Giuseppe Bruno (Author)

Giuseppe Bruno (born September 25, 1945 in Butera , Sicily ; † February 8, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German-Italian author .

Life

Giuseppe Bruno grew up in Butera , a mountain town in south-east Sicily. The family, indebted after several years of drought, lived in abject poverty. Giuseppe Bruno came to Frankfurt am Main at the age of 16. He worked as an unskilled worker for the Deutsche Bundesbahn , on construction sites, in a foundry, a shoe factory and at the Hoechst paintworks . From the late 1970s to the early 1980s he ran a flower shop in Frankfurt-Eschersheim. At the age of 41 he graduated as a chemical technician at the Hoechst paintworks, where he worked until 1992. After the failure of his first marriage and the relocation of the Hoechst department , in which he was employed, Giuseppe Bruno wanted to start a new business in his home town of Butera. Since this did not succeed, he returned to Frankfurt am Main after a year, where he ended his working life as an environmental worker after several jobs in the city's services. Giuseppe Bruno was one of the guest workers from the very beginning and one of the few who wrote about their migration experiences. Giuseppe Bruno was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He is known for his initiatives for friendship between migrants and Germans, he participated in the documentation of the history of migration in the Historisches Museum Frankfurt and campaigned for a memorial plaque for the guest workers' barracks in Hoechst and for a guest worker memorial at Frankfurt Central Station that was installed shortly before his death . The transitional facility for asylum seekers of the Frankfurt am Main workers' welfare association has been called "Giuseppe Bruno-Haus" since 2014.

Works

• The train into a foreign country. A life as a farm boy and guest worker . EDITION 6065, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 978-3-9808639-8-8 .
• When the foreign becomes home. A guest worker fate . EDITION 6065, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-941072-11-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Giuseppe Bruno in the catalog of the German National Library
• EDITION 6065, publishing house for regional culture and history, Wiesbaden.

Individual evidence

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