Willy Küsters
Willy Küsters (born August 2, 1888 in Duisburg , † September 1, 1949 in Friedrichshafen ) was a German writer .
Life
Willy Küsters was the son of an industrial fitter . From 1903 to 1906 Küsters completed a commercial training , then he worked as an accountant in Duisburg until 1913 and as a businessman in Düsseldorf from 1914 to 1924 . From 1924 to 1928 he was a partner and later sole owner of the See-Verlag in Konstanz . From 1932 to 1944 he worked as a bookseller in Friedrichshafen .
Willy Küsters was first and foremost a poet ; his poems can be attributed to Expressionism and appeared in the period before 1914 and during the First World War exclusively in magazines of the Expressionist movement such as Pfemfert's " Aktion ". The scattered works of the largely forgotten author were first published in book form in 1993.
Works
- Bodensee Primer , Friedrichshafen 1944
- Where haggard houses look straight into the firmament , Eggingen 1993
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| SURNAME | Küsters, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 1949 |
| Place of death | Friedrichshafen |