Willi Schäferdiek

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Willi (originally Heinrich Wilhelm) Schäferdiek ( pseudonym : Hermann Domhoff , born January 19, 1903 in Speldorf / Mülheim ( Ruhr ); † March 26, 1993 in Troisdorf ) was a German writer .

Life

Willi Schäferdiek came from a working class family. After his father's death in 1916, Schäferdiek was forced to contribute to the family's livelihood by working in a carpenter's workshop . From 1917 he studied at the teachers' college in Kettwig . He broke off his studies in 1921 and then worked in various professions, including a. as a bank clerk and bookseller . From 1926 he was a dramaturge at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne . As an essentially apolitical author and member of the NSDAP , he was able to continue his career under National Socialism . In 1937 he switched to the Reichsender Saarbrücken and finally in 1939 to the German shortwave transmitter in Berlin . From 1944 he took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . He became an American prisoner of war . After his release he went to Siegburg in 1945 , where he settled as a freelance writer . One of his sons is the church historian Knut Schäferdiek .

Willi Schäferdiek's work includes stories , novels , poems , dramas and radio plays . While his first works were still characterized by pathetic social criticism , he later switched to the dramatic and epic portrayal of revolutionary historical personalities such as Thomas Müntzer and Napoleon . In addition to his literary works, Schäferdiek has also been commissioned to write company stories since the 1950s .

Honors

Schäferdiek was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on September 5, 1988 .

Works

  • Murderers for us , Bonn 1927
  • From the end of a creature , Berlin 1928
  • End of the Creature , Dresden 1930
  • The Drummer of God , Munich 1934
  • Zuma , Saarlouis 1935
  • The Rhenish Eulenspiegel , Borna [u. a.] 1936
  • Who is involved? , Rösrath b. Cologne 1936
  • Matthias Tobias , Leipzig 1938
  • Marina between stream and moor , Salzburg [u. a.] 1939
  • The egg ride and other folk stories , Vienna [a. a.] 1942
  • Schinderhannes , Berlin 1942 (together with Gustav Kneip)
  • Little picture book of childhood , Berlin 1944
  • Yesterday as today , Rheinhausen 1949
  • His Majesty's personal physician , Aschaffenburg 1951
  • Rebel in Christo , Hattingen (Ruhr) 1953
  • 100 years in the service of the general public , Siegburg 1954
  • 50 years of community savings bank Hennef, Sieg , Hennef-Sieg 1955
  • Show your feet , Weinheim / Bergstr. 1957 (together with Gustav Kneip)
  • On the growth and development of our house , Siegburg 1963
  • The millennial Dollendorf , Bonn 1966
  • Rolf Bongs, a contemporary writer , Munich 1970
  • Collected stage works , Siegburg 1981
  • Casanova's secret adventure , Siegburg 1982
  • Oh beat the wings of the buzzard , Siegburg 1982
  • Dreiklang , Siegburg 1984
  • Lebens-Echo , Düsseldorf 1985
  • "I was there" , Siegburg 1991

Editing

  • Das Lied der Front , Wolfenbüttel (together with Alfred-Ingemar Berndt and Gustav Kneip)
    • 1 (1940)
    • 2 (1940)
    • 3 (1940)
  • Friedrich Gerstäcker : The regulators in Arkansas , Kempen-Niederrh. 1948
  • Germany in folk song , Frankfurt [a. a.] 1958 (together with Gustav Kneip)

literature

  • Ingrid Scheffler: writer and literature in the NWDR Cologne (1945–1955). People, substances, forms of presentation . Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .


personal data
SURNAME Schäferdiek, Willi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Domhoff, Hermann (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Speldorf
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1993
Place of death Troisdorf