Gustav Engelkes

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Gustav Engelkes ( pseudonym : Ulrich Schipper , born August 30, 1905 as Gustav Wilhelm Gerhard Engelkes in Westgaste , East Friesland ; † April 13, 1973 in Norden (East Friesland) ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Gustav Engelkes was the eighth and youngest child of a teacher. Since 1916, he visited the Ulrich School in the north , which he in 1921 relegated was. He then began a commercial apprenticeship , which he broke off in 1925. The wandering life that followed, which he u. a. led to Switzerland and Austria , Engelke was ended by a serious illness during a stay in Italy , so that he was forced to return to his parents' house. Another trip took him to Belgium in 1928 . Later he ran a margarine agency and a press agency together with a brother . Since 1931 he was a freelance writer ; six children were born from their marriage in the same year.

Gustav Engelkes took part in the Second World War as a medic . After 1945 he was part of the Norder local editorial staff of the Ostfriesen-Zeitung . In order to be able to support his family, he wrote numerous articles for the regional press and home calendar until his death .

Gustav Engelkes was the author of novels , short stories , books for young people , poems and plays . His works, which appeared during the Third Reich , are shaped by a national ideology; After 1945 ten of these works were on the " List of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet zone or the early GDR .

Works

  • The journey to the pirate tower , Wuppertal-Barmen 1931
  • People in battle , Langensalza [u. a.] 1933
  • World War burns in boys' hearts! , Langensalza [u. a.] 1933
  • In the fire circle , Mühlhausen 1934
  • Hinnerk, the driving man , Langensalza [u. a.] 1934
  • Dürer's German distress , Magdeburg 1935
  • The Heidenreiter , Landsberg (Warthe) 1935
  • Hidde tom Brook , Langensalza [and a.] 1935
  • Rimt and Rulf , Leipzig 1935
  • Runic fibula , Langensalza [u. a.] 1935
  • Thorsten's death ride , Breslau 1935
  • The eagle flight , Munich 1936
  • Lower Saxony-Jul and other national stories , Landsberg 1936
  • Christas Rache , Munich 1937
  • Maike , Munich 1937
  • Völkische Balladen , Darmstadt 1937
  • The magic sail , Landsberg (Warthe) 1937
  • Andreas Hofer's struggle for freedom , north 1938
  • Heart at anchor , Werdau 1938
  • The black Rolf , Lengerich 1938
  • Storm surge , Munich 1938
  • Ute - Störtebecker's first love , Lengerich 1938
  • The Count of North , Wels 1939
  • The King's Cornet , Berlin 1939
  • Rome on the sinner's bench , Wels 1939
  • When spring comes , Lengerich 1939
  • Interlude Batavia , Leipzig 1941
  • Tidebuch , Reinbek near Hamburg
    • 1. The tales of ebb and flow , 1947
    • 2. The fairy tales by the sea , 1948
    • 3. The fairy tales of then and now , 1948
  • Heaven and Earth , Kaiserslautern 1948
  • Famous East Frisians , Verden / Aller 1950
  • A fire in winter , Rosenheim 1950
  • The colorful lantern and other fairy tales , Hanover 1970
  • In cold and hot zones , Wuppertal 1973
  • Legends and stories from Harlingerland , Jever 1973
  • The ship in a bottle , Leer 1994

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SURNAME Engelkes, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelkes, Gustav Wilhelm Gerhard (full name); Schipper, Ulrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Westgaste , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1973
Place of death North (East Frisia)