Paul Habraschka

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Paul Habraschka (around 1930) Photo by Max Glauer

Paul Habraschka (born November 6, 1897 in Roßberg , Province of Silesia , † September 12, 1969 in Hildesheim ) was a German miner , writer and humorist .

life and work

Paul Habraschka came from a family of miners. Like his father, he worked in a coal mine . During World War I he served on the Western Front , where he was seriously injured in 1916. After recovering, he worked again in the mines and barely survived a mine accident in 1924. These traumatic experiences finally brought him to write and so he became known as a writer in addition to his normal job as a miner. Various documentaries and stories were published between 1930 and 1970. u. a The Depth: A miner's dream face , The buddy laughs or The front in front of the coals: Tales of a miner .

In January 1945, after the arrival of the Red Army in Silesia, Habraschka was deported to a forced labor camp in the Soviet Union. He and three of his comrades managed to escape. In 1957 he left Silesia and moved to the Federal Republic of Germany . In 1961 von Habraschka published the autobiographical volume My Death I Will Die myself in Grenzland-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel : Experiences as an internee in the Soviet Union who processed various war experiences.

Since 1932, various volumes of poems by Habraschka have been published, including Des Bergmanns Feierschicht , After the Shift , Lied der Teufe or Between Day and Night .

Paul Habraschka died in Hildesheim in September 1969 at the age of 71.

Fonts (selection)

Single volumes

  • "The depth: a miner's dream faces", (documentation), Wahlstatt-Verl., Breslau, 1930
  • "Des Bergmanns Feierschicht", (poems), Jungland-Verl., Beuthen, 1932
  • “After the shift”, (poems), Der Oberschlesier, Oppeln, 1936
  • "Small coal: Bergmannshumoresken", (Humoresken), Wahlstatt-Verl., Breslau, 1940
  • “The buddy laughs”, (?), Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh, 1942
  • “The front before the coals: Stories of a miner”, (Stories), Schlesien-Verl., Breslau, 1944
  • “Song of the Deep: Selected. Stories and Poems ”, (Stories and Poems), Montan-Verl., Vienna, 1961
  • "I want to die my own death: Experiences as an internee in the Soviet Union", (documentation), Grenzland-Verl., Wolfenbüttel, 1966
  • “Between day and night: Selected. Gedichte und Erzählungen “, (short stories and poems), Montan-Verl., Vienna, 1967
  • "Upper Silesian Buxliks: From e. golden youth in Oberschles. Industriegebiet “, (documentation), Oberschlesischer Heimatverl., Augsburg, 1970

literature

  • Paul Habraschka. In: The cut. , Association of Friends of Art and Culture in Mining., 1971, p. 17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Habraschka. In: Suzanna Wycisk-Müller: Schöpferisches Schlesien from A to Z. , Engelsdorfer Verlag, 2014
  2. ^ Paul Habraschka. In: Joachim J. Scholz: Industry and Literature. , Gebr. Mann, 1993, p. 66
personal data
SURNAME Habraschka, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German miner, writer and humorist
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Roßberg , Province of Silesia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1969
Place of death Hildesheim , Federal Republic of Germany