Wolfgang Müns

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Wolfgang Müns (born October 24, 1945 in Grimmen ) is a German literary scholar, Germanist and historian.

Wolfgang Müns graduated from high school in Grimmen in 1964 and studied German, history, education, psychology and publishing in Rostock and Leipzig from 1965 to 1970 . After completing his studies, he was a lecturer at Hinstorff Verlag until 1990 , and from 1978 as head of the department for Low German and cultural history. Until 1993, Müns worked in the same specialist area at Konrad Reich's publishing house in Rostock.

From 1994 Wolfgang Müns worked at the Institute for Low German , and from 1996 to 2012 librarian at the newly established Low German Library of the Carl Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg . He was a member of the board of trustees of the Fritz Reuter Prize and the Quickborn Prize and Vice Chairman of the Quickborn Association in Hamburg.

He is a member of the Fritz Reuter Society and editor of the letters, documents and texts by John Brinckman .

Wolfgang Müns has been married to folklorist Heike Müns since 1970 .

Works (selection)

  • with Jürgen Grambow : Ick weit en Land… Low German poems and rhymes from Mecklenburg / Western Pomerania . Rostock 1984.
  • Anke van Tharau and other Low German poems by High German writers from Simon Dach to Herbert Nachbar . Rostock 1987, ISBN 3-356-00076-4 .
  • with Konrad Reich: Düwel un poet. Smustery, nonsensical stories from a Johrhunnert . Rostock 1987, ISBN 3-356-00080-2 .
  • with Jürgen Grambow: Amber Witch and Imperial Baths. Reading from Usedom . Rostock 1999, ISBN 3-356-00828-5 .
  • with Jürgen Grambow: dune mountains, strolling and narrative backdrops. Pomerania. A reader I . ISBN 3-356-01013-1 .
  • with Jürgen Grambow: Blag-Öschen and mocking Buern. Pomerania. A reading book II . Rostock 2003, ISBN 3-356-01012-3 .