Willy Kramp

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Willy Kramp

Willy Kramp (born June 18, 1909 in Mulhouse ; † August 19, 1986 in Schwerte-Villigst ) was a German writer .

Life

Willy Kramp was born in Alsace as the son of an East Prussian railway official. After the expulsion of his family from Alsace in 1919 the mother moved with her nine children in the Pomeranian Stolp where Kramp attended school. He studied philosophy , psychology , German and English in Berlin , Bonn and Königsberg . After the state examination and doctorate , he taught at a private girls' school in Königsberg until he was called up.

Since the early 1930s, Willy Kramp has been writing novels , stories , dramas and essays , mostly on topics of contemporary history. In 1938 he married Helene Keuch, with whom he had three children. Through his brother, who studied Protestant theology, he became a member of the Confessing Church . In 1939, Willy Kramp was called up as an army psychologist and had been a soldier since 1943. In January 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in 1950.

From 1950 to 1957, Willy Kramp was the director of the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst . During these years he was one of the formative personalities of the German Evangelical Church Congress . He then worked as a freelance writer until his death. He also belonged to the group of speakers for the ARD program Das Wort zum Sonntag .

The Nyland Foundation has recently tried to update his work by publishing a reader (see below) with a selection of his texts (editor: Heinrich Peuckmann ).

Works

  • Eternal Enmity - Novel (1932)
  • Mind and society. On the dissolution of the corporate society in the epic work of Karl Gutzkow - dissertation ( Königsberg 1937)
  • The Autumn Hour - Narrative (1937)
  • The fishermen of Lissau - Roman (1939)
  • We Are Receivers - Stories (1939)
  • About hearing and obedience (in the magazine) "Die Furche" (born 1939)
  • Konopka and the devil. A play from old East Prussia - play (1941)
  • The youths. Development novel (1943)
  • The Prophecy (1950)
  • I call. Experiences and encounters in Soviet captivity (1951)
  • Seven Pearls - Stories (1952)
  • The Purple Cloud - Novel (1953)
  • If I think about it right - Reflections (1955)
  • The loyal helpers. Solace and Violence of Songs (1955)
  • The Games of the Earth, Thoughts in a Garden (1956)
  • Of the simultaneity of the living. Two reflections (1956)
  • From the attentive life. Meditations and Conversations (1958)
  • If I think about it right. Little Tracts (1958)
  • The Secret of Authority (1959)
  • The Lamb - Story (1959)
  • The Wasp's Nest - Story (1959)
  • The world of conversation (1962)
  • The Joy (1962)
  • Brothers and servants. A report (1965)
  • The Burden of Truth (1967)
  • The witness. A poem (1967)
  • About Joy (1968)
  • The Last Enemy (1969)
  • Gorgon or the Weapons School (1969)
  • Mr. Adamek and the Children of the World. Experiences of an Innocent - Novel (1977)
  • On Probation - Narrative (1978)
  • Winter May and summer snow. Moments of My Life (1981)
  • Protest of the Snake (1981)
  • Christmas Comes Close (1983)
  • The Hiding Place - Narrative (1984)
  • I have seen. Poems (1985)
  • Against cancer fear. Chronicle of a Fight (1986)
  • Arrival in the city. Novella from the estate (1988)
  • Reader Willy Kramp, Aisthesis Verlag ; Publisher: Nyland Foundation, by Heinrich Peuckmann , Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8498-1145-7

Awards

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Willy Kramp in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ Carola Wolf (ed.): Twenty Years of the Kirchentag. The German Evangelical Church Congress between 1949 and 1969 . Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart 1969.
  3. ↑ See speakers since 1954 .
  4. ↑ see Nyland Foundation 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kramp, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Mulhouse
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1986
Place of death Schwerte-Villigst on the Ruhr