Winfried Pielow

Winfried Pielow in 2014 after a reading in the DA, Kunsthaus Kloster Gravenhorst .

Winfried Pielow (born May 19, 1924 in Tungerloh-Pröbsting , Gescher ; † April 12, 2018 in Nordwalde , Kr. Steinfurt ) was a German literary scholar , writer and radio play author .

life and work

Winfried Pielow was born in 1924 in Tungerloh-Pröbsting, a small farming community in the Gescher community , as the son of the elementary school teacher August Pielow. By the displacement of his father after Marienwerder in West Prussia Pielow acquired in 1942 at the local high school his war High School . This was followed by Reich Labor Service in the Münsterland and in December 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . According to his own statements, he came to the Eastern Front and was wounded on the Beresina in the summer of 1944 . As a survivor of the Kurland cauldron , he was captured by the British in Schleswig-Holstein on May 8, 1945 after being evacuated across the Baltic Sea.

Back from captivity, Pielow completed training as a primary school teacher in 1947 at the just reopened Pedagogical Academy in Emsdetten . He then studied German, English and pedagogy in Münster and received his doctorate in 1951. phil. with the dissertation on the subject of the educator figures of the great German educational novels from Goethe to the present with Benno von Wiese . This was followed in 1954 by the acceptance of an assistant position at the Pedagogical University in Alfeld , where he worked as a lecturer for historical pedagogy and later for literary studies and literature didactics. In 1960 Pielow received a call back to the University of Education in Münster and in 1963 a professorship for didactics of German language and literature. When he retired in 1989, his academic work at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, which had taken over the university of teacher education in 1980, ended.

With his subject-related works Poetry and Didactics (1963) and The Poem in Lessons (1965), which were reprinted several times, Pielow took part in the scientific discussion on German didactics. He put another focus on theater education . In 1960 he took over the management of the studio stage at the University of Education in Münster and wrote plays for school and youth theater. As a member of the Science Council in 1970, he was involved in the recommendations for the expansion of education in the higher education sector. Since the 1980s, Pielow has written poems, short stories, novels, plays and radio plays.

Winfried Pielow's first marriage (⚭ 1956) was with Elisabeth Pielow, geb. Rolinck (1922–2016) married. This marriage resulted in his three sons Johann-Christian Pielow (* 1957), Stefan Pielow (* 1959) and Martin Pielow (1961–1992). He lived in Laer for a long time with his second wife Hedda Elverfeld-Pielow (⚭ 1977) .

Honors

In 2012 Pielow received the Steinfurt District Culture Prize for his narrative performance. The jury's justification was: Pielow is one of the most important and original storytellers in Westphalia .

Works

Winfried Pielow signing one of his books (2014).

Non-fiction

• Poetry and Didactics . Kamp, Bochum [1963].
• The poem in class. Effects, opportunities, access . Kösel, Munich 1965
• Theory and practice in German lessons . Kösel, Munich 1975. ISBN 3-466-30132-7 .
• Writing and everyday culture. Requirements u. Attitudes d. Writing in school, college. u. out of school. Areas of Winfried Pielow and Helmut H. Koch. Pedagogical publisher Burgbücherei Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 1984. ISBN 3-87116-434-8 .

radio play

• The white house in the clearing . WDR, Cologne 1990.
• The long while of the letters afterwards . WDR, Cologne 1992.
• The cut . WDR, Cologne 1995.
• The treble . WDR, Cologne 1996.

Poetry

• Prepositions . Bläschke, Darmstadt [1975]. ISBN 3-87561-201-9 .

prose

• German fraud. 11 escape and homecoming stories . Tende, Münster 1982. ISBN 3-88633-040-0 .
• Inheritance or the fortune of writing . Tende, Dülmen-Hiddingsel 1989. ISBN 3-88633-012-5 .
• The alphabet. A letter . Jenior and Pressler, Kassel 1993. ISBN 3-928172-15-8 .
• The utopia of country life. Narratives . Laumann, Dülmen 1996. ISBN 3-87466-254-3 .
• The contemporary witness . Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2003. ISBN 3-935363-91-5 .
• Pantasma. Seven stories . Laumann, Dülmen 2006. ISBN 978-3-89960-268-5 .
• The contemporary witness. [Autobiographical novel] . Prospero, Münster 2011. ISBN 978-3-941688-07-0 .
• Land given away . Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-86991-646-0 .

theatre

• Hello David, get away, David! . Deutscher Theaterverlag, Weinheim (Bergstrasse) [1973]
• Poison, Profit and Antiane . Deutscher Theaterverlag, Weinheim (Bergstrasse) [1973]

literature

• Jürgen Hein , H.- H. Koch, E. Liebs (Ed.): The ICH as a script. About private and public writing today. Winfried Pielow on his 60th birthday . Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 1984, ISBN 978-3-87116-436-1 .
• Pielow, Winfried . In Andreas Klimt (Red.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2004/2005 . 64th year. Volume II: P - Z . KG Saur, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-598-23588-7 , p. 873.

Web links

Commons : Winfried Pielow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Winfried Pielow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Winfried Pielow on the website NRW Literatur im Netz (archive link from December 11, 2014)
• Winfried Pielow in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Prof. Pielow is turning 80. Literary scholar is also active in literature ( Memento from December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the University of Münster

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westfalenspiegel 1986, issue 1, page 51
2. ↑ Culture Prize for Winfried Pielow , Westfälische Nachrichten, 1/2013 (accessed November 30, 2014)