Oswald Burger

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Oswald Burger (2010)

Oswald Burger (born July 23, 1949 in Meersburg ) is a teacher , historian , literary organizer and local politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from Überlingen on Lake Constance, who was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for research into Überlingen's contemporary history .

biography

Burger's ancestors had emigrated from the Black Forest in the 18th century and settled in the Banat as Danube Swabians . They were farmers. After the Second World War, the Danube Swabians were expelled from the Banat and Burger's parents went back to the Black Forest village from which their ancestors had emigrated. Since there was no work there, they moved to Lake Constance.

Oswald Burger grew up in Bermatingen , graduated from high school in Konstanz and studied history and German , political science and philosophy at the University of Konstanz and at the Philipps University in Marburg. From 1977 to 2012 he was a teacher at the Jörg-Zürn-Gewerbeschule in Überlingen.

Historical research

Oswald Burger is a historian and author in Überlingen on Lake Constance and made a decisive contribution to researching the “ Goldbacher Stollen ” in Überlingen. The tunnel was driven into the rock by prisoners from a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp in the west of the city of Überlingen in the Second World War , in order to be able to shelter the armaments industry from Friedrichshafen safe from Allied bombing. Many prisoners were killed during this work due to inhumane working conditions. Some of them are buried in the Birnau concentration camp cemetery . Oswald Burger founded the Association Documentation Center Goldbacher Stollen and KZ Aufkirch in Überlingen eV , which set itself the task of working through the history of the mine. The aim is to depict the events and to keep them from being forgotten. In addition, Oswald Burger wrote several books that deal with those persecuted by National Socialism in Überlingen.

Local politics

From 1984 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2019 Oswald Burger was a member of the city council of Überlingen for the SPD. He has been the SPD parliamentary group spokesman in the city council since 1994 and, among other things, a member of the administrative and finance committee; from 2014 to 2019 he was one of the deputies of the mayor.

Literary organizer

Since 1991 Oswald Burger has headed the Literary Forum Oberschwaben, a circle of friends of writers that has been in existence since 1967 and who regularly meet in Wangen im Allgäu. He is a member of the jury of the Lake Constance Literature Prize of the city of Überlingen, the jury of the Swabian Literature Prize of the Swabian administrative district in Augsburg and the jury of the Baden-Württemberg State's annual scholarship for writers , board member of the Oberschwaben Literature Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of Art and Cultural Foundation of the Bodenseekreis . He is one of the organizers of the literary-culinary festival WortMenue in Überlingen (together with Peter Reifsteck) and often appears as a lecturer and reader. From 2013 to 2017 he was chairman of the Forum Allmende für Literatur e. V. From 2008 to 2015 the European Day of Jewish Culture and the Jewish Culture Days took place in Überlingen every two years. The Goldbacher Stollen Documentation Center and Aufkirch Concentration Camp in Überlingen eV were in charge

Awards

Works

Books
  • Oswald Burger / Manfred Bosch : “It was a dream of a life again.” Fate of Jewish farmers on Lake Constance 1930–1960 . UVK Verlagsgesellschaft Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-86764-630-7 .
  • The tunnel. Association of Documentation Center Goldbacher Stollen and Aufkirch concentration camp in Überlingen, Überlingen 1996; 12th edition: Isele, Eggingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86142-087-3 .
  • The Levingers. A family in Überlingen (with Hansjörg Straub). Isele, Eggingen 2002, ISBN 3-86142-117-8 .
Essays
  • The Bodensee Literature Prize of the City of Überlingen , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 123rd year 2005, pp. 139–207 ( digitized version )
  • Out and about with Manfred in the Markgräfler Land. In: Siegmund Kopitzki and Inga Pohlmann (eds.): Manfred Bosch - literary secretary of the region. A gift of friendship. Südverlag Konstanz GmbH, 2017, ISBN 978-3-87800-107-2 . Pp. 202-207.
  • The Literary Forum Oberschwaben. In: Edwin Ernst Weber (Ed.): Literature in Oberschwaben . Gmeiner Verlag Messkirch, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8392-2086-3 . Pp. 72-101
  • On quiet paws. Cats in literature. In: Michael Brunner and Claudia Vogel (eds.): The animal picture from the Middle Ages to today. Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-0549-3 . Pp. 232-239
  • Martin Buber's Tales of Hasidim. In: Jakobus Kaffanke OSB (Ed.): "... he was Swabian by birth!". Lectures on the 650th anniversary of the death of Blessed Heinrich Seuse / Suso. LIT Verlag Münster. 2017, ISBN 978-3-643-13710-4 . Pp. 35-53
  • Laudation for the award winner Eleonora Hummel. In: Peter Fassl (Ed.): Playing. Literature Prize of the District of Swabia 2017. Wißner-Verlag Augsburg. 2017, ISBN 978-3-95786-140-5 . Pp. 11-14
  • Georg Grünberg, concentration camp commandant from Lake Constance: "Stranger nature, well-groomed, erratic, energetic". In: Wolfgang Proske (Hrsg.): Perpetrators helpers free riders. Nazi victims from the south of what is now Baden-Württemberg. Kugelberg Verlag Gerstetten. 2018, ISBN 978-3-945893-10-4 . Pp. 107-118
  • Laudation for the winner of the young talent award: Leah Braekau. In: Peter Fassl (Ed.): Beauty. Literature Prize of the District of Swabia 2018. Wißner-Verlag Augsburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-95786-185-6 . Pp. 81-83
  • "Longing" of the poets. The cultural landscape at Lake Constance in the mirror of poetry. In: Life at the lake. The yearbook of the Bodenseekreis Volume 36. Verlag Senn Tettnang. 2018, ISBN 978-3-88812-545-4 . Pp. 190-197
  • Judaica in the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek. In: Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society, SZ ISSN 0024-2152. Issue 1, April 2019, pp. 2–11
  • How did a copy of Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" get into the Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek in Überlingen? In: Librarium. Journal of the Swiss Bibliophile Society, SZ ISSN 0024-2152. Issue 1, April 2019, pp. 12-14
  • In the euphemism trap. Inclusion and exclusion through language: How certain terms ensure that taboos or stigmatization are avoided, and how embarrassing things are avoided. To gloss over facts or to cover up true intentions. In: Life at the lake. The yearbook of the Bodenseekreis Volume 37. Verlag Senn Tettnang. 2019. ISBN 978-3-88812-547-8 . Pp. 319-327
editor
  • Adam Puntschart: Home is far ... Experiences in the Spanish Civil War, in the concentration camp, on the run. Edited by Oswald Burger. Drumlin-Verlag, Weingarten 1983, ISBN 3-924027-10-2 .
  • National Socialism in Überlingen and the surrounding area. Materials. Compiled by Oswald Burger. Regional history working group, Friedrichshafen 1984.
  • Contributions to the history of the Lake Constance region / history meeting. Edited by Oswald Burger and Elmar L. Kuhn . District archive Bodenseekreis, Friedrichshafen 1985ff, ISSN  0178-4994 .
  • Playground for poets. A reader. Edited by Oswald Burger and Peter Renz. Isele, Eggingen 1993, ISBN 3-86142-005-8 .
  • What matters. Maria Beig on her 75th birthday. Edited by Oswald Burger. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-1695-6 .
  • Dream surveyor. 50 years - 51 poems. Edited by Oswald Burger. With diary notes from 1951 to 2001 by Reinhard Gröper. Dielmann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-933974-50-X .
  • The Lake Constance Literature Prize of the city of Überlingen. The winners of the Lake Constance Literature Prize of the City of Überlingen since the beginning (1954) and their laudators. Edited by Oswald Burger. Isele, Eggingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86142-502-1 .
  • "It was a dream of a life again". Fate of Jewish farmers on Lake Constance 1930 - 1960 (with Manfred Bosch). UVK, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-3-86764-630-7 .

Since the 1980s, Oswald Burger has regularly published articles on history, literature and politics in the Lake Constance region, for example in the Überlinger city newspaper schelle (1980–1984), in the Konstanzer Nebelhorn , as a freelancer for the Konstanz daily newspaper Südkurier and the yearbook Leben am See .

Web links

Commons : Oswald Burger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Conversation with Oswald Burger on April 10, 2010
  2. ↑ Email from Oswald Burger on April 23, 2010
  3. ↑ Überlingen: They taught together for over 60 years , “Südkurier”, July 28, 2012.
  4. ↑ Oswald Burger: The tunnel. Association of Documentation Center Goldbacher Stollen and Aufkirch concentration camp in Überlingen, Überlingen 1996; 11th edition: Isele, Eggingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-86142-087-3 .
  5. ↑ Half the life of the local council: Oswald Burger is no longer running for local elections. In: Südkurier . December 20, 2018, accessed July 5, 2019 .
  6. ^ Jewish culture
  7. ↑ Burger receives the Federal Cross of Merit - Report in the Südkurier
  8. ↑ Lake Constance District : Oswald Burger receives District Culture Prize 2011, July 1, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Burger, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Meersburg