Rudolf Kinau

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Rudolf Kinau tells Low German stories
Rudolf Kinau while signing his works

Rudolf Kinau (born March 23, 1887 in Finkenwerder ; † November 19, 1975 ibid) was a Low German writer, also known as Rudl Kinau .

origin

Rudolf Kinau's parents were the deep-sea fisherman Heinrich Wilhelm Kinau and Metta, b. Holst, his brothers the writers Johann Wilhelm Kinau alias Gorch Fock and Jakob Kinau .

Life

He attended elementary school and then first worked for an Elbe fisherman before he worked in sea ​​fishing on his father's Ewer for five years . Then he attended the seaman's school and made his pilot's license for the large shipping industry. After a year of service in the merchant navy , as a result of the poor economic situation in shipping, he accepted a position in the Hamburg fish hall. His first story, a tribute to his older brother Gorch Fock, he wrote in 1916. Known become, he is also on the radio, first in the morning celebrations, then later, for example in the series by n Hear pray to the NDR . Comrade and comrade, among others, appeared in book form of these addresses . He wrote a total of 33 books in which his love for the Low German language becomes clear again and again. He has also published radio plays and plays.

He also discussed records, including for the national series Word and Voice and Low German Voices .

Rudolf Kinau was married and had a daughter and a son.

Awards and honors

In addition to a number of literary awards, such as B. the Fritz Reuter Prize 1962, he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit on December 10, 1973 .

Are named after him in his native Finkenwerder the Rudolf-Kinau Avenue , in Ahrensburg and the Lower Saxon communities Ostrhauderfehn , Tostedt and Westoverledingen and in Kellinghusen, Westerrönfeld and Edewecht-Friedrichsfehn the Rudolf-Kinau Street and the Schleswig-Holstein Wedel, Bad Bramstedt, in Barmstedt, in Stade-Wiepenkathen and in Uetersen the Rudolf-Kinau-Weg . In Strande (Kieler Bucht) there is next to Gorch-Fock-Straße the Rudolf-Kinau-Weg , in Reppenstedt the Rudolf-Kinau-Twiete .

The house where he was born on Finkenwerder, the Gorch-Fock-Haus, is now a literature museum that commemorates him and his two brothers.

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Books (selection)

Radio plays

Own

Participation

  • 1967: The Queen of Honolulu - radio play based on the play of the same name by Rudolf Kinau's brother Gorch Fock, based on a production by the Ohnsorg Theater. Rudolf Kinau acts as the narrator here, summarizing the game scenes, which were left out due to lack of time, and thus ensures that the scenes taken over are understood.

Plays

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Comrade and comrade. (= Backpack writing of the High Command of the Wehrmacht. Issue 80). 1943. DNB 363993614
  2. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  3. ↑ hoerdat ; The radio play was repeated on July 1, 1985 on NDR 1 (see program recommendation “TV” July 1985). Lt. The announcement at that time is the radio play from 1961. See also hoerdat.de. Information on the RB side obviously wrong.
  4. ↑ ard.de/radio/hoerspielarchiv  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ard.de
personal data
SURNAME Kinau, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kinau, Rudl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Finkenwerder
DATE OF DEATH 19th November 1975
Place of death Finkenwerder