Wolfgang Federau

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Wolfgang Federau

Wolfgang Federau (* 1894 in Danzig ; † 1950 in Lübeck ) was a German poet and writer . His work presents the life and historical events of his East German homeland through numerous poems, stories, short stories, drama and radio plays.

Life

Wolfgang Federau studied at the Technical University of Danzig . In 1913, however, he broke off his studies and traveled to Livonia , where he served as a tutor in a pastorate . When the First World War broke out, he was taken into Russian captivity . At this point, Wolfgang Federau began to write his first works. After the end of the war, Federau moved back to his homeland and joined the police force as an administrative officer. In addition, he published his first works, which met with wide approval in German-speaking countries and prompted him to write further stories, short stories and radio plays. After the Second World War , Federau and his family settled in Lübeck and spent his final years there. His important autobiographical novel Sunken Gardens , still written in Danzig, could not be published in Hamburg until 1949 because of the war .

Wolfgang Federau is the father of the German artist and master photographer Bernt Federau .

Works (selection)

  • Amur and Tamara (story), Danzig , 1923
  • The heart and the earth (poems), Danzig, 1924
  • Danzig Poets and Us (prose), Danzig, 1924
  • Anniversary balance sheet (grotesque), Danzig, 1930
  • The Unjust Mayor (short story), Danzig, 1938
  • Beloved Creature (narrative), Danzig, 1940
  • Sybille and her soldier (epistolary novel), Danzig, 1940
  • Legends from Danzig, West Prussia and the Warthegau (in the series of German landscape legends ), Danzig, 1942
  • Die Fixe Idee (comedy), Danzig, 1944 (world premiere in Graudenz )
  • Juttas Glück in Afrika (story), Lübeck , 1949
  • Sunken Gardens (autobiographical novel), Hamburg, 1949
  • Blown Traces (autobiographical novel), Hamburg, 1949
  • You human, you time, you eternity (poems), Lübeck, 1990 (published posthumously)
  • Te Deum (poems), Lübeck, 1990 (published posthumously)

Numerous newspapers such as Die Woche , Die Jugend , the Leipziger Illustrierte, Westermanns Monatshefte , the Simplizissimus and the Ostdeutsche Monatshefte published Federau's short stories. The writer also wrote radio plays that could be heard on the Breslau and Königsberg broadcasters .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Loew, Peter Oliver: Literary travel guide Danzig: eight city walks . Ed .: Potsdam Library Eastern Europe - Cultural Travel. 2nd, updated & extended Edition. Potsdam 2018, ISBN 978-3-936168-79-2 ( [1] [accessed August 4, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Kulturportal West Ost | Federau, Wolfgang. Retrieved August 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Kulturportal West Ost | Federau, Wolfgang. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Loew, Peter Oliver: Literary travel guide Danzig: eight city walks . Ed .: Potsdam Library Eastern Europe - Cultural Travel. 2nd, updated & extended Edition. Potsdam 2018, ISBN 978-3-936168-79-2 ( [2] [accessed August 4, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Köpke, Wulf: Bernt Federau - Black to White - Photographische Reisen . Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-9812566-6-6 .
  6. ^ Elisabeth Federau, Margret Wölling: You human, you time, you eternity - poems by Wolfgang Federau . Private print by Elisabeth Federau, Lübeck 1990.
personal data
SURNAME Federau, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 1950
Place of death Lübeck