Karl Heinz Bolay

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Karl-Heinz Bolay (born November 23, 1914 in Saarbrücken , † 1993 in Sweden ) was a German writer and poet .

Life

After studying history, literature and languages, he worked from 1934 to 1936 as a bank clerk , from 1936 to 1939 as a journalist and from 1940 to 1943 as an editor and head of district culture in Magdeburg . He lived in Celle after the Second World War .

To protest against the German rearmament , he emigrated to Helsinki in 1951 , where he lived until 1957 as a socionomist and diploma librarian. Karl-Heinz Bolay organized mobile libraries for rural regions, since he noticed that in many households there was hardly any further literature besides the Bible. From 1957 to 1959 he worked as a journalist and critic in Norrköping and since then as the main librarian and journalist in Malung / Sweden. He has translated books into German, Swedish, Finnish and French.

Bolay was a member of the Jungentrucht and the youth movement and is known there under the name Rokka. He was often visited by German scout groups traveling through and maintained close contacts with groups of the German Freischar , gray riders and BdP . He died in Sweden after a long illness.

Works (selection)

  • German Christmas. A Guide to Community and Family (1941)
  • Kathrin. The Fate of a Woman (1941)
  • Songs of the South. Poems (1944)
  • Crown of life. Poems (1944)
  • Dies ater (1949)
  • Yes aurinko pysähtyi (1952)
  • But the hour remains ... Poems from my Finnish diary (1954)
  • Red granite. New Finnish Poems (1956; as editor)
  • Finns and Finns (1959)
  • Mullvadsmusik (1962)
  • Ö utan hav (1963)
  • The René Merlin case. The experiences of Dr. René Merlin in the Cell of Our Time (1964)
  • Poppoesi (1964)
  • Haiku Poetry (1965)
  • Den fyr-kan-tiga månen. Parabler i poesi och prosa (1968)
  • Journey to the Fourth Dimension (1974)
  • On the run from ourselves (1976)
  • Nödbroms. Novel (1977)
  • Looking for myself. Selected poems 1929–1979 with 10 works by various artists (1979)
  • Still free in the wind. Encounters in Central Europe (1979)
  • Firebird. Parables (1980)
  • My dead friend Short Stories from Inhuman Times (1982)
  • Trip to Kashubia. Poems (1982)
  • Do You Hear My Waiting (1983)
  • Flowers and other people. Poems (1983)
  • Vår “vän” atoms. Dikter, parabler, Bilder mot krig och atomvapen (1983)
  • Journey to Wienhausen. Poetry anthology (1985; as editor)
  • Sfar music and mathematics. Poems (1986)

literature

  • Carl Heinz Kurz : Poet Pictures. Verlag Das Viergespann, Frankfurt am Main 1977
  • Uta Lehr-Koppel (Ed.): Tangents. Encounter with Karl H. Bolay. Verlag Graphikum Mock, Bovenden 1984, ISBN 3-88996-044-8
personal data
SURNAME Bolay, Karl Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bolay, Karl-Heinz; Hartmut, Gunter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Sweden