Kurt Küther

Kurt Küther (born February 3, 1929 in Stettin ; † August 25, 2012 in Bottrop ) was a German writer .

Life

Kurt Küther attended in his hometown of Szczecin, the elementary school and the business school . In 1945 he was drafted into the Volkssturm and was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released in September 1945. He then lived in a village in Western Pomerania with an aunt on the farm, from which he was deported to Stettin-Pölitz for forced labor, from which he managed to escape in December 1945. From 1946 to 1948 he worked as an assistant in the nursery of his parents, who had settled in Schleswig-Holstein. In 1948 Küther went to the Ruhr area, where he worked as a miner underground in a Bottrop colliery . In 1955 he passed the tusk test . In 1968/69 he completed a social science degree at the Dortmund Social Academy . He was a works council and worked underground again until 1970. He then worked as a technical employee at a colliery in Gelsenkirchen until his retirement in 1984 . Küther last lived in Bottrop.

Others

His estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

plant

Kurt Küther began writing in the early 1960s; He named the poet Heinrich Kämchen as a model . Küther is the author of socially critical poems and prose works in which he processes his experiences in the working world of the Ruhr mining industry.

Memberships and honors

Kurt Küther was a member of the Association of German Writers . From 1963 to 1969 he belonged to " Group 61 ", from which he resigned because of political differences. Since 1970 he has been a member of the literary workshop in Gelsenkirchen as part of the work group “Literature of the Working World” . In 1984 he received a scholarship from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia, in 1986 the authors' award from the Kohlpott Forum , in 1989 the city of Bottrop's cultural award and in 1991 the city of Bottrop's plaque for special merits.

bibliography

A director passes by. Wuppertal 1974.
And every day counts twice. Oberhausen 1983.
Frachsse me wattat is :
- 150 smart Ruhrpott programs. Oberhausen 1994.
- 200 new Ruhrpott programs. Oberhausen 1995.
I heard about it: “Here you earn well!”. Ahlhorn 2001.
"Zeche - Frachsse mich wattat is". Audiobook CD, music: Karl-Heinz Gajewsky. Kalle-Gajewsky-Studio, Gelsenkirchen 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Worker poet Kurt Küther died at the age of 83. Message from the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 28, 2012 on Presseportal.de, accessed on December 20, 2019.

personal data
SURNAME	Küther, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 3, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	August 25, 2012
Place of death	Bottrop

[1] Worker poet Kurt Küther died at the age of 83. Message from the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of August 28, 2012 on Presseportal.de, accessed on December 20, 2019.