Wilhelm Puff

Wilhelm Puff (born May 28, 1889 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; died November 5, 1983 ) was a German writer .

Life

Little is known about Wilhelm Puff. In 1936 he published a volume of poetry in the Resistance Publishing House.

According to Alfred Kantorowicz (1947), Puff was imprisoned by the Gestapo for a year during the National Socialist era in 1936/37, as he was viewed as an enemy of the system in SS circles; Ernst Niekisch and Joseph E. Drexel were also accused and convicted with him .

According to the 2019 edition of Barlach Briefe, Puff worked as a teacher in Nuremberg and also worked there in the adult education center. He tried to invite Ernst Barlach to Nuremberg for a lecture. He himself organized readings in Nuremberg. After the Second World War, Puff was the principal of the two-class elementary school in Unterferrieden . At the end of 1950 he was a co-signer of an appeal by the “Working Group for German Understanding” under the direction of Wilhelm Elfes on Adenauer's Ostpolitik, he signed as Wilhelm Puff, Rector, Nuremberg-Unterferrieden.

Puff published poems, a biographical novel about Georg Forster and in 1958 wrote the foreword to a brochure for an exhibition of Horst Strempels works in Nuremberg and Bielefeld. In 1971, Puff received a Joseph E. Drexel Prize .

Fonts (selection)

Creator and Destiny. Hymns . Berlin: Resistance Publishing House, 1936
Mask and metaphor . Nuremberg: Carl, 1965
Macabre Station . Nuremberg: Verlag Nürnberger Presse, 1966
Georg Forster and Freedom: a Biographical Novel . 1990

literature

Wilhelm Puff , in: Richard Drews and Alfred Kantorowicz : Verboten and burned, German literature suppressed for 12 years . Ullstein, Munich 1947, reprint 1983, p. 195

Web links

Literature by and about Wilhelm Puff in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Puff, Wilhelm in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Wilhelm Puff , archive holdings Germanisches Nationalmuseum / Deutsches Kunstarchiv, at bavarikon

Individual evidence

↑ Ernst Barlach, The Letters. Volume 3. 1929-1934 . Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2019, p. 1953 ISBN 978-3-518-42877-1 . A postcard to Puff dated January 14, 1937 has also been received from Barlach.

personal data
SURNAME	Puff, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH	5th November 1983

[1] Ernst Barlach, The Letters. Volume 3. 1929-1934 . Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2019, p. 1953 ISBN 978-3-518-42877-1 . A postcard to Puff dated January 14, 1937 has also been received from Barlach.