Walter Vollmer
Walter Vollmer (born July 2, 1903 in Westrich near Dortmund , † February 17, 1965 in Arnsberg ) was a German writer .
Life
Vollmer was the son of a teacher . After he had passed the school leaving examination in 1922 , he worked underground for four years as a miner in the Ruhr mining industry . After that, he began a study of mining sciences at the Mining Academy in Clausthal , he, however, did not finish. He worked as a journalist and dramaturge for the radio and began to study again, this time philosophy at the University of Leipzig and finally from 1929 to 1933 Protestant theology at the University of Münster . He also broke off this course. His first narrative works appeared during the second half of the 1920s, the success of which enabled him to work as a freelance writer in Holzwickede near Dortmund from 1933 onwards . In 1937 he moved to Dortmund.
At the latest with the transfer of power to the National Socialists and their allies, he achieved “extensive identification with the objectives of National Socialism”. Vollmer was "gladly and persistently" to work on the magazine Heimat und Reich , the central organ of Westphalian cultural and literary policy. In 1941 he and other regional authors such as Josefa Berens-Totenohl , Heinrich Luhmann or Fritz Nölle declared themselves there in a “ war confession of Westphalian poets ” as “soldiers of the word”. Vollmer came forward by demanding "responsibility and obedience" from poetry.
Vollmer survived the denazification unaffected. From 1952 he was press officer for the district government in Arnsberg .
Vollmer's work consists mainly of novels and stories on topics from the Ruhr area .
Honors
- 1937: Honorary salary of the city of Dortmund
- 1950: Novel Prize of the German Coal Mining Administration
- 1955: Annette von Droste Hülshoff Prize (together with Paul Schallück )
Fonts
- Calling in the shaft . M. Gladbach 1926
- Flight into the stars . Minden iW 1929
- The goat Sonja . Leipzig 1933
- Land on the Ruhr . Munster 1935
- The tavern for everlasting love . Berlin 1935
- Before daybreak . Berlin 1937
- The walk to the Nobiskrug . Berlin 1938
- The potters . Hamburg 1940
- War confession of Westphalian poets . Co-author Wilhelm Vernekohl. In: Heimat und Reich , 1941, no.3
- From my forest hut . Gütersloh 1942
- The dream ship . Hamburg 1942
- Stories from Westphalia . Gütersloh 1943
- The lost soul . Munich [u. a.] 1947
- Midsummer Festival on Seven Planets . Düsseldorf 1950
- World trip to the happy morning sun . Düsseldorf 1950
- The Duke's cornet . Stuttgart 1953
- The fight of the cichlids . Gütersloh 1954
- Enchanted world . Gütersloh 1954
- Herford . Oldenburg (Oldb.) 1956
- Commitment to the area . Essen 1957
- The Ruhr . Iserlohn 1958 (together with Hugo Schüttrich)
- Interlude in Salzuflen . Münster iW 1958
- The well-tempered aquarium . Munich 1961
- 125 years of tradition and progress . Arnsberg 1962
- Metropolis Westphaliae . Münster / Westf. 1963
- Westphalian cityscapes . Gütersloh 1963
- Dortmund expects the technical university . Dortmund 1965
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Vollmer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Vollmer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Vollmer in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- ^ Wilhelm Vernekohl: War confession of Westphalian poets. In: Heimat und Reich , born 1941, no. 3, p. 124f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vollmer, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westrich near Dortmund |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 17, 1965 |
| Place of death | Arnsberg |