Carl van der Linde

Carl van der Linde (born April 4, 1861 in Veldhausen , † January 13, 1930 in Veldhausen) was a Jewish printer and Low German poet .

Profession and life path

Carl van der Linde was born as one of seven children in a Jewish merchant family in Veldhausen in the county of Bentheim . Since his father died early, the family fared very badly. Carl van der Linde completed an apprenticeship as a printer in Neuenhaus at the Heinrich Kip publishing house in 1874 after a poor school education . He then went on a journey as a journeyman for two years, which took him through Germany, Bohemia, Austria, Hungary and Northern Italy. He finally found in 1884 in Hamburg at the " Hamburger Fremdenblatt ," one of the great and traditional music of the Hanseatic city, pursued a national, bismarck friendly attitude, a steady job as a typesetter. He continued to educate himself and published some articles for the “Fliegende Blätter”, the “ Lustigen Blätter ” and the Munich “Jugend”, most of which were marked with his abbreviation CvdL. In 1909 he left the company, which was completely restructured. Since he visited his sister who lives in Veldhausen every year during his vacation time, he returned to his home village in 1911, where he lived as a pensioner and built a house for himself in 1912.

Public work

From 1920 Carl van der Linde published a large number of poems and occasionally also prose texts, mostly in Grafschafter Low German, but also in High German. They appeared mainly in the two sheets of the Kip publishing house, the “Zeitung und Anzeigeeblatt” from Neuenhaus and the “Nordhorner Nachrichten”, but also in the supplement to the Grafschafter newspapers “Der Grafschafter”, in the “Grafschafter Heimatkalender” or in the weekly newspaper "Grafschafter Wochen-Rundschau". The bandwidth of his poems ranges from descriptions of nature and mood images to anecdotal and profound reflections. However, he was characterized above all by his Low German comments and reflections on political events. His pictorial language, the skillful combination of verses and the variety of topics quickly made him popular, so that he made his poems, which were written for the lecture, known to a wide audience on well-attended recitation evenings in the German-Dutch border region. In 1924 he also wrote the Low German play "Wenn twee sick möögt lien", which was performed but has since disappeared. However, it was not until 1930, a few months after his death, that his first volume of poetry, “Grappen en Grillen”, was published by the local history association of Grafschaft Bentheim and completely excluded political poetry. Ostracized during the Nazi era, van der Linde remained widely known in the Bentheimer Land through numerous prints of his works, especially in the “Bentheimer Jahrbuch”, the “Grafschafter” and the “Emsland History”. In 1986 his volume of poetry was reissued. Furthermore, his texts were distributed through recitations on cassette or CD. It was only later that he was rediscovered as a political poet, who dealt with the anti-Semitic current of the times.

Posthumous honors

• Van der Linde found his final resting place in the Jewish cemetery in Neuenhaus , where the Grafschafter Heimatverein dedicated a memorial stone to him in 1971.

• In January 2004 the elementary school in Veldhausen, the forerunner of which he attended himself, was named after him.

• In 2008, a comprehensive retrospective with a life picture followed, which was voted Low German Book of the Year 2009.

Works

• Carl van der Linde: Grappen en grill. , Nordhorn i. H. Verlag Pötters, 1930. (reprinted in 1986.)
• Carl van der Linde: Löö en Tieden. Selected texts and a picture of life. Edited by Helga Vorrink / Siegfried Kessemeier, Veldhausen 2008 (with biography and bibliography) ISBN 3-938552-03-4 .

literature

• Siegfried Kessemeier: Jewish Low German authors. Memory of Eli Marcus (1854–1935) and Carl van der Linde (1861–1930). In: Ingrid Straumer (Ed.), Greten asks: "Woans do you hell with de religion?". 59th Beversen Conference. Annual conference for Low German, September 15-17, 2006 in Bad Beversen. Edited on behalf of the Board of Management, Syke 2007, pp. 40–50.
• Siegfried Kessemeier: Home in the Language - About the Jewish dialect authors Eli Marcus and Carl van der Linde. In: Hartmut Steinecke / Iris Nölle-Hornkamp (eds.), Jüdisches Kulturerbe in Westfalen, Bielefeld 2008, pp. 17–32.
• Helmut Lensing: Carl van der Linde - the forgotten political poet. In: Bentheimer Jahrbuch (Das Bentheimer Land, Vol. 129), Bad Bentheim 1993, pp. 185–199.
• Helmut Lensing: "Art. Van der Linde, Carl", in: Emsländische Geschichte Vol. 19. Ed. By the Study Society for Emsländische Regionalgeschichte, Haselünne 2012, pp. 331–363. ISBN 978-3-9814041-4-2
• Ludwig Sager : Carl van der Linde. A picture of life. In: Der Grafschafter, episode 84, 2/1960, Nordhorn 1960, p. 679/680.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Jewish cemetery in Neuenhaus (last paragraph) ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
2. ↑ Carl-van-der-Linde-Schule Veldhausen