Richard Limpert

Richard Limpert (born August 26, 1922 in Gelsenkirchen , † March 16, 1991 in Essen ) was a German writer .

Life

Richard Limpert was the son of a sales representative . After attending primary school from 1929 to 1937, he completed an apprenticeship as a saddler and upholsterer . He was as upholsterers and decorators worked and participated as a soldier of the Wehrmacht at the World War II in part; In 1944 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he returned in 1949. From 1950 to 1957 he worked again as an upholsterer, then from 1957 as a glassworks worker and machinist in various mines in the Ruhr area . He was works council and education chairman of the mining and energy industrial union . In 1979 he was given early retirement .

Richard Limpert began in the sixties with the writing of socially critical poems , short stories and reports , which are close to socialist realism in their partisanship for the workers .

Richard Limpert worked for the literary workshop in Gelsenkirchen from 1968 and from 1969 a member of the working group "Literature of the Working World" . In 1978 he received the Georg Weerth Literature Prize , and in 1987 the Prize of the Coal Pottery Forum .

I see people who eagerly ... , Hamburg 1970

Poems by the social partner , Mülheim ad Ruhr 1971 (together with Herbert Berger and Günter Hinz)

About Erich , Mülheim (ad Ruhr) 1972

A tenor from Steele has gold in his throat , Oberhausen 1978 (together with Fasia and Walter Kurowski)

Request to speak & interjections , Oberhausen 1979

Richard Limpert , Munich 1982

Erich Trepmil's story , Oberhausen 1983

Whispered through the megaphone , Oberhausen 1987

Josef Jansen: Limpert, Richard. In: Literature Lexicon. Edited by Walther Killy , 7: 295 (1990)
Richard Limpert in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)