Volker Grobe

Volker Gröbe (born February 18, 1947 in Halberstadt ) is a writer in Cologne dialect .

Life

Volker Gröbe has lived in Cologne since New Year's Eve 1955/56 . After attending primary school , he completed an apprenticeship as a fitter . He then trained as a mechanical engineer. After four years of service in the armed forces , he attended evening grammar school , where he obtained his Abitur . Thus admitted to the course his eagerness to learn continued and he studied German , geography , philosophy , Catholic theology and education at the University of Cologne .

As a teacher, Gröbe worked at a high school and at an evening grammar school . He then worked for over 15 years in the management of a Cologne cultural foundation. From 1983 to 1997 he was the director of the Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch . He was also active as president of a carnival society , in the literary committee of the festival committee Cologne Carnival and in the Cologne Carnival Museum. He has been active as a cultural manager since 1997.

To date, Gröbe has written 27 books - 23 in Cologne dialect -, as editor he published 22 books and contributed to 10 other publications as an author.

He gained national fame through his translation work for the Asterix op kölsch and as a language coach for the literary film adaptation : Teufelsbraten , based on the novel The hidden word , by Ulla Hahn .

Volker Gröbe is married and has two sons.

Honors

• Best price from the Bibliotheca Coloniensis - together with Konrad Adenauer (* 1948, notary and city council, Cologne) for their Lindenthal books.
• Holder of the title Dat ech kölsche Hätz
• Holds the title Magister linguae et humoris causa

Works (selection)

• No frills, Cologne realities. ISBN 3-7616-0987-6 .
• Let mer jet laugh! 444 Wetze us dem janze Minschelevve - un jet drüvver erus. ISBN 3-7616-1139-0 .
• Cologne jokes 1. ISBN 3-7616-1792-5 .
• Kölner Witze 2. ISBN 3-7616-1842-5 .
• Kölner Sprüche 2. ISBN 3-7616-1794-1 .
• The little prince - op kölsch. ISBN 3-933575-03-6 .
• The Christmas story op kölsch. ISBN 3-933575-22-2 .
• Aesop's fables op kölsch. ISBN 3-933575-66-4 .
• The Easter story op kölsch. ISBN 3-933575-74-5 .
• The Cologne dictionary of abuse. ISBN 3-933575-50-8 .
• The Wilhelm Busch album from Cologne. ISBN 3-936622-22-1 .
• Kölsch advent calendar booch. ISBN 3-936622-21-3 .
• Zebra stripes-Streifzöch through Kölle. ISBN 3-936622-40-X .
• When and Kresskind op kölsch is canceled. ISBN 978-3-940168-08-5 .
• Compact mini dictionary Uns kölsche Sproch from A – Z. ISBN 3-8174-3156-2 .
• Rievkooche, Hämmche un halve Hahn. (= Compact Mini). ISBN 3-8174-3055-8 .
• Plaatekopp un Schlabbermuul, Kölsch swear words from A – Z. (= Compact Mini). ISBN 3-8174-3052-3 .
• Et kütt wie et kütt, Kölsch proverbs. (= Compact Mini). ISBN 3-8174-3387-5 .
• Schildergasse, Alter Markt & Co, Cologne street names and their meaning. (= Compact Mini). ISBN 3-8174-3259-3 .
• Laugh ens aries, Cologne jokes. (= Compact Mini). ISBN 3-8174-3618-1 .
• Spetze tongue - fründlije Wööt, kölsche Spröch vun hückzodaach. ISBN 3-7616-1112-9 .
• by de Zäng jetrocke, kölsche Spröch vun hückzodaach 2. ISBN 3-7616-1016-5 .
• Lindenthal: The development of a Cologne suburb (together with Konrad Adenauer). ISBN 3-7616-0899-3 .
• Streets and squares in Lindenthal (together with Konrad Adenauer). ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 .
• Asterix op kölsch (Dem Asterix sing young). ISBN 3-7704-0468-8 - Asterix op kölsch in the kölsch- speaking Wikipedia
• Asterix op kölsch 2 (Brut un Spillcher). ISBN 3-7704-0478-5 - Asterix op kölsch in the kölsch- speaking Wikipedia
• Me, Bruno, dog. M. Naumann Verlag, ISBN 978-3-940168-28-3 .

Web links

• biography
• Academy for us Cologne language

• Literature by and about Volker Gröbe in the catalog of the German National Library