Herbert Somplatzki

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Herbert Karl Somplatzki (born December 19, 1934 in Groß Piwnitz , Ortelsburg district , Masuria ) is a German writer .

life and work

As a child, Somplatzki experienced the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 . He came to the Ruhr area in 1946 and began to work at the Auguste Victoria colliery in Marl-Hüls at the age of 14 . Eleven years in mining , then an exceptional student at the German Sport University in Cologne: qualified sports teacher. Studies at the University of Essen: media education, German language and literature, art, educational science: Dipl.-Pedagogue. From 1949 to 1960 he worked in the mining industry. Then studied to become a qualified sports teacher at the German Sport University Cologne and study to become a qualified pedagogue at the Remscheid Academy for arts and media education with a focus on theater and literature and at the University of Essen, study of media pedagogy, German studies, art and educational sciences .

Somplatzki was a founding member of the Literature Council North Rhine-Westphalia and deputy state chairman of the Association of German Writers (VS) in North Rhine-Westphalia . Herbert Somplatzki is a member of the Christine Koch Society for the Promotion of Literature in the Sauerland, the Friedrich Bödecker District NRW and Lower Saxony, the LAG Youth and Literature in North Rhine-Westphalia, the European Authors' Association Die Kogge and the International PEN Former member of the literature work group the world of work . The writer has lived in Schmallenberg in the Sauerland since 1998 .

For a long time he has dedicated himself to German-Polish relations, both in his literary work and in meeting people in his Masurian homeland. His bilingual books Morgenlicht und Wilde Schwans - Brzask i dzikie łabędzie and The Woman with Amber Hair - Kobieta o bursztynowych włosach give Germans and Poles the opportunity to read them in their mother tongue as well as in the language of their European neighbors. His book Masurische Gnadenhochzeit illustrates, as history in stories, German-Polish contacts from the end of the 19th century to the present. In cooperation with the West Prussian State Museum in Münster, this book became the basis of the bilingual exhibition East-West Encounters in War and Peace , which has been presented in Germany and Poland since the “German-Polish Year 2005/06”.

Awards

  • First prize in the authors' competition of the Association of German Open-Air Theaters (play: On Another Star), 1976
  • Radio play award of the ARD for radio plays (for the radio play learning processes), 1972
  • Silver medal of the International Sports Film Festival Duisburg, 1968
  • Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon, 2019

Works

Various works since 1967, among others in collaboration with Ilka Boll , in particular books, song lyrics, plays, radio plays and graphics.

Exhibitions

Exhibition East-West Encounters in War and Peace - On the Traces of a Family History of the West Prussian State Museum in Münster-Wolbeck , shown among others in 2008 at the East Prussia Cultural Center in Ellingen .

Audio books

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcements from the Fritz Hüser Society 2019/2, Dortmund, p. 3
  2. ^ Sauerlandkurier.de: New exhibition opens at Museum Holthausen - East-West encounters from September 29, 2014, accessed on November 18, 2017
  3. ↑ Reconciliation and Understanding , Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung / Episode 26/2008 of June 28, 2008 (PDF)
personal data
SURNAME Somplatzki, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Somplatzki, Herbert Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Great Piwnitz