Hellmut Lemmer

Hellmut Lemmer (born February 26, 1947 in Hunswinkel in the Sauerland ) is a German writer , reciter and editor .

Life

Lemmer studied German and geography in Bochum and Berlin . Until 2009 he was a teacher, most recently as director of studies at a high school in Wuppertal. Since 1994 he has been a member of the Association of German Writers . He lives with his family in Hattingen an der Ruhr .

Cultural activity

In addition to book publications and readings of his own texts, he developed programs with musicians and presented them, for example on the subject of “refugees”, “literature of the twenties” or “literature in the Third Reich”. Intensive collaboration developed with the composer and pianist Günther Wiesemann. There are recitation programs for well-known writers, e.g. B. Erich Fried , Heinrich Heine , Ernst Jandl , Anton Chekhov or Georg Christoph Lichtenberg . Since 1985 he worked in the Hattingen cultural initiative Kubischu. He is the initiator of the Hattinger Literaturtage and the internationally acclaimed Hattinger Prize for Young Literature . In the disputes over jobs at the Hattinger Henrichshütte , he clearly took sides with his poetic texts and appeared in numerous large events.

Fonts

At the very top, light birds , poems. Together with Erich Fried u. a. 1982
Under the locust bushes , poems and stories. Flieter, Hattingen 1990, ISBN 3-923797-07-9 .
Poems by the dozen , 12 concrete experiments on poetry. Flieter, Hattingen 1992, ISBN 3-923797-08-7 .
The sands of the Namib , Roman. Brockmeyer, Bochum 2014, ISBN 978-3-8196-0965-7 .
Heart potato , novel. WOLL Verlag , Schmallenberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-943681-91-8 .

editor

The Greens board the spaceship. Bonn, 1983.
Katharina Franz: The days were increasing. A village in 1945 - a woman tells . 1985
Helmut Niedermeier: nuances. Narrative sermons . 1986
The oven is far from over. A reader on the steel crisis, job cuts and resistance . 1988

Web links

Hellmut Lemmer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Hellmut Lemmer at NRW-Literatur im Netz

personal data
SURNAME	Lemmer, Hellmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, reciter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH	February 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hunswinkel , Germany