August Becker (Author)

August Becker (born April 27, 1828 in Klingenmünster , † March 23, 1891 in Eisenach ) was a German writer . With his book Die Pfalz und die Pfälzer (1857), originally planned as a travel guide , he is considered one of the founders of Palatinate folklore .

Becker's birthplace in Klingenmünster

Memorial plaque on the birthplace

Memorial plaque on the Eisenach residential building, Schmelzerstr. 18th

The August Becker monument
in Klingenmünster

August Becker grew up in Klingenmünster . After studying history in Munich , he worked for various newspapers, including the Fliegende Blätter , and from 1859 to 1864 editor of the Münchner Isar-Zeitung . In 1868 he moved to Eisenach. He was married to Johanna Friedrike Luise Scheurlin (born June 18, 1834), a daughter of the poet Georg Scheurlin . After his death he was first buried in Eisenach, later exhumed at the request of his children and taken to Klingenmünster. He is still buried here today.

Works

Novels

• Jung-Friedel the minstrel (1854)
• Novellas (1856)
• The Palatinate and the Palatinate (topographical-cultural-historical monograph; 1857)
• The Rabbi's Legacy (1866)
• Hedwig. A novel from Wasgau (1868)
• Condemned. Contemporary novel (1868)
• The Thurmkätherlein. Roman from Alsace (1871)
• My sister (1875)
• Franz Staren (1878)
• The old picture (1885)
• The Nuns Census (1886)
• One Voice (1887)
• The sexton of Horst (1889)
• The Gray Jette (1891)
• Hedwig

Narratives and stories

• From town and village (1869)
• The carbuncle (1870)
• The Mermaid Fisherman (1872)
• Nocturnal activity in the Wasgenwald (1878)
• Schönbart painter (1878)
• On forest paths (1881)
• Stories and Fairy Tales (1882)
• Mignon's Egg Dance (1882)
• Two novels (1883)
• Willi (1885)
• The hero of Guntersblum (1885)
• A hundred years ago (1891)
• The gypsy elephant

literature

• Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Becker, August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 46, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1902, pp. 309-315.
• Albert Becker:  Becker, August. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 712 ( digitized version ).
• Gerd Fesser : August Becker. Institute for Palatinate History and Folklore, Kaiserslautern 2005, ISBN 3-927754-55-2 .

Web links

Commons : August Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikisource: August Becker  - sources and full texts

• Literature by and about August Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by August Becker in the Gutenberg-DE project