Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck

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Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck (born February 18, 1885 in Lemberg , Lorraine , † September 25, 1972 ibid.) Was a German-Lorraine regional writer and folklorist .

Life

Angelika Pinck was born in Lemberg in Bitscher Land in 1885 as the ninth of thirteen children of the Catholic Lemberg postmaster and mayor Nicolas Pinck. The father had already collected antiquities from Lorraine. Pinck gained deep access to the Christian faith through her evangelical mother, who died early and taught her old Lorraine hymns. A sister of Pinck became a nun, and two of the brothers, including Louis Pinck , became priests. Pinck spent her school days in a boarding school in Finstingen , after which she completed training as a teacher in Metz . During this time she assisted her brother Louis Pinck, who was a chaplain in the town, in collecting Lorraine folk songs and stories. Around 2000 sagas, 700 proverbs, 100 swans, 50 legends and 120 fairy tales were collected by the two siblings.

From 1909 to 1911 Pinck was the headmistress of the girls' school in Dillingen / Saar.After several professional positions as a teacher, most recently in Darmstadt , she married the Frankfurt manufacturer Karl Merkelbach, owner of the shoe machine manufacturer Merko Karl Merkelbach in Frankfurt-Bockenheim, Robert-Mayer-Straße 52 with whom she had two sons, Norbert and Lothar. Karl Merkelbach financed the illustration of Louis Pinck's song collections Verklingende Weisen with drawings by the Lorraine artist Henri Bacher (1890–1934).

Around 1930, when her sons Norbert and Lothar had outgrown childhood, Merkelbach-Pinck was able to turn back to the legends of Lorraine. In 1936 she published the first part of her collected stories in two volumes of Lorraine tell . During the war years the works Lothringer Volksmärchen and Lothringer Meistube were published . Merkelbach-Pinck's stories are based on the conversations in the Meistuben in Lorraine, where simple villagers came together in winter while spinning, knitting, smoking and drinking. They mated , visited each other and shared what they had heard from their parents. Merkelbach-Pinck was bombed out during World War II and her son Norbert died as a soldier. Son Lothar Merkelbach, u. a. lives in Kilchberg (Tübingen) , worked for 27 years until 1988 as head of the Tübingen department of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office.

With the support of Hermann Bickler , she received an audience with Joseph Goebbels in which she stood up for the pastor of Obergailbach , Jean Seelig, who had been sentenced to death by the National Socialists , and thus saved him from execution.

After the Second World War and the death of her husband, she taught German in Béthune and in 1953 initiated a pastoral care center for German prisoners of war who remained in Liévin , where she worked until 1964. During this time she published the 5th volume of the fading wise men with Joseph Müller-Blattau .

She spent her last years with her son Lothar in Wurmlingen (Rottenburg) . There she wrote her works Folk Tales from Lorraine and Customs and Customs in Eastern Lorraine . Merkelbach-Pinck died in 1972 in her native Lemberg and was buried in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .

Awards

Works (in selection)

  • Fading Sages. Kassel 1926–1962 (Volume 1, Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1926 (reprint: Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1962); Volume 2, (= publications of the Alsatian-Lorraine Scientific Society in Strasbourg), Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1928 (reprint : Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1963); Volume 3, Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1933 (reprint: Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1963); Volume 4, Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1939 (reprint: Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1962); Volume 5 , edited by Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck and Josef Müller-Blattau, Volume 5, Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1962.)
  • Tell Lorraine. Saarbrücken 1936.
  • From the Lothringer Meistube, sagas, tales, legends, peasant stories, sayings, proverbs, Kassel 1943.
  • Lorraine fairy tale. Frankfurt / Main 1936.
  • The wolf and the princess. Krailling in front of Munich 1939.
  • Folk tales from Lorraine. Krailling in front of Munich 1940.
  • Motherliness. Dülmen 1940.
  • Deer hunting legends from Lorraine. Kassel 1942.
  • Folk tales from Lorraine. Krailling in front of Munich 1943.
  • German folk tales. Kassel 1947.
  • The treasure chest. Freiburg / Breisgau 1953.
  • Lorraine folk tales. Düsseldorf 1961.
  • Customs and Customs in Eastern Lorraine. Frankfurt / Main 1968.

exhibition

Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive - Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck. Writer and folklorist Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck (1885 to 1972) has a permanent place in the literary history of the Franco-German border regions as a collector of sagas, fairy tales and legends from Lorraine. For nine years she traveled the area "from the foot of the Vosges to the edge of Luxembourg, from the Saar-Palatinate to the French border" and wrote down what the ancients told her in the "Meistube" (the spinning room). The homeland, the cultural area of ​​legends and sagas, was the central theme of her life and work, as was the Lorraine dialect in which Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck wrote down the fairy tales and legends as she was "told by young and old." The situation Lorraine as a political bone of contention between France and Germany also preoccupied the author. She campaigned for a peaceful understanding, but also reflected the problem of the language border and the associated identity conflict. The exhibition, curated by Germanist Daniela Himbert, shows documents and photographs from the collections of the Saar-Lor-Lux-Alsace literature archive. The exhibition opened on January 19 at 6.30 p.m. and was on view until April 13, 2017.

Recordings

  • Klaus Fischbach , Fading Wise Men. Lorraine folk songs from the Louis Pinck collection. Trier Cathedral Choir. Madrigal Choir Klaus Fischbach. With instrumental soloists from Saarländischer Rundfunk and Saarbrücken State Theater, Elisabeth Hoffmann, Petra Köster, Thomas Reichert (vocals), Klaus-Ewald Fischbach (piano), double CD 1999.

literature

  • Wolfgang Freund: People, Reich and Western Frontier, German Studies and Politics in the Palatinate, Saarland and annexed Lorraine 1925–1945 (publication by the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research, Volume 39), Saarbrücken 2006, pp. 410–415.
  • Reinhard Frost: Merkelbach-Pinck, Angelika. In: Wolfgang Klötzer (Ed.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . , P. 39
  • Karl Heinz Langstroff: Lothringer Volksart: Investigation of the German-Lorraine folk tale using the collections of Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck , Elwert Verlag, Marburg, 1953.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ 100 years of the Dillingen grammar school 1902–2002, commemorative publication of the Albert Schweitzer grammar school, grammar school of the Saarlouis district, ed. v. Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium, Dillingen 2002, p. 74.
  3. ^ Aloys Lehnert: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar. Dillingen / Saar 1968, pp. 378-380.
  4. ↑ http://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/nbdpfbw/article/viewFile/13719/7562 , accessed on October 30, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck on culture-bilinguisme-lorraine.org
personal data
SURNAME Merkelbach-Pinck, Angelika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinck, Angelika (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1972
Place of death Lviv