Friedrich Hans Schaefer

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Friedrich Hans Schaefer , actually Bruno Hermann Friedrich Schaefer (born March 24, 1908 in Rostock , † December 1, 1998 in Ahrensburg ) was a German master tailor, teacher and Low German writer.

Life

Friedrich Hans Schaefer was the son of a master tailor. He attended secondary school in Rostock , where his teachers recognized his outstanding musical talent and advised him to take up an artistic profession. However, his parents did not support him and after nine years of school they let him begin an apprenticeship as a men's tailor . In addition to this, Schäfer still managed to work as an author, set designer and actor by performing pieces on his puppet stage. From 1926 he was an apprentice tailor in Dresden and from 1929 a master tailor in Rostock.

From 1930 to 1932 Schaefer attended the commercial college and the vocational education institute in Berlin. He changed his profession and became a teacher at vocational schools, got married and got a job in Lübeck. He was seriously injured as a soldier in World War II , but recovered from his wound and worked in an armaments factory . During this time he wrote many letters to his children in which he developed literary characters, from which he later turned stories for adults in Low German. In 1950 he became a teacher at the district vocational school in Ahrensburg; 1973 retired. His first play Dat weer de Knieperkaat was premiered in 1964 in Ahrensburg, Stormarn district .

Schaefer was one of the most productive and creative Low German authors: since the mid-1960s he has written more than 20 radio plays for North German Broadcasting and Radio Bremen , mostly current, contemporary, pioneering pieces. There were also a number of plays. He made a name for himself above all with masterful adaptations of Goethe's Faust , Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug (Dat Schörengericht) , Ballads un Leeder after François Villon or Pippi Longstocking after Astrid Lindgren .

Honors

Radio plays

author

Others

  • 1985: One day in May. Low German authors remember May 8, 1945 (documentary radio play - NDR / RB)

In early May 1985, forty years after the end of the war, the writer and journalist Michael Augustin asked Low German authors to describe their personal impressions on the day of the surrender of Nazi Germany.

In the almost 46-minute production, the following spoke:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Reinhard Goltz , Ulf-Thomas Lesle (ed.): Dat Land so free un wiet . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-455-40026-4 .
  2. Peter Hansen: Low German literature .
  3. ^ Karl Mahnke Theaterverlag: Friedrich Hans Schaefer
  4. ^ Hinstorff Verlag : Friedrich Hans Schaefer