Hanns HF Schmidt

Hanns HF Schmidt (born July 4, 1937 in Walkenried ; † September 26, 2019 ) was a German writer, composer and painter.

Life

After studying music and mathematics in Halle, Schmidt worked as a math and music teacher until he started working as a writer in 1965. Since 1953 he has been active as a journalist in newspapers and magazines. He was the author of children's radio plays and numerous book publications on the history of Central German culture, art and literature as well as collections of regional stories and legends. In the 1970s he published literary reports on his hikes through the Harz Mountains , the Magdeburg Börde and the Altmark . In his last books the life of ordinary people was central. Hanns HF Schmidt lived in Magdeburg and Püggen , where he ran a puppet theater in a farmhouse.

Works (selection)

• Sketches from the Altmark . Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt, 1978.
• From Magdeburg to the Harz . Greifenverlag, Rudolstadt, 1984.
• Between the ear and the Elbe. Hikes to village churches in the Altmark. Berlin, 1984
• The Altmark: A reader . Hinstorff, Rostock, 1999. ISBN 978-3-356-00786-2
• Legends and images about the Thuringian region . Tauchaer Verlag, 2000. ISBN 978-3-89772-016-9
• Legends and pictures from Berlin-Brandenburg . Tauchaer Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-89772-120-3
• Originals from Saxony-Anhalt: entertaining . Tauchaer Verlag, 2010. ISBN 978-3-89772-185-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Hanns HF Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grit Warnat: Magdeburg writer Schmidt is dead. In: Volksstimme , September 30, 2019. Accessed October 1, 2019.
2. ^ Hanns HF Schmidt. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , pp. 830–831.
3. ↑ Hans Walter: A man on a constant tour of discovery. In: Volksstimme, July 3, 2012, p. 22.
4. ↑ Hanns Schmidt at Hinstorff-Verlag ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )