Gerhard Andrejewitsch Wolter
Gerhard Andreyevich Wolter ( Russian : Герхард Андреевич Вольтер * 5. October 1923 in the German village Kruposchin the area Zhitomir , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union ; † 19th September 1998 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a German-Russian writer , journalist and author of "The Book Zone of total calm ”on the fate of the Germans in the USSR .
Life
His father and grandfather were blacksmiths. Shortly before the beginning of the Second World War , he finished high school in the city of Krasnoarmeysk, Stalino region (Donetsk) .
In autumn 1941, as a German, he was forcibly relocated with his parents, brothers and other compatriots from Ukraine to Kazakhstan in the Akmolinsk region.
In January 1942 his "trudarmist" exams began in the GULAG camps , which lasted until August 1946. Later, after the liberation, he worked as a teacher in a middle school, studying history first at the teachers' institute in Chelyabinsk , then at the college of education in Chimkent . His first newspaper publication appeared in 1959.
From that time on he combined his teaching profession with the creative activity of a writer and journalist. Until his retirement in 1989, he worked as a lecturer at the chair for philosophy at the University of the Arts in Bishkek (then Frunze) .
Since December 1995 he lived in Germany and in 1998 he worked for the newspaper “Deutscher Kanal” (Kiev).
He died on September 19, 1998 and is buried in Fulda (Germany).
literature
- Зона полного покоя: Российские немцы в годы войны и после неё / Свидетельства очевидцоя очевидцоя очевидцон // Издание 2-. В.Ф. Дизендорфа. - Москва, 1998. - 416 с. ISBN 5-87943-045-6 at Sakharov Center
- Gerhard Wolter: The zone of total calm. The Russian Germans in the war and post-war years. Eyewitness reports. Translated from the Russian by Verena Flick. Weber, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-9808647-0-7 .
- The zone of total calm: the Russian Germans in the war and post-war years; Eyewitness reports / Gerhard Wolter. [Trans. from the Russ. by Verena Flick]. - 2nd edition - Augsburg: Weber, 2004. - 473 pages: III. ; 22 cm, 530 gr; ISBN 3-9808647-0-7 from RusDeutsch
Web links
- Wilfried Bohm ”Thoughts at the moment:“ The zone of total calm ”. New publication by Gerhard Wolter describes the suffering of the Russian Germans ” in Das Ostpreussenblatt / Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung // Landsmannschaft Ostpreussen eV /// August 2, 2003
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josef Henke "Painful ways" / Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- ↑ Воспоминания о ГУЛАГе и их авторы / Сахаровский центр
- ↑ Вольтер Герхард Андреевич / "Немцы России" - энциклопедия, том 1: А - И. Председатель редакционной коллегии - В. Карев. Москва, Издательство «Общественная Академия наук российских немцев», 1999 г. 832 страницы. ISBN 5-93227-002-0 // ( History of the Volga Germans )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolter, Gerhard Andrejewitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Вольтер, Герхард Андреевич |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-German writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 5, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krupozhin |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1998 |
| Place of death | Kiev |