Hans OE Gronau

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Hans OE Gronau (born July 5, 1925 in Bremen ; † April 8, 2001 in Siedenburg ) was a German author, painter, graphic artist and photographer. As an author, he wrote not only high German factual texts but also prose in Low German. Gronau was an art and craft teacher in Dorfmark and Syke ( Lower Saxony ). He was co-founder and from 1980 to 2001 first chairman of the association " Art in the Province " in the district of Diepholz .

biography

Gronau was the son of a teacher. He attended the elementary school in Bremen- Rablinghausen , from 1934 the Bremen secondary school and from 1940 to 1943 the teacher training institute in Vechta. He was drafted in World War II , was a prisoner of war and returned to his homeland in 1948. Then he attended the State Art School in Bremen .

From 1950 Gronau was a freelance graphic artist and writer in Bremen, from 1961 graphic artist, art and craft teacher in Dorfmark and Syke. He was the founder of the monthly newspaper "Kiek in de Welt", which was published by the Plattdütschen Kring eV in Bremen. There and in other media he published numerous articles, illustrated titles and brochures, produced more than 100 radio programs on Radio Bremen, NDR and WDR and articles on Literaturtelefon Oldenburg and Lilienthal and designed a series of slides for teaching purposes ( museums in the Diepholz district ).

He provided the prose text for the Lower Saxony butcher plate (long-playing record from 1976), which was supposed to help prevent the impending district reform (fragmentation of the Grafschaft Hoya district and subsequent merger with the Grafschaft Diepholz district to form the new Diepholz district ).

For more than 30 years he has organized numerous readings of his own works throughout northern Germany and many slide shows using cross-fading technology on numerous study trips (including to the Benelux countries, Spain, France, Portugal, Tunisia, Lanzarote, La Gomera, La Palma and Cyprus) . His pictures have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Syke, Stuhr , Sulingen , Bremen , Walsrode , Etelsen, Nuremberg , Le Mans (F), Apeldoorn (NL).

Works (selection)

Books / brochures

  • Eenerwegens - Ünnerwegens / Biller - poems ; Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel 1983, 60 p. M. 26 illustrations ISBN 978-3529049507
  • 1959 - 1984 / Exposition / Maine - Lower Saxony / 25 years of Franco-German friendship ; Overall design of the brochure for the anniversary exhibition in October 1984 in the Le Mans Chamber of Commerce, Sarthe Department, France. Syke 1984, 48 pp. 55 Fig.
  • together with Helga Karoline Scherler-Gronau: City of Sulingen - an active city with a future ; (Brochure; Ed .: Stadt Sulingen), Sulingen ²1993, 28 p. M. 44 fig.
  • together with Helga Karoline Scherler-Gronau: On a mill tour through Bruchhausen-Vilsen ; (Leaflet; Ed .: Samtgemeinde Bruchhausen-Vilsen), Bruchhausen-Vilsen 1994, 6 p. M. 6 fig.

Monographs

  • Hiking trails around Bremen ; (Text and drawings by Hans OE Gronau), 1958
  • Gut Hodenberg ; (Text and photos by Hans OE Gronau), 1959
  • At the gates of the Hanseatic city ; (Photos by Klaus Rohmeyer, text book and drawings by Hans OE Gronau), 1960
  • Dorfmark in the Hohen Heidmark ; Ed. I. Assignments from the Dorfmark e. V. v. Hans OE Gronau (text, cover photo, map drawing), 1963
  • School theater / diary of a rehearsal / Hans Gottwald; H. 0. E. Gronau, 1976
  • Museums in the districts of Diepholz and Nienburg / Weser ; Ed .: Landschaftsverband Weser-Hunte eV (Text: Hans OE Gronau), 1998

Radio plays

  • "De Äbär" (story)
  • "Dat tweete Ik" (story)
  • "Did you know that?" (Series)
  • "Kleverdree. Boys and Deerns in their own right" (short radio plays)
  • "Lever free. Boys and Deerns in Stranger Things" (radio play)
  • "Woans de Miegemken to Glück un Freden came sin" (story)
  • "Woans de Höhner to de Freedom came sin" (story)
  • "Woans de Schaap to de culture came sin" (story)
  • "Gröne Heid 63" (story)
  • "He's crazy" (story)
  • "De Gast" (short story)

literature

  • Holger Wessels (Landesbildstelle Bremen): Almost the essence of a person. Hans OE Gronau turns 75.Bremen 2000, video, 43 min.
  • Hans OE Gronau. 1925 - 2001. For his 80th birthday. Diverse - ambiguous. (Ed .: District Museum in Syke ), Syke 2005

Awards

  • 1996 Cross of Merit on ribbon of the Order of Merit of the FRG for his work as an artist and as a Low German author
  • 1997 Honorary gift from the district of Diepholz for work in the field of "Art in the Province"
  • 1997 1st Bremen Culture Prize for true love of home for the care of the Low German language and the preservation of the cultural and intellectual heritage of our home

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personal data
SURNAME Gronau, Hans OE
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, painter, graphic artist and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 2001
Place of death Siedenburg