Wolfgang Ohler

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Wolfgang Ohler (born March 30, 1943 in Zweibrücken ) is a retired German judge who worked as a writer both part time and in retirement . He writes in the standard language as well as in the Palatinate dialect . Ohler is married and has a son, the novelist Norman Ohler , and a daughter.

education and profession

Ohler studied law in Tübingen and Saarbrücken , where he also received his doctorate . Until his retirement he was a judge at the Higher Regional Court in Zweibrücken, from 1995 as Chairman of the 1st Senate and finally as Vice-President of the court.

politics

Ohler joined the SPD in 1971 and was mainly active with the Young Socialists until 1976 . When Ohler became a judge, he reduced his political activities and since then has only been active in the party arbitration court of the SPD sub-district. In 1999, however, he ran for the SPD in the mayoral election in Zweibrücken against the CDU candidate Jürgen Lambert , to whom he was defeated in the runoff election. For the SPD he sat on the city council of Zweibrücken until 2019.

Literary career

From the 1980s onwards, Ohler drew attention to himself with literary works. Some of his topics come from the professional environment, whereby he also includes social aspects such as migration problems or juvenile delinquency . His second field of activity is his home region, whose history and dialect he deals with. From 1989 to 1998 he was managing director of the Palatinate Literary Association . Since 1993 Ohler has been spokesman for the jury of the Sickinger dialect poet contest together with Michael Dillinger . Along with Dillinger, he is also the owner of Echo Verlag in Zweibrücken.

Works

Books

In addition to numerous anthology contributions, Ohler has written the following books, among others:

  • The blackbird's eye . Novel. Zweibrücken 1990.
  • The beautiful viewer . A kaleidoscope. Zweibrücken 1992.
  • The blue hat . Short prose and poetry. cjm-Verlag, Speyer 1994.
  • The king of Laputa . Left handed stories. Gollenstein publishing house, Blieskastel 1994.
  • The red fiddler on the magic mountain . New York essay. Zweibrücken 1995.
  • Double head . Crime story. Publishing house Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1996.
  • Skim milk and rock'n roll . Memories. Zweibrücken 1997.
  • De schenschde Daa in the Lewe . Dialect stories. Zweibrücken 1998.
  • Carlemann's gold or the intersection of parallels . Novel. Publishing house Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2000.
  • with Michael Dillinger: Stories from the Blue Hat . Texts from a reading. Zweibrücken 2001.
  • A camera remembers . Snapshots and flashbacks. Zweibrücken 2002.
  • The big and small luck in Texas . Memories of a prisoner of war. Zweibrücken 2005.
  • Death friends, the man who fell out of the moon or the reader as a murderer . A different kind of crime story. Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Zell / Mosel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89801-216-4 .
  • The sky is blue, the weather is nice . A school period after the war. Zweibrücken 2008.
  • Time goes there, death comes . Detective novel. Zweibrücken 2012.
  • My Irish lyric diary . Poems. Zweibrücken 2012.
  • Free hen's dorchs Lewe . Dialect stories. Rheinpfalz Verlag, 2013.
  • Blind shot . Detective novel. Verlag Gollenstein, Blieskastel 2015.
  • The dreamers from Struthof . Narration and more. Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, Zell / Mosel 2016.

Radio play CDs

  • with Beate Pfeiffer: Wine thrillers to make you smile. Short thrillers on the subject of wine. Grünwald 2004.
  • with Beate Pfeiffer: scented crime novels to make you smile. Short crime stories on the subject of fragrance. Grünwald 2006.

radio play

  • Jack, queen, king, murder. Crime Game, 2007, SWR4 .

Stage plays

  • Dukes and other fools. Historical comedy, first performed in 1999.
  • Who killed Elvis? Detective comedy, world premiere in 2001.
  • Jack, queen, king, murder. Crime game, world premiere in 2003.
  • The prophetic chickens of Schorsch Gaubatz. Dialect comedy, world premiere in 2011.
  • Acquittal!. First performance in 2015

Awards

As a dialect author , Ohler won significant prizes, for example at the competitions in Bockenheim in 1994, 1995 and 2004 (in that year he took first place) and in Dannstadt (1996). He also received the following awards:

  • 1978 Eduard Martin Prize from Saarland University
  • 1997 Prize of the literary magazine "Ort der Augen"
  • 1996 Literature Prize of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  • 2001 Theater Prize of the City of Frankenthal
  • 2002 Art Prize Toto-Lotto of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
  • 2003 Theater Prize of the City of Frankenthal
  • 2016 Palatinate Prize for Literature

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personal data
SURNAME Ohler, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Zweibrücken