Eduard Hassloch
Eduard Haßloch (born August 12, 1887 in Bensheim ; † October 15, 1944 there ) was a German dialect poet and playwright .
Life
The son of wealthy parents initially suggested taking over his father's textile business on Bensheimer Marktplatz (now a standing café), studied journalism and began to write his first poetry . During the First World War he took over his parents' business to replace the employees who had been drafted into the military and was mobilized himself - due to his state of health only for a few months .
In 1920 Eduard Franz Sigmund Haßloch (as his full name was) married Katharina Mathilde Keipp from Hanau . His daughters Elisabeth and Sophie-Helene were born in 1920 and 1923. From 1923 to 1925 he wrote three plays in Bensheim dialect, in which he partly took up and brought together events from politics, court minutes and police reports in order to process them with wit and irony. Haßloch's plays were performed in the Hessian Ried , in the Odenwald and on the Bergstrasse , mostly without his knowledge or assistance, so that they did not bring him any ideal or financial advantages. At the height of the popularity it had acquired, Haßloch ended his "career" as a playwright and turned back to poetry and the arts pages .
In 1929 Haßloch co-founded the "Bergstrasse Wine Festival", which according to the Bensheim Tourist Office is today the largest wine festival in South Hesse.
The family business collapsed in the wake of the global economic crisis. Another attempt by Haßloch to become active in business also failed. The “Volks- Bau- und Sparverein” founded by him (together with others) failed in the course of the banking crisis at the end of the Weimar Republic . Haßloch voluntarily used all of his private fortune to compensate the small savers for part of their loss, sold the house on Bensheimer Marktplatz and several pieces of land and transferred the proceeds to the victims. Haßloch died lonely and impoverished at the age of only 57 on October 15, 1944 in Bensheim.
Honors
Since 1975 the city of Bensheim adB has been commemorating its son with the "Eduard-Haßloch-Weg" in the south of the city.
Works (selection)
- The Wingertsweg , play in Bensheim dialect
- The donkey , play in Bensheim dialect (1925)
- The Lifesaver , play in Bensheim dialect (1926)
Work edition:
- The Wingertsweg - The Lifesaver - The Donkey: Plays in Bensheim dialect . With a foreword by Wilhelm Weyrauch and an introduction by Bernd Ph. Schröder. Museumsverein Bensheim, Bensheim 1987, ISBN 393196003X
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winzerfest on www.verkehrsverein-bensheim.de ( Memento from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.bensheim.de ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hassloch, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dialect poet and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bensheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 15, 1944 |
| Place of death | Bensheim |