Hans Dieter Baroth

Hans Dieter Baroth (born February 12, 1937 in Oer-Erkenschwick as Dieter Schmidt , † July 16, 2008 in Berlin ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Grave site in the Evangelical Cemetery in Berlin-Friedrichshagen

Hans Dieter Baroth was the son of a miner . He attended elementary school and then learned his father's trade. Until 1957 he worked underground in mining . After that, he held various activities and was from 1959 to 1961 union functionary . He began to write for various newspapers, was (under his real name Dieter Schmidt) editor-in-chief of the DGB youth magazine ran and - until it was closed in 1988 - of the DGB weekly newspaper Welt der Arbeit . From 1964 he began to make documentaries . Since 1963 he lived in Düsseldorf , from 1990 in Berlin. He was married to the historian Astrid Brand (born February 15, 1959).

In his narrative works, Hans Dieter Baroth was a sober chronicler of mining and, above all, of everyday miners' life in the Ruhr area in the second half of the 20th century. Baroth's later books dealt primarily with the history of football in his home region. In the last years of his life he wrote reports on the consequences of reunification in the eastern German states and at his last residence in Berlin.

Hans Dieter Baroth was a member of the Association of German Writers . In 1972 he received the German Journalism Prize from the IG Druck und Papier and the German Journalists Union and in 1992 the Ruhr Area Literature Prize .

Works

• The slippery democracy or the clever words , Düsseldorf 1969 (together with Jupp Wolter and Peter Leger)
• In our company , Cologne 1977
• But those were good times , Cologne 1978
• Crumble cake in Ickern , Cologne 1980
• Shaken but not bent , Cologne 1981
• The grass grew in vain , Cologne 1983
• The Revierbuch , Cologne 1985
• Man without a Name , Essen 1987
• “Boys, heaven is yours!” , Essen 1988
• Kick-off in ruins , Essen 1990
• German football's wild years , Essen 1991
• When football learned to walk , Essen 1992
• Knowing more, doing more for work and life , Düsseldorf 1993 (together with Astrid Brand)
• But now it's all west , Berlin 1994
• We built dikes for the weak , Hamburg 1996 (together with Dieter Schuster)
• Streuselkuchen and Muckefuck , Essen 2003
• I'll never forget that, Essen 2005
• No more Wattenscheid, or: Merkel doesn't wear a toupee , Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 2006
• Café Endlich , Asso-Verlag, Oberhausen 2009

Editing

• Writers test political texts , Munich [u. a.] 1967
• With politics and porn , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1973
• Women's movement and emancipation , Frankfurt / Main 1977
• Our last mines , Essen 1991

Web links

Commons : Hans Dieter Baroth  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hans Dieter Baroth in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Dieter Baroth in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• www.hansdieterbaroth.de
• Hans Dieter Baroth is dead . July 20, 2008