Heinz Mönkemeyer

Heinz Mönkemeyer (born March 30, 1928 in Stahle / Höxter district; † December 26, 2006 ibid) was a German home nurse and poet.

Life

Mönkemeyer was born as the tenth child of a family of masons. He first attended the commercial school in Holzminden , and did an apprenticeship from 1944. Afterwards he was an administrative employee in Lower Saxony . In 1956 he became a councilor in Stahle, where he was the last mayor of the town before the incorporation from 1961 to 1970. From 1970 to 1988 he was a councilor for the CDU in Höxter , as well as a registrar. He worked as a home nurse (since 1974 he was a local home nurse) and was intensively involved in building the open-air theater in Stahle and looking after the wayside shrines in Stahle.

Heinz Mönkemeyer became known beyond the borders of his home village through his poetry . He wrote hundreds of poems that he published in poetry books.

He died of illness at the age of 78.

Awards

1993: Ernst Moritz Arndt badge
2004: Honorary Prize of the City of Höxter
Honorary member of the Hoffmann von Fallersleben Society
Honorary member of the Federation of Expellees

Fonts

Nothing more is needed. Over 100 selected poems . Bläschke, Darmstadt 1974.
The bridge of life. 148 selected poems . Weserland, Holzminden 1978.
Beyond the church tower. Selected poems . Weserland, Holzminden 1980.
On the Weser in woods and fields , together with Karl F. Voss, Hütte, Horn-Bad Meinberg 1985, ISBN 3-922417-07-8 .
In the eastern corner of Westphalia. Poetry and pen drawings. History, serious and cheerful, anecdotes, legends and sayings, Low German . Weserland, Holzminden 1987.
Tied into a colorful bouquet . Weserland, Holzminden 1990.
Stahler sonnets. Looking backward, looking forward . MuNe, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-9805505-1-6 .

Web links

Heinz Mönkemeyer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Ludwig Janssen: Literature Atlas NRW . Edited by the Literatur-Rat Nordrhein-Westfalen eV, Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923243-96-0 , p. 33.
↑ ^a ^b Heinz Mönkemeyer. In: Stahler Blasorchester. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mönkemeyer, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German home nurse and poet
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH	Steels
DATE OF DEATH	December 26, 2006
Place of death	Steels

[LitAtlas2012-1] A ^b Ludwig Janssen: Literature Atlas NRW . Edited by the Literatur-Rat Nordrhein-Westfalen eV, Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-923243-96-0 , p. 33.

[sbo-2] Heinz Mönkemeyer. In: Stahler Blasorchester. Retrieved September 6, 2017 .