Heiner Joswig

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Heiner Joswig (born April 16, 1934 on the island of Truk in the Karolinen ; † December 28, 2011 in Karlsruhe ) was a German teacher, author and illustrator of children's books. As a local researcher , he was particularly interested in the history of North Baden and the linguistic description of the South Franconian dialect . As the son of a missionary, he was involved in documenting the relationship between Germany and the colonies in the South Seas.

Live and act

Joswig was born and raised as the third of four children of the missionary couple Otto Joswig and Johanna Emilie Grete Joswig on Truk ( Chuuk ) in the South Pacific (Pacific). In 1937 they moved to Staffort in the house of the Liebenzeller Mission . After school in Staffort and grammar school in Bruchsal with high school graduation, he studied linguistics, philosophy and geography at the universities of Heidelberg , Freiburg and Sheffield (England) with a focus on American, English and urban studies, which he obtained with a doctorate to Dr. phil. completed.

He worked as a grammar school teacher in Baden-Württemberg and retired as director of studies in 1999. In the following years he made several trips to his place of birth to renovate the former mission station of his parents, which serves as a school. He became the project manager of the cross-generational Agenda 21 group in Stutensee with publications on the peculiarities and linguistic structures of the South Franconian dialect in Staffort and the bombing of this village in 1944. He also published his parents' extensive correspondence with his German homeland as an important contemporary document.

Heiner Joswig was married to Anneliese Joswig née Welsch (1935–2012) since 1961.

Publications (selection)

  • So ebbas = Volume 1 of the Stutensee Hefte, published by the city of Stutensee, Karlsruhe 2002
  • When our church stopped, Stutensee-Hefte, Volume 4, Karlsruhe 2004
  • Hengd a Engele an da Wan (d) , Stutensee-Hefte, Volume 6, Stadt Stutensee 2010 ISBN 978-3-9811869-3-2
  • A mission ; Correspondence from the South Sea missionaries Grete and Otto Joswig, 1927–1937, 313 pages, Staffort 2011

literature

  • Konrad Dussel : Staffort 110–2010 Forays through 900 years of history, Verlag Regionalkultur Ubstadt 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-622-1
  • Arnold Hauck : Duwaggbreche in Stutensee . Stutensee booklets, City of Stutensee 2003
  • Manfred G. Raupp: Ortsfamilienbuch Staffort , publisher City of Stutensee, Verlag Gesowip Basel 2010, ISBN 978-3-906129-64-8
  • Wilfried Süß: Archive with documents and pictures on the history and the bombing of Staffort in 1945

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heiner Joswig in the parish of Staffort-Büchenau (page 18)
personal data
SURNAME Joswig, Heiner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Joswig, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Truk Island in the Carolines (South Pacific)
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2011
Place of death Karlsruhe