Georg Breuker

Georg Breuker (born May 25, 1876 in Bochum ; † May 16, 1964 there ) was a novelist and poet who tells of the working world of miners in his works. He was a close friend of Heinrich Kämchen .

Life

He was born the son of a miner. After attending elementary school, he worked as a horse boy on a colliery in Bochum-Stiepel and later became a teacher. Because of his involvement in the union and the miners' association, he was fired and blacklisted, which made it difficult for him to find new work. However, he continued to work in mining until 1910, after which he became a sales representative, mill owner and businessman.

Works

• The blossom branch , poems. 1949
• Brinkmanns Hof , a novel from the Bochum coal field in 1949
• There are three knocks on my door , a summer idyll 1950.
• Jörgen the Bergmann , a novel from the Bochum coal mine in 1954
• Schulte am Berge , novella 1955
• The Nerd , Stories 1956
• Two cousins , novel 1958
• The golden calf , a ballad 1959
• Little Robinson , a book for young people from the early days of the Ruhr mining industry in 1959
• Poems by a miner , anniversary edition for the 85th birthday of Georg Breuker in 1961

Honors

• 1958 Rhein-Ruhr Prize
• the Jörgenstein in Weitmarer Holz is reminiscent of his fictional character Jörgen the Bergmann

Web links

• Literature by and about Georg Breuker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Georg Breuker in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors