Michael Soeder

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Michael Soeder (born December 15, 1921 in Darmstadt , † October 4, 2008 in Bad Fredeburg ) was a German doctor and writer . His literary works appeared under the pseudonym Achim Anderer .

Life

Michael Soeder is a son of the architect Hans Soeder . Michael Soeder attended schools in Kassel , Düsseldorf , Bensheim and Darmstadt and graduated from high school in 1940. A degree in medicine and cultural studies in Munich and Marburg was interrupted by military service and his participation in the Second World War. Soeder came to Russia in the second medical student company in Munich . Some members of the White Rose resistance group , namely Hans Scholl , Alexander Schmorell and Willi Graf , also served in the Army medical unit. As a representative of the student body, Soeder was an eyewitness to the trial of the Scholl and Christoph Probst siblings in February 1943 . He later described this process in his autobiographical novel The Bitter Medicines of Time .

After graduating, Soeder worked as a doctor in Frankfurt am Main , where he trained as a neurologist . In 1949 he received his doctorate in Darmstadt. As the head of a sanatorium for addicts, he was given a teaching position for psychopathology in childhood and adolescence at the Darmstadt Pedagogical Center. From 1960 to 1976 he worked in the medical management of the Gustav Werner Foundation in Reutlingen . From 1977 to 1987 he was chief physician at the specialist clinic in Schmallenberg - Bad Fredeburg and lecturer at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Soeder was already active in literature as a student. In 1947 he was involved in the rehearsal number of the literary magazine Der Skorpion , planned by Hans Werner Richter but never published , from which group 47 emerged in September of that year . At the third meeting of the group in Jugenheim in April 1948, he read the beginning of a novel about his war experiences. In addition to the three-part autobiographical novel “The bitter medicine of the time”, Soeder wrote radio plays , stories and poems under the pseudonym Achim Anderer . Most of his books were published by Knödler-Verlag Reutlingen. Soeder was a founding member of the Federal Association of German Writers and Doctors. From 1972 to 1978 he was its president and in 1993 a founding member of the Christine Koch Society for the Promotion of Literature in the Sauerland.

Works

Fiction

  • Moritz of Saxony . Radio play, HR 1954
  • The bitter medicine of the times . Romantic trilogy, Reutlingen, 1970–1972
  • Shaken on the trip . Poems, 1974
  • Because we are travelers . Poems, Reutlingen, 1979, ISBN 3-87421-998-4
  • Monette . Poems, Reutlingen, 1982, ISBN 3-87421-995-X
  • The hour of the snakes . Radio story, WDR 1986
  • who knows what remains . Poems, Münster, AT edition, 1990, ISBN 3-88660-616-3
  • The hour of the snakes . Stories, Brilon, 1996, ISBN 3-932238-00-1 ,

Non-fiction

  • The measure of people at Carl Gustav Carus . Dissertation, Frankfurt 1949
  • Healthy in body and soul. To shape life in old age . Kevelaer, 1995
  • Fit and healthy. Tips for seniors . Kevelaer, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Michael Soeder in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ a b The verdict was certain from the start ( memento of January 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) . Interview by Sabine Pamperrien with Michael Soeder in netzeitung.de on February 3, 2005.
  3. ^ A b Renate Scharffenberg: Marburg as the meeting place for the "Group 47"? In: Marburger Forum , Volume 4 (2003), Issue 2.
  4. ^ Writer-Doctors-President Dr. Soeder turns 60, in: Würzburger Medical Nachr., Dec. 1981
  5. ↑ published by Norbert Klaus Fuchs Verlag in Brilon on the occasion of his 75th birthday
personal data
SURNAME Soeder, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Other, Achim (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH October 4, 2008
Place of death Bad Fredeburg