Arno Surminski
Arno Surminski ( born August 20, 1934 in Jäglack at Drengfurth / East Prussia ) is a German writer and journalist.
Biography
He spent his childhood in East Prussia. After the war ended in 1945, his parents were deported to the Soviet Union while he was able to escape into the Schleswig-Holstein Trittau. After elementary school he made from 1950 to 1953 an apprenticeship in a law firm. 1957 to 1960 he lived as a lumberjack in Canada, but then moved back to Germany. 1962-1972 he worked as a clerk in the legal department of an insurance company in Hamburg.
Since 1982 he has worked as a freelance journalist economic and insurance in addition to the literary work.
Surminski was acting with numerous short stories and novels, mostly of East Prussia from his home and the fate of displaced persons and refugees known. It's Surminski not about revenge, but to preserve the memory of that country his happy childhood. "It was my strong desire to reconcile the two generations to bring them to that they can better understand ," said Surminski to Ostpreußenblatt (30 October 1999).
Arno Surminski is a member of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg.
From 2001 to 2007 was Surminski Ombudsman of the Association of private health insurance. He lives in Hamburg and has three grown children.
Works
Novels and stories
- Jokehnen or how long you drive from East Prussia to Germany? (1974, filmed in 1987 as a three-part TV )
- From the nest like - stories from Kalischken (1976)
- Foreign country or when freedom was still available ( 1980, filmed )
- Like King Mountain in Winter ( 1981)
- Polninken or a German love. Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1984; in paperback: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1984, ISBN 3-499-15869-8.
- Thunderstorms in January. Stories ( 1986)
- Maloja wind. A Love Story (1988 )
- At the dark end of the rainbow (1988 )
- The Grunowen or past lives (1986 )
- The journey to Nikolaiken, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1991, when Rowohlt Paperback, 1993, ISBN 3-499-13200-1.
- Back in the forest Pogge (1992, children's book )
- And Pleasant Land (1993 )
- Visit from Stralsund. Stories ( 1995)
- A certain career. Tales of the economy ( 1996)
- Summer 44 or How long does it take from Germany to East Prussia? (1997),
- The Masurian kings. Christmas Stories (1999)
- The children of Moorhusen (2001, children's book )
- The winter of Animals ( 2002)
- Fatherland without fathers (2004)
- Gruschelke and Engelmannke. Stories on East Prussian and German high. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-550-08646-6.
- The avifauna of Auschwitz. Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7844-3126-0.
- Amanda or An American Spring. Long Müller, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7844-3188-8.
- The Masurian rail travel and other light-hearted stories, narratives. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0392-4.
- Winter Forty-five or The Women of Palm nod. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0421-1.
- Death of a judge. Novel about an unwanted child. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8319-0457-0.
- In the garden of beauty. Serene and contemplative stories from the north. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8319-0491-4.
- Jokehnen or the voices of others. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8319-0522-5.
Non-fiction
- Jauch & Huebener 75 years from 1919 to 1994 (1994 )
- Insurance under Hakenkreuz.Ullstein, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-548-24949-3.
- The old East Prussia. Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8319-0288-0