Paul Spruth

Paul Spruth (born November 15, 1902 in Siegen , † July 9, 1971 in Unna ) was a Westphalian native writer.

Life

Paul Spruth came from a Siegen merchant family (iron and steel products). In the Weimar years he found a job as a teacher and married in 1932. As a result, the family expanded to include three children: two sons and a daughter. Politically oriented Spruth now to the NSDAP, which he also joined in 1937 with the end of the entry ban that came into force in 1933. Professionally, he had already organized himself in the Nazi teachers' association in 1934 . In 1938/39 he became a soldier in the Wehrmacht. Deployed at various locations on the Western Front, he came to the Eastern Front, now in the German Reich, at the beginning of March 1945, where he was captured by US troops.

After his release, the family moved from their previous place of residence Soest to Unna in 1947/48. There Spruth was now teaching German, history and Protestant religion as a teacher at the girls' grammar school, the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Schule. In Unna he founded the literary society Vereinigung der Freunde Wilhelm Raabe . From the beginning of the 1950s Spruth published his own fiction texts.

Fonts

• Eilike from Unna. Image of a young girl from our time . Novella. Unna: Rubens, 1950 [Illustr.]
• Towards the harvest. Poems and sayings . Siegen: Schneider, 1956
• The Jewish beech. A consideration for German lessons . Lübeck: Matthiesen, 1966
• Duke Maelo. A brave German from our homeland . Münster: Aschendorff, 1961
• Encounters with flowers. Poems . Vienna: Europ. Publisher, 1971.
• Communications from the Raabe Society. 42, 1955: On the psychology of the pharmacist Philipp Kristeller and Colonel Don Agostin Agonista in Raabe's novella " Zum wilden Mann "
• Communications from the Raabe Society. 43, 1956: On Raabe's conception of work and life
• Communications from the Raabe Society. 45, 1958: stuffing cake . Raabe's best book?
• Dortmunder lectures, H. 95 [around 1960:] The two Nobel Prize winners for literature MA Asturias and Y. Kawabata in their visual language
• Jb. The Raabe-Gesellsch. 1971: Eilike. A girl with Wilhelm Raabe
• The rescue. Diary of an escape . Verlag Heiligenwalde, Unna 2002; ed. Speed ​​Spruth

literature

• W. Schulte: The westf. Heimatbund and his predecessors , Vol. 1, Münster 1973, p. 335.
• B. Beutner: "... that I realized my love for Unna". The teacher and poet Paul Spruth . In: Jahrbuch Kreis Unna 22, 2001, pp. 70–75.
• Paul Spruth: From the chronicle of the Spruth family (Lippe-Siegerland) . In: Lectures of Roland. Dortmund 1965.

Web links

• Paul Spruth in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• The Spruth sexes (PDF file; 24 kB)
• Literature by and about Paul Spruth in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regionales Personenlexikon, article Paul Spruth .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Unless otherwise stated: Dieter Spruth, Introduction, in: Paul Spruth, Die Rettung. Diary of a flight, Unna 2002, unpag .
3. ^ Paul Spruth in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors