Paul Schick (writer)

Paul Schick (* 1928 in Heidelberg ; † 2011 ) was a German teacher and writer.

Life

He grew up in the Heidelberg district of Handschuhsheim , where he attended elementary school and grammar school before he became a flak helper in 1944 and was drafted into the Reich Labor Service a little later. The end of the war he experienced in the Allgäu , after which he returned to Heidelberg, where in 1949 he at Bunsen-Gymnasium Heidelberg the High School caught up. After the teacher examination in 1951, he worked as a teacher, from 1959 at the elementary and secondary school in Ziegelhausen , where he became rector in 1970. In 1993 he retired.

He was one of the co-founders of the Ziegelhausen und Peterstal district association, whose honorary chairmanship he held from 1984 until his death.

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Before he decided to become a teacher, Schick wanted to become a journalist because he also felt called to write. His first articles appeared in 1949 in the journal of the Thalia Choral Society, to which he belonged from 1947. From the late 1950s onwards, he produced several children's books, as well as The Secret Junk from 1960, the dramatic adaptation of a Chinese novella from the Ming period.

From the 1970s, Schick concentrated on the collection of sagas, jokes and street verses from the Electorate of the Palatinate, which he collected in numerous volumes, including the collection of sagas Hookemann and Hexenritt in 1974 , the anecdote collection Perkeo laughs in 1991 and a collection of Jewish jokes and anecdotes from the Palatinate in 2009.

literature

• Wilhelm Barth: In Memoriam Paul Schick , in: District Association Handschuhsheim eV (Ed.): Yearbook 2017 , Heidelberg 2017, pp. 75–77.