Werner Warsinsky

Werner Warsinsky (born August 6, 1910 in Barlo , now Bocholt , † June 24, 1992 in Münster ) was a German writer .

Life

Werner Warsinsky was the son of a customs officer. After attending secondary school in Dortmund , he trained as a bookseller and worked a. a. in a bookshop in Bochum . Warsinsky, who had completed classical vocal training, also appeared as a tenor in operettas at the Dortmund City Theater . During the Second World War he took part as a soldier in the Wehrmacht in the western campaign and in the war against the Soviet Union . He became a Soviet prisoner of war , from which he managed to escape. After the war he worked as a laborer in the main-track , high and civil engineering as well as a furnace workers in an aluminum factory in Luenen operates. He later had a job as a librarian at the Lünen city ​​library , which he headed from 1956. After his retirement he lived in Münster .

Werner Warsinsky had already started writing at the age of sixteen; until the 1950s, however, no publisher had been found for his work. In 1953 he won the “European Literature Prize” (together with Czesław Miłosz ) in a competition organized by European book clubs for his novel “Kimmerische Fahrt” . In his work, which is highly praised by literary critics (including Gottfried Benn ), whose language is clearly influenced by Ernst Jünger , Warsinsky describes his war and post-war experiences. The book is considered an important example of literary “ magical realism ”. After his first work, Warsinsky only sporadically published smaller works and finally withdrew completely from literary life. His extensive, previously unpublished estate is kept in the Dortmund City and State Library and in the Westphalian Literature Archive in the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia in Münster .

The city of Lünen , where he lived and worked for many years, honored him by naming a street after him.

Works

• Cimmerian Voyage , Stuttgart 1953
• Lunatique , Wuppertal 1958
• Gerhart Hauptmann , Hagen 1962
• Legend of the Salt of Tears , Dortmund 1970

literature

• Jochen Grywatsch : Word structure, meaning, creation of form. The hidden literature of Werner Warsinsky. Discoveries in the Westphalian Literature Archive (documentation from the literature commission of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association). Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2012. ISBN 978-3-89528-901-9 .

Web links

• Werner Warsinsky in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Der Spiegel 48/1953: Literature Prize. Fractions without a denominator , November 25, 1953