Fritz Huser

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Fritz Hüser (* 4. October 1908 in Hot , † 4. March 1979 in Dortmund ) was a German librarian , who since his youth worker literature collected and this today since the 1950s through its archive of Labor seal and social literature (the Fritz-Hüser Institute ) made available to the public and advocated the further development of workers' literature. In 1961 he was one of the co-founders of Group 61 in Dortmund .

Life

Fritz Hüser was born on October 4, 1908 in Heißen as the son of the clerk and office manager Franz Hüser and his wife Anna. His parents died in 1910 and Hüser grew up with his grandfather, the miner Heinrich Friedrich Hüser, in Dorstfeld . Hüser attended elementary school, began an apprenticeship as a molding and core maker in 1923 , which he completed in 1927 with the journeyman's examination. He worked at the machine tool factory Wagner & Co. in Dortmund. At the age of 15, probably under the influence of his class-conscious grandfather, he joined the Socialist Workers' Youth (SAJ). His grandfather also interested him in literature and after an introduction to library work by Erich Schulz, the director of the Dortmund city library, he soon looked after libraries in the school and the SAJ. Through this activity, Hüser got to know workers' poets like Karl Bröger , Kurt Kläber and Heinrich Lersch at an early age . In 1931 he suffered an accident at work and was unable to work for two years, after which he worked again as a core maker and since 1937 as a part-time manager of the works library. Soon afterwards, however, the employers' liability insurance association gave him the opportunity to retrain as a librarian. He headed the works library of the Schaffgotsch mining company in Gleiwitz and from 1941 to 1945 a technical and scientific library. After intensive self-study and attending a special course, he passed the examination for service in popular libraries at the Leipzig library in 1944 . As a refugee he returned to his home in Dortmund and from October 1, 1945 until his retirement on October 31, 1973 headed the Dortmund Public Library (since 1970 Dortmund City Library, today part of the Dortmund City and State Library ). Hüser was married to Elfriede Wilhelmine Grün and had three sons and a daughter whom Max von der Grün married.

Collection of workers' literature

During his apprenticeship, Fritz Hüser had already started collecting brochures, books and newspaper articles on workers' literature - even though these texts were considered trivial social literature in his day and therefore not worth collecting. In doing so, he laid the foundation for a unique special collection on the history of workers' literature and culture. In the House of Libraries, which opened in 1958, he made this collection available to the public as an archive for workers' poetry and social literature. The archive developed into a meeting place for authors who were keen to produce contemporary workers' literature in Germany. At a writers' meeting on March 31, 1961 - also at the suggestion of Hüser - Group 61 was founded, which, in addition to critics and publishers, included the authors Bruno Gluchowski , Max von der Grün , Wolfgang Körner , Angelika Mechtel , Paul Polte , Josef Reding , Erwin Sylvanus , Günter Wallraff , Hans K. Wehren , Elisabeth Wohlgemuth and Peter-Paul Zahl were among the members. Hüser became the group's mentor and engine, but mostly remained in the background in public. When he retired as library director in 1973, Hüser handed over his private collection to the city of Dortmund, which undertook to continue and expand the collection with paid specialist staff; Until his death on March 4, 1979, Huser himself acted as honorary director of this institution, which was initially called the Institute for German and Foreign Workers' Literature. Hüser's collection formed the basis for today's Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World . In 1988 the Fritz-Hüser-Verein was founded to collect and research the literature of the industrial world of work (today the Fritz-Hüser-Gesellschaft ). Fritz Hüser wrote many letters; the estate includes around 10,000 letters from the period between 1944 and 1979.

Others

His estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund . Hüser found his final resting place in the Großholthausen cemetery in the south of Dortmund.

Works

  • Fritz Hüser, Max von der Grün, Wolfgang Promies (Hrsg.): From the world of work. Almanac of Group 61 and its guests . Luchterhand, Neuwied 1966.
  • Fritz Hüser (Ed.): Texts, Texts. Prose and poems of group 61 . Bitter, Recklinghausen 1969.
  • Fritz Hüser 1908-1979 Letters , edited by Jasmin Grande on behalf of the Fritz-Hüser-Gesellschaft, asso-verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-938834-39-8

literature

  • Alois Klotzbücher: Hüser, Fritz . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 1 . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1994, p. 51 ff .
  • Hedwig Bieber, Hugo Ernst buyer, Alois Klotzbücher (eds.): Service to books, readers and authors. Festschrift for Fritz Hüser . German Library Association, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-87068-313-9 .
  • Hanneliese Palm: Fritz Hüser (1908–1979) . In: Günter Benser , Michael Schneider (Ed.): Preserve - Spread - Enlighten . Archivists, librarians and collectors of the sources of the German-speaking labor movement. Archive of Social Democracy of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-105-8 , p. 138–143 ( fes.de [PDF; accessed October 27, 2011]).
  • Hanneliese Palm: Fritz Hüser as mentor of the Dortmund Group 61 . In: Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann, Jasmin Grande (Hrsg.): Writing worlds - Writing worlds . For the 50th birthday of the Dortmund group 61. Klartext, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0487-3 , p. 172-181 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Georg Max: "Straightforward, without fear, calling things clearly by their names". Max von der Grün (1926–2005) , p. 244 ( www.maxvondergruen.de )
  2. ^ Alois Klotzbücher: Hüser, Fritz . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 1 . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1994, p. 51 ff .
  3. ↑ Fritz Hüser 1908-1979 Letters , edited by Jasmin Grande on behalf of the Fritz-Hüser-Gesellschaft, asso-verlag 2008, p. 374
  4. ^ Announcements from the Fritz Hüser Society, 2020 / I, p. 2
personal data
SURNAME Hüser, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian
DATE OF BIRTH 4th October 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Be called
DATE OF DEATH March 4th 1979
Place of death Dortmund