Johannes Vogel (writer)

Johannes Vogel (born June 29, 1895 in Spremberg , † March 2, 1962 in Maschen ) was a German writer .

Life

Wilhelm Johannes Vogel comes from an old Oberlausitz family from the area around Guttau . He attended the secondary school in Spremberg and left it in 1915 with a secondary school diploma . He then became a war volunteer during the First World War .

He later studied in Munich , Hanover and Delft and completed vocational training as a chemical engineer. Over several intermediate stations, such. B. Göttingen , Berlin and Bayreuth finally he returned to Spremberg back and found at the company C. F. Saebisch a job as an editor and journalist for the local newspaper the Spremberger Gazette .

For professional reasons he soon left his hometown and moved to Berlin, where he lived and worked until 1943. In the ensuing chaos of war, he moved to Spremberg again with his wife and three sons Johannes, Georges and Wolfgang, totally bombed out in Berlin. But again this should not last long, because in 1945 he found a new home in Maschen near Hamburg . His fourth son Thomas was born here in 1945.

From then on he worked as a freelance writer. His main focus was on stories that revolved around his hometown Spremberg. In his Spremberger days he had already written the first articles in 1935/36 for the anniversary edition 100 years Spremberger Anzeiger . In 1943 his first novel Altbackene Semmeln was published by Holzner Verlag . In this homeland novel, life in Spremberg around 1830 is told. It is about the local men's choir in 1835, about the emerging industrialization with all its good and bad sides, to the unmarried baker's daughters (these "stale rolls") around the corner. From 1958 to 1963, the local history trilogy Am sausenden Loom of Time was also published by Holzner Verlag .

Johannes Vogel also published his works under the pseudonym E. A. Witschas.

Works

• Stale bread rolls
• At the whizzing loom of time
• German women in anecdote
• The Duke of Achberg
• Dagmar's serious game
• The Prussian sword
• The golden book of humor
• String playing from distant gardens
• Lück shoots in the air (published by Zeitschriftenverlag AG Berlin 1937)

literature

• Local calendar for the city of Spremberg and the surrounding area 1999 Life and work of the writer Johannes Vogel (1895–1962) by Gerhard Schmidt