Hermann Homann

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Hermann Homann (born January 11, 1899 in Warendorf , † June 4, 1985 in Münster ) was a German writer, radio editor and elementary school teacher.

Life

Hermann Homann was the son of a typesetter and proofreader and had attended the preparatory institute in Langenhorst since 1913 in order to prepare for attending the teachers' seminar. Given the wrong age, he became a war volunteer with the Navy in Flanders in 1915 , but after the First World War he continued his preparations for work as a primary school teacher and in 1920 passed the final examination at the State Teachers' College in Warendorf.

Since he could not find a job as a primary school teacher at first, he worked as a casual worker in a factory. During this time he joined the KPD , was active in the SAJ and Wandervogel movement, got to know the working-class writers Max Barthel and Otto Wohlgemuth and published his first High German poems. In 1923 he finally found employment as a primary school teacher in Ahlen . From 1927 he worked at a non-denominational school in Gladbeck , where he directed a school performance of the theater play Masse Mensch by Ernst Toller , who was also personally known to him, and which was severely hostile .

Dismissed from school service by the National Socialists for political reasons, Homann lived with his family in Ostbevern from 1933 to 1936 . There he led an amateur drama group with his wife, for which he wrote the first theater texts in Low German . The Low German comedy Hahn giegen Hahn, which premiered in 1938, gave him his breakthrough as a playwright. Due to the success of his pieces, he was asked to work in the organization Kraft durch Freude (KdF) and adult education. With the beginning of the Second World War, Homann was called up for military service and stationed in France and Flanders. After a serious illness, he worked as a military supervisor in the navy on Wangerooge , then, without being a member of the NSDAP, as head of the military support in Gau Westfalen-Nord .

In 1945 his family in Münster was bombed out and evacuated to Bad Meinberg . Homann worked again as a primary school teacher until he went to Hamburg in 1946 as an editor for the newly founded school radio of the NWDR . In 1948 he returned to Bad Meinberg for family and health reasons and returned to his job as a teacher, but remained a freelancer for the NWDR and from 1952 was a major author and editor of the Low German Westphalian radio plays of the 1950s and 1960s broadcast by NWDR and WDR involved under Wilhelm Wahl and Wolfram Rosemann . After his early retirement in 1960, he moved with his family to Münster-Sudmühle and worked there as a freelance writer until his death. In addition to his literary activities, he was involved in the Low German amateur theater and the Low German stage in Münster . He was friends with Anton Aulke and Heinrich Luhmann .

plant

After beginning with texts from the area of ​​workers' literature, especially with political puppet shows, he wrote mainly Low German plays and radio plays as well as numerous works of children's and youth literature and non-fiction books aimed at children and young people. Since the 1950s, books on European research and conquest trips to South America and the Pacific region have been a focus of his work. He also appeared as an editor of travel reports. Homann's estate is stored in the Westphalian Literature Archive in Münster.

Awards and honors
  • 1976: Rottendorf Prize
  • 1979: City hall thaler of the city of Münster
  • There is a Hermann-Homann-Weg in Warendorf.

Works (selection)

  • Kasper is on strike. A fun game in four lifts for the hand puppet stage (= Der Rote Kasper 7). Jahn, Leipzig [1930].
  • Solstice. Celebration material. Published by the National Socialist Community “Strength through Joy”, Gau Westfalen-Nord. Wulf, Warendorf 1937.
  • Rooster pour rooster. Kummedie with murder and Dautschlag in three upsets . Wulf, Warendorf [1938].
  • Lilofee is chasing a rascal. Leipzig: Payne Verlag 1941.
  • De Twiärsbrenner. Low German comedy in four acts. Wulf, Warendorf [1955].
  • Eight are looking for "Typhoon". An adventurous story about a bicycle. Titania, Stuttgart [1956].
  • Land in sight. The great book of discoveries. Union, Stuttgart 1957.
  • Quackery. Low German comedy.  Wulf, Warendorf [1957].
  • White man on hot trails. Explorer, conqueror and adventurer in the black continent. Union, Stuttgart 1963.
  • Wangerooge. The great illustrated island guide. Coppenrath, Münster 1967, ISBN 3-920192-23-0 .
  • Lünninge are also Mensken. A piece of family life in three upgrades. Mahnke, Verden / Aller [1970].
  • as publisher: Hernán Cortés: The conquest of Mexico. Personal reports to Emperor Charles V 1520–1524. Reissued and edited. Erdmann Tuebingen 1975.
  • Three cages on the tower. The rise and fall of the Anabaptist Empire in Münster in 1534/35.  Coppenrath, Münster 1977, ISBN 3-920192-25-7 .
  • as publisher: Georg Forster: Journey of discovery to Tahiti and the South Seas 1772–1775. Reissued and edited. Erdmann, Tübingen 1979.
  • Everyone has their own tiet. Ten Low German radio plays and stage plays.  Coppenrath, Münster 1979, ISBN 3-920192-65-6 .
  • The Ems from source to mouth: a picture book . Schnell, Warendorf 1981, ISBN 3-87716-987-2 .
  • The German North Sea coast. Islands, sea and coastal land . Schnell, Warendorf 1983, ISBN 3-87716-978-3 .

Radio plays (selection)

  • 1952: Hahn giegen Hahn. Director: Wilhelm Wahl
  • 1953: Smoke in the Küerke . Director: Wilhelm Wahl
  • 1954: Dubbelkopp . Director: Wilhelm Wahl
  • 1955: Quackery. Director: Wilhelm Wahl
  • 1956: Paradiesappeln. Director: Wilhelm Wahl
  • 1957: De Wittmann. Director: Wilhelm Wahl
  • 1958: Kinner are Wunner Guottes. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1959: De den Freden söcht… Director: Ivo Braak
  • 1960: Polteraobend. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1961: De early Koh. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1962: De Straat lang ... Director: Hans Robert Helms
  • 1963: Plaat hett dat dahn! Director: Hans Robert Helms
  • 1964: Everyone has its tied. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1965: De leigen Wiewer. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1966: Tüsken Saien un Maihen. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1968: Hannes in a lucky mockery. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1969: Lüninge are also Mensken. Director: Wolfram Rosemann
  • 1970: Lünken sünd ok Minschen. Director: Jochen Schenck
  • 1972: Biäckemske Ansliäg. Director: Wolfram Rosemann

literature

  • Walter Gödden , Iris Nölle-Hornkamp: The detective game ends well. In: “The desire to say 'no'”. A short history of Westphalian and Flemish children's and youth literature. Ardey, Münster 1997, ISBN 3-87023-083-5 , pp. 131-133.
  • Iris Nölle-Hornkamp: Hermann Homann (1899–1985). To life and work . In: Yearbook of the Wibbelt Society 9. Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 1993, pp. 96–113.
  • Gina Weinkauff: The Red Kasper. Puppet theater in the educational and cultural practice of the German and Austrian labor movement from 1918–1933 . Published by the German Institute for Puppetry , Bochum 1982, ISBN 3-88317-010-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Homann in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ^ Westfälisches Literaturarchiv - Hermann Homann. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Homann, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, radio editor and elementary school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Warendorf
DATE OF DEATH June 4th 1985
Place of death Muenster