Willy Bartock

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Willy Bartock (born January 2, 1915 in Hamborn , † March 19, 1995 in Duisburg - Walsum ) was a German poet and playwright.

Life

Willy Bartock was born in Duisburg-Hamborn in 1915 as the son of the mine mechanic Karl Bartock and the local politician Luise Romstedt. The mother was a KPD member of the Duisburg city council until 1933. The parents died in National Socialist custody. Bartock completed a commercial apprenticeship and then worked in the coking plant and as a laboratory assistant at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG . From 1931 he published his first texts in newspapers and company newspapers. Labor service followed from 1934 to 1940, followed by military service.

After the war he worked as a switchman on shaft IV / VIII in Hamborn and then as an assistant draftsman at the Walsum mine . From 1950, Bartock took over the management of the new department for the cultural care of miners at the Walsum colliery, which was initiated by Bergassessor Dr. Heribert Barking was established. One goal was the integration of the immigrant miners and their families. Bartock was in charge of the department until his retirement in 1972.

In 1950 Bartock founded the “Miner's Puppenbühne Walsumer Hans” with self-written pieces, some hand-made puppets. He wrote socially critical poems, short stories and plays. Many of the poems and stories were published in the works newspaper “Der Kumpel” of the Walsum colliery, which is why Bartock was referred to by the miners as “Coal Goethe”.

In November 1956 he organized a meeting of miners 'authors in Dinslaken on the subject of worker poetry with the participation of the workers' writers Otto Wohlgemuth , Georg Breuker , Ewald Rolf , Johannes Sinn, Adolf Groß and others. From 1961 to 1970 he was a member of " Gruppe 61 ".

He lived with his wife Maria in Duisburg-Walsum .

Varia

In 1998 a street in Walsum-Aldenrade was named after Willy Bartock. His estate is located in the Fritz Hüser Institute for Literature and Culture in the Working World in Dortmund .

Works

  • The year blooms colorfully in our little garden (poetry and prose), Xanten / Niederrhein 1952
  • The miller and the aquarius , fairy tale game, 1954
  • Seven Lights for Saint Barbara , a choral play, 1956
  • Coal, noble miner's bride , Vienna 1958
  • Bergamt by the fireplace. 13 ballads , 1960
  • The black apple
  • Neue Industriedichtung , Anthology of Gruppe 61, 1963 (co-author)
  • Night that won't let me sleep ; Edited by Walter Köpping, Oberhausen 1987
  • Indictment and Embassy. The Lyrical Statement of Workers since 1900 (co-author); Edited by Friedrich G. Kürbisch, Hanover 1969

literature

  • Dagmar Kift: Buddy Anton, St. Barbara and the Beatles - heroes and other models in the Ruhr area after 1945 (exhibition catalog); Food 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Willy Bartock is on record , in: Willy Bartock: Night that won't let me sleep . Oberhausen 1987, p. 69.
  2. ^ Luise Kift: Buddy Anton, St. Barbara and the Beatles . Klartext, Essen 2010, p. 23
  3. ↑ Willy Bartock on record , in: Willy Bartock: Night that won't let me sleep . Oberhausen 1987, pp. 69-70.
personal data
SURNAME Bartock, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamborn
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1995
Place of death Duisburg - Walsum