Philipp Faust

Philipp Faust (born August 1, 1898 in Nieder-Olm , Rheinhessen , † February 28, 1959 in Wuppertal ) was a German bricklayer and writer .

Life

Philipp Faust was the son of a master mason . He completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and was active in this profession. From 1916 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . He later lived in Wuppertal , where he again worked as a bricklayer. Since the 1930s he has published literary works, some of which he read on reading tours , on the radio and, during the Second World War, also in the context of troop support . After 1945 he was back in his job, but later had to give it up for health reasons.

As an author, Philipp Faust was a representative of realistic , ideologically independent workers' literature . His work consists of novels , stories and poems , in which he often processed his own experiences, such as his experiences during the First World War and experiences from his professional activity as a bricklayer .

In his birthplace Nierder-Olm, a street is named after Philipp Faust.

Works

• The glowing stove , Berlin-Steglitz 1937
• Stranger son , Munich 1939
• The bricklayers , Berlin 1939
• The house , Munich 1940
• Klein's Hammer and his people , Hanover 1940
• Fateful Days , Stuttgart 1943
• Walter Breitenbach , Wuppertal 1946
• Sources of Life , Wuppertal 1948
• The seeker , Minden / Westf. [u. a.] 1948
• The sounding trowel , Kevelaer 1950
• The right ladle , Gütersloh 1961

Web links

• Literature by and about Philipp Faust in the catalog of the German National Library
• Philipp Faust , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de

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