Alexander Ettenburg

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Alexander Friedrich Otto Eggers , called Alexander Ettenburg, (born February 28, 1858 in Gugelwits / Silesia (today Gogołowice), † October 30, 1919 in Stralsund ) was a German theater artist and poet. He became known as the "Hermit of Hiddensee ".

Live and act

Ettenburg was born the son of a landowner in Gugelwits, Silesia. Actually he was supposed to be an estate manager like his father, but attended an acting school and performed under the name Alexander Ettenburg since 1879 . For health reasons, however, he had to give up his career and move to the sea. He first settled in Altefähr on Rügen , where in 1886 he founded a pension with a brine bathing facility and a Swedish pavilion in which he organized cabaret evenings . In the following years he began to advertise the island of Rügen. The 1888 marriage with the actress Marie Magdalinski was divorced only two years later.

For economic reasons he had to sell the pension in 1895 and moved penniless to the island of Hiddensee . As early as 1888 he had expressed his interest in acquiring a property there and negotiated with the Stralsund administration. But for financial reasons he decided to buy a fisherman's house in the village of Grieben , in which he had a restaurant (the Swedish farmer's tavern ) run. A piece of land leased by the administration of the Stralsund monastery of the Holy Spirit on the Dornbusch served him as his own quarters , on which he built wooden huts and the so-called Bergwaldschänke for the already numerous day visitors. He also set up a natural theater on the beach of a small bay on the steep coast , in which he had his own plays performed. He named this area after the Slavic god Svantovit Swantewitschlucht . With his lively advertising activity - including lectures in the winter months throughout Germany, Sweden and Finland, his poems and the publication of a travel guide - he helped the island, which was largely undeveloped for tourism, to become more well known. In addition, he campaigned for a more convenient ferry service to the island and for the establishment of a holiday colony for children, but only the first was realized. From 1900 to 1905 he was married to the Berlin singer and actress Marka Schiemann.

In favor of the Berlin resident Emil Hirsekorn, who wanted to build a modern hotel complex on the site (the Hotel zum Klausner, which still exists today ), his lease contract was not extended in 1909 and he set up his bar for non-alcoholic drinks in Vitte. In the course of his life he was increasingly considered an eccentric , which is why he was also called the "hermit of Hiddensee". He died impoverished in a Stralsund hospital in 1919.

His wish to be buried in the Inselfriedhof was not fulfilled because his urn was lost on the way from Stralsund to Hiddensee.

reception

The author Lutz Seiler mentioned the hermit in his Hiddensee novel Kruso ( German Book Prize 2014), which plays around and in the island restaurant Zum Klausner : “There was a long talk of a man named Ettersberg or Ettenburg, whom he called the Urklausner in a warm voice , a man in long robes… ”and a few pages later turned the forerunner into a kind of idol for those who left the island:“… like an icon on the top of the altar, the photograph of Alexander Ettenburg in a monk's robe was enthroned, accompanied by a donkey and a cat… ”.

Fonts

  • The island of Hiddensee near Rügen, the Baltic seaside resort of the future, and western Rügen. By Alexander Ettenburg. Self-published by the author, Bergen auf Rügen 1912. Newly published by Tomas Güttler, Hamburg 2014.

literature

  • Manfred Faust: Hiddensee. The story of an island. From the beginnings to 1990. With a chronicle of the most important events from 1991 to the present Demmler-Verlag, Ribnitz-Damgarten 2005, ISBN 3-910150-67-5 , pp. 107–113.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Faust: Hiddensee. 2005, p. 107.
  2. ^ Faust: Hiddensee. 2005, p. 109.
  3. ^ Faust: Hiddensee. 2005, p. 110.
  4. ↑ The wedding service on December 15, 1900 was headed by Georg Wilhelm Schulze , whom Ettenburg described as "Berlin's most popular clergyman", see Alexander Ettenburg: The island of Hiddensee: The Ostseebad der Zukunft , Commissioner Verlag von Hans Kruse, Bergen auf Rügen 1912, re-edited by Tomas Gütler, tredition GmbH, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8495-9996-6 , reading sample under "Tränen-Schulze" & source = bl & ots = _G94a1BpG4 & sig = nxK2gYyhXcMT5zEiuKj2ESSk85w & hl = de & sa = X & vedMepage =% KEUK9HYK85w & hl = de & sa = X & vedMepage =% vedHuKA =% vHVHAQ =% vDOshA6 =% vedHViKa =% vedMaHe = 22 A4nen-Schulze% 22 & f = false
  5. ^ Faust: Hiddensee. 2005, p. 112 f.
  6. ^ Faust: Hiddensee. 2005, p. 113.
  7. ↑ Lutz Seiler: Kruso , Berlin 2014, pp. 47, 86. ISBN 978-3-518-42447-6
personal data
SURNAME Ettenburg, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eggers, Alexander Friedrich Otto (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Gugelwits
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1919
Place of death Stralsund