Wendelin Mangold

Wendelin Mangold (born September 5, 1940 in Shevchenko , Odessa Oblast , Ukrainian SSR ) is a Russian- German Germanist and writer .

Life

Wendelin Mangold comes from a Russian-German farming family. In 1943 his family was forcibly resettled by the National Socialist authorities in the course of the ethnic reorganization of the " Warthegau ", which was occupied by the Third Reich in 1939, to this region, which previously belonged to Poland . Mangold saw the end of the war in Germany ; his family was deported by the Red Army to the Soviet Union and spent the next decade under strict state supervision, the so-called " Kommandantur ", in the Northern Urals . During this time, Wendelin Mangold mainly worked as a construction worker. After the end of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union, the Mangold family moved to Novosibirsk in 1956 . Wendelin Mangold was now able to attend evening school, which he successfully completed. From 1962 to 1967 he studied German at the Pedagogical Institute in Novosibirsk ; he did his doctorate in this subject and worked as a lecturer . Later he held a chair for “German as a mother tongue” in Koktschetaw , Kazakhstan . Since the 1970s , he has published literary texts - mainly poems - in the German-language press of the Soviet Union.

1992 moved Wendelin Mangold to Germany , where he remained until his retirement as in 2007 social workers in the Catholic chaplaincy worked for the Germans from Russia. Mangold now lives in Königstein im Taunus .

Wendelin Mangold was a member of the Soviet Writers' Union ; Today he is a member of the Literature Circle of Germans from Russia and the Culture Council of Germans from Russia .

Works

All about life , Stuttgart 1998
Germany, there and back , Lage-Hörste 2001
Wander to oneself , Annweiler 2005

Editing

Russian-German literature , Stuttgart 1999

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personal data
SURNAME	Mangold, Wendelin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian-German Germanist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 5, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shevchenko , Odessa