Werner Helmes

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Werner Helmes (* 2. May 1925 in Mayen ; † 28. December 2008 ) was a German local historian and writer ( novel , short story , essay , radio plays , film ).

Life

Helmes attended elementary school in Mayen. After returning from the Russian campaign , he passed his Abitur in 1946 and studied art history, German and English at the University of Mainz from 1947 . From 1949 he was press officer of a large international airline in Frankfurt am Main .

Since 1954 he worked as a freelance writer. He also did a lot of work for the radio, including a. for the SWF series Morgenläuten in ... from 1975 to 1982 with portraits of a total of 105 villages and communities.

Awards

  • Recognition prize in the literature competition Rhineland-Palatinate 1951 for the novella Romeo and Juliet are dead
  • Annual scholarship from the Carl Bertelsmann Foundation in 1956
  • Sponsorship award from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate 1959
  • Georg Mackensen Literature Prize 1983 for the story Forelle for table 11

bibliography

  • The Shard of Bacchus . Novel. Gütersloh 1957.
  • Fire and wine . Moselle tales. Mayen 1957.
  • The wrong mijnheer . Novel. Karlsruhe 1957.
  • Fire and wine . Stories. Mayen 1957.
  • Icarus Icarus . Novel. Karlsruhe 1959.
  • Consecration of the house. A play in two acts with a prelude . Cologne 1965.
  • Maars and volcanoes in the Eifel . Bonn 1966
  • The great halali . A piece from the Eifel forests. Cologne 1967
  • Beautiful district of Cochem-Zell . Weißenthurm 1972
  • Air base . Novel. Bergisch Gladbach 1985
  • A current historical reader . Koblenz 1985
  • People and effects . Biographical essays. Mainz 1979
  • Typically Rhenish . From Mainz to the Lower Rhine. Wurzburg 1984

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personal data
SURNAME Helmes, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local historian and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2008