Arthur Schramm
Georg Arthur Schramm (born May 30, 1895 in Annaberg ; † May 19, 1994 in Annaberg-Buchholz ), known as the Klaane Getu , was a German folk poet, inventor and original from the Ore Mountains . Schramm is controversial to this day because he was extremely committed as a poet in every political system. Schramm was a member of the NSDAP , later the GDR CDU, and was politically unhesitatingly "shown" by CDU mayors even after 1990.
Life and work
Arthur Schramm was the son of the businessman Georg Louis Schramm , who was called the Greetings Getu because of his size . He was married and had a son, but his marriage failed. He loved the native nature beyond measure, sang about it, transfigured it and took refuge in it when someone played badly with him. Schramm was described by personal acquaintances as an extremely sensitive man, coming from deep and honest Christian ethics, who had built a second world within his dearly beloved Erzgebirge home, in which reality and fantasy often diverged. He was a trained commercial clerk who, together with Arno Michaelis, founded the company "MIRAMM-Vertrieb", which was supposed to spread his inventions.
Until 1933
Schramm's father came back from the First World War , slightly injured, into his poor commercial existence. His son, now a businessman, began his first lyrical attempts at this time. From 1916 to 1918 he himself took part in the war in the Reserve Infantry Regiment 101. The war situation had shaken the young Schramm deeply and so he praised the peace in his early verses.
Little of Schramm's work has survived from the time of the Weimar Republic.
In October 1936 his “Arzgebirgslied” appeared, in which his German-national position shimmers through with a noticeably restrained attitude. In this song he writes that in the "Härzblattl vun Deitschland, mei Arzgebirg" the "... Härzblut vun den heiling grußen Voterland, dos for us net annersch as när Deitschland" flows and there "... like basalt and granite aah dei people stuck ".
He signed the “Arzgebirgslied” with “Glickauf!” , The subsequent “Pöhlber member” , dedicated to the Erzgebirgszweigverein Annaberg for its 50th anniversary (1936), closes with a three-time Glickauf! . The "Pöhlber member" enjoys a certain degree of popularity in the Erzgebirge region, also through the printing of self-composed song postcards . But he was unable to build on this success with the “ Greifenstaa lied” written in 1937 . “När net loosely losen!” Was the title of Schramm's song, composed in September of the same year, with which he participated in the forging of perseverance verses: “Wie dr Baam drubn tenaciously holds every watt; a de defies storms that sweep through our country ”.
He signed the prelude to the 25th anniversary of the Annaberg swimmer team “Neptune” (undated; probably 1933) with the tragic-comic greeting “Gut Naß! Hail Hitler!". All of his other lyrical pronouncements only end with his signature.
1933-1945
Schramm was registered under membership no. 4419 accepted into the Reichsschrifttumskammer (RSK). He later received a letter stating that only full-time writers and poets had membership rights in the RSK and that he, who was a businessman by profession, could no longer remain a member. Schramm protested violently against this forced exit.
In 1939 Schramm, who later became a tireless peacemaker, expressed himself as follows: “Many years ago I acted selflessly as a völkisch shouter and actively drummed and preached unselfishly in the name of Adolf Hitler for Germany's renewal and enlargement; what is irrefutable and can be proven! And so I suffered and fought for the Third Reich with a poetically ardent heart ...! "
During the time of the "Third Reich" he created among other things
- an "SA march in folk song tone", which is "deposited in the main archive of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP - Munich",
- a "Freischärlermarsch" for the Freikorps of the notorious Konrad Henlein , from whom he received a letter of thanks with the assurance that this work of the battalion history of the Batl. VI was enclosed, and
- a poem dedicated and titled to the Italian fascist Benito Mussolini , for which he received a book as an award from Reich Minister Fritz Todt .
From the end of the war to Schramm's death
Just 65 days after the end of the Second World War , Schramm published a quatrain, which he entitled "Ruf":
Shout
“Come with me, comrade! Grab it! Create with!
It is now time to pacify the world!
We both, you and I, go in the same step
to forge unity, peace. "
From now on his commitments to peace, unity, freedom and home are rushing. The GDR CDU accepted Arthur Schramm into its ranks.
After the fire in his apartment in 1982, which destroyed many of his works, he first lived in the Otto Buchwitz home in Annaberg and later in the “ Adam Ries ” retirement home . When his apartment was cleared, however, quite a few National Socialist newspapers as well as weapons and ammunition were found and kept safe by the GDR authorities. It was only due to Schramm's age and person that he was not held accountable, it said.
Schramm died on May 19, 1994, a few days before his 99th birthday. He was buried on May 26, 1994 by a small fan community in Annaberg in the New Cemetery. Four musicians in mountain habits played after Anton Günther 's "Klaanen Getu" .
Anecdotes
Fame
Schramm was able to report tirelessly and proudly that his "peace call" was even bought by the Ministry of Culture of the German Democratic Republic (framed). He even reached the Holy See in Rome, because he had sent a copy of his poem (also framed) to the Vatican.
The fly in the soup
Schramm regularly carried a matchbox with him that contained flies, which he secretly put in taverns in order not to have to pay for his food. In some inns he was banned from entering the house after the landlord discovered him, in others it was overlooked.
identification card
His ID card stated his profession as a merchant and poet .
Newspaper money
His postwoman reported that Schramm hung a note on the door of his apartment with the words “Please do not disturb, I write!” While waiting for the newspaper to be collected.
Coals
Schramm was not at home when the briquettes he had ordered were brought and poured in front of the house. His neighbor, Mrs. Gruss, took the delivery, gave a tip and stacked it for him in the cellar. When Schramm came home in the evening from a drinking tour, after a while he knocked on the old lady and said: "Frau Gruss, you are honest, I counted the coals, you are right!" He never returned the tip , but drunk myself.
Poems
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Poems that Schramm (mistakenly) are said to be
Because of the multitude of his sayings, Schramm was also said to be the authorship of poems or two-line lines, which he - partially verifiable - did not write, but repeatedly gave himself. He is often quoted under the name "Kurt Schramm".
A selection:
Rumpeldipumpel,
The Fichtelberg is high and steep. Shi Heil!
The leaves are falling, the bench is empty |
In spring the mud
There's a stovepipe in the forest, The friend from the tunnel crawls |
Goethe, Schiller, Lessing, Arthur Schramm
Hole in earth, |
- The tree
The tree has branches, that's best, because if it were bare it would be a pole
- The forest
On the right a tree and on the left a tree, and in the middle, you can hardly believe it, there is still a tree.
On the right a tree and on the left a tree, and in the middle, oh, there's a stream flowing.
(Different known version: Hüb'n e Baam, over there e Baam, in the middle e Zwischenraam, left e Bach. Oh!)
Trees, trees - nothing but trees and in between - spaces.
- Grace
Quails beat in the Hage, so let's putty hard.
- More well-known sayings
A sorrel stood on the embankment. He only saw trains, never steamers.
Just look how the sun laughs - that's what the SED did!
Summer, sun, splendor of the waves, swimming trunks, Soviet power
What shines out of the forest? The miners hospital!
Inventions
One of the numerous inventions, some of which are registered with the German Patent Office and with which he caused quite a stir at the Leipzig trade fair in the 1930s, is his "Zeppelin flycatcher".
Together with his partner Arno Michaelis from Annaberg, he founded the two-man company "MIRAMM-Vertrieb" (made up of MI-chaelis and Sch-RAMM). Both of them were now working on a unique piece, the appearance of which they themselves described in various advertising materials as follows:
“Our latest, own invention consists of a 40 cm long cardboard zeppelin with several round holes in the middle. The flies are inevitably attracted, inconspicuously caught and finally killed hopelessly by the sweet-smelling strips of glue hanging inside the housing, but pleasantly concealed from the human eye ... "(extract).
- Zeppelin flycatcher *
- MIRAMM coffee filter *
- Riez shaving plate *
- Whetstone hand protection *
- MIRAMM laundry tongs
- Bicycle saddle back
- New ideal salt shaker *
- Canteen *
(The inventions marked with * were registered as patent matters at the German Patent Office in Berlin.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Gotthard B. Schicker : The misunderstood genius - Strangers and personal memories of Arthur Schramm in Dicknischl - Erzgebirge people then and now , Marienberg, 2008, pp. 123-137, ISBN 978-3931770761
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Mario Kaden: Arthur Schramm - 's kleene Getuh. His life and his poetry. Altis-Verlag, 2005, 2006, 2008 abbreviated, Friedrichsthal 2008, ISBN 978-3-910195-25-7
- ↑ in the Erzgebirge, "wins" then "sick"
literature
- Peter Seidel: Arthur Schramm. The living legend. Leipzig Science Center, Leipzig 1996, ISBN 3-930433-14-1 .
- Mario Kaden: Arthur Schramm - 's kleene Getuh: His life and his poetry . Altis-Verlag, Oranienburg 2006, ISBN 3-910195-25-3 .
Movies
- 2006: The legend of little luck - in memoriam Arthur Schramm. Director: Frank Schleinstein - à jour Film- & Fernsehproduktion GmbH, Berlin (DVD), trailer
Web links
- Literature by and about Arthur Schramm in the catalog of the German National Library
- westerzgebirge.com: Arthur Schramm - local poet and inventor
- erzgebirge.blogspot.de: That misunderstood genius - Arthur Schramm
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schramm, Arthur |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schramm, Georg Arthur (full name); Get there, Klaane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folk poet, inventor and controversial original from the Ore Mountains |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Annaberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 19, 1994 |
| Place of death | Annaberg-Buchholz |