Wilhelm Reuter (local poet)

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Wilhelm Reuter (born July 10, 1896 in Oberkleen , † April 17, 1957 in Dornholzhausen ) was a Hessian local poet, poet and farmer.

Reuter was born on a farm in the village of Ober-Kleen in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau . Even as a student at the Oberkleen elementary school, he helped out on the farm in his free time. At the age of 16 he published his first poems in the Wetzlarer Anzeiger , which was followed by volumes of poetry such as Mother Earth - Fatherland and Scholle and Spirit . At the age of 20 he went to the First World War as a soldier. He suffered two severe wounds in the war and later processed his experiences in the novel Maasschrecken . Reuter married the farmer's daughter Luise Müller from nearby Dornholzhausen, inherited the farm and ran it until his death. After the Second World War he published a novel almost every year, printed in the Wetzlarer Zeitung or in the Kassler Sonntagsblatt and other local newspapers. Many of his shorter works have also been published in magazines and calendars. The novel The Witch of the Gray Stone made him so well known that he also brought out the story as a folk drama, which, along with other works, was performed annually on a forest stage in nearby Hochelheim . Stein's novels, stories and poems - which he wrote only in late autumn and winter, in spring and summer he was a farmer on fields, meadows and farms - are set in the Wetzlarer Land and in the Hüttenberger Land . His short stories in particular convey a vivid picture of the breed of people in the Hüttenberger Land with its peculiarities and humor.

Works

  • Mother earth - fatherland, poems of a farmer , Schnitzlersche Buchdr. u. Buchh., Wetzlar 1925
  • The measles horror. Front novel from 1914–1918 , Albin Klein, Gießen (Südanlage 21), 1929
  • The witch of the gray stone , 1950
  • The martyred house , Brühl, Gießen 1951
  • Touch of the earth , poems, Schauenburg, Lahr / Black Forest 1955

literature

  • Dr. Hz .: Wilhelm Reuter. The calendar man from the Wetzlarer Land , Heimatkalender Kreis Wetzlar, Wetzlarer Heimatverlag, Wetzlar 1954, pp. 105–6.
  • Philip Hofmann: A chapter "Wilhelm Reuter" , In: Lang-Göns, a village book from the Hüttenberg. Publishing house of the community, Lang-Göns, 1955, p. 350
  • hz: Wilhelm Reuter turns 60 today , Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, July 10, 1956, p. 4
  • hz: Wilhelm Reuter is dead , Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, April 18, 1957, p. 4
  • Hugo Freund (Ed.): Biographies of Wetzlar Personalities , Wetzlarer Heimathefte, Volume 12, Scharfes Druckereien Verlag, Wetzlar 1963, pp. 117f.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: Reuter, Wilhelm , In: Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, 3rd edition, Volume 12, 1990, p. 1078
  • Bernd Bauer: Legendary Hessen: the witch of the gray stone; a strange story from the Kleebachtal , Butzbacher Geschichtsblätter, Vol. 204, 2006, pp. 1-4.
  • Friedhelm Müller: Wilhelm Reuter writes in winter , Wetzlarer Neue Zeitung, Heimat an Lahn und Dill, December 23, 207, p. 19
  • Heinz-Lothar Worm: The tragic accident at Hannsjost's fountain , home in the picture, supplement of the Gießener Anzeiger, H. 21/22, 23 May 2008

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