August Heinrich (actor)

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August Heinrich, the "Bellemer Heiner"

August Heinrich , stage name Bellemer Heiner (born September 20, 1881 in Bellheim ; † May 5, 1965 ibid), was a German actor and writer . He became known throughout Germany through his public appearances as a Palatinate dialect poet .

family

Heinrich was born as the eighth child of the Bellheim innkeeper and shopkeeper Christian Heinrich. August Heinrich had a daughter with his wife Helene, Margarete , who was born in Cologne in 1913 .

education and profession

August Heinrich attended elementary, secondary and commercial schools one after the other. In the older brother's shop, he first learned the trade of a businessman . After getting to know Germany , France and Switzerland , he traveled to the USA in 1904 . There he got by with various odd jobs for two years, including a. as a cleaner in Philadelphia , as a gardener and waiter in St. Louis, and as a telegram messenger in Oklahoma City . In 1906 he was hired as a cook on a freight steamer in San Francisco and returned to Germany via Hawaii , New Zealand and Australia .

From 1907 to 1909 Heinrich trained as an actor at the Reicherschen Hochschule für Dramatic Kunst in Berlin . For almost a decade he then took on stage roles in Germany and the USA, e. B. in " Wallenstein " ( Schiller ), " Romeo and Juliet " ( Shakespeare ) and " The Wild Duck " ( Ibsen ).

During the First World War , Heinrich worked as a Landsturmmann in 1915/16, mainly as an interpreter for English and French prisoners of war .

Palatinate dialect

In 1920 Heinrich's first volume of poems in Palatinate dialect was published under the title Knepp und Schnitz . From 1922 he appeared, baptized "Bellemer Heiner" (Palatinate for Bellheimer Heinrich ) by his poet friend Philipp Ernst Kiefer , under this artist name first in the southern Palatinate , later in the entire region and presented his dialect at folk evenings and similar events. He also published his later books under the pseudonym. In the 1920s he was able to make a living from his initial hobby. His big plus was the art of interpretation he trained in acting.

During the time of National Socialism , the political rulers took advantage of Heinrich's popularity, who uncritically certified the Nazi ideology as a “breath of fresh air”, and even arranged “Bellemer-Heiner evenings” in large cities outside the Palatinate, such as B. in Munich or Nuremberg . The verbal formulations in the Third Reich did not detract from Heinrich's popularity. His ten volumes of poetry, mostly in Palatinate, which were published between 1920 and 1964, continued to sell extremely well, and from 1952 to 1962 his weekend column "Spätles" was printed in the then Landau daily newspaper Vorderpfälzer Tageblatt .

Works (selection)

  • Knepp and Schnitz . 1920.
  • Tied in a bouquet for quiet hours . High German poetry. Zechner publishing house, Speyer 1931.
  • News from the border region . Bellheim 1940.
  • The Hettemer and the Wammer . Neustadt printing and publishing company, Neustadt / Weinstr. 1950.
  • Spätles . Pfälzer Tageblatt, Landau / Pfalz 1960.
  • E bun full of raisin . 1964.
  • I was happy with the world . New edition 1981 ( posthumously ).
  • Above all a bit . Edited from the estate by the Bellheim Cultural Association, with drawings by Andreas Rüdiger. Bellheim 2003, ISBN 3-929893-510-0 .
  • De Bellemer Heiner forgives… for world theater . Edited from the estate by the Bellheim Cultural Association, with drawings by Herbert Gawrisch. Bellheim 2005, ISBN 3-929893-18-5 .

Honors

As early as 1929, the tourist association of the wine village of St. Martin Heinrich put a monument in the "poet's grove" on the swallow rocks , namely a stone block with the poet's relief. In 1951, on his 70th birthday, his home town of Bellheim granted him honorary citizenship .

literature

  • Karl Fries : Through the Palatinate . A home book. Rheinpfalz-Verlag, Speyer 1926 (with photo and separate chapter on August Heinrich).
  • Hans Blinn : Millions I made happy. The dialect poet August Heinrich, called "Bellemer Heiner". Life verses . Verlag Pfälzer Kunst, Landau 1991, ISBN 3-922580-31-9 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ a b c De Bellemer Heiner - life artist and philosopher. (No longer available online.) Kulturverein Bellheim, archived from the original on July 1, 2015 ; accessed on January 21, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturverein-bellheim.de
  2. ↑ a b High German buttons and carving for potato dumplings and apple split, a court of Rhineland Palatinate cuisine .
  3. ↑ "Grenzland" refers to the Gau Saarpfalz, which was established during the time of National Socialism .
  4. ↑ Standard German The “We would have” and the “If we” .
  5. ↑ Standard German A bag full of raisins .
  6. ↑ Standard German A little bit of everything .
  7. ↑ Standard German The Bellheimer Heiner tells ... about world theater .
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellemer Heiner (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, writer and Palatinate dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bellheim , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 1965
Place of death Bellheim , Germany