Alfred Cammann

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Alfred Cammann (born August 7, 1909 in Hannoversch Münden ; † April 20, 2008 in Oyten ) was a German high school teacher , writer and collector of East German stories.

Life

Cammann studied German language and literature, history and sport at the University of Göttingen , interrupted by an eastern semester at the University of Königsberg in the summer semester of 1930. He spent his traineeship and student assistant professor in East Prussia and West Prussia . In Marienwerder he worked part-time as an assistant at the local history museum; here he began to collect fairy tales and stories.

After the Second World War he settled in Bremen and, together with his wife Luise Cammann, began collecting stories from those displaced from East Germany and the German settlement areas in Eastern Europe. They recorded well over 1000 interviews with members of German minorities in Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bessarabia ( Bessarabian Germans ), Wolhynia ( Wolhynien Germans ) as well as from East and West Prussia, Silesia and Pomerania. After his retirement in 1971, he was also able to travel to these areas and, into old age, kept lively correspondence with hundreds of informants, excerpts of which are published in his books.

In over a hundred articles in specialist journals, he dealt with individual topics of narrative research, for example the Bremen Town Musicians or the Pied Piper of Hameln .

The Cammann Archive, handed over in 1984, is located in the Institute for Local History Research in Rotenburg (Wümme), it comprises 311 tapes and around 12,000 data records, almost 900 extensive folders with documents and stories, thousands of images and a library with around 3,000 volumes.

Since 1961 he was a full member of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research . He was a member of the German Society for Folklore and the International Society for Folk Tale Research .

Works

  • West Prussian fairy tales. Walter de Gruyter publishing house, Berlin 1961.
  • On the people of the Germans from Bessarabia. Holzner Verlag, Würzburg 1962.
  • German folk tales from Russia and Romania. Schwartz Verlag, Göttingen 1967.
  • The world of Low German children's games. Otto Meißner Verlag, Bleckede 1970.
  • Fairy tale world of Prussia. 1st edition Otto Meißners Verlag, Bleckede 1973; 2nd edition Otto Meißners Verlag, Berlin 1992; 3rd edition Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1996.
  • Tell Danube Swabians. 4 parts. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Vol. 15, 16, 19, 20. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979.
  • Turmberg stories. A contribution to West Prussian regional and folklore. Series of publications of the Commission for East German Folklore, Vol. 22. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1980.
  • Folk tale of the Carpartian Germans - Slovakia - 2 parts. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Volumes 24 and 25. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1981.
  • Hungarian German folk tale. From a German settlement in the old Hungarian region. 2 parts. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Vols. 26 and 27. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1982.
  • Homeland Volhynia. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Vol. 33. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1985.
  • From the world of narrators - with Russian and Romanian German reports and stories. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Vol. 38. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1987.
  • Heimat Wolhynien - Part II. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Vol. 41. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1988.
  • Fairy tales - songs - life in autobiography and letters from the Russian-German Ida Prieb. Series of publications by the Commission for East German Folklore, Vol. 54. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1991.
  • The luck and misfortune of East Prussia Otto Bysäth as a contribution to contemporary history and folklore. Schwartz Verlag, Göttingen 1993.
  • Pomerania tells. Folklore and Contemporary History. Schwartz Verlag, Göttingen 1995.
  • The Masuria. From their world, from their fate in history and stories. Individual publications of the Historical Commission for East and West Prussian State Research, Vol. 25. NG Elwert Verlag, Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-7708-1249-2 .
  • The Kashubians. From their world, from their fate in history and stories. Sources and representations on the history of West Prussia, No. 31. Nicolaus-Copernicus-Verlag, Münster 2007.

Awards

literature

  • Bernhart Jähnig : For guidance. In: Alfred Cammann: The Kashubians. From their world, from their fate in history and stories (= sources and representations on the history of West Prussia. Vol. 31). Nicolaus-Copernicus-Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-924238-37-7 , pp. 14-16.
  • Bernhart Jähnig: Alfred Cammann. In: Prussia. Vol. 47, 2009, ISSN  0032-7972 , pp. 24-25.
  • Günter Petschel: The Cammann archive in Rotenburg. In: Yearbook for East German Folklore. Vol. 29, 1986, ISSN  0075-2738 , pp. 390-398.
  • Claus Stephani : Pied Piper did not move to Transylvania. Conversation with Alfred Cammann in Bremen. In: New Literature . 35/12, 1984, pp. 67-70.
  • Herbert Weißer: Alfred Cammann and his work on West Prussian history and folklore. In: Contributions to the history of West Prussia. Vol. 9, 1985, ISSN  0341-9436 , pp. 163-168.
  • Wiebke Jarecki: The archive of the narrative researcher Alfred Cammann with special consideration of his correspondence with selected informants. In: Hans-Werner Retterath (ed.): Additions. Folklore archive research on Germans in and from Eastern Europe , Münster 2015, ISBN 978-3-8309-3376-2 , pp. 111-137 in the Google book search.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prussia 47, p. 24 f .; Old Prussian Biography 5, 2031.
personal data
SURNAME Cammann, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher, writer and collector of East German stories
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Hann. Münden
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2008
Place of death Oyten