Horst Michalowski

Horst Michalowski (born May 29, 1937 in Wahrendorf , Sensburg district ; † January 13, 2005 in Bad Zwischenahn , Ammerland district ) was a German writer and translator .

Life

Horst was the first of the five sons of a Masurian family who lived first in Prawdowen (Wahrendorf), then in Selbongen . His parents were Franz and Ottilie Michalowski, geb. Faltin. After the end of the war , Selbongen came to Poland and has been called Zełwągi ever since. He married in 1960 and lived with his wife in Mikołajki . As part of the family reunification , the couple arrived in Germany at the end of 1968 as repatriates . You lived in Bad Zwischenahn on the Zwischenahner Meer since 1969 .

Between 1972 and 1974, Horst Michalowski translated three non-fiction books on firearms from English into German, which were published by Motorbuch-Verlag . During a stay in the Masurian homeland in the summer of 1998, he wrote the novel The Silver Road in Zełwągi . A life of Masuria , published in Berlin in 1999. Relevant books about Masuria with stories, fairy tales and poems followed. At the same time he researched Ernst Wiechert , who was born in 1887 in the small Masurian town .

When Horst Michalowski died, Siegrid Michalowski issued several publications from the estate in the following years.

Fonts

Translations

• Arthur James Barker, John Walter: The Russian infantry weapons of World War II. 1972, ISBN 3-87943-256-2 .
• Ian Hogg : The German Pistols and Revolvers; 1871–1945 (German pistols and revolvers). Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1973, ISBN 3-87943-259-7 .
• Frank William Arthur Hobart: The Machine Gun. The story of a fully automatic weapon (Pictorial History of the Submachine-Gun). Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-87943-277-5 .

Books

• The Silberstrasse. A Masurian life . Frieling, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8280-0881-X .
• Masurian Country. Nature in poems and stories . 1999. Isensee, Oldenburg 1999, ISBN 3-89598-652-6 .
• Moonlight on the waters of home. A novel about a refugee . Freiling, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8280-1316-3 .
• Masurian fairy tales . Isensee, Oldenburg 2003, ISBN 3-89598-959-2 .

posthumously

• Siegrid Michalowski (Ed.): When the snow has melted . (A novel fragment, supplemented by a biography and parts of the work). Isensee, Oldenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-89995-478-4 .
• Horst Michalowski tells about his homeland East Prussia about people, nature and the animal world . 2008.
• Siegrid Michalowski (Ed.): Ernst Wiechert's last visit to his father at home . Bad Zwischenahn 2008. (audio book)
• Siegrid Michalowski (Ed.): Horst Michalowski describes. Ernst Wiechert's last visit to his father's home . 2010. (album)

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Michalowski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief vita at die-ostgebiete.de
• The “ambassador” of Masuria in NWZ-Online