Horst Mrotzek

Horst Mrotzek (born September 17, 1926 in Neidenburg in East Prussia ; † April 27, 2005 in Leer (East Friesland) ) was a German customs officer , journalist and writer .

Life

Mrotzek, born in East Prussia in 1926, was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a youngster in World War II and assigned to the front in Lithuania and East Prussia. With a war wound he was disembarked as part of the transport of wounded and refugees across the Baltic Sea in 1945 shortly before the invasion of the Soviet troops.

In the post-war period Mrotzek moved to Coburg and worked there as a customs officer on the German-German border . At the same time he published his first own writings.

In 1968 Mrotzek went to the city of Leer in East Friesland , where he worked as a freelancer. In addition to numerous short stories, he wrote short stories and aphorisms , which he published in various publications and in the daily press.

Around 1982 Horst Mrotzek lived at Horstweg 13 in Leer-Loga .

Fonts (selection)

• Poetry and prose from Hohen Ufer , Volume 2, Hanover: Moorburg-Verlag, 1982, ISBN 978-3-921814-64-2 , pp. 196-204
• Just one more summer. Stories about East Prussia , [Leer, Mühlenweg 3a]: H. Mrotzek, 1983; contents
• Where Thomas Mann wrote for three summers. Ein Ostpreusse tells (= Frieling new texts ), original edition, 1st edition, Berlin: Frieling, 1992, ISBN 978-3-89009-405-2 and ISBN 3-89009-405-8
• Routes. Encounters with the past , Niebüll: Videel, 2001, ISBN 978-3-89906-135-2 and ISBN 3-89906-135-7

Individual evidence

1. ↑ memorial of the family in the Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung , born in 56, Episode 18 of 7 May 2005, p 20; Digitized as PDF document, 3.7 MB
2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Horst Mrotzek , short biography, in poetry and prose vom Hohen Ufer , Volume 2, Hanover: Moorburg-Verlag, 1982, ISBN 978-3-921814-64-2 , p. 196