Wolfgang Brockpähler

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Wolfgang Brockpähler (born April 12, 1929 in Hettstedt ; † August 2, 2014 in Münster ) was a German writer .

Life

Brockpähler grew up in Münster. His father Wilhelm Brockpähler worked there in the management of the Westphalian Heimatbund .

He studied German studies, history, Protestant religion and politics / social sciences in Münster and Freiburg. As a student, he joined the Freiburg Wingolf in 1952 . After his exams he worked as a high school teacher. From 1961 to 1963 he was in the international school service in Windhoek (Namibia), then from 1964 to 1988 in Bielefeld-Brackwede.

Brockpähler was involved in the peace movement as well as for ecology and against racism. After his retirement he first moved to Freiburg, where he acted as spokesman for the Association of German Writers for South Baden from 1991 to 1996, but returned to Münster in 1996 for family reasons.

Wolfgang Brockpähler had an older sister, Renate Brockpähler (1927–1989), who was the director of the Westphalian folk song archive in Münster.

Works

  • The laughter of Cleophas , South West African stories, Hamburg 1980
  • I'm just defending your freedom. Texts against rearmament in East and West, Bielefeld 1983
  • A fire burns inside the Moloch , border crossing between the first, second and third world. Short prose and poems with a foreword by Petra Kelly, Bielefeld 1983
  • Habichtshöhe , character from the Westphalian province, Warendorf 1984
  • Homeland love , untimely stories about Mr. Schnieder Jahn from East Westphalia, Munich 1988
  • Attention! Car-free Sunday: Please stop , play for children and adults, Mülheim 1995
  • My brother Ramazan , WDR Schulfunk 1995
  • The phantom image . WDR 1995
  • Farewell to Amalek , Tales from Israel / Palestine, Ulm 1998
  • From the sun that got a fever. New fairy tales for small and large people . Mülheim 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Brockpähler. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2014/2015: Volume I: AO. Volume II: PZ. , Walter De Gruyter Incorporated, 2014, p. 127, ISBN 978-3-11-033720-4 .
  2. ^ Verband Alter Wingolfiten eV (Ed.): Vademecum Wingolfiticum , 17th edition, Lahr / Schwarzwald 1974, p. 102.
personal data
SURNAME Brockpähler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Hettstedt
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2014
Place of death Muenster