Wolf E. Allihn

Wolf Eberhard Allihn (* 1932 in Canada ) is a German educator and writer.

Life

The son of German immigrants was born in Canada and returned to Germany with his family in 1939. He graduated from high school in Oldenburg and then worked in mining for a year to finance his studies.

After studying to be a teacher (sport, music, English and pedagogy ) at the University of Cologne and the Sport University Cologne , Allihn worked as a qualified sport teacher from 1957. From 1959 to 1960 he was a teacher in Winnipeg , Canada. In 1962 he passed the state examination and worked as a high school teacher, since 1974 director of studies. In 1986 he received his doctorate from University Bochum Dr. phil. During his teaching activities in the university he published not only specialist publications, but also prose and poetry . Since his retirement in 1996, the father of two sons has lived as a freelance writer in Monheim am Rhein , where he had previously taught at the Otto Hahn Gymnasium .

Allihn also plays the clarinet and, as a senior, still plays tennis in the TC Red Yellow in his hometown.

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Specialist publications

• Thoughts on sport in José Ortega y Gasset's works, which were published in German until February 1956 . Diploma thesis from the German Sport University Cologne, winter semester 1956/57.
• Student expectations of pedagogy lessons at grammar school . (= Phil. Diss. Bochum 1982) Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt / am M. u. a. 1983, ISBN 3-8204-7769-1

Prose & Poetry

• The Pasewalker suggestion. A documentary drama . Frieling, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-89009-072-9
• Unlucky birds. Words for roots . Edition Fischer published by RG Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-89406-530-3
• After all: poems and prose . Ed .: Kreis Mettmann, the Oberkreisdirektor, Hauptamt / Kultur, Mettmann 1993
• Nocturne . In: Stories from the Bergisches Land. Heinz Risse Literature Prize 1998 . Edited by the Baden Community Foundation, Solingen 1999, pp. 96-104.
• In the rain tree or in search of the original . (Roman) Gralinski, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-9811032-2-9
• Of the immediately human. (Poetry, German / English) Gralinski, Wuppertal 2006, ISBN 978-3-9811032-1-2
• Odyssey and sacking . Wortgewaltig-Verlag, Hanau 2008, ISBN 978-3-940372-05-5
• A sack full of the world. Life pictures of someone who has come a long way . ars una, Neuried 2011, ISBN 978-3-89391-845-4

Web links

• literaturbuero-nrw.de - Author of the month April 2004 on the literary telephone ( Memento from September 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.lokalkompass.de/monheim/sport/erffektreiches-sommerfest-des-tc-rot-gelb-d12256.html
2. ^ Book presentation, www.derwesten.de, December 19, 2008