Aennchen Schumacher
Aennchen Schumacher (born January 22, 1860 in Godesberg ; † February 26, 1935 in Bad Godesberg ) was a landlady and collector of student songs (author of the Ännchen songbook ), who was particularly famous among students . The birth date of January 24th, which she herself gave and celebrated, is evidently wrong in the birth register, but is still cited to this day.
life and work
Aennchen Schumacher took over the management of the "Gasthof zum Godesberg" together with her mother and sister Gertrud Rieck at the age of 18 after the death of her father, the innkeeper Wilhelm Schumacher († March 11, 1878). Her Rhenish cheerfulness, her amiable authority and unusual musicality soon made the inn one of the most popular student meeting places in Germany. On December 4, 1891, the sisters bought the inn from their mother and expanded it.
She owes her nickname "Lindenwirtin" to the student song, which is still known today, No more drop in a cup , composed by Rudolf Baumbach in 1877, in which an unnamed "Lindenwirtin" appears:
Not a drop in the cup
and the bag limp and empty,
heart and tongue panting , I am impressed by
the wine,
your eyes are bright , linden landlady
, you boy!
Baumbach got the idea for the song while he was a teacher in Trieste. On a hike in Styria , he unintentionally overheard a conversation between two peasant women who complained to each other of their plight: “They also seize everything from you; soon they'll seize your heart as well! ”Baumbach and Ännchen Schumacher never met.
Already at the beginning of the 1840s the "Gretchen von Plittersdorf", the daughter of the actual linden landlady Agnes Mundorf (today's Schaumburger Hof ) was worshiped and sung about by many students. According to her own statement, Ännchen Schumacher discovered the song in 1885 while looking for songs for her own collection. She liked the text and melody (composed by Franz Abt in 1884) so much that she played and taught them to the students in her inn. The song was received and sung with joy by all student associations . After all, not a single evening went by without the song being sung. So Ännchen Schumacher contributed significantly to the popularity of the song.
Finally, a 7th verse was added to the song, in which Ännchen herself was identified with the landlady of the linden tree. In her biography, Ännchen Schumacher explains the authorship of this seventh additional stanza: According to this, Prof. Dr. Tacke and Dr. There on a Sunday morning after visiting their inn the day before and presented them to Ännchen Schumacher on the same day. A little later in the Lindensaal, when "Die Lindenwirtin" was sung once again, these gentlemen from the regulars' table in room 4 (room of the Poppelsdorf gentlemen) dictated a silence and then the following 7th additional stanza was performed for the first time to the students present:
Do you know who the landlady was,
black eyes, black hair?
It was Ännchen, the fine one.
Do you know where the linden tree stood,
well known to every boy?
To Godesberg am Rheine.
Ännchen Schumacher initially fought as much as possible against the fact that she was called Lindenwirtin because - as she herself writes - "was not so affectionate". However, it was in vain. As a result of this identification brought to her, Ännchen Schumacher renamed her inn in 1891 to "Zur Lindenwirtin". She ran the inn until the end of the First World War .
She wrote down the many student songs that were sung in her economy and first published them as Kleines Kommersbuch (1903), which in later editions was subtitled Aennchen-Liederbuch ( Illustrated Kommersbuch (Ännchen-Liederbuch) , Godesberg 1924).
Every evening over 500 students from the most varied of student associations met peacefully in the inn. This condition was widely known as the "Bad Godesberg Castle Peace". The “Ännchen” was affectionately called the “mother of the students” and was known for her care that went far beyond the needs of the inn. On her 65th birthday, she was made an honorary citizen of Bad Godesberg (then still independent; now part of Bonn). On her 75th birthday, shortly before her death, around 5000 greeting cards arrived from all over the world, many only addressed with “Aennchen in Deutschland”, and even the former German Emperor Wilhelm II congratulated. The German broadcaster and the Reich broadcasters in Cologne , Munich , Frankfurt , Breslau and Hamburg reported on the celebration .
One of the most famous postcards reached the linden landlady “Aennchen” in 1902 from Kiautschou in China. Officers of the Imperial Navy gave the address only a lowercase "n" and Germany. The strangest and probably shortest address that was ever used for a postcard was enough to bring the card halfway around the globe to its destination. The lowercase letter "n" stands for "n-chen" = "Aennchen", the name of the landlady and restaurant.
Honors
- In 1925 Aennchen Schumacher was given honorary citizenship of the city of Godesberg. To this day she is the only woman who has received this honor in Bonn and its incorporated districts.
- In Bonn-Bad Godesberg an Aennchenstraße , an Aennchenplatz and a restaurant that has since been closed are named after her.
Works
- Ännchen Schumacher: Biography of Ännchen Schumacher Godesberg. Godesberger Kommersbuchverlag, 1929, p. 95 f. (Text additions: Hopkins, Merk Wien)
- Kommersbuch. Large illustrated piano edition. Collection by Aennchen Schumacher Godesberg. Godesberg [1924].
literature
- Article Schumacher, Ännchen. In: Friedrich Kluge, Werner Rust: German student language. Vol. 2, Nuremberg 1985, p. 182 f.
- Raimund Lang: Thirst for love. Not a drop in the cup ... In: Intonas. Of student texts and ways. Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 1992, p. 47 f.
- Wilhelm Ruland: Ännchen von Godesberg. A Rhineland song from our day. 3. Edition. Koblenz 1900.
- Josef Niesen : Bonn Personal Lexicon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Aennchen Schumacher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Information from the inn about its famous former landlady ( memento from March 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Ännchen Schumacher, the landlady in Bad Godesberg (text and pictures)
- "Ännchen - Lindenwirtin in Godesberg" - gallery with over 30 pictures and documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aennchen Schumacher's real birthday. In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Vol. 23, Bad Godesberg, 1985, pp. 236f.
- ^ Leaves for local history (1933)
- ^ Aennchenstrasse in the Bonn street cadastre
- ^ Aennchenplatz in the Bonn street cadastre
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schumacher, Aennchen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | "Lindenwirtin" in Bad Godesberg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | bad Godesberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 26, 1935 |
| Place of death | bad Godesberg |