Paul Schallück

Paul Schallück (born June 17, 1922 in Warendorf , † February 29, 1976 in Cologne ) was a German writer .

biography

Paul Schallück was the son of Warendorf bookbinder and local poet Heinrich Schallück (1894–1972) and his wife Olga (1901–1989), a librarian. The father had met the mother as a prisoner of war in Siberia during the First World War. In 1920/1921 they fled on adventurous routes via China and India.

As a student, Paul Schallück planned to become a missionary ; For six years he attended monastery schools of the Franciscans in Boppard and the Sacred Heart Missionaries in Hiltrup . When the National Socialists closed the Hiltrup missionaries' grammar school at the beginning of 1940 , Schallück returned to his hometown and graduated from the Laurentianum grammar school. During this time he wrote his first poems. He was badly wounded in France during World War II . After 1945 he studied philosophy , German , art history and theater studies at the universities in Munich and Cologne , where he also settled as a freelance writer . From 1949 to 1952 he was a theater critic , after which he shifted more and more to work for the radio and writing narrative works. He was one of the founders and until 1962 chairman of the " Germania Judaica ", a Cologne library on the history of German Jewry, and active in the " Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation ". Since 1972 he has been editor-in-chief of the Franco-German magazine "Documents".

Grave of Paul Schallück in the Müngersdorf cemetery in Cologne

Paul Schallück, who is a typical representative of the “ clear-cut literature ” and mainly concerned with the Second World War and its aftermath on the early Federal Republic , was a member of Group 47 , the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Academy for Language and poetry in Darmstadt . A plaque on the house where he was born in Warendorf commemorates the writer.

Paul Schallück was buried in the Müngersdorf cemetery in Cologne .

Awards and honors

Paul Schallück received a. a. the following prices:

• 1953 Prize from the Zuckmayer Foundation
• 1955 Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize
• 1962 Literature Prize of the City of Hagen
• 1973 Nelly Sachs Prize from the city of Dortmund

In the Sülz district of Cologne , as in his hometown Warendorf, a street was named after him.

Traces in Warendorf

The large hall of the "Theater am Wall in Warendorf" (Paul-Schallück-Saal) is named after him.

Works

As an author

• If you could stop lying , Opladen 1951
• Arrival midnight , Frankfurt a. M. 1953
• The invisible gate , Frankfurt a. M. 1954
• Q 3 and the high street , Stierstadt, Taunus 1956 (together with Jens Baggesen)
• White flags in April , Münster 1956
• Engelbert Reineke , Frankfurt a. M. [et al.] 1959
• For example , Frankfurt a. M. 1962
• Race against death , Bonn 1963
• High festive meeting , Stierstadt im Taunus 1966
• Lakrizza and other stories , Baden-Baden 1966
• Don Quichotte in Cologne , Frankfurt a. M. 1967
• Faces , Berlin 1967
• Order , Berlin 1967
• Carlsbad ponies , Baden-Baden 1968
• Against violence and inhumanity , Cologne 1969
• In Germany and elsewhere , Wuppertal 1974
• Your beer and my beer , Leverkusen 1976
• Countdown to paradise , Leverkusen 1976
• Complete works , Cologne
  • Vol. 1, Engelbert Reineke , 1976
  • Vol. 2, Don Quichotte in Cologne , 1977
  • Vol. 3, If You Could Stop Lying , 1977
  • Vol. 4, arrival midnight , 1977
  • Vol. 5, Confessions of a Nest Polluter , 1977
• Wait a moment! , Cologne 2003

Editing

• Allemagne 1945–1965 , Paris 1965
• In the name of the people? Excluded, locked up , Cologne 1973

Translations

• William Shakespeare : Troilus and Cressida , Frankfurt am Main 1970

See also

• Schmallenberg poets' dispute

literature

• Paul Schallück. Dortmund 1973.
• Walter Gödden , Jochen Grywatsch (eds.): "If you could stop lying ..." The writer Paul Schallück (1922–1976). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2002, ISBN 978-3-89528-370-3 .
• Walter Gödden:  Schallück, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , pp. 554 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Alan Frank Keele: Paul Schallück and the post-war German Don Quixote. Bern u. a. 1976.

Footnotes

1. ^ Heinrich Schallück: The slaves in Siberia. Memories from difficult times 1915–1921 . Publishing house of the Reich Association of Former Prisoners of War, local group Warendorf / Verlag der Schnellschen Buchhandlung, Warendorf 1921.
2. ^ Paul Leidinger : "Asia and Europe". Olga and Paul Schallück in memory . In: Warendorfer Schriften , vol. 19/20 (1989/1990), pp. 45–51, here p. 45.
3. ↑ Wolfgang Delseit: "A city with a thousand faces". Paul Schallück and Cologne , accessed on May 15, 2014.
4. ↑ Friedhelm Wacker: Experiences at the Laurentianum in my school days - memories of Paul Schallück and others . In: Klaus Schäffer (ed.): How French fries came to Warendorf. A walk of the century . Schnell, Warendorf 1999. ISBN 3-87716-821-3 . Pp. 46–53, here pp. 52–53.
5. ↑ Friedhelm Wacker: Experiences at the Laurentianum in my school days - memories of Paul Schallück and others . In: Klaus Schäffer (ed.): How French fries came to Warendorf. A walk of the century . Schnell, Warendorf 1999. ISBN 3-87716-821-3 . Pp. 46–53, here p. 51.

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Schallück in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Schallück in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Article about Paul Schallück in the literature archive NRW