Volker Issmer

Volker Issmer (* 1943 in Glatz , Lower Silesia Province ) is a German historian and writer from Osnabrück .

Family and education

The family was expelled from Silesia in the spring of 1946 after the Second World War and settled in Oesede Monastery near Osnabrück . Here Issmer attended elementary school and then the old-language branch of the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück . The final examination was followed by a degree in German and history at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster . In 2003 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The labor education camp in Ohrbeck near Osnabrück .

Issmer is married and has three sons.

Activity and research

Issmer was a college teacher in high schools. Since his early retirement from school, Issmer has been researching forced labor during the Second World War , focusing primarily on the Ohrbeck labor education camp near Osnabrück. In this context, Issmer successfully campaigned for forced labor compensation for former prisoners in the camp. Together with the “Augustaschacht Initiative” he achieved the establishment of the Ohrbeck Labor Education Camp Memorial .

Since 2005 Issmer has published novels and volumes of short stories as well as personal notes. He chooses, as in the 2014 novel My heart-loving brother in the flesh and in Christ! - Armada - historical facts, in this case the bloodbath in walking , as a starting point and then adorns them fictionally. In other works, he primarily dealt with the basic questions of National Socialism in a documentary or literary way, for example in: Denazified as a fellow traveler (Category IV) , Die Reise des Graal , The Great Christian , Zahngold and The Master's Lot . The reader series “Foreign Time - Our Time”, the third part of which was published in 2016, deals with the attitudes and actions of people in totalitarian systems.

Awards

• 2002 Marion Samuel Prize
• 2003 Culture Promotion Prize of the Osnabrück Land Regional Association
• 2003 Honorary gift from the city of Georgsmarienhütte
• 2016 Citizen Medal of the City of Osnabrück

Books

• Dutch in the damn country. Steinbacher Druck, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-9805661-0-2 .
• The Ohrbeck labor education camp near Osnabrück. Steinbacher Druck, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-9805661-9-6 .
• Denazified as a “fellow traveler” (Category IV) - My Father's Memoirs. AT Edition, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-89781-007-7 .
• Forced labor and “work breeding” using the example of Augustaschacht: Region in class - materials. Rasch, Bramsche 2002, ISBN 3-935326-13-0 .
• The journey of the grail. Recordings of an autumn between Ohrbeck and Tecklenburg. Books on Demand 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2486-9 .
• The great Christian. AT Edition, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-89781-095-6 .
• Dental gold. Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2008, ISBN 978-3-86685-136-8 .
• The Master's Lot. Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2009, ISBN 978-3-86685-191-7 .
• Strange time - our time. A reader - Part I . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2011, ISBN 978-3-86685-266-2 .
• Strange time - our time. A Reader - Part II . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2012, ISBN 978-3-86685-381-2 .
• My dearest brother in the flesh and in Christ! - Armada -. Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2014, ISBN 978-3-86685-500-7 .
• Strange time - our time. A Reader - Part III . Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2016, ISBN 978-3-86685-581-6 .
• Alparslan. A political utopia. Geest-Verlag, Vechta 2017, ISBN 978-3-86685-641-7 .

Web links

• Internet presence of Volker Issmer
• Literature by and about Volker Issmer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Book presentation with Volker Issmer. In: literaturhaeuser-niedersachsen.de. September 28, 2015, accessed June 11, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Joachim Dierks: The Ueffeln blood bath in walking as a romantic theme. In: noz.de. February 28, 2015, accessed September 10, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Book presentation with Volker Issmer. In: literaturhaeuser-niedersachsen.de. September 28, 2015, accessed June 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ alfred2: Volker Issmer presented yesterday at the memorial Augustaschacht the third band of 'strangers Time - Our Time' before . In: Geest-Verlag . November 7, 2016 ( geest-verlag.de [accessed November 8, 2016]).
5. ↑ Ulrike Schmidt: Citizen's Medal for Volker Issmer and Sigrid Leimkuhle. In: New Osnabrück Newspaper. Fromm Verlag, November 1, 2016, accessed November 4, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Osnabrück historian presents reader on regional history. In: landkreis-osnabrueck.de. January 3, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2017 . 
7. ↑ alfred2: As the world is thrown into chaos: Volker Issmers new novel: Alparslan. A political utopia contains a great deal of political discussion . In: Geest-Verlag . August 6, 2017 ( geest-verlag.de [accessed August 7, 2017]).