Diedrich Speckmann

<BODY> <H1>Diedrich Speckmann</H1> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt"><STRONG> <A HREF="fhc104a.htm" TARGET="_top">Short biography of the popular author Diedrich Speckmann</A></STRONG>He was borne on February 12, 1872 in Hermannsburg.<BR>After school and study in 1904 he became a pastor in Grassberg. Since the year 1910 he lived as a free writer in Fischerhude, where he died on May 28, 1938.<BR>His life's work contains 15 stories, 2 novels and<BR>3 collections of short stories.<BR>To his known and most successful books belong:<BR>Heidjers Homecoming (1904), Moorland-Farm Lohe (1906),<BR>Siblings Rosenbrock (1911) and Jan Murken (1922).<BR>In his stories, he describes the life on country, in particular that in the Lueneburg- Moorland, but also the problems during the colonization of the Teufelsmoor (Devilsbog).<BR>He was the most widely read regional writer of that time.</SPAN></P> </BODY>