Hermann Spix

Hermann Spix (born May 23, 1946 in Düsseldorf ) is a German writer .

Life

Hermann Spix grew up on the Lower Rhine , in Düsseldorf and in Mettmann . After graduating from high school , he studied pedagogy , German and history at German and British universities . Then he was a teacher at a secondary school in Neuss until 1995 ; literary works were also created. Spix, who was based in Kaarst-Büttgen for a long time , now lives in Neuss .

Hermann Spix is ​​the author of novels , short stories , radio features and socio-historical depictions.

Hermann Spix is ​​a member of the Association of German Writers and the working group "Literature of the Working World" . In 1975 he received a work grant from the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , in 1978 a travel grant from the Foreign Office for Egypt, 1994–1998 a grant from the Sparkassenstiftung to "promote Rhenish cultural assets", the Stadtsparkasse Kaarst-Büttgen and the city of Kaarst for the project "Die Menschen vom Tuppenhof "and in 2004 a travel grant from the Foreign Office for Copenhagen.

Works

• Opaque transparencies , Mettmann 1970
• Picture book , Mettmann 1973
• Elephteria or The Journey to Paradise , Frankfurt am Main 1975
• Violation of the peace , Dortmund / Cologne 1987
• Story from the feeding trough, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne 1990
• Escape memory of the writer Josef Ippers, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne 1991
• A recorder for a groschen, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), Kiel 1992
• The Tuppenhof archive, Cologne 1999
• The people from the Tuppenhof, Essen 2004
• Schutzmann Anno '45, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Cologne 2005
• MATERIALS for The People from the Tuppenhof, Essen 2005
• "I want to slip into many lives" - approach to the writer Josef Ippers, biography, Damwerth-Verlag, Münster 2012

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Spix in the catalog of the German National Library