Rudolf Kinau


Rudolf Kinau, also known as Rudi Kinau was a Low German writer.

Early life

He was born in Finkenwerder, a district of the town Hamburg in northern Germany, to Heinrich Wilhelm Kinau and Metta. His brothers were Johann Kinau, who was also a writer known as Gorch Fock; and Jakob Kinau.

Career

He began writing his first book in 1916, with the death of his brother Gorch Fock who was killed in the Battle of Jutland during World War I. He became well known on radio with the series Hör mal'n beten to for the media company Norddeutscher Rundfunk. These speeches appeared in book form, among other Kamerad und Kameradin. In all he has written more than 33 books. He has also published radio and theatre plays. In addition, he discussed records, for the national series Wort und Stimme and Niederdeutsche Stimmen in Lower German voices. In addition to a number of literary awards, such as the Fritz Reuter Prize in 1962, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany There are several streets named after him, e.g. in his home town of Finkenwerder, the Rudolf-Kinau avenue, in Stromaerer Ahrensburg and the Lower Saxon communities Ostrhauderfehn, Tostedt, and Westoverledingen and also in Kellinghausen in the Rudolf-Kinau street and Schleswig-Holstein Wedel, Barmstedt, and in Uetersen the Rudolf Kinau path. In Strande there is also Rudolf Kinau path next to the Gorch-Fock-Straße. His birthplace in Finkenwerder, the Gorch Fock house is now a literature museum, dedicated to the poet and his two brothers. He died on 19 November 1975, aged 88,

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