Albert Schwarz (poet)

Albert Schwarz

Albert Schwarz (born October 16, 1859 in Wandhagen , Schlawe district , Pomerania Province , † January 31, 1921 in Hamburg ) was a German dialect poet .

Life

Albert Schwarz grew up in Wandhagen as the youngest child of a large farming family who belonged to the local long-established families. From 1881 to 1885 he attended the art academy in Berlin to become a painter. However, he then turned to writing. At the age of 30 he was a theater and art advisor for the Berlin court newspaper . From 1895 he edited the Low German magazine " De Eekboom " and made it the leading magazine of the Low German literary movement. For 25 years he was editor-in-chief of the "Eekboom" and thus the standard bearer of this movement.

Schwarz wrote his own works initially in the Pomeranian dialect of his homeland, later in the dialect of Fritz Reuters . He was co-editor of the collected works of Fritz Reuters and together with Hermann Jahnke wrote a dictionary on Reuter's works. The poem Reinke dei Voss (Reineke the Fox) from 1896 is one of his better-known works .

Works

• Drag'knuppen - poems and stories in Plattdütsche Sprak , Robert Cordes, Kiel, without the year around 1905 ("Drag'knuppen" means fruit buds).
• Oeschen un oysters , Lühr & Dirks, Garding 1912.
• Lewen, Leev and Leed . Rutgewen from the “General Plattdütsch Association”, Hamborg. Publishing house “De Eekboom”, Glückstadt 1925.
• Hermann Jahnke and Albert Schwarz (eds.): Fritz Reuters Complete Works in Fifteen Volumes , A. Weichert, Berlin, (no year, approx. 1900).
• Reinke dei Voss . Stettin 1925 (Pomeranian Homeland Books, 1st volume).

literature

• Pommersche Lebensbilder , Volume 2: Pomerania of the 19th and 20th centuries (M. Wehrmann, A. Hofmeister and W. Braun, eds.), Stettin 1936, pp. 424–434.
• Wilhelm Seelmann: The Low German Literature of the 19th Century , Part 1, 1896.
• Albrecht Janssen: Albert Schwarz . In: Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book . Volume 1. Husum Printing and Publishing Company, Husum 1986/1989, ISBN 3-88042-239-7 , pp. 435-436.