Otto Wilms
Otto Wilms (born October 2, 1915 in Carlsberg ; † November 2, 1992 in Bad Dürkheim ) was a Palatinate native and dialect poet .
Life
Wilms came from a simple background. His father was a stonemason and his mother helped feed the family with a small farm. In Carlsberg he attended elementary school , then the vocational school in Grünstadt an der Weinstrasse . After completing an apprenticeship in the commercial field, he started working as a textile merchant at Burghardt, Textile and Clothing, in Carlsberg in 1930, until he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in Altrip in 1936 . After that he made his way as an independent businessman. From his marriage to Ella Wilms geb. Herrmann (1912-2001) had a son. At the beginning of the Second World War , Otto Wilms was drafted into the Wehrmacht .
In May 1945 Wilms was taken prisoner by the British . After returning home in 1946, he started his own business as an outpatient trader in Altleiningen . He was thus in the tradition of his neighboring home village, the dealer town of Carlsberg. From 1952 to 1992 he lived in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . In 1970 he took over the inn of the wheat beer brewery in Rheingönheim . In 1984 he retired from working life after running the tower restaurant in Ludwigshafen's Ebertpark for years. Under his direction it developed into a meeting place for many Palatinate artists.
Act
Wilms began to occupy himself with poetry and to write himself as early as the Second World War . Throughout his life he remained closely connected to his homeland and the people of the Palatinate with his poems in Palatinate dialect and High German . Typical topics are Palatinate places and landscapes, the human and all too human as well as the Palatinate wine . Wilms' poems are mostly characterized by optimism and a positive view of his homeland without being arrogant; they lived mainly from the lecture. His ability to make the language sound powerful and pointed reminded of the "Bellemer Heiner" August Heinrich and Ludwig Hartmann , with whom he often performed together. Politically, reconciliation with France and Israel was of particular concern to Wilms .
Works
- Otto Wilms: E Palzisch book . Publisher Daniel Meininger, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 1952.
- Otto Wilms: Pälzer Land and Pälzer Lewe . Cheerful and reflective verses. With illustrations by Gerhard Hauck. Verlag A. Kröner, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1991.
- Otto Wilms: Poems for Christmas . For reading and reading aloud in Standard German and Palatinate. A. Kröner publishing house, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1993.
- Horst Wilms, Helmut Becker (ed.): Pälzer Worzle . Poems by Otto Wilms in High German and Palatinate dialect. With drawings by Beate E. Becker. A. Kröner Publishing House, Ludwigshafen am Rhein 2000.
- Numerous other publications, u. a. in the Pälzer Feierowend (then weekend supplement of the daily newspaper Die Rheinpfalz ) and in the magazine Jugend am Rhein .
literature
- Hartmut Ellrich : Forays through the Electoral Palatinate . Art and culture - country and people. G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-7650-8549-9 , p. 51 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Otto Wilms in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website on the life and work of Otto Wilms
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilms, Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German homeland poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carlsberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd November 1992 |
| Place of death | Bad Dürkheim |