Willibald Koehler

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Willibald Erhard Köhler (born September 6, 1886 in Beuthen , Upper Silesia , † October 25, 1976 in Munich ) was a German writer and teacher .

Life

Willibald Köhler, son of a long-established family from Beuthen in Upper Silesia, studied English and German at the universities of Breslau , Berlin , Geneva and Oxford after graduating from high school . Upon graduation, the later taught school teacher appointed Köhler first at the grammar school in Opole , then at the High School in Nysa . There he took over the management of the German Eichendorff Museum in 1936.

After his expulsion from Silesia, Willibald Köhler took up a position at the State Realschule in Miesbach in 1946 , which he held until he retired in 1949. In 1954 he took over the management of the Eichendorff Museum and Archive in Wangen im Allgäu . Köhler, one of the most important Silesian writers of his time, was awarded the Eichendorff Prize in 1923, the Siling Ring in 1953, the Great Federal Cross of Merit in 1957 , the Golden Medal of the Eichendorff Foundation and the Golden Eichendorff Medal of the City of Wangen as well as in 1961 1966 awarded the honorary prize of the Eichendorff Literature Prize. Willibald Köhler, who was married to Erna, born Prillwitz, with whom he had five children, died in 1976 at the age of 90 in Munich.

Works (selection)

  • Antäus: Stories, F. Borgmeyer Verlag, Hildesheim, 1925.
  • The mirror bridge, L. Heege, Schweidnitz, 1926.
  • The ancestor: poems, L. Heege, Schweidnitz, 1928.
  • Angelus Silesius (Johannes Scheffler), Georg Müller, Munich, 1929.
  • Longing for the Reich: A Borderland Fate; Roman, Kösel & Pustet, Munich, 1933.
  • The faithful feet: 2 stories, Kupfer, Breslau, 1935.
  • Vitigo: A story from the Mongol period, Deutscher Volksverlag, Munich, 1941
  • Start with paradise within yourself: A guide to Hermann Stehr , Haushamer Werkdruck, 1952
  • Joseph von Eichendorff  : A Poet's Life in 11 Chapters, Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Augsburg, 1957.
  • The yellow cloud: a story from the Mongol era, 2nd revised edition, Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Augsburg, 1960.
  • A life in Upper Silesia and elsewhere, Oberschlesischer Heimatverlag, Augsburg, 1963.

literature

  • Arno Lubos : Silesian poetry in the 20th century, Bergstadtverlag Korn, Würzburg, 1961, p. 68.
  • Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who? The German who's who. Volume 17 . Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1973, p. 559.
  • Josef Walter König: The gravesite of German-speaking poets and thinkers: a lexical guide, 2nd edition, Corian-Verlag H. Wimmer, Meitingen, 2003, ISBN 3890483208 . P. 189.

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personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Willibald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köhler, Willibald Erhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Beuthen , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1976
Place of death Munich