Josef Büscher
Josef Büscher (born March 10, 1918 in Sterkrade , † September 19, 1983 in Gelsenkirchen ) was a German writer.
Life
Josef Büscher was the son of a miner. From 1930 to 1937 he attended a grammar school in Bottrop. After graduating from high school, he began studying mining, which he had to break off at the start of the war in 1939. After being wounded during the French campaign , he was discharged from military service, but reactivated in 1941. In 1945 he returned from an American prisoner of war in the Ruhr , where he on a colliery in Oberhausen as Hauer worked. In 1951 he was determined to be unsuitable for work underground and Büscher switched to the administration of a colliery in Gelsenkirchen as a payroll clerk , where he worked until his retirement in 1973.
Josef Büscher wrote socially critical poems, stories and plays. After having worked for the magazine Volkskunst in Aktion , published by the anti-atomic death movement , since 1960 , he was one of the founding members of Group 61 in 1961 . From 1965 he had contacts to the movement of writing workers in the GDR , which u. a. held readings with him in East Berlin, Leipzig and Halle. In 1966 he left Group 61 because of their allegedly increasingly bourgeois orientation. From 1967 he was involved in writing schools at the adult education center in Gelsenkirchen and in "literary workshops" (e.g. in the VHS Marl: insel ; initially together with Norbert Kühne ). So says z. B. Klaus-Peter Wolf , Josef Büscher was his actual teacher. In 1970 Büscher was one of the founders of the working group literature in the world of work .
Others
His estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .
Works
- On all roads , Dülmen / Westf. 1964
- Poems , Recklinghausen 1965
- Miners' seal , Oberhausen 1969 (together with Kurt Küther and Richard Limpert )
- Stitch cards , Oberhausen 1971
- They recognized their power , Oberhausen 1976
- Between Tackenberg and Rothebusch , Oberhausen 1978
literature
- Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff; Hermann Strasser : Heads of the Ruhr. 200 years of industrial history and structural change in the light of biographies . Klartext Verlag , Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0036-3 , pp. 259ff.
Web links
- Literature by and about Josef Büscher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Josef Büscher in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- Homepage of the Fritz Hüser Institute
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Büscher, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sterkrade |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 1983 |
| Place of death | Gelsenkirchen |