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Helmut Preißler
Helmut Preißler (16 December 1925, in Cottbus – 20 December 2010, in Bad Saarow) was a German writer and poet. Life Preißler was born in Cottbus. His father was a weaver and his mother worked in the garment industry. On leaving school he began an apprenticeship in road construction, water management and civil engineering. The war having broken out when he was 13, he became a soldier towards the end of the conflict and ended up as a prisoner of war in Belgium between 1945 and 1947. During 1948 he was put to work on the demining of the River Rhine. He was then among those enrolled on an accelerated teacher training course implemented by the occupying forces in order to address the desperate shortage of teachers without Nazi backgrounds that Germany faced following the slaughter of the war, and until 1955 was employed as a school teacher in Cottbus till 1955. In 1955 he enrolled as a student at the Johannes R. Becher Institute for Literature (as it was then called) where he a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cottbus
Cottbus () or (;) is a university city and the second-largest city in the German state of Brandenburg after the state capital, Potsdam. With around 100,000 inhabitants, Cottbus is the most populous city in Lusatia. Cottbus lies in the Sorbian settlement area () of Lower Lusatia, and is the second-largest city on the River Spree after Berlin, which is situated around downstream. The city is located on the shores of Germany's largest artificial lake, the Cottbuser Ostsee (). Cottbus is considered the political and cultural center of the Lower Sorbian-speaking Sorbs (in Lower Lusatia also called the Wends), while the overall center of all Sorbs (Lower and Upper) is Bautzen (''Budyšin''). Cottbus is the largest bilingual city in Germany. Signage is mostly in German and Lower Sorbian. The city is the seat of several Lower Sorbian institutions like the Lower Sorbian version of the Sorbischer Rundfunk (/), the Lower Sorbian Gymnasium, and the Wendish Museum (). The use of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
