . Autobiographical record and poem. In: Gernot Burgeleit (Ed.): Zeitstimmen. Look back, look around, look out. Anthology for the 25th anniversary of the “Ruhr-Mark” group of authors . von der Linnepe, Hagen 1986, ISBN 3-921297-65-6 , pp. 128-130.
  • Walter Köpping (Ed.): 100 Years of Miners' Seal . Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 1982, ISBN 3-921541-48-4 .
  • My first rope ride in 1917 . In: Walter Köpping (Ed.): Life reports of German miners . Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 1984, ISBN 3-921541-28-X , pp. 172-176.
  • Sunday in the district. In: Alfred Heese: Shape and change of the area . Hoesch, Dortmund and Krupp, Essen 1992, DNB 930639812 .
broadcast

literature

  • Klaus Scheibe: Ewald Rolf on his 90th birthday on September 8, 1991. A reading book (= Gelsenkirchener Lebensbilder 8). Gelsenkirchen City Library, Gelsenkirchen 1991.
  • Josef Büscher: The whole world knows his stories. The poet Ewald Rolf was 65 years old . in: Unions Rundschau 19 , 1966, pp. 413-415.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of death according to the German Literature Archive Marbach , then a different date of death also May 1, 1993
  2. ↑ a b c Ewald Rolf in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  3. ↑ a b Literary bequests, preliminary and partial bequests and collections in the Fritz-Hüser-Institut on dortmund.de, accessed on May 17, 2018.
  4. ^ Table of contents by Walter Köpping (Ed.): Life reports of German miners at the DNB, accessed on May 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ OPAC of the Gelsenkirchen City Library , accessed on May 17, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Rolf, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1993
Place of death Gelsenkirchen