Helmut Spiegel

Helmut Spiegel (born October 9, 1932 in Essen , † February 6, 2014 in Witten ) was a German journalist and author .

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Helmut Spiegel grew up in Altenessen in a workers' settlement. His father, a Krupp car and locomotive fitter, would have liked to see his son become an engineer . But he soon found that he could describe technology better than operate it, and he became an editor . He first worked for the Neue Ruhrzeitung in Essen , then from 1961 for the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Witten , where he lived with his family until his death. The subject in Helmut Spiegel's literature is the Ruhr area .

Works (selection)

• I shabby meatball. Novel about a youth in the war and post-war period in the Ruhr area , Bottrop, Henselowsky Boschmann 1996, ISBN 3-922750-20-6 , as an audio book Henselowsky Boschmann 2007, ISBN 978-3-922750-76-5
• The Bollerrad has to roll, the Knicker, he has to roll. Lost children's games from the Ruhr area , Bottrop, Henselowsky Boschmann 2004, ISBN 3-922750-49-4
• Our mother paused until the soup was boiling. Songs, recipes and stories from the old Ruhr area kitchen , Bottrop, Henselowsky Boschmann 2005, ISBN 3-922750-59-1
• Ursula puts the lid on all my pots. How marriage works in the Ruhr area , Bottrop, Henselowsky Boschmann 2006, ISBN 3-922750-67-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Helmut Spiegel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Helmut Spiegel in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Spiegel. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 1010, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .