Frido Mětšk

Frido Mětšk

Frido Mětšk (born October 4, 1916 in Annaberg ; † July 9, 1990 in Bautzen , German Alfred Mietzschke ) was a Sorbian writer, historian, editor, narrator, poet and translator.

Live and act

Frido Mětšk was born in 1916 as the son of a commercial clerk in Annaberg. From 1927 to 1936 he attended the Kreuzgymnasium Dresden and from 1936 to 1937 the college for teacher training in Frankfurt (Oder) . He then studied classical philology , history and Slavic studies in Halle and Jena until 1940 . In 1940 he received his doctorate degree from Dmitrij Tschižewskij with a thesis on the theologian Heinrich Milde (1676–1739) in Halle. phil. PhD . After a short time in school as a student trainee and assessor in Keilhau and Halle, he was a soldier in World War II from 1941 to 1945 . He was taken prisoner by the Soviets and worked there as a lecturer at an anti-fascist school . In 1949 he returned to Germany to become director of the Sorbian Extended High School in Bautzen . From 1955 he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1959 he was head of the Sorbian Cultural Archives. In 1964 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on the Kurmärkisch-Wendish district. In 1960 he received the Ćišinski Prize and in 1969 he was awarded the Kashubian Stolema Medal of the VR Poland. In 1986 he retired. He is the father of the composer Juro Mětšk .

Works

Mětšk published collections of poetry, prose writings as well as literary and historical works. He also translated Kashubian , Lithuanian and Latvian poems into Sorbian.

Beautiful works

• Mojim Serbam [My Sorbs]. 1939 (collection of poems, illegally copied and distributed)
• Ze žywjenja [From life]. 1944 (collection of poems, illegally copied and distributed)
• Bjerduški . Domowina, Budyšin 1967 (selected poetry and prose)
• Frido Mětšk . Domowina, Budyšin 1986 (collection of poems)

Scientific works

• Heinrich Milde. A contribution to the history of Slavic studies in Halle (= publications of the Slavic Institute at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, Volume 29). Harrassowitz in commission, Leipzig 1941; at the same time: dissertation , University of Halle; Reprint: Kraus-Reprint, Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1968
• Bogumił Šwjela (author of the 1st edition, 1926) and Frido Mětšk (editor of the 2nd edition): Grammar of the Lower Sorbian language . 2nd edition, Domowina, Bautzen 1952
• Korčmar Hawelka přećiwo magistratej [Hawelka innkeeper versus magistrate]. Domowina, Budyšin 1956 (historical report)
• Do cuzeje zemje [To a foreign land ]. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1957 (historical report)
• The Brandenburg-Prussian Sorbian policy in the Cottbus district from the 16th century to the Peace of Poznan (= publications of the Institute for Slavonic Studies, Volume 25). Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1962
• Inventory of the Sorbian Cultural Archives in Bautzen (= series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, volumes 20, 35, 46 and 51). 4 parts, Domowina, Bautzen 1963, 1967, 1976 and 1978
• The Kurmärkisch-Wendish district. A contribution to the history of the territories Bärwalde, Beeskow, Storkow, Teupitz and Zossen with special consideration of the 16th to 18th centuries (= series of publications of the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, Volume 24). Domowina, Bautzen 1965; at the same time: Habilitation thesis , Humboldt University Berlin 1964
• The position of the Sorbs in the territorial administrative structure of German feudalism (= series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, Volume 43). Domowina, Bautzen 1968
• The interest of east research of west German imperialism in the Sorbs . Domowina, Bautzen 1968
• Ordinances and memoranda against the Sorbian language and culture during the period of late feudalism . Domowina, Bautzen 1969
• KA Kocorowe zawostajenstwo w Serbskim kulturnym archiwje [The estate of KA Kocor in the Sorbian Cultural Archives]. Dom za serbske ludowe wuměłstwo, Budyšin 1971.
• Ideologues of anti-sorbian language politics during the transition from feudalism to capitalism. A collection of sources . Domowina, Bautzen 1973
• Jurja Pilkowe zawostajenstwo w Serbskim kulturnym archiwje [Jurij Pilk's estate in the Sorbian Cultural Archives]. Dom za serbske ludowe wuměłstwo, Budyšin 1974.
• with Jan Brankačk : History of the Sorbs . Volume 1: From the beginnings to 1789 (= series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, Volume 39). Domowina, Bautzen 1977
• Studies on the history of Sorbian-German cultural relations (= series of publications by the Institute for Sorbian Folk Research in Bautzen, Volume 55). Domowina, Bautzen 1980
• Mato Kosyk . Domowina. Budyšin 1985 (biography)

Editor of the writings of Sorbian poets

• Józef Nowak : Swobody njewjesta [The bride of freedom]. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1954
• Naša rědna bajkojta domownja. Serbske bajki a basnicki z luda az literaturey [Our beautiful, legendary home. Sorbian legends and fairy tales from the people and from literature]. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1955
• Marjana Domaškojc : Wubrane spise [Selected Writings]. People and Knowledge, Berlin 1956
• Chrestomatija dolnoserbskego pismowstwa [ Chrestomathy of Lower Sorbian literature]. 3 volumes, People and Knowledge, Berlin 1956 and 1957; 2nd edition: Domowina, Budyšyn 1982
• Marjana Domaškojc: Z našeje glinjaneje budki [from our clay cottage]. Domowina, Budyšyn 1972, 2nd edition: Domowina, Budyšyn 1986 (selected poetry and prose)
• Bogumił Šwjela : Běźenje a Wěźenje [fighting and knowing]. Domowina, Budyšyn 1973 (selection of literary works)
• Juro Surowin : Wšyknym by kśěl tołmacyś [I want to be everything to everyone]. Domowina, Budyšyn 1975 (Selected Poems)
• Juro Surovin: Sol zemje [salt of the earth]. Domowina, Budyšyn 1978 (selected prose)
• Mato Kosyk : Listy. 1880–1939 [letters. 1880-1939]. Domowina, Budyšyn 1980
• Mato Kosyk . Domowina, Budyšyn 1983 (collection of poems)

literature

• Günther Albrecht, Kurt Böttcher, Herbert Greiner-Mai and Paul-Günter Krohn : writers of the GDR . 2nd edition, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1975, pp. 376–377
• P. Kunze: Mětšk, Frido . In: Ernst Eichler (Ed.): Slavonic Studies in Germany from the Beginnings to 1945 . Domowina-Verlag, Bautzen 1993, ISBN 3-7420-1538-9 , pp. 266-267

Web links

• Literature by and about Frido Mětšk in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry on domowina-verlag.de (with picture)