Broder Clausen

Broder Albert Clausen (born September 7, 1900 in Klanxbüll ; † November 6, 1962 in Niebüll ) was a German elementary school teacher and pioneer of the North Frisian language and folk movement.

Life

Broder Clausen was a son of the farmer Peter Clausen and the midwife Andine, nee Andresen. Both parents came from small farmer families in North Frisia and spoke Frisian as their mother tongue.

Clausen attended an elementary school in Horsbüll and then the preparatory institute in Tondern . From 1914 to 1923 he completed training at the teachers' college in Niebüll. He then received an apprenticeship in Neukirchen . From 1935 to 1947 he taught in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog . After that he switched to the elementary school in Niebüll at his own request. In 1956 he retired for health reasons.

Clausen was married to Bertha Mathilde Selmer from Tondern . The couple had two daughters and a son.

Working in the linguistic and ethnic movement

From 1947 to 1955 Clausen took over the chairmanship of the Frasche Feriin for Naibel, Deesbüll en trinambai in Niebüll . From 1952 to 1962 he was a member of the board of the North Frisian Association for Local Studies and Homeland Love. In Niebüll he founded a choir, which he directed, which sang songs in the Frisian language, which Clausen sometimes wrote himself. He also took care of a Frisian theater group that performed folk plays in Frisian in many North Frisian villages.

Clausen spoke the Wiedlinghard and Mooringer dialects and wrote legends, poems and short stories in these dialects. He intended to bring his works together in a North Frisian reader for the mainland. In printed form, however, there were only the booklets We liire Frasch as a loose-leaf collection and two issues of the Klaar Kimming magazine published by the North Frisian Association. He wrote articles for the years 1958, 1959 and 1961. He also wrote for the Husumer Nachrichten and the Südtonderner Tageblatt and was featured several times in the magazine program "Nordschau", the regional program of the North German Radio (television).

Due to a serious illness, Clausen was unable to finish his reader during the last years of his life. On behalf of the North Frisian Association, he wrote a memorandum on the preservation and maintenance of the North Frisian language, which was forwarded to the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Education. He also taught the language in schools and the community college.

literature

• Ernst Obsen George: Clausen, Broder . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 105-106