Emil Hecker

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Emil Hecker (born June 4, 1897 in Hamburg , † July 11, 1989 in Brunsbüttel ) was a German writer .

Life

Emil Hecker grew up as an only child in the Hamburg district of Billwerder . His father was the merchant Emil Friedrich Julius Hecker, his mother the merchant's daughter Wilhelmine Catharine Maria Hecker, b. Cohrs. His parents had a daughter who had died before Hecker's birth. From 1903 he attended the preschool of the Johanneum , in 1906 he switched to the Wilhelm Gymnasium . As early as 1904 Hecker's parents had moved to Brunsbüttel, his father's hometown, to continue running his father's stuff shop. Hecker senior also owned an insurance agency, a so-called fire insurance business. Emil Hecker stayed with his maternal grandparents in Hamburg and graduated from high school in 1916, after which he was drafted into military service. Seriously wounded, he was taken prisoner in Belgium and taken to a hospital, where his leg had to be amputated. Hecker did not return to Hamburg until 1919 and began studying medicine in his native city the following year, which he had to give up in 1922 due to his poor health.

Hecker then also moved to Brunsbüttel and began working for his father's insurance agency. After he had been editor-in-chief of the school newspaper for a short time during his school days, he began to write stories and poems in mostly Low German. Hecker finally got to know Ivo Braak , who suggested that he send his stories to the radio. On January 4, 1930, the actor Hans Langmaack spoke a poem by Hecker for the first time on what was then Nordischer Rundfunk , NORAG. Hecker's fee was 22 Reichsmarks. His work now regularly found its way into the radio stations. In 1973 the Norddeutsche Rundfunk broadcasted Hecker's 350th story as the 1000th contribution within its program Von Binnenland und Waterkant .

In addition to cheerful everyday events, Hecker also wrote serious articles. His first book Vun Dbod un Diek with poems and stories was published as early as 1928, and more than a dozen more followed well into the 1980s. After his death, the band Hart wes man tofreden was published, in 2014, on the initiative of Hecker's widow, Douaumont , named after Fort Douaumont , which was fiercely contested in the First World War , and published by the Hamburg Carl Toepfer Foundation on the Low German book des 2014. Hecker had only put his war experiences on paper in 20 poems in the 1960s, but tried in vain to publish them during his lifetime.

In addition, Hecker wrote a large number of radio plays and theater pieces, as well as musical works such as B. the chorus cantata To Nijoor set to music by Otto Tenne or the cantata Leeven is starker as Dood with the music of Hans Friedrich Micheelsen . Hecker's voice has been preserved on a record with his own works under the title Emil Hecker Vertelltige bogus stories .

Emil Hecker was a frequent guest at various public events where he presented his works. Married three times, most recently with his long-term employee Telse, geb. Stock, he was the father of two sons. Hecker died, almost deaf at the end of his life, in July 1989 in Brunsbüttel and was buried in the Jakobus cemetery there.

Works (selection)

Musical works

  • 1933: To Nijoor, choir cantata, setting: Otto Tenne
  • 1949: Leven is starker than Dood, cantata, setting: Hans Friedrich Micheelsen
  • 1949: Three songs based on poems by Emil Hecker, setting: Hellmut Wormsbächer
  • 1983: Plattdütsch wüll wi blieven, women's choir, setting: Hellmut Wormsbächer
  • 1983: As en Krink, so loopt de Tiden, setting: Hellmut Wormsbächer

Radio plays

  • 1932: Peer Ruug
  • 1934: Dusenddübelswarft
  • 1934: The last feud
  • 1934: Up de Slüs
  • 1934: Wi buut en hogen Diek üm't Land!
  • 1934: A Dithmarscher Hof
  • 1934: Count Rudolf up de Böhlenborg
  • 1934: Vullmacht Eggert Lau
  • 1935: I'm bün al here!
  • 1935: This is how de Dag sings in 't Dorp
  • 1935: Mien Corden
  • 1936: Suhl Hinners
  • 1937: Up Hinksand
  • 1937: Vadder Dood
  • 1939: I don't know, what about Lene
  • 1946: Hallo üm de Koh (Low German translation)
  • 1947: Bie us tohuus
  • 1955: De Smitt un de Dood
  • 1975: Waterstraat

Stage plays

  • 1938: En Nacht vull Opregen (with Wilhelm Ernst Asbeck )
  • 1938: Kuddelmuddel (music by Otto Tenne)
  • 1938: De Discher un sien Fleit (with Wilhelm Ernst Asbeck)
  • 1939: Wipp un Wupp, de two Snieder
  • 1948: Klaas hett Glück
  • 1949: Hans warns König

Books

  • 1928: Vun Dbod un Diek
  • 1931: Vun't colorful life
  • 1939: Störm över't Watt
  • 1939: Wipp un Wupp, de two Snieder
  • 1948: Hans warns King
  • 1949: Ooltmoder von Husum
  • 1950: Klaas hett Glück
  • 1951: Markst Müs ...?
  • 1952: Diekersjungs
  • 1957: Hatt goes to de Stroom
  • 1957: In'n Glückputt reaches
  • 1958: Vun Lüüd as du un ick
  • 1962: Wiehnachtsbööm
  • 1962: Dat Dingerdonner Christnachtsspill
  • 1964: Wunnerli Volk - de Minschen
  • 1972: To de Klöndör
  • 1974: With Öltüg and Südwester
  • 1975: Hest dat al hear ...?
  • 1977: De Waggboom
  • 1978: Us Lüüd vun de Küst
  • 1980: Funny stories
  • 1982: Dor accedes a star to Heven
  • 1983: Moin, Moin!
  • 1997: Hart wes man tofreden
  • 2014: Douaumont

Awards

In addition to several radio play awards:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Portrait on the website of the Dithmarschen district, quoted from "Brunsbütteler traces", contributions to local history , accessed on October 6, 2015.
  2. a b c d portrait at dithmarschen-wiki.de, quoted from Kai H. Tange on the occasion of the publication of the book Hart wes man tofreden , 1997 , accessed on October 6, 2015.
  3. Shockingly current Lyrik op Platt , Norddeutsche Rundschau from November 1, 2014 , accessed on October 6, 2015.
  4. a b c portrait on brunsbuettel.de , accessed on October 6, 2015.
  5. ^ Emil Hecker, list of works , accessed on October 6, 2015.