Harry Böseke

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Harry Böseke (born January 7, 1950 in Jützenbach ; † June 8, 2015 in Gummersbach ) was a German writer .

Life

Harry Böseke grew up in Cologne and in the Bergisches Land. He was married and had three daughters. From 1964 to 1967 he completed an apprenticeship as a chemical laboratory assistant. After attending evening school, Böseke studied social pedagogy at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences , graduating in 1973 with a diploma. He then worked as a social worker and youth carer in Cologne. During this time he also worked in a child and youth center in Cologne-Chorweiler ; There he organized writing workshops and, together with German and foreign young people, published the literary magazine Betonstadt , in which authors such as Şiir Eroğlu and the Cologne dialect poet Karl-Heinz Nagelschmidt took their first literary steps. Böseke has been a freelance writer since 1980; he last lived with his family in the Oberberg district town of Gummersbach.

Harry Böseke wrote novels , short stories and plays for young people; he also worked as an editor of anthologies . While the themes of his works were initially shaped by Böseke's work with marginalized young people and his participation in the work group literature in the world of work , the author has mainly dealt with the history and social history of the Bergisches Land since the 1990s.

Harry Böseke was a member of the Association of German Writers ; from 1998 to 2008 he was chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association of this association. In addition, he was a member of the Working Group on Literature in the Working World, where he was national spokesman from 1983 to 1985. In 1980 he and the team from the magazine Betonstadt received the “ Der Arme Poet ” cultural award , and in 1988, 1992 and 1995 a work grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

His estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

Works

  • The last filth. Modautal-Neunkirchen 1977.
  • with Christian Schaffernicht :: Vaterlandshiebe. Fischerhude 1978.
  • with Heidi Böseke: I think I'm in the woods. Dortmund 1979.
  • with Martin Burkert: Off to the Orient Express. Berlin 1984.
  • Doors out. Gelsenkirchen 1984.
  • Rampage. Dortmund 1986.
  • with Helmut Steickmann: Forays through Oberberg. Gummersbach 1989.
  • Play with words. Reinbek near Hamburg 1992.
  • Story circus. Reinbek near Hamburg 1993.
  • with Heidi Böseke: The Bergisches Land. Cologne 1994.
  • with Manfred Berges: Culture trails in Marienheide. Marienheide 1994.
  • The Oberbergisches Land. Sankt Augustin 1995.
  • Fire - earth - water - air. Reinbek near Hamburg 1996.
  • with Heidi Böseke: devil's ghost and gallows rope. Cologne 1996.
  • 33 pretty true lies stories. Siegburg 1998.
  • The Oberbergisches Land. Wiehl 1999.
  • When angels surf ... Food 2000.
  • The Bergisch carter. Wiehl 2001.
  • The road of work. Wiehl 2002.
  • The Bergische Eisenstrasse. Remscheid 2003.
  • Heaven's Gate and Glockenspiel. Overath 2003.
  • The silver road of work. Marienheide-Müllenbach 2003.
  • Thunderweed and Robber's Bride. Overath 2004.
  • The Oberbergisches Land. Erfurt 2005.
  • Hilde Brandt (alias): Mordwärts. The Nibelungs passed through the Rhineland and Westphalia. Marienheide 2005, ISBN 3-936405-26-3 .
  • 25 excursions into the history of the mountains. Overath et al. a. 2006.
  • Unbelievable errors. Ah! -Erlebnis-Verlag, Mönchengladbach 2006, ISBN 3-9811054-0-0 .
  • Out and about in the land of the elements. Bücken Sulzer, Overath / Witten 2006, ISBN 3-936405-24-7 .
  • with Gert Meier: Alesia - Eleusis and the fall of the early sciences . External stone culture research group, Cologne 2012, DNB 1033484156

Editing

  • with Jürgen Alberts: This company is on strike. Frankfurt am Main 1974.
  • At 15 you still have dreams. Frankfurt am Main 1975.
  • with Wolfgang Richter: Keys. Dortmund 1981.
  • Who is here on the sidelines? Weinheim u. a. 1981.
  • The (un) democratic everyday life. Bornheim 1982.
  • with Albert Spitzner: youth without work. Bornheim-Merten 1983.
  • Fifteen years and not a bit quiet…. Dortmund 1985.
  • with Ursula Lessing: crime scene workplace. Dortmund 1985.
  • with Bernhard Wagner: Are they still the old colors? Weinheim u. a. 1987.
  • Words on the rise. Remscheid 1989.
  • with Klaus Hansen: warmth of heart and spirit of contradiction. Gummersbach 1992.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Writer, filmmaker and local researcher: Harry Böseke died at the age of 65 . In: Oberbergische Volkszeitung . June 9, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Böseke, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jützenbach , GDR
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 2015
Place of death Gummersbach