André Weckmann
André Weckmann (born November 30, 1924 in Steinbourg , Alsace , † July 29, 2012 in Strasbourg ) was an Alsatian writer . The poet lived in Strasbourg, although he often stayed in the area of his origin in the Bay of Zabern / Saverne and at the Zorn breakthrough. He was one of the most important and progressive Alsatian dialect poets , but made use of various literary forms in all three expressions of his homeland: Alsatian , Standard German and French .
Live and act
Weckmann grew up as the son of a host family in a village inn in Lower Alsace near Zabern. In 1943 he was forcibly recruited by the German Wehrmacht as one of around 100,000 other Alsatian so-called Malgré-nous . He was wounded in Russia and deserted while on convalescence to join the Forces françaises de l'intérieur . After the war Weckmann studied and received the teaching diploma in German. Until 1989 he was employed as a professor at a lycée in Strasbourg .
Günter Grass , Wolfgang Borchert and Wolfdietrich Schnurre as well as Albert Camus , André Malraux and Jean-Paul Sartre had an influence on his development as a writer .
Since 1970 Weckmann was involved in (alternative) Alsatian cultural policy and, among other things, in the environmental movement, such as against the planned Wyhl nuclear power plant .
Voices on Weckmann
In an afterword to André Weckmann's volume of poetry alsassischi grammatik or in an attempt to sound out the language , the Luxembourg dialect researcher Fernand Hoffmann wrote the following sentences: “What I have just read is poetry in the highest potency. Born out of silence. Surrendered to silence. Worn from silence. Inner screams. To whisper, muffled by the bravely wrung tears. Lost words, gathered up on the edge of silence. Alsatian fate, Alsatian suffering in lyrical abbreviations. "
Fonts
Poems
- 1975: Schang d'sunn seems long
- 1976: Haxschissdrumerum
- 1980: Fremdi Getter
- 1983: Bluddi hand
- 1983: Country air
- 1986: Apple on the winter tree
- 1989: alsatian grammar or an attempt to explore the language. ISBN 3-921365-93-7
prose
- 1969: Six letters from Berlin
- 1973: Stories from Sorania, an Alsatian anti-epic
- 1977: The trip to Wyhl, an Alsatian odyssey
- 1981: How the dice fall , new edition: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, St. Ingbert 2004, ISBN 978-3-86110-382-0
- 1986: Odile or the magic triangle
- 1992: Simon Herzog, fragments de substance
- 2001: Alsace, a literary travel companion , published together with Emma Guntz , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. and Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-458-34446-2 .
- 2003: TamieHeimat - Roman. ISBN 3-935731-05-1 .
- 2005: Black Hornets. Tales from the strange country called Alsace. ISBN 3-935731-98-1 .
- 2008: Hear the wind breaks old Reiser - Christmas stories. ISBN 978-3-938823-41-5 .
- 2012: A turning point - Alsatian stories. ISBN 978-3-941657-72-4 (to be published in August 2012)
Works in French
- 1968: Les Nuits de Fastov
- 1975: Fonse ou l'éducation alsacienne
- 1988: La Roue du paon, version française du roman Odile or the magic triangle
CD
- René Egles , André Weckmann: Wihnachtszitt (1996)
Awards and honors
- 1976: Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg for Odile or the magical triangle and his other poetic and literary works
- 1978: Grand prix Georges Holderith de l'Institut des arts et traditions populaires , Strasbourg
- 1979: Mölle Literature Prize , Sweden
- 1986: Jacob Burckhardt Prize from the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation, Basel
- 1986: Otto Ernst Sutter commemorative medal from the city of Gengenbach
- 1990: Carl Zuckmayer Medal (together with Adolf Muschg and Martin Walser )
- 1996: Peace Prize from the International Dialect Archive "Ludwig Soumagne"
- 1998: Tower clerk in Deidesheim
- 1998: Baden-Alsace Culture Prize from the city of Rastatt
- 1999: Gustav-Regulator-Prize of the city of Merzig
- 2002: Prix Européen de Langue Régionale
literature
- Adolf J. Schmid : "We live from utopias, we realists ...", " Badische Heimat" , 4/2004, p. 561
- Adolf J. Schmid : The Alsatian André Weckmann , "Badische Heimat", 3/2007, p. 526 ff.
- Günter Helmes : Played along - thrown out. André Weckmann's "How the Dice Fall" . In: Andreas Kirchner , Astrid Pohl , Peter Riedel (eds.): Critique of the Aesthetic - Aesthetics of Criticism. Festschrift for Karl Prümm on his 65th birthday . Schueren Verlag, Marburg 2010, pp. 132-137. ISBN 978-3-89472-566-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about André Weckmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lever Prize 1976 for André Weckmann - recognition by the community of Hausen im Wiesental
- André Weckmann - some poems
- André Weckmann - an obituary of the cross-border environmental movement
Individual evidence
- ^ Message of death ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Obituaries in the blogs le Monde.fr (in French); 1. Le blog note from Claude Keiflin "André Weckmann:" J'ai toujours eu de la chance "" ; 2. Paysages "En souvenir d'André Weckmann - the language bridge builder - le bâtisseur de passerelles linguistiques"
- ↑ According to French Wikipedia and his biography at crdp-strasbourg.fr ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ D'r Liederbrunne . Liederbrunne.com. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ↑ More about the tower scribes from Deidesheim here
- ↑ How the Die Rolls (1982: 422)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weckmann, André |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Alsatian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Steinburg , Alsace |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 2012 |
| Place of death | Strasbourg |