Günter Löffler

Günter Löffler (born August 6, 1921 in Thale ; † January 1, 2013 ) was a German teacher , translator and writer .

Life

Löffler was born in the Harz Mountains in 1921 . From 1931 to 1937 he attended the boys' secondary school in Dessau and obtained secondary school leaving certificate . He started studying foreign languages ​​at a special school in Leipzig, but was soon drafted into the Wehrmacht . After basic training in the army (Wehrmacht) , he was deployed on the Eastern Front, where he was wounded. After his recovery, he was transferred to the Africa Corps in 1942 . There Löffler was taken prisoner by the US Army . In a prisoner of war camp in the United States he had the opportunity to improve his language skills in English and Russian. Günter Löffler returned to Dessau from captivity and was employed as a teacher for English and Russian at the Extended High School Philanthropinum Dessau . He began 1953, a philological study of English language and literature and Slavic studies at the Martin Luther University in Halle . He later moved to the University of Leipzig , where he successfully completed his studies. Until his retirement Günter Löffler worked as a foreign language teacher at the Philanthropinum. He also translated literary works, including those by Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Tendryakov , Konstantin Michailowitsch Simonow , Jack London and James Fenimore Cooper , worked as an interpreter and published several of his own children's books and novels . Günter Löffler lived with his wife in Berlin since 1989 .

Fonts

• The man from back then. Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt 1963
• Crepe soles. Publishing house Das neue Berlin, Berlin 1965
• The dollhouse. Verlag Das neue Berlin, Berlin 1967
• The moon horse: Turkish fairy tales. Der Morgen, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-371-00204-7
• Pancake Pot Belly. Postreiter Verlag, Halle (Saale), 2nd edition 1989, ISBN 3-7421-0251-6
• A momentous change of scenery: How it was in a GDR school. Frieling, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8280-0408-3
• Finale in Texas: the adventurous escape from American captivity. First-Minute-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Emsdetten 1998, ISBN 3-932805-01-1
• Groping in the dark: review of a slightly bent GDR biography. First-Minute-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Emsdetten 2000, ISBN 3-932805-13-5
• Weschke junior in a tight spot: a Berlin thriller from the new millennium. First-Minute-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Emsdetten 2001, ISBN 3-932805-24-0
• Weschke junior and the red Rocky: a detective novel. First-Minute-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Emsdetten 2003, ISBN 3-932805-35-6
• Treuwitz. First-Minute-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Emsdetten 2005, ISBN 3-932805-45-3

Translations

• Robert Louis Stevenson : In the South Seas. Stories and experiences. With illustrations by Wolfgang Würfel . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1972. 390 pages

literature

• Edgar Hauck, Manuela Kempf, Günter Schellenberger, Helmut Zentsch: The History of the Wall School . Part 1, Funk Verlag Bernhard Hein, Dessau 2007, pp. 51–52.
• List of authors First-Minute-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Emsdetten

Individual evidence

1. ^ Günter Löffler: Obituary notice. In: Abschied-haben.de. , January 19, 2013, accessed November 7, 2019.