Helmut Metzger (Author)

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Helmut Metzger (born July 6, 1917 in Bad Dürkheim ; † December 20, 1995 there ) was a German author and became known as a Palatinate dialect poet .

family

Metzger was the only child of the judicial inspector Philipp Metzger and his wife Magdalene nee. Schey. Together with his wife Helene Luise geb. Ziegler, whom he married on February 22, 1941, he had two sons, born in 1944 and 1946 respectively.

education and profession

1934 acquired Metzger at the Bärmannischen junior high school in his hometown of the high school . After completing an administration apprenticeship, he passed the senior service exam in 1938 . During his professional life at the Palatinate Pension Institution , he rose to the position of councilor. After a heart attack in 1977, he took early retirement in 1978.

War and Captivity

Right at the beginning of the Second World War , Metzger was drafted into the Wehrmacht and was deployed on the western and eastern fronts. After the end of the war he was an American prisoner of war for three months, where he founded the Bunte Bühne , which also performed with entertainment programs in other prison camps.

writer

Metzger also worked as a writer, mainly as a dialect author. Over a period of 47 years he published numerous books in the regional dialect , several of which were published for the first time or reissued after his death. For the then Südwestfunk (SWF) , today Südwestrundfunk (SWR) , he wrote some radio plays; two of his plays were performed publicly. He won several prizes at the dialect poet contest in Bockenheim . After Metzger fell ill with diabetes in the 1980s , he lost both legs and his kidneys failed as a result in the early 1990s. He spent the last few years in a wheelchair. His later works often deal with dealing with his illness.

Works

Books

  • Despite everything: Palatinate humor (1947)
  • He was a civil servant. Cheerful official primer in verse (1959)
  • Mer sin just like mer sin! A cheerful book of life in Palatinate dialect (1961)
  • Ebbes (1964)
  • The Palatinate breed - lots of wine, lots of fun. A dialect verse book (1964)
  • Still Ebb (1970)
  • The Palatinate Wei (n) story (1975)
  • The cheerful Adolar (1979)
  • The Pälzisch Wei (n) story (revised, new edition 1980, together with Karl Heinz)
  • Cattle. Funny and serious (1980)
  • Ur-Pälzisch (1982)
  • All Leite: A predominantly cheerful verse book in Palatinate dialect (1985, together with Bruno Kröll)
  • Ebbes for patients. "Medi-cynical" in Palatinate dialect verses (1986)
  • Derkemer Worschtmarkt. History - Stories - Poems (1986, together with Kurt Dehn and Karl Heinz)
  • De Humor goes first (1994; new edition 2002, posthumously)
  • Nadur pure (1997, posthumous)

Radio plays

  • Around the Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt
  • Around the Dürkheimer barrel
  • De Feierwehr Ball
  • The Hitzkopp Flori
  • Insured. Director: Alexander Malachovsky , BR 1986, 11 min.

Stage plays

  • The Hitzkopp Flori
  • Uff de Hochzisch

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Butcher, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palatine dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Dürkheim
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1995
Place of death Bad Dürkheim