Gerd Lüpke

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Gerd Lüpke (born May 19, 1920 in Stettin ; † October 3, 2002 in Varel ) was a German writer, radio author , translator, radio announcer and reciter , who is particularly well-known in the Low German- speaking area.

Life

Lüpke spent childhood and youth in Loitz , Grimmen and Ribnitz . In Loitz and Grimmen he attended the elementary school in Grimmen on the middle school and in Ribnitz the high school . Also in Ribnitz he completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk before he went to the Reich Labor Service in Neubrandenburg . From 1939 to 1945 he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht . After the Second World War he was initially a language teacher and interpreter before settling down as a journalist in Varel , where he later worked as a freelance writer. He has published around 50 books and almost 5,000 radio programs for NDR and Radio Bremen .

In 1942 he married Irmgard Greiff (July 29, 1920 - August 9, 2010), who wrote under her maiden name and was an employee, idea generator and critic for him. Both lived in Varel as well as in the Dutch port city of Harlingen .

Radio author

His fame as a Low German radio author stems primarily from the NDR series Hör mal 'n beten to and the Radio Bremen broadcasts Niederdeutscher Hauskalender and Niederdeutsche Städtebilder , as well as from his radio plays .

Radio plays

speaker

In addition to his speaking work for radio, Gerd Lüpke often worked as a speaker, but also in an advisory capacity on record productions in Low German, such as B. on the speech plate series Low German voices u. a. with texts by Fritz Reuters , whom he also spoke once in a radio play. He also often designed both High and Low German lecture and reading evenings.

writer

Lüpke's best-known book publications include the debut Dat vulle Johr (1952) and Achter Dünen und Diek (1975). In his literary works Gerd Lüpke shows himself both as a Low German narrator and as a poet . He often wrote satires in Missingsch . The poetry anthology Stadt im Seewind (1996), for which Gerd Lüpke selected around 180 thematically related Varel poems from 250 years and explained them in their historical context, offers an informative and entertaining insight into the epochs of local (culture -)History. In the last years of his life he also devoted himself passionately to the task of literary representations of classical poets in what is now the Pakistani province of Sindh . After a general treatise on five centuries of poetry in the Sindhi language, The Poetry of the Land Are or break the lantern dark glass (2000), monographs on Satschal Sarmast (2001) and Shah Abdul Latif (2002) were published.

Prizes and awards

Gerd Lüpke has been awarded a number of prizes for his literary work and cultural achievements. Among other things, he received the Fritz Reuter Medal (1965), the Pomeranian Culture Prize (1968), the Mecklenburg Culture Prize of the Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg (1978), a radio play prize and the letter of honor from the Fritz Reuter Society , and later the Friesland Medal .

Lüpke is also a holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (1972) and Knight of the Royal Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau (1974). The Golden Merit Medal of Denmark (1982), the Gold Medal of the Academic Society of the Pakistani Country Sind (1989) and the Bremen Culture Prize (1998) are other international awards that Lüpke received.

literature

  • Gerd Lüpke . In: Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg (ed.), The Culture Prize Winners of Landsmannschaft Mecklenburg , 9./10. Episode of the Mecklenburg Memorial Days , Hamburg 1980, pp. 18-19.
  • Gerd Lüpke (obituary). In: The Oldenburg House Calendar 2004. Oldenburg 2003, p. 87

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Starsy: Gerd Lüpke on his 75th birthday in Heimathefte for Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania , 2/95, page 62
  2. ↑ a b Short biography in: Gerd Lüpke: Mien most beautiful Vertellen . Michael Jung Verlag, Kiel 1999, ISBN 3-929596-73-3 .
  3. ^ NDR: Low German radio play: Das Köhlschapp
personal data
SURNAME Lüpke, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, radio author, translator, radio announcer and reciter
DATE OF BIRTH May 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 2002
Place of death Varel