August Schukat
August Schukat (born October 14, 1891 on the Vorwerk Schwiegupönen, Stallupönen district ; † July 22, 1977 in Monheim am Rhein ) was a German dialect author from East Prussia.
Life
Schukat attended elementary school and trained as a locksmith . Because of his bad health, he later took up the teaching profession . He taught until December 1944 as the principal of the secondary school in Fischhausen , Samland . After fleeing from East Prussia, he became a teacher in Einbeck in Lower Saxony . Until his retirement he was the principal of the elementary school in Boffzen . From 1958 he lived in Monheim am Rhein.
In 1936 his first successful anthology was published with stories of Northeast Prussian dialect in Low German, whose “particularly subtle execution” was praised by literary scholar Walther Ziesemer . Further collections of stories followed: Noa Fieroawend (1938), Oma Seidel (1959) and Oppe Bank varre Där (1972). Schukat discussed two records. Schukat wrote in the dialect with which he grew up. This was the only way he was able to express himself in his stories and describe people he had met in his childhood. At events organized by the East Prussian Landsmannschaft (e.g. in the Essen hall ), he read from his books. His concern was always the preservation of the East Prussian idiom.
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about August Schukat in the catalog of the German National Library
- August Schukat in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ August Schukat tells Low German stories from East Prussia . Leer 1968, p. 17
- ^ A second edition appeared in the year of the first edition.
- ^ Yearbook of the Association for Low German Language Research , year 1948/1950, p. 156
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schukat, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | East Prussian dialect author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vorwerk Schwiegupönen, Kreis Stallupönen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 22, 1977 |
| Place of death | Monheim am Rhein |