Walter Köster

Walter Köster (born January 30, 1903 in Altefähr , Rügen district ; † January 24, 1991 in Bad Bevensen ) was a German teacher and writer .

Life

Born the son of a station master, Köster grew up in Samtens on the island of Rügen . He first attended the secondary school in Bergen on Rügen , then the preparatory institute in Tribsees and finally the teachers' seminar in Franzburg . He worked as a teacher on Rügen, then in Stralsund . In World War II he served as a soldier.

He experienced the end of the Second World War in a hospital in Freden (Leine) . He did not go back to Western Pomerania , which was now in the Soviet Zone , but stayed in Freden. Here he worked again as a teacher from 1949, from 1957 until his retirement in 1966 as a secondary school teacher. He was the head of the adult education center, head of the tourist association and local homeworker .

Köster published as a writer, partly in Low German , stage works , radio plays and poetry . He was awarded the Freudenthal Prize in 1962 .

Works (selection)

• De Hochtiedshannel. Comedy in 3 trips. Mahnke, Verden 1940. (Low German Comedy)
• Singing from the Immenburg . 1957. (poems)
• Burning heart . (= Series of publications by the Alfeld Local History Museum, Leine , No. 13). Röllinghausen 1963. (Poems)
• The shroud has no pockets . European publishing house, Vienna 1968. (poems)

Radio plays

As processor (word):

• 1951: Theodor Storm : Vadder and Söhn (template: Hans and Heinz Kirch ) - director and speaker: NN ( dialect radio play - NWDR Hamburg )

As an author:

• 1952: Vadder un Döchter - Director: Walter A. Kreye (dialect radio play - Radio Bremen )
  • Speakers among others: Carl Schenck , Erika Rumsfeld and Ruth Bunkenburg
• 1954: De Weg na Huus - Director: Günter Jansen (Dialect radio play - NWDR Hamburg)
  • Speakers among others: Hans Fitze , Heinz Lanker and Hilde Sicks
• 1958: One will be missing - Director: Viktor Lenz (Dialect radio play - Saarländischer Rundfunk )
  • Speakers among others: Viktor Lenz, Heinz Pielbusch and Friedrich Otto Scholz
• 1962: Een ward missing ... - Director: Curt Timm (dialect radio play - Norddeutscher Rundfunk )
  • Speakers among others: Rudolf Beiswanger , Bruno Vahl-Berg and Otto Lüthje
• 1968: Üm de Babenhand. Low German radio play - Director: Günther Siegmund ( original radio play , dialect radio play - Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
  • Speakers among others: Heini Kaufeld , Otto Lüthje and Erna Raupach-Petersen
• 1973: De Stepmaker - Director: Heinz Lanker (radio play adaptation, dialect radio play - Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
  • Speakers among others: Werner Riepel , Hilde Sicks and Jochen Schenck
• 1979: Dreemal Freedag op Bahnhoff Gager. Low German radio play - Director: Curt Timm (original radio play, dialect radio play - Radio Bremen / Norddeutscher Rundfunk)
  • Speakers among others: Benno Hattesen , Renate Delfs and Peter Nissen

literature

• Fritz Raeck : Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pommerscher Zentralverband, Hamburg 1969, p. 340.

Web links

• Walter Köster on "The Low German Literature"