Hugo Ernst buyer

Hugo Ernst Buyer (born February 13, 1927 in Witten ; † May 9, 2014 in Legden ) was a German librarian and writer .

Life

Hugo Ernst Buyer came from a working-class family. From 1945 to 1953 he worked as an administrative clerk in Witten. From 1954 on he completed a librarianship course at the Librarian Training Institute of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (today Cologne University of Applied Sciences ), which he completed in 1957 with the diploma examination. From 1957 to 1966 he was a consultant at the Bochum city library, from 1966 to 1977 chief editor and from 1977 to 1987 director of the Gelsenkirchen city library. In 1967 he was one of the founders of the Gelsenkirchen Literary Workshop , from which the Working Group Literature of the Working World emerged in 1971 . Buyer lived in Legden in his last years and was chairman of the board of the Liselotte and Walter Rauner Foundation in Bochum until his death .

Services

Hugo Ernst Buyer, who mainly published specialist library and bibliographic works until the 1960s , later mainly wrote poetry and essays. Since the 1970s, “buyer, who - unusual enough for a writer - worked harder for the work of others than for his own work”, played an important role as a sponsor, editor and critic of authors in the area of ​​the new Ruhr area. and workers' literature , the rise of which is largely due to him. In addition, as the editor of her works, he contributed to the fact that some of the female authors who had been driven into emigration or persecuted by the Nazi dictatorship were “rediscovered”. a. Rose Ausländer and Irmgard Keun .

Memberships and honors

Hugo Ernst Buyer has been a member of the Association of German Writers since 1967 , of the European authors' association “Die Kogge” (honorary chairman) since 1968 and of the PEN Center Germany since 1974 . He received u. a. The Eremitens Silverfjäder in 1980, the Swedish Mölle Literature Prize in 1988 , the Federal Republic of Germany's Cross of Merit on Ribbon in 1997 , the City of Minden's Cog Ring of Honor in 1999, the Ruhr Area Literature Prize in 2002, the Witten City Hall of Honor in 2004 and the Bochum City Ring of Honor. In 2007 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Works

Single track

• Human hazards in the technical world . Cologne 1957.
• People and technology under the sign of the second industrial revolution . Bochum 1958.
• How can you sleep peacefully ... Bochum 1958.
• The new China (with Werner Kopp). Cologne 1960.
• China between yesterday and tomorrow . Hagen 1961.
• Radio plays after 1945 . Hagen 1961.
• Africa between yesterday and tomorrow (with Werner Kopp). Cologne 1962.
• The child's message . Dülmen / Westf. 1962.
• World power Soviet Union . Hagen 1962.
• And in the middle a sign . Emsdetten / Westf. 1963.
• The work of Heinrich Böll 1949–1963 . Dortmund 1963.
• The adventure of the line . Bochum 1964.
• The Soviet Union today (with Werner Kopp). Cologne 1965.
• North America today (with Heinz Protzer). Cologne 1967.
• Tracks and lines . Emsdetten / Westf. 1967.
• Buyer Report . Krefeld 1968.
• In the name of the people (with Enric Rabasseda ). Oberhausen 1972.
• People, we have people . Leverkusen 1975.
• Location regulations . Dortmund 1975.
• Russia impressions . Leverkusen 1976.
• To become inexorably earth again . Gelsenkirchen 1976.
• Democracy shared . Dortmund 1977.
• Crowds, crowds . Gelsenkirchen 1977.
• Stations 1. Cologne [u. a.] 1977.
• Stations 2 . Cologne [u. a.] 1977.
• The wood cutter HAP Grieshaber . Passau 1978.
• Write and let write . Stuttgart 1979.
• Such a wave . Gelsenkirchen 1979.
• Autobiographical Notes . Bovenden 1980.
• Lighter in the luggage (with Adi Rosenauer-Kölbl). Hauzenberg 1983.
• About the healthy public sentiment and other attacks . Bovenden 1983.
• It's time - tear-off texts and tear-off graphics (with Karl-Heinz Langowski). Gelsdruck, Gelsenkirchen 1983.
• Hugo Ernst buyer . Neuss [u. a.] 1984.
• Downsides . Oberhausen 1984.
• From books, libraries, readers and authors . Gelsenkirchen 1986.
• The words, the pictures . Hauzenberg 1986.
• Seen in the light . Goettingen 1987.
• Chopin's piano . Stuttgart 1989.
• In later years . Zuidhorn 1989.
• Potato cabbage fire . Witten 1991.
• The hunters are on their way . Lahnstein 1995.
• Messages in the wind . Groningen 1996.
• Still on the move . Bochum 1997.
• Meanwhile . edition prima vista, Gelsenkirchen 1997.
• Without memory, time has no face . Munich 1997.
• The house of childhood . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 1999.
• Read sign . Düsseldorf 2001.
• In the quarry of oblivion . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 2002, ISBN 3-927430-32-3 .
• Paul Karalus . Düsseldorf 2002.
• Eyeball depth . Edition word and image. Bochum 2005, ISBN 3-927430-46-3 .
• Seven Righteous or Auschwitz, the place, the gate, the abyss . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 2005.
• In the time gap . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-928781-48-0 .
• Literally . Edition Wort und Bild, Bochum 2007, ISBN 3-927430-55-2 .

Release

• Examples, examples . Recklinghausen 1969.
• Documents, documents . Gelsenkirchen 1969.
• Friedhelm Baukloh : Texts by a determined liberal . Cologne 1972.
• Revier today . Recklinghausen 1972.
• Service to books, readers and authors (with Hedwig Biewber and Alois Klotzbücher). Berlin 1973.
• Kurt Küther : A director goes by . Wuppertal 1974.
• You write between Moers and Hamm (with Horst Wolff). Wuppertal 1974.
• The affected metal . Krefeld 1975.
• Richard Limpert : By the way, questions . Wuppertal 1975.
• You write between Goch and Bonn . Wuppertal 1975.
• Reinhart surcharge : filter daily conversations . Darmstadt 1976.
• Rose Foreigner : Collected Poems . Leverkusen 1976.
• You write in Gelsenkirchen . Cologne 1977 (with Hans-Jörg Loskill).
• You write between Paderborn and Münster (with Walter Neumann). Wuppertal 1977.
• We , Gelsenkirchen 1977.
• Library work in penal institutions , Berlin 1980.
• You write in Bochum (with Volker W. Degener ), Duisburg 1980.
• Liselotte Rauner : No need to worry , Oberhausen 1985.
• Social library work , Berlin 1982.
• Shoulder to shoulder , Neuss [u. a.] 1985.
• Citizens need libraries , Gelsenkirchen 1986.
• Hard work began for us (with Hartmut Hering and Michael Klaus ). Oberhausen 1986, ISBN 3-921541-63-8 .
• Annette Ruhmann : But down on earth , Gelsenkirchen 1987.
• Karl Taefler : Where we defend staying , Gelsenkirchen 1987.
• If you don't want to hear, you have to see , Witten 1990.
• Moments of Memory (with Rainer W. Campmann ), Oberhausen 1991, ISBN 3-921541-69-7 .
• Dialoge , Witten 1992.
• Himmerod and elsewhere , Himmerod 1994.
• Otti Pfeiffer - installed in the ferris wheel , Düsseldorf 2003.
• The children of Buchenwald , Bielefeld 2005.

literature

• Karl Taefler (Ed.): Initiatives . Gelsenkirchen 1987.
• Rita Reichel-Finke: Hugo Ernst buyer . Gelsenkirchen 1987.
• Klaus Scheibe: Hugo Ernst buyer . Gelsenkirchen 1997.
• Sascha Kirchner (Ed.), The essence of writing means survival ... Düsseldorf 2003.
• Timo Rieg (Ed.), Bochum acquaintances 3 - Silvia Cabello, Chris Hopkins , Hugo Ernst Buyer, Rüdiger Künne, Daniel Nipshagen, Felix Oekentorp, Karsten Riedel and Erwin Steden in portrait. Bochum 2004, ISBN 3-928781-83-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Ernst Buyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hugo Ernst Buyer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Boebers-Süßmann, Jens Dirksen: Obituary. Bochum publicist and author Hugo Ernst Buyer dies. WAZ , May 9, 2014, accessed February 24, 2017 . 
2. ^ Hugo Ernst Buyer. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, pp. 493-494, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Hilmar Klute : Words promote. The Ruhr area author Hugo Ernst Buyer is dead . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 12, 2014.