Johannes Baptist Waas
Johann (es) Baptist Waas (born April 1, 1904 in Munich ; † January 27, 2002 in Bad Oeynhausen ) was a German writer and painter .
Life
Born on April 1, 1904 in Munich, Haas grew up in Fürstenfeldbruck and moved to Berlin in 1932 and to Bad Oeynhausen in 1934, where he lived until his death. In 1936 he was banned from writing. His first play, Johannes and Michael , was banned by the Nazi Propaganda Ministry in 1938. In the same year his house in Bad Oeynhausen was confiscated and expropriated.
Waas worked in Bad Oeynhausen, where he lived until his death, and in his adopted home Kleinwalsertal . He mainly wrote poetry and painted romantic still life and landscape pictures.
The estate of Johannes Baptist Waas is in the Bad Oeynhausen town archive (holdings NL 7).
Awards
- Fastenrath Prize of the City of Cologne (1932)
- Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation (1935).
Works (selection)
- Eternal becoming. Autumn novella. Poems. Munich: Paul Stangl 1929
- Fair of Life. Poems. Berlin: The Rabenpresse 1933
- The wandering soul. Poems. Munich: Musarion Verlag 1934
- Face in an old city. Poems. Hamburg: Publishing house of the sheets for the seal 1935
- Symbol of the landscape. Poems. Berlin: The Rabenpresse 1937
- Johannes and Michael. Play. Berlin: The Rabenpresse 1938
- Selected poems. Minden i. W .; Aeon Verlag 1949
- German Requiem. Sonnets. Stuttgart: Alemannen Verlag Albert Jauss 1942, 1955
- About an unknown fragment of the 10th Duinese elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke. Minden: Ising 1950
- Songs of heaven and earth, the infinite and all-one. Bad Oeynhausen: Verlag zum Turm der alten Mutter 1953
- The cosmic psalter. Bad Oeynhausen: Verlag zum Turm der alten Mutter 1954
- Requiem for John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Bad Oeynhausen: Verlag zum Turm der alten Mutter 1964
- The loneliness of old age. Gold against cancer. The electronic age and its symptom. Bad Oeynhausen: Verlag zum Turm der alten Mutter [1971]
- The window of the great promenade. Bad Oeynhausen: Verlag zum Turm der alten Mutter 1979.
Web links
- Johann Baptist Waas in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Literature by and about Johannes Baptist Waas in the catalog of the German National Library
proof
- ^ Johannes Baptist Waas in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- ↑ Allgäuer Anzeigeeblatt, June 28, 2008 Hearty flower pieces, three-dimensional landscapes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Waas, Johannes Baptist |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Waas, Johann Baptist |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 2002 |
| Place of death | Bad Oeynhausen |