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Bust of Friedrich Griese
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Bust of Friedrich Griese
Bust of Friedrich Griese
- Prof. C. Rhein
- bust of Friedrich Griese
- bronze 1943
- height: 55 cm
- Prof. C. Rhein
- bust of Friedrich Griese
- bronze 1943
- height: 55 cm
Friedrich Griese (1890-1975) was the most significant writer in Mecklenburg during the first half of the 20th century. He lived near Parchim from 1935 and built a house there. He wrote tales and novels in simple, powerful language and turned the affinity between people and their country in the ups and down of nature into a theme. His literature was primarily influenced by Scandinavian authors such as Knut Hamsun and Selma Lagerlöff.
He was regarded as a “blood and soil poet” by the National Socialists although he did not actually embody this ideology. In 1947 he fled to the West after a prison sentence.
Text: W. Ka.
