Ehm Welk

Emil Welk, known by his nickname Ehm Welk (August 29, 1884 – December 19, 1966), was a German journalist, writer, professor and founder of Volkshochschulen (adult education centres). He became known for his work Die Heiden von Kummerow (The Heathens of Kummerow) and used Thomas Trimm as a pseudonym.

Life

Welk was born as the son of a farmer in Biesenbrow (now part of Angermünde), Brandenburg. After frequenting the village school, the 16-year-old moved away from home, completed a commercial education, worked on the sea and as a journalist for several papers, e.g. in Brunswick for the Braunschweiger Allgemeiner Anzeiger, whose editor-in-chief he was from 1910 on to 1919. Afterwards, he worked for the Braunschweiger Morgenzeitung.

During these times, Welk experienced the German Revolution in Brunswick. His experiences later built the background for the novel Im Morgennebel, that describes true Brunswick events and people of these times in a not much encrypted way. This novel's manuscript, that employed Welk for a long time, was already finished in 1940 but not published until 1953 in East Germany

Welk

Welk [vɛlk] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sierakowice, within Kartuzy County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 5 kilometres (3 mi) southeast of Sierakowice, 18 km (11 mi) west of Kartuzy, and 46 km (29 mi) west of the regional capital Gdańsk.

For details of the history of the region, see History of Pomerania.

The village has a population of 104.

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Coordinates: 54°18′50″N 17°55′52″E / 54.31389°N 17.93111°E / 54.31389; 17.93111

Welk (disambiguation)

Welk or WELK can refer to:

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WELK

WELK is a Hot Adult Contemporary formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Elkins, West Virginia, serving North-Central West Virginia. WELK is owned and operated by West Virginia Radio Corporation.

History

WELK-FM was formerly a Hot Adult Contemporary station known as "K-95 FM". The station reverted to that format in October of 2013.

The call letters WELK originally belonged to a station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which became WDAS in 1932.

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