Anton Günther (folk poet)

Günther in front of his house (1921)

Günther's signature

Anton Günther (born June 5, 1876 in Gottesgab , Bohemia ; † April 29, 1937 there ) was a German folk poet and singer from the Ore Mountains . He is considered the inventor of the song postcard .

biography

Anton Günther was born in Gottesgab as the son of the white goods ticker and draftsman Johann Günther, who had moved back to his father's house from nearby Joachimsthal after a devastating city fire and had given up his miner profession in 1873. Because he came from "Tol" ( St. Joachimsthal ), the locals called him "Toler-Hans". The name Günther existed so often in Gottesgab that it was only used with a surname or nickname. In honor of his grandfather, the son was given the name Anton or "Tonl", and thus he became the "Toler-Hans-Tonl" in God's gift. Anton Günther spent his childhood in Gottesgab. Since his father earned money in addition to his meager salary by making music, Anton Günther was introduced to the singing and songs of his homeland at an early age.

He received his education in the citizen school in St. Joachimsthal . Anton Günther was one of seven children. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. The father married again and in 1891 another son named Hans († 1982 in Dellach / Austria ) was added.

He originally wanted to become a forester because he has a love for nature and the forest. But his talent for drawing and concern for the family led him to apprenticeship as a lithographer Ed. Schmidt to Buchholz in Saxony . After only three years he was acquitted of his apprenticeship. From 1895 he moved to Prague to the k. and k. Court lithography institute A. Haase . Homesickness for the mountains and forests made him a poet there. He met regularly for the "Guttsgewer Obnd" (God's gift evening) with other Gottesgabern and Bohemian Erzgebirge people who lived in Prague like him. Anton Günther wrote one of his most famous songs in 1895 for one of these Prague meetings, where songs from home were sung to the guitar, "Drham is' drham" (Home is at home). The great response to this song prompted him to come up with a new idea. Instead of copying the text over and over again to pass it on, he drew it on lithographic stone in 1895 and had it printed as a postcard.

After the death of his father in 1901, Günther returned to his parents' house in Gottesgab after six years in Prague and had to look after his family and especially his siblings. The inherited small farms were not enough to support them. That is why Anton Günther supplemented his income similarly to his father with performances as a singer and musician (called "Toler-Hans-Tonl" after his father). He also self-published his song postcards, which had already been done in his father's from 1897.

On July 9, 1908, Anton married Günther Marie Zettl (1886–1958), the daughter of the carpenter in charge of building the Keilberghaus in his home town Gottesgab. The marriage resulted in three children born in Gottesgab, namely the daughters Maria and Irmgard and their older brother Erwin (1909–1974), who later became a dialect.

The Ore Mountains became increasingly popular as a holiday and spa region . Restaurants and clubs invited Günther to entertainment evenings for locals and guests, especially in the Saxon Ore Mountains (Fichtelberg, Neues Haus in Oberwiesenthal, Dreckschänke in the Bohemian town of Breitenbach ). The success was great. Günther brought a not insignificant part of the income into a foundation in 1911 that supported the sick, old and poor in his hometown and shared in his success. It was called the Tolerhans Tonl Foundation .

Anton Günther experienced the First World War as an Austrian soldier on the Serbian front from the start. Due to an injury to his foot, he spent some time in a hospital in Chomutov . Then he was posted to military service. Günther returned to Gottesgab in the autumn of 1918. One of his brothers, Julius, did not survive the war, and Anton Günther also supported his brother's family.

One result of the First World War was the emergence of Czechoslovakia , which legally regulated the conditions of the national minorities, including millions of Sudeten Germans , in comparison to the Czechs and Slovaks. This hurt the native artist very much and also became the subject of his songs. As early as 1908, he responded to the national tensions that were already emerging at the time with the lyrics to the song “Deitsch on frei wolln mer sei!”.

Even after the war, the singer and entertainer Anton Günther remained popular, as did his songs. There were engagements in Berlin, Vienna and Dresden. Shellac records with recordings by the singer Anton Günther, who accompanied himself on the guitar, were very successful .

On June 5, 1936, on his 60th birthday, he received a special appreciation of his work during his lifetime. The highlight was the inauguration of the memorial stone still preserved today on the market square of Gottesgab. During this time, the folk singer did not allow himself to be captured by the up-and-coming German National Socialists and the NSDAP, despite their courtship, which should have been difficult for him because of some homeland-related similarities. Perhaps that is why Günther became increasingly melancholy . He took his own life on April 29, 1937. The burial took place on May 2, 1937 in the cemetery in Gottesgab.

Günther's family was expelled after the war ended in 1945 , leaving almost everything behind - including sheet music and drawings - and settling in nearby Oberwiesenthal . His wife Maria died there in 1958 without ever coming back to God's gift. Son Erwin Günther was in military service during the expulsion, later followed in his father's footsteps and became a dialect speaker in the folk art ensemble “Heiteres Erzgebirge” around Joachim Suss and the Caldarelli siblings . He played a key role in the compilation of his father's life's work, which Gerhard Heilfurth published in 1937.

Song postcards

Probably the best-selling song postcard No. 30: "Wu da forests hamlich rauschn"

De Uf`nbank

→ Main article : Song postcard

Anton Günther is considered to be the founder of the song postcard, a postcard with simple notes, texts and his own lithographs. In 1895 he was the first to put a complete song (but still without notes) on a postcard. How many of these cards he brought among the people remains unclear. There is no exact list. Up to now unknown versions with songs, poems, sayings or Landsturm songs appear again and again. Almost all of the cards are numbered, but the assignment of digits was often confused, which is a particular challenge for those who love collecting, but makes a detailed catalog almost impossible. It can be assumed that there are around 160 cards with songs, poems and sayings by him. 134 are known in different versions. 86 are born after Irmgard Major. Günther (born August 21, 1918), Anton Günther's daughter, who lives in Frankfurt am Main, can be seen as a closed unit because, in addition to their own drawing, they also have text and music. In the meantime, at least 89 cards must be assumed, since more song cards have appeared in the meantime.

Anton Günther's first song postcard is “Drham is' drham”, a monochrome green lithograph without a number or publisher's name, just a “Ged. v. AG ". The map was created during Günther's apprenticeship as a lithographer in Prague in 1895. "Drham is' drham" was not Günther's first song. He also wrote “De Guttsgoh” in 1895, but did not add its own melody to this work, which he himself called his first song in one of his music books, and no postcard is known of it to this day.

In Prague evenings , Anton Günther performed the songs, "Drham is' drham" with particularly great success. Instead of copying it dozens of times on request, he published the song without notes, but with his own drawing, presumably on lithography stone at the end of 1895, and had it printed on 100 cards in the first edition.

Since the family in Gottesgab fought against poverty, Günther sent another edition of his - as he called them - "song postcards" to his homeland, which his father Johann Günther published there himself and together with his son Julius in his souvenir shop in Gottesgab and also from door to door. The second edition in 1897 comprised 500 copies. 1898 followed with Groshaner. (II) and swimmer magicians. (Number III) two more cards, five in 1900, and from 1901 also the first color lithographs with the notation that was mandatory from then on.

After his father's death at the end of November 1901, Anton Günther returned home and gradually brought out his “song postcards” under his name “Anton Günther's Selbstverlag, Gottesgab, Böhmen”. In 1937 the last card with the number 87 and the title "Ben Ahfang on ben End" (also "Bild dir nischt ei") appeared about 160 different cards.

Honors and aftermath

Grave, birthplace and home

Günther's grave in Boží Dar

In contrast to the graves of many other former German residents, his grave including the grave slab attached in 1937 has been preserved; his grandmother's grave is only a few meters away.

The house where he was born ("father's house") has collapsed and a Prague ski club is now located in his heavily modified home - but a plaque commemorates him.

Streets and squares

In the Ore Mountains and in the Vogtland, numerous squares and streets were named after Anton Günther. In 1995 the cross-border Anton-Günther-Weg - a hiking trail - was inaugurated and the memory of the folk poet lives on in his birthplace Gottesgab (museum, grave, memorial plaque on the house, restoration of the monument on the market square).

Memorial stones

→ Main article : List of Anton Günther memorial stones

Museums

Part of Anton Günther's estate has been in the Museum of Saxon Folk Art since 2011 . Another part of the estate has been on display since 2014 in Wiesenthaler K3 , the museum of the city of Kurort Oberwiesenthal .

Collection for political goals

His song “Deitsch on frei wolln mer sei!” Was valued by ethnic groups , in the Sudeten German Henlein movement and by the National Socialists . Some of his songs, which had thematized the homeland, mutated in the service of demonstratively völkisch and nationalistic reception to an aggressive avowal, to political-agitatory texts. In the GDR, Günther's work encountered reservations both with regard to the ideology of the people and the petty-bourgeois doctrine of contentment that appears in many of his texts. Nevertheless, Günther's songs were always present in the Ore Mountains. They were performed by various interpreters, including Günther's son Erwin Günther and the Caldarelli siblings . Some song postcards were reprinted and recordings of his songs were made. In the old Federal Republic, Günther's songs were part of the ritualized cultivation of tradition at meetings of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft . After 1989, Günther received a consistently apolitical reception in the service of tourism in the Erzgebirge. In the meantime, he is being used again by nationalists for their political goals. Furthermore, it is his song “Deitsch on frei wolln mer sei!” That leads to controversial discussions about Günther's position.

Catalog raisonné

Songs

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It is not clear from what source this list was drawn. Here are missing songs that are listed in Anton Günther's song postcards . - Usteinhoff ( discUSsion ) 11:18, 10 Dec. 2019 (CET)

First song postcard in the world (1st and 2nd version)

The cover picture of the double card No. 9: "Da Ufnbank" - probably around 1910

Listed in chronological order and primarily in Anton Günther's original spelling

Drham is drham 1895 Da Guttsgoh 1895 All sorts of ve de Guttsgoh 1898 The alta Bordenhannler (Da guta alta time) 1898 Groshahnerlied 1898 Listen to De Uf'nbank 1899 ? / i D'r Sponge Magician 1899 's fallischa Nannl 1899 Klippl song 1899 's Eirückn 1899 Da Pfeif 1900 Da Vuglbeer 1900 D'r Kukuk 1900 Mei Zäsichla 1900 Everyone's hot is Freid 1900 German is my song 1900 Ven altn Schlog 1900 Stay with me a little more do 1901 Blooming blackberry blooming '1901 D'r in love Boss 1901 Hamweh 1901 's tuda Vöchela (no notes) 1901 My father's house in 1901 's Galöckl 1902 's treia Madl 1902 Free calibration, you guide! 1902 Hutznlied 1902 En forest 1902 Schmatz related to 1902 Christmas Peace 1902 There between Fink'n 1903 D'r alta Hannelsmah 1903 's Labn is a Büchl 1903 D'r alta musician 1903 Listen to Feierohmd 1903 ? / i Howdy God, mei Arzgebirg! 1903 How dr Schnawl happened in 1903 Es Maadel ven Forest 1904 Da Draakschenk 1904 The moon leaves kaa quiet 1904 's Annl mit'n Kannl 1904 Hamwärts 1904 En Frühgahr 1904 How I was a big gong in 1904 D'r Battlmah 1905 It best Kraitel 1905 Broken Trei 1905 I have to tell you in 1905 Listen to Mei Grußmütterla 1905 ? / i Harz's chaired 1905 When the snow wagons 1905 Wu as forests haamlich rushing in 1905 listen ? / i Howdy God mei Arzgebirge 1905 Good red 1906 Heavenly Key in bloom 1906 Morgnlied 1906 The most beautiful sound 1907 The resin must have been wasted in 1907 Es Maadel ven Stadel 1907 O selicha listen to Christmas time 1907 ? / i

Wake up! 1907 Because mr is Arzgebirge! (Deitsch on may want to be free!) 1908 Do you know dos rushing in the forest? 1908 Gonger, hold out! 1909 Herwistlied 1909 Muhtstacherlied 1909 Honor there altn Leit 1910 Mailüftl in Gebirch 1910 (Weise v.Kreipl) Forgot dei Hamit net 1910 When Lärich sings 1911 D'r old Fatzer 1912 D'r forest is sleeping in 1912 Honor dei Mütterla 1912 Listen to the 1912 snowshoe march ? / i A Liedl from dr Hamit 1913 Be their leader peacefully! 1913 De Landesschau en Komotau 1913 Since the Battle of the Nations in 1913 German Bohemia 1913 Hooray! It's lus 1914 Landschtorm March 1914 Greetings to comrades in 1914 Christmas in Fald 1914 D'r Kaiser calls into the forest in 1915 Greetings from Fald 1915 Greetings to Maria Au 1916 On the distant Isonzo beach in 1916 Again drham 1917 D'r border guard 1917 Let's celebrate Christmas again in 1918 Nort was mr alla equal to 1918 Creates Viech in house in 1918 In the summer season of 1919 E Gronerts will be a nightingale in 1919 Wos de Starl whistle 1919 How happy I am! 1919 Shame on you! 1919 A Mensch uhna Glaubn 1920 Da fallischa politics 1920 When the Vugelbeer blooms 1921 Forget-Me-Not 1921 A Mensch uhna Glaubn 1921 Take a look at the Sterla 1922 When it comes early 1922 Celebration march in 1925 Da neia Moda 1926 When it's raining outside 1926 Zen neie Gahr 1926 Arzgebirg how are you schie 1927 Drham in Stübl 1927 Welcome to Wiesenthol 1927 On the border in 1931 Wanner song 1931 's neia house 1934 All sorts of Watter 1934 Foosndlied 1934 Ben Ahfang on ben End (or picture dr nischt ei) 1935 Uf d'r Guttsgewer Höh 1935 Maadel, God keep you! 1937

claims

Hail to, heal to, wind, you take no rest! (1901) A bit of sunshine, a bit of rain , dos brengt creates benefits ei, dos burns creates blessings. A bit of happiness, a bit of Laad, there's a whole Laabn that shakes Klaad! (1904) Card game on Brandewei throws the leader in Ugelück nei! (1905) The noise in the forest is hot for me, that I can't let go of my hair! (1906) Erscht has to steal you, take care of you and plog, north is better tolerated by good things. (1907) If I be menn Haisl steal the whistle, I think to myself on stick with it: Derham is derham! (1907) De Haamit needs men who are unadulterated, gerod out on gerod here on in the middle of three! (1914) Let the people leave, it is not worth it, the rümlaaft of daaner earth! (1920)

Mog's fate aah play with us, the main thing is that I keep whips ! (1920) I'm kaa politician, Gelerter kaich aah net be, my Haamit is my Arzgebirg, my people is my party! (1925) You shouldn't speak deitsch, deitsch sing, deitsch write, you have to think aah deitsch, deitsch hanneln, stay true! (1920) 's horrible Lus is arbitslus. Uhne Arbit is kaa Laabn. because Kopp on hand, heart on mind hot ons the Lord zer Arbit gaabn. (1934) God gave you hate my Haamit, that 's me dearest Flackl Erd. Gives of God be my songs, stupid I think they are so dear on worth. (1936) Treideitschen greetings with heart and hand ven Arzgebirg zen Egerland! For ons the following applies: aa Faldgeschrei: I stay onner people, the Haamit trei! (1936)

Between 1904 and 1930, Anton Günther wrote 42 stories in dialect, including: Ven Vugelstelln (1904), Der Schatten (1905), Ze ball geschossen ( 1907), Ven Paschn (1908), The Boot Heel (1910), Der Kolander (1912 ), Ve der Wogner Nann (1920), Judensklaven (1922), Der Wendelie (1923), Aus der Hongerzeit (1924) Guten Obnd (1925), In Cranzahl (1926), Ve der Mode (1928), Mognkatarrh (1929) , E good answer (1930), Anton Günther (1930).

Song postcards

→ Main article : Directory of Anton Günther's song postcards

Sound carrier

Cassettes and music CDs

A selection of the sound carriers since 1990 (LC = music cassette; CD = CD)

• Anton Günther: Drham is drham. With previously unpublished original recordings. LC 5543
• Anton Günther: Hello God, mei Arzgebirg , LC 9611 BTM GmbH
• Anton Günther: Songs that life wrote. Original historical recordings , LC 5543
• Anton Günther: singer of the Ore Mountains. Original recordings 1921–1931 , LC 9611
• Anton Günther: The Most Beautiful Songs Vol. 1 (Grüß Dich Gott, Mei Arzgebirg) .
• Anton Günther: The Most Beautiful Songs Vol. 2 (Es Laabn Is E Büchel) .
• Anton Günther: O happy Christmas time .
• Anton Günther: Toler Hans Tonl

Shellac records

The first shellac records with songs by Anton Günther appeared in 1907. They were put on by the Leipzig label Kalliope . The five songs (three records) “De Ufnbank”, “Bleibn mer noch e wing do!”, “De Drackschenk”, “Wu da forests rustle” and Grüß dich, mei Arzgebirg! were probably recorded by the Leipzig Crystal Palace Orchestra . On the records, however, only "Herrengesang mit Orchester" was noted. Until 1914, other records with this formation appeared.

From 1921 on, Anton Günther also recorded his own songs. Between 1921 and 1930 there were a total of 27 original Günther recordings and 45 shellac records with six record companies based in Berlin, as well as another 25 records with subsidiary labels. VOX preceded three records with a trumpet solo, and Anton Günther gave a short speech on two records. An autograph was pressed into the shellac on a VOX record (No. 3654).

POLYPHON, Berlin, 1921

A total of 8 records with 16 titles

• Mei Vaterhaus / Da Ufnbank (23940) - Order number: 30542
• Feieromd (23943) / Mei Großmütterle (23947) - order number: 30545
• Wu de Walder hamlisch rauschen (23941) / Vergaß dei Hamit net (23946) - order number: 30546
• Da Draakschenk (23948) / Da falischa Politik (23951) - order number: 30547

HOMOCORD, Berlin, 1925

A total of 5 records with 10 titles

VOX, Berlin, 1927

A total of 6 records with 10 titles; (Crystal - 1 plate)

Lindström, Berlin, 1928

A total of 5 plates with 10 titles (Beka - 5 plates; Odeon - 5 plates; Gloria - 1 plate)

• Da Uf'nbank (M14309) / Ven alt'n Schlog (M14326) Beka order number B.5142

HOMOCORD, Berlin, 1929

A total of 7 records with 13 titles

• Mei Vaterhaus (M17864) / Da Ufnbank (M17866) - Order number: B. 1836
• Feieromd (M 17867) / Ven alt'n Schlog (M 17873) - Order number: B. 1838
• Da Draackschänk / Dr alta Musikant (M 17870) - order number: B. 1839

HOMOCORD ELECTRO, Berlin, 1929

• Dr Kuckuck (C667D) / Da zwa Fink'n (C663D) number: 4-3082 / 193290

GRAMMOPHONE, Berlin “Polyfar Series”, 1929

A total of 10 records with 18 titles: (Synopsis / order number at that time)

• Mei Vaterhaus / Da Ufnbank (P1 / 22158) - catalog number 46110/46111
• Da Draakschänk / Es Laab'n is e Büchel (P2 / 22159)
• Feieromd / Wu da forests utterly rustling (P3 / 22160)
• Deitsch on frei wolln mer be / Hello God, mei Arzgebirch (P4 / 22161)
• Snowshoe march / Stay aweng do (P5 / 22162)
• D'r old Hannelsmah / Mei grandmotherla (P6 / 22163)
• There fallic politics / There is no fashion (P7 / 22164)
• When it's early morning / D'r old musician (P8 / 22165)
• Arzgebirch, how are you shooting / Mei Zäsichla (P9 / 22166)

Institute for Sound Research, Berlin, 1931

A total of 10 records with 18 tracks - (Audiophon - 4 records; Adler - 4 records; Rot-Gold - 3 records; Elton - 2 records)

AUDIOPHONE blue electro

• Es Annel mit'n Kannel / De zwaa Finken - Order No: 6081
• Da Droakschänk / Da Uf'nbank - Order No: 6083

Overview of the sound carriers

Printed receipts

• L = Anton Günther: A selection of his poems, songs, sayings and stories. Edited by Günther Hermann. Leipzig: VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, 1956.
• F = Gerhard Heilfurth. The Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Günther: life and work. 6th revised edition. Frankfurt am Main: Wolfgang Weidlich, 61962.

The numbers added indicate the page number.

Compact discs

• D = drham is drham. (AVATON 921 482; Saxoniamusik Plauen)
• L = songs that life wrote (AVATON 920 892; Saxoniamusik Plauen)
• S = singer of the Ore Mountains (GLÜCK AUF 2501 - 2; BTM Berlin)

The numbers added indicate the number in the table of contents.

Synopsis songs

Historical original recordings: Anton Günther sings and accompanies himself with the guitar, except in 2006 (singer Andreas Beck, guitar Robin Hermann). The suffixes A and B mean the front or back of the shellac records (P).

It's Annel mit'n Kannel	L 89	F 149	-	-	-	S 12
The Old Fatzer (2006)	L 94	F 88	-	D 16	-	-
D'r old Hannelsmah	L 92	F 95	P6A	-	L 12	-
D'r old musician	L 90	F93	P8B	-	L 5	-
Arzgebirch, how are you shooting	L 18	F116	P9A	D 4	-	-
Stay aweng do	L 121	F 150	P5B	-	L 16	-
Deitsch let me be free	-	F 114	P4A	-	-	S 8
Da Draakschank	L 129	F 190	P2A	-	-	S 3
Drham is drham	L 15	F 106	-	D 2	-	-
There fall politics	-	-	P7A	-	-	S 6
Celebration	L 97	F 74	P3A	D 12	-	S 15
Celebration March (2006)	L 119	-	-	D 15	-	-
The border guard	-	-	-	D 9	-	-
Grooshaaner Song (2006)	L79	F 75	-	D 14	-	-
Howdy God, my Arzgebirch	L 9	F 99	P4B	-	-	S 10
The Cuckoo	L 23	F 154	-	-	L 6	-
Es Laab'n is e Büchel	L 68	F 211	P2B	-	L 9	-
My grandmotherla	L 87	F 86	P6B	-	-	S 13
My father's house	L 13	F 110	P1A	D 3	-	S 9
Mei Zäsichla	L 58	F 66	P9B	-	L 10	-
There is no fashion	L 131	F 203	P7B	-	L 7	-
Snowshoe march	L 27	-	P5A	-	L 15	S 17
Because Ufnbank	L 119	F 141	P1B	-	L 14	-
Ven old Schlog	-	F 160	-	-	-	S 5
Forget the Haamit net	L 8	F 98	-	D 6	-	-
Christmas peace	-	-	-	D 10	-	-
When it's early morning	- L 39	F 42	P8A	-	L 2	-
Woo the forests rustling	L 10	F 100	P3B	D 7	-	S 1
The two finches	L 111	F 122	-	-	L 3	-

Synopsis of the texts

De Guttsgoh is too old	L 30	F 180	-	-	-	P. 16
Old Seff was running hot beer	-	F 234	-	-	-	S 4
It's best in whole state	-	F 211	-	D 13	-	-
Kaa Lüftel blows su fresh un raa	L 137	F 120	-	D 5	-	-
Es Labn is när e Hutzengieh	L 140	F 211	-	D 11	-	-
Dearest Flackel	L 7	F 105	-	-	L 11	-
Whether poor or rich	-	F 96	-	-	L 8	-
Of'n Barg I'm going	-	F 72	-	-	-	S 14
Can do in summer	-	F 48	-	-	L 13	-
Ve all the songs	L 142	F 101	-	-	L 4	-
When I stand with men Haisel	L 136	F 119	-	D1	-	-
How I was a big gong	L 96	F 158	-	-	-	S 11
Goes aa through onner Arzgebirch	-	F 189	-	D 8	-	-

literature

• Anton Günther (Ed.): A baar Gedichtla from the Tolerhans Tonl. (= Erzgebirge dialect. Issue 1). 2nd Edition. Ant. Günthers Verlag, Gottesgab 1909, OCLC 699704004 .
• Anton Günther (Ed.): Forget the Hamit net! - Ant. Günther's songs from the Ore Mountains. Self-published, Gottesgab 1911, OCLC 250669499 .
• Anton Günther (Ed.): Forget the Hamit net! - Second issue. Leipzig: Verlag Friedrich Hofmeister , 1921.
• Max Wenzel (Ed.): Anton Günther, the singer of the Erzgebirge - His life and work. Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz und Erzgebirgsverein , 1937 (without year in the work), printed by Liepsch & Reichhardt, Dresden.
• Franz Schmidl (Ed.) D'r Tolerhans-Tonl - The creator of the Erzgebirge song in words and pictures. Printing and publishing by Josef A. Endler, Weipert 1938.
• Gerhard Heilfurth (Ed.): Anton Günther. Complete edition of the lyrics, poems, sayings and stories. Glückauf, Schwarzenberg / Erzgebirge 1937.
• Günther Hermann (Ed.): Anton Günther: A selection of his poems, songs, sayings and stories. VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1956.
• Gerhard Heilfurth (ed.): The Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Günther. Life and work. Wolfgang Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• Gerhard Heilfurth (Hrsg.): The Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Günther: life and work. Sachsenbuch, Leipzig 1994, ISBN 3-910148-89-1 .
• Hartmut Leitner (Ed.): Vergaß dei Hamit net - A contribution to the 70th anniversary of the death of the Erzgebirge folk singer Anton Günther. Mike Rockstroh printer & publisher, Aue 2007.
• Gotthard B. Schicker : The 'mortal sin' of Anton Günther - Some remarks on the suicide of the most famous songwriter in the Ore Mountains. In: Dicknischl - Erzgebirge people from then and now. Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931770-76-1 , pp. 105–117.
• Stefan Göbel (Ed.): Drham is drham. Songs from the Ore Mountains by Anton Günther. Verlagbuchhandlung S. Göbel, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-940203-00-7 (with his autobiography “How I came to my songs”).
• Manfred Günther, Lutz Walther: Anton Günther - freedom between borders. Altis-Verlag, Friedrichsthal 2011, ISBN 978-3-910195-64-6 .

Web links

Commons : Anton Günther  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Anton Günther  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Anton Günther in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Anton Günther in the Saxon Bibliography
• Website of the heirs of Anton Günther
• Dieter Herz: Günther, Anton . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
• List of all song postcards from Anton Günther, the family tree of Anton Günther and everything about the Dreckschänke
• Anton Günther on the website of the Saxon State Library - State and University Library Dresden

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Freiepresse.de
2. ^ Anton Günther: How I got my songs. God gave 1911.
3. ↑ Hartmut Leitner, Forget the Hamit net! 2007.
4. ^ Anton Günther's song postcards, René Röder, 2009
5. ^ Dresden State Art Collections - Christmas in the Jägerhof. (No longer available online.) In: www.skd.museum. Archived from the original on January 6, 2017 ; accessed on January 6, 2017 . 
6. ↑ 13 Jaegerhof Dresden. In: www.annaberger.info. Retrieved January 6, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Permanent and special exhibitions in Wiesenthaler K3. In: www.oberwiesenthal.de. Retrieved June 3, 2020 . 
8. ^ Dieter Herz: Günther, Anton . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
9. ↑ How the NPD is catching votes with Anton Günther . In: Freie Presse from September 6, 2013
10. ↑ Benedikt Niessen: " Deitsch un Frei wolln mer sei" - what was this choreo of the Aue fans? In: Vice of November 25, 2015
11. ↑ mediathek.slub-dresden.de
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