Heinrich Pleticha
Heinrich August Pleticha (born September 9, 1924 in Warnsdorf , Czechoslovakia ; † October 14, 2010 in Würzburg ) was a German writer and editor of numerous books, mostly historical non-fiction books for both young people and adults.
In World War II Heinrich Pleticha was wounded twice. As a displaced person, he moved to Bavaria . In Erlangen he studied history , German and geography and did his doctorate with Anton Ernstberger . He then worked as a teacher and from 1974 to 1986 was director ( senior director ) at the musical Matthias-Grünewald-Gymnasium in Würzburg . In 1986 he was appointed honorary professor at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg .
Pleticha's almost 100 books reached a total circulation of more than five million copies. He has received several literary prizes for his work, including a. 1974 with the Friedrich Bödecker Prize . He was appointed a full member of the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1982 and was awarded the Great Sudeten German Culture Prize in 1991 . In addition, he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit , in 1986 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Medal of Merit Pro meritis of the Ministry of Culture .
Works (selection)
- author
- We've been living for five seconds (1958, with Georg Popp and Walter Anders)
- Knights, castles and tournaments (1961)
- Citizen, farmer, beggar
- Landsknecht, Bundschuh, mercenary
- Immortal Prague
- The shine of the empire
- Wanderer, are you coming to Prague
- Franconia and Bohemia (1990)
- Columbus. Person. Time. Posterity (1977)
- The great book of ballads (with Otfried Preußler and Friedrich Hechelmann)
- The German-language adventure book in the 20th century . In: The New Library . Journal for the public libraries in Bavaria . Born in 1994, No. 1 , ISSN 0028-3126 , p. 1-8 .
- editor
- First hand story
- First-hand cultural history
- First-hand history (together with Carlo Schmid )
- First-hand history of discovery (together with Heinrich Harrer )
- German history (in twelve volumes)
- World history (in 14 volumes)
- The drive to nowhere
- The classic Weimar
- Gustav Freytag : Pictures from the German Past (in 3 volumes, commented and illustrated)
Awards
- 2004 wild female award
Web links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Pleticha in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Heinrich Pleticha in the German Digital Library
- Otfried Preußler: Polyhistor from a polyhistoric landscape. Heinrich Pleticha, a leading German author in the field of historical popular education, on his 80th birthday
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SURNAME | Pleticha, Heinrich |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pleticha, Heinrich August (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Warnsdorf |
DATE OF DEATH | October 14, 2010 |
Place of death | Wurzburg |