Richard Wolf (Author)

Richard Wolf (born July 14, 1900 in Bad Landeck , Province of Silesia ; † November 13, 1995 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German teacher and writer . From 1958 to 1965 he was director of the Goethe Institute .

Life

Richard Wolf studied music and education in Leipzig . In 1924 he went to Sofia as a teacher and in 1926 to Varna as the founder and director of a German school. Until 1945 he was a lecturer for the German language at universities and institutes in China and Yugoslavia . From Changsha in 1936 he took a boat trip through Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and India. It was on this trip that he wrote his book “The Eastern Arch”, which appeared in Berlin in 1943. In 1937, in recognition of his work abroad, he was the first lecturer to receive the Goethe Medal for Art and Science in silver from the German Academy .

After the Second World War , Wolf returned to Germany and entered the domestic German school service in Bad Liebenzell , wrote other books and worked for various broadcasters. In 1958 he became director of the Goethe Institute . For this he received the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, as recognition . He was awarded the Goethe Medal in gold in 1965 for outstanding services to the German language abroad . The many stays abroad play a major role in his literary work. In 1988 he was honored with the Eichendorff Literature Prize.

Fonts

• The eastern arch. Luken & Luken, Berlin 1943.
• The Well Chamber , Roman, 1968
• Collect stones - scatter stones. On the way back to then . Wolf & Fuchs, Murnau 1997. ISBN 3-931247-01-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Wolf in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ "On the history of the Goethe-Institut" , access date: December 26, 2018.