Adolf Lepp

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Adolf Lepp

Adolf Lepp , (born June 21, 1847 in Halberstadt , † December 2, 1906 in Zwickau ) was a German writer and poet . He also published under the pseudonym D. Ch. (= German Chansonnier).

Life

Because of illness and working from home, Adolf Lepp was only able to attend school for a year. Like his father, he became a cigar worker. He lost his father when he was nine. After mainly self-taught training, he went hiking at the age of 19.

In 1867 he became a member of the ADA General German Workers' Association, after which he joined the Eisenach party .

In 1869 he took part in a state conference of the General German Workers' Association and was therefore dismissed by his employer.

He also held workers' meetings during his journeyman's migration , which lasted until 1875. At one of these meetings in 1871 he was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment for making "free spirits" against the Church. Lepp then made his way as a wandering peddler, but continued to agitate for the General German Tobacco Workers' Association and for the Social Democrats. In many workers' meetings he read his poems and sang his own socially critical songs to accompany his wife on guitar. After many strokes of fate, the death of three children and his first wife, and a life full of poverty and illness, after the success of his poetry publications, a modest prosperity set in since 1894. He also ran his own toy store.

In 1903 he fell ill with tuberculosis , of which he died three years later.

Act

Lepp wrote over 2,000 poems and songs as well as political occasional poems, socially critical and satirical poetry, socio-programmatic writings and utopian poems as well as autobiographical poems. He published autobiographical material in prose. Schiller, the Vormärz poets, Beranger and the contemporary worker poets had a great influence on his poetry. He wrote his poems mostly for meetings of workers' associations, the SPD or trade unions, or especially at the beginning, for proletarian family celebrations. The dissemination of Lepp's seals took place through the regional and national newspapers of the labor movement. Many poems only became fully known from the estate of 1976; for fear of the public prosecutor, the party and trade union press did not print some poems or the most satirical stanzas were suppressed. Numerous poems appeared in two anthologies of worker poetry during Lepp's lifetime. In “Voices of Freedom” 1901 by Konrad Beißwanger, 30 of the 38 represented writers appeared by Lepp, because they rated him as the most important working-class poet of the 19th century. In 1903, a selection of songs and poems by German proletarians appeared in German Workers' Poetry, including poems by Adolf Lepp published by JHW Dietz in Stuttgart. Lepp was always a writer part-time and never lost sight of the real world of work, misery and hunger.

Lepp's confession was:

“For the poor and the disinherited, I break
my lance incessantly in conflict.
For the truth, I think, I speak poetically.
Is their cup full of bitterness.

Works (selection)

  • Where does Lepp live? This first surviving poem already reveals two essential elements of his poetry: political aggressiveness and self-confrontation.
  • Greetings to the party congress in 1874 Greetings from the Eisenach party to which Adolf Lepp belonged.
  • Wild flowers. A fresh bouquet of songs dedicated to the people. Song collection from 1889 cannot be found.
  • Wes bread I eat, the song I sing 1884 poem exposes the apologetic writers of the Hohenzollern Empire.
  • Elegy of a newspaper sheet, 1887 poem, denounces the hypocrisy and buyability of the bourgeois press.
  • The wild French poem
  • Ilin verse narration, deals with the persecution of the Russian militant proletariat by tsarism.
  • The Mocking Bird in the Cage Autobiographical story in prose that tells about his imprisonment in Waldheim.
  • Corruption in the provincial autobiography unpublished in the estate.
  • Poems by Wilhelm Hasenclever , KE Frohme and Adolf Lepp. JHW Dietz, Stuttgart 1893 (German workers' seal. A selection of songs and poems by German proletarians 1)
  • To the campaign against the Herero verse tale of 1905 uprising of the Herero and Nama

literature

  • Lepp, Adolf: A German chansonnier : from the work of Adolf Lepps / ed. by Ursula Muenchow u. Kurt Laube. -Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 1976. - XXXV, 224 p. (Text editions on early socialist literature in Germany; 16) Bibliogr. Pp. 224-225, 1979/592
  • Arbeiter-lyric-1842-1932-Rot-ist-die-flaming-Freiheitsglut Adolf Lepp poems: "Wes bread I eat, the song I sing" pp. 48–49 and Voices of Freedom pp. 72–73.
  • The "proletarian poet" Adolf Lepp from Halberstadt as a prose writer Schröder, Gustav 1983 Magdeburger Blätter, 1983, pp. 23-29
  • Adolf Lepp - the Halberstadt poet-proletarian Schröder, Gustav Nordharzer yearbook / museums of the city of Halberstadt, city museum. - Halberstadt: Städtisches Museum, ISSN  1438-5341 , ZDB-ID 5210379, 1988, 13, pp. 80-86
  • Voices of Freedom by Konrad Beißwanger / Adolf Lepp with 30 poems, pp. 219–244
  • From below on Berlin 1911 Verlag Buchhandlung Vorwärts p.219 (poem: Grober Nfug)
  • Lexicon of German-Language Writers Volume 2 / LZ pp. 34–35
  • In the class struggle by Wolfgang Friedrich 1962 pp. 55, 80, 215.
  • Lexicon of socialist German literature, From the beginnings to 1945 VEB Verlag Sprache und Literatur Halle (Saale) 1963 pp. 324–326.
  • Labor movement and literature 1860–1914 Ursula Münchow pp. 83–114
  • Social democratic concept of education and proletarian literature - "spoken word" and "autobiographical storytelling" in Adolf Lepp Vaßen, Florian 1983 workers' movement and cultural identity. An interdisciplinary colloquium. (Eds.): Peter Eric Stüdemann [and] Martin Rector. Frankfurt: Materialis Verl. 1983, pp. 52-73
  • Adolf Lepp - an almost forgotten Kunze from Halberstadt , Karl Volksstimme, edition Halberstadt, vol. 50.1996, 326, SS 10
  • Adolf Lepp Platiel, Jörg Literature Lexicon - Vol. 7. - Gütersloh [u. a.], 1990, SS 235
  • History of German literature from 1830 to the end of the 19th century Volk und Wissen Volkseigener Verlag Berlin 1975 pp. 768–769,949

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German biography

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Lepp, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES D. Ch. (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH December 2, 1906
Place of death Zwickau