Herbert Wotte

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Herbert Wotte (born March 12, 1909 in Dresden ; † March 8, 1989 ibid) was a German educator, draftsman, writer, translator and local researcher.

Life

Wotte was the son of a postman. After attending secondary school, he studied pedagogy, psychology and art education at the universities in Leipzig , Vienna and Dresden from 1928 to 1931 . During this time he came into contact with artists from the Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists (ASSO). From 1932 to 1942 he worked as a teacher and art educator, then was a soldier in World War II and returned to Dresden in 1949 from a Soviet prisoner of war. Here he worked as a scientific draftsman at the German Hygiene Museum and worked as a translator of Russian literature, including works by Ivan Turgenev . From 1953 he worked as a teacher in Dresden and from 1968 worked as a freelance author. Travels took him to Mongolia and the Soviet Union, among others. Wotte wrote novels and biographies and was also the author of numerous Brockhaus traveling books .

Wotte lived with his family in Loschwitz and was the father of Joris Wotte (1940-1996). He died in Dresden in 1989 and was buried in the Trinity cemetery.

Works (selection)

  • The Weißeritz dams , Leipzig 1954 ( Our little hiking booklet , 17)
  • Baroque garden Großsedlitz / Dohna-Weesenstein-Wilisch , issue 99, VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 1961.
  • Weather station at the pole , (VEB Brockhaus, 1964).
  • America lay in the blue distance. Journeys and adventures by the German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller , first edition 1966 (Leipzig, VEB FA Brockhaus 1966).
  • Pillnitz and its surroundings , 2nd edition of the new version, Leipzig: FA Brockhaus 1963 ( Our little traveling booklet , 2); 3rd, revised. Edition of the new version, Leipzig: FA Brockhaus 1967; 5th, arr. 1972 edition ( Brockhaus-Wanderheft , 2)
  • Course for unexplored. Russian and Soviet voyages of discovery , Leipzig: FA Brockhaus, 1967.
  • Captain Bering's last voyage , 1968.
  • Kaaram Tamo - Man from the Moon , Leipzig: FA Brockhaus 1969.
  • The island of evil spirits - life and deeds of the polar sailor Nikifor Begitschew , 1970. In: Excitingly told , Vol. 095.
  • Among horsemen and ruins. The journeys of the Central Asian researcher Pyotr Kozlov. Leipzig, VEB FA Brockhaus, 1971.
  • Malter and Klingenberg dams, Rabenauer Grund. Brockhaus-Wanderheft 17, Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig 1973, most recently as a tourist wanderheft , 34.
  • David Livingstone. A researcher's life for Africa , (Leipzig, 1973, FA Brockhaus.).
  • Magellan's journey around the world - the first circumnavigation of the world , first edition 1975 (Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1975).
  • Hunting in the twilight: by hunters, hunters and poachers , (Berlin: Verlag Neues Leben, 1983).
  • Dresdner Heide , 8th edition 1986 (Tourist-Wanderheft, 9).
  • Tharandter Wald , 11th edition 1986 (Tourist-Wanderheft, 17).
  • Pillnitz and its surroundings , 9th edited edition 1983; 10th edition 1985 (Tourist-Wanderheft, 27).

literature

  • Wotte, Herbert . In: Volker Klimpel : Famous Dresdeners . Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2002, p. 180.
  • Herbert Wotte . In: Artists on the Dresden Elbhang . Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, p. 503.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert Wotte . In: Artists on the Dresden Elbhang . Volume 2. Elbhang-Kurier-Verlag, Dresden 2007, p. 503.
personal data
SURNAME Wotte, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, draftsman, writer and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1989
Place of death Dresden