Wolfgang Schwarz (Author)

Wolfgang Schwarz (born May 15, 1916 in Tarnowitz / Upper Silesia ; † January 31, 2012 in Landau in the Palatinate ) was a German writer. He was a poet, playwright, translator and editor of various anthologies . He lived and worked in Landau in the Palatinate.

biography

Wolfgang Schwarz studied German, archeology and philosophy in Munich and Breslau and completed his studies with a doctorate on the myth of the youthfulness in German poetry (1940). He then became a dramaturge at the Silesian Radio . During the Second World War he was Rittmeister in the Cossack cavalry corps of Helmuth von Pannwitz . At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets and did not return from Siberia until October 1953 . From 1954 to 1958 he worked as a lecturer for German studies at the Pädagogische Akademie Landau in der Pfalz , now part of the University of Koblenz-Landau . He was a member of the Eßlingen Artists' Guild and the East German Cultural Council in Bonn as well as the Palatinate Literary Association .

Comradeship Herbert Norkus. The confession of a Hitler Youth. Wroclaw 1934.
The night spanned ... verses. Wroclaw 1934.
Dietrich Eckart speaks to young people. Wroclaw 1934.
Sung and saga. Poems. Munich 1935.
The myth of the youthfulness in German poetry from the beginning of naturalism to our time. Phil. Diss. Leipzig 1940.
Satan's comedy. Poems. 1954.
The icy psalm of the east wind. Novel. 1955.
Lublyanka ballad. Drama. 1956.
The invisible bridge. Novel. 1958.
Poor Odysseus. Drama. 1959.
Hope in nothing, Radhakrishnan, Gebser and the west-eastern spirit. 1961.
Way of the Cross of the Caravans. Novel. 1963.
Farewell to Ithaca. Poems. 1963.
Sonnets from Athens. Poems. 1965.
From Kaim to Karuba. Stories. 1966.
The unholy two kings. Stories. 1967.
Talk about stupidity. 1969.
On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Volume VI.
History of ideas in the German East. 1970.
The seven stories. Stories 1972.
Cossacks. Novel. 1976.
The Homecoming, Memories I. 1991.
Landing, memories. 1995.

The new song of home. Poems and stories from the present day Silesian literature. Wroclaw 1941.
Italian Poetry from Dante to Mussolini: An Anthology. Wroclaw 1942.
The early wreaths. Words by fallen German poets then and now. Planegg 1943.
This country is far, letters from Russian people. 1959.
India - Europe, two worlds in letters. 1961.
Landau in praise. 1969.
The Matthias High School in Wroclaw. 1978.

Wolfgang Schwarz has been awarded and honored with numerous prizes: Schiller Prize (1954), Goethe Ring (1954), Thomas Mann Prize (1955), Friedland Prize for those returning home (1960), the Palatinate Literary Prize (1960), Scholarship from Villa Massimo (1962), honorary award of the Andreas Gryphius Prize (1963), Hermann Sinsheimer Prize (1983).