Klas Ewert Everwyn

Klas Ewert Everwyn ( pseudonyms : Roland Berry , Nicolas Nicolin ; born March 10, 1930 in Cologne ) is a German writer .

Life

Klas Ewert Everwyn is the son of a baker. He attended schools in Cologne and Glatz . In 1944/45 he was deployed as a front helper. After the end of the war he was a laborer in agriculture in Bladersbach in Oberberg . In 1949 he graduated from secondary school; then he was employed by the police until 1953 and from 1953 to 1955 a government employee in Düsseldorf . From 1956 to 1971 he was a municipal civil servant in Neuss ; during this time he headed the sports department for ten years. He completed his studies at the administration college in Düsseldorf in 1958 with the degree of a diploma in administration . From 1972 to 1980 Everwyn was a civil servant in the service of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Since 1981 he has lived as a freelance writer in Monheim am Rhein . Klas Ewert Everwyn is a writer of narrative works and radio plays . He is a representative of socially critical, committed literature and in the 1960s belonged to group 61 and later to the working group literature in the world of work . In numerous of his books he is the portrayal of village and small-town life in the Oberberg region around Waldbröl , which he knew from his youth . Since the 1980s he has been writing more and more books for young people on historical topics, including the so-called Knüppelrussen uprising , including the Waldbröler freedom fighter Paul von Bettenhagen ; Everwyn's personal experiences during his youth in the Third Reich were also processed by him in literary terms .

His book "Der Dormagener Störfall von 1996", which dealt with a fictitious accident at the Bayer plants of catastrophic proportions, received the greatest attention. The author took up an actual industrial accident in which a highly toxic pesticide leaked on November 7, 1979 and terrified people in the Lower Rhine region. Everwyn's book was a commissioned work for the Dormagen literature prize "Quill Pen". However, his descriptions of a possible chemical meltdown in Dormagen and the surrounding area led to protests. Among other things, the city refused to publish Everwyn's novel. With the help of supporters from the ranks of the Dormagen Young Socialists and the citizens' group "Dormagener Verlagsinitiative", the author self-published his work. In the course of the next few years, the Bayer Group covered the author with a number of lawsuits for defamation. Among other things, he achieved that the first editions of the "Störfall" were only allowed to appear with blackened text passages.

Klas Ewert Everwyn is a member of the PEN Center Germany and, since 1969, of the Association of German Writers . He received the following awards, among others:

• 1966 Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Literature
• 1980 the Dormagener quill pen ,
• 1986 the German Youth Literature Prize and the Heinrich Wolgast Prize
• 1994 the regional radio play award .

Works

• The hunt without mercy , Vienna [ao] 1955 (under the name Roland Berry)
• The people from the Kral , Hamburg 1961
• The legacy , Hamburg 1962
• Griet or How far is Poland from Holland , Krefeld 1967
• Expulsion , Recklinghausen 1969
• The decision of the apprentice Werner Blom , Baden-Baden 1972
• City views , Krefeld 1977
• Football is our life , Würzburg 1978
• The City Fathers , Hamburg 1980
• Attention construction site , Baden-Baden 1982
• Land under leaden skies , Zurich [et al.] 1983
• The Dormagen accident of 1996 , Dormagen 1983
• Grandpa and I and the Nutscheider cheat story , Stuttgart 1984
• For foreign emperors and no fatherland , Würzburg 1985
• The small drum and the great war , Stuttgart 1987
• I can die anywhere , Cologne 1988
• Everything is getting better now , Würzburg 1989
• Shot through the hat , Dortmund 1990 (under the name Nicolas Nicolin)
• Der Räuber-Paul , Würzburg 1991
• Food found , Cologne 1994
• Back then, there was really something going on , Unkel / Rhein 1996
• Cologne Südstadt and I , Sankt Augustin 1996
• The Dormagen accident. A legend. Butterfly, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-89657-410-8 . (Insignificantly changed new edition of the book of the same name from 1983)
• The day Drinhausen locked up his wife , Linz am Rhein 2000
• Deutzer Blut , Bad Honnef 2004
• The fisherman from Hamm and the duke feud , Düsseldorf 2005
• The secret of Nicolini , Düsseldorf 2005
• Fate of a storyteller , Düsseldorf 2005

Editing

• Close-ups , Düsseldorf 1981

literature

• Oda Hensel: Klas Ewert Everwyn, a critical regionalist? , Marburg 1993

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Zöller: Which book caused a scandal in 1983. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung , January 17, 2019, p. D2. Online version , accessed February 17, 2019.
2. ↑ Freier Lauf , "Der Spiegel" from April 4, 1983
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

• Literature by and about Klas Ewert Everwyn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage
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