Goswin Peter Gath

Goswin Peter Gath ( pseudonyms : Georg Gadner , Schang vum Vugelsang , born October 4, 1898 in Cologne , † October 15, 1959 in Sürth ) was a German writer .

Life

GP Gath - family grave

Goswin Peter Gath took part in the First World War as a soldier . After that he carried out various activities. In the thirties he belonged to the authors' association of the Rheinische Gruppe and published their magazine Aufriß . After the Second World War , Gath wrote under the pseudonym Schang vum Vugelsang in Cologne dialect for the local newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger .

Goswin Peter Gath emerged primarily as a collector and reteller of sagas and legends from the Rhineland . He also wrote poems in Kölsch [Draum un Spill 1947] and, since 1935, radio plays, some in Cologne dialect.

A street in Cologne-Ehrenfeld was named after him. Gath was buried in the family grave on the Ehrenfeld part of the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (corridor E4 No. 67a-71).

Works

• The song ends , Pasing 1933
• The birthday , Munich 1937
• Cologne sagas, legends and stories , Cologne 1939
• The Nature Spirit Book , Cologne 1941
• Rhenish legends , Cologne 1943
• Remembrance and evocation , Cologne 1946
• Draum un Spill , Cologne 1947
• Rhenish legends , Cologne-Lindenthal 1947
• Kölner Domsagen , Cologne [a. a.] 1948
• Germanic god studies , Kevelaer / Rhld. 1951
• Stories from Our Lady , Freiburg 1954
• Seven Hundred Years of Altenberg Cathedral , Cologne 1955
• Cologne, the Grevens and their address book , Cologne 1956
• Cologne anecdotes , Cologne 1957
• Cologne Legends , Cologne 1957
• Sagas and legends of the Siebengebirge , Cologne 1957
• Small dictionary of the Cologne dialect , Cologne 1959
• Us dem Hätzenskühlche , Cologne 1973

Editing

• The most beautiful love poems in German literature , Kevelaer 1950
• German love letters , Kevelaer / Rhld. 1951