Herbert Wessely

Herbert Wessely (born August 13, 1908 in Znojmo ; † March 12, 1998 in Karlsruhe ) was a Moravian engraver , composer , painter and writer.

Herbert Wessely was born in South Moravia, Austria. His father Nikolaus lost his job in the newly founded Czechoslovakia after the First World War , so that the family became impoverished and Herbert was unable to attend secondary school. Herbert Wessely worked from 1929 as a pattern maker and medalist in the North Bohemian Jizera Mountains . Expelled from Czechoslovakia in 1948 and robbed of all belongings, he moved to Karlsruhe with his wife and two children. As a result of the expulsion, almost all of his previous work of poems, stories, drawings, pictures and compositions was lost.

Wessely worked on the South Moravian Yearbook , from 1965 to 1973 as the main editor . He was a co-founder of the Charles Sealsfield Society and was its chairman from 1985 to 1994. He was also a founding member of the Marburger Kreis .

Wessely wrote a. a. Texts for compositions by Widmar Hader and published stories and poems from the estate of Ilse Ringler-Kellner in 1963 .

Works (selection)

• Narrow path . Poems and little prose. 1958
• Hike . Poems and prose. 1968
• Kingfisher and Sparrow . Poems. 1977
• The boys and God . Stories. 1994

literature

• Walfried Blaschka: Herbert Wessely . In: Ostdeutsche Gedenktage 2008, Bonn, pp. 153–157

Awards

• 1941: Adalbert Stifter Prize
• 1960: Literature Prize of the City of Karlsruhe
• 1978: Adalbert Stifter Medal
• 1983: Commemorative medal of the city of Esslingen
• 1987: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1988: Pro-Arte-Medal from the Esslingen Artists' Guild
• 1993: Home Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Web links

• Literature by and about Herbert Wessely in the catalog of the German National Library