Erik Martin

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Erik Martin (2010)

Erik Martin (born January 12, 1936 in Neuss ; † April 25, 2017 ) was a German author , songwriter and publisher .

Life

Erik Martin grew up in Kaldenkirchen as the first-born son of the dentist and dendrologist couple Illa and Ernst J. Martin . The valuer and valuation expert for trees and shrubs Helge Breloer was his sister. He attended the Aloisius College in Bad Godesberg and did his Abitur at the Thomaeum grammar school in Kempen. After studying in Aachen, he worked as a German and biology teacher in Viersen for a long time. He planted school gardens and carried out nature conservation projects together with the German Forest Youth . B. a bat resettlement program in the Kaldenkirchener Grenzwald . In 1997 he received the Klaus Gundelach Prize of the German Forest Protection Association for his services to nature conservation and his book for young people, Fjellwanderung .

Shellfish Cover (2007/2008)

From 1969 to 2008 Martin (with a twelve-year break) was the editor and editor of the Muschelhaufen , an annual publication for literature and graphics. In it he gave u. a. Authors that have already been forgotten (e.g. Albert Vigoleis Thelen , Margot Scharpenberg and Fritz Graßhoff ) in detailed special sections on space and new reviews. Renowned authors such as Günter Kunert , Siegfried Lenz , Annemarie Schimmel and Ernst Jandl made first publications available to him. Martin dealt intensively with the work of the writer Werner Helwig , about whom he wrote important publications.

Martin's songs are sung intensively by groups from the Bündische Jugend and the German scout movement . Among other things, he wrote the songs When the Evening Comes and The Piet on the Gallows . Martin himself led groups under the name Mac for a long time , which belonged to this movement, worked for the magazine der eisbrecher for a few years and was close to the German Forest Youth, for whom he also worked with a number of publications. The forest youth brought out two CDs with his songs.

Erik Martin was a member of the Burg Waldeck working group . Since 2011 he has led dendrological tours through the Arboretum Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen . He was married, had two sons and lived in Viersen-Dülken .

Works

CD cover When the evening approaches
  • Mac's logbook . Musselhaufen Publishing House. Viersen 1971.
  • From singing in groups . Federal Association of DWJ , Hemer 1981
  • Waldläufer booklet for Nordland drivers and song lovers . DWJ, Hemer 1982.
  • Song sheets of German youth. Issue 27 . Südmarkverlag , Heidenheim 1984, ISSN  0342-4820
  • Mountain hike . Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim 1986, ISBN 3-88258-094-1 .
  • The small border forest book (= clams 24/25). Viersen 1987/88, ISSN  0085-3593
  • Werner Helwig . Shell Pile Special Edition No. 26A. Viersen 1991, ISSN  0085-3593
  • The difficult years . Corvinus Presse , Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-910172-31-8 .
  • Slightly different stories to read aloud (ed.). Federal Association of DWJ, Hemer 1996.
  • CD: When evening approaches . Songs from mac . Viersen 1996 and 2000
  • CD: Today the witch is burned . Klaus Gundelach Fund , Wachtendonk 2006

literature

  • Bernd Gerhard: Mac for the sixtieth. In: the icebreaker. No. 1/96. Publishing house of the youth movement, Witzenhausen 1996, ISSN  0342-1597 .
  • Michael Buselmeier : phases of hunger, migratory birds. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . April 8, 2000.
  • Ursula Prause: Shell heaps and dune rubble / Erik Martin and Werner Helwig. In: Clams. Annual journal for literature and graphics. No. 47/48. Viersen 2007, ISSN  0085-3593 .
  • Markus Orths : Farewell to the clam pile. In: At the bay window . Journal of Literature . No. 53.Daedalus, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-89126-553-6 .
  • Joachim Michael: Mac - a life in motion. In: brains. Views. Insights. Retrospectives. No. 3 + 4/12, Burg Waldeck, May 2013, pp. 31–33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in: RP Online on 2017-05-15
  2. ^ Secondary school in Süchteln. Viersen 1994, p. 32.
  3. ↑ Sigrid Blomen-Radermacher: Dülkener pedagogue: "Shell heap" as a life puzzle. In: Rheinische Post. January 22, 1998.
  4. ↑ Honor for Erik Martin. In: Our forest. Bonn, February 1998, ISSN  0935-7017 .
  5. ↑ Peter Klusen : Shell heap. In: cult. Culture on the Lower Rhine. H. 2, Moers 1996.
  6. ↑ Sabine Hänisch: Literary rummaging in the shell pile. In: Westdeutsche Zeitung. November 4, 1998.
  7. ↑ Pitt Becker: Werner Helwig and his legacy. In: brains. Dorweiler, No. 4-1991.
  8. ↑ Hedo Holland: Songs by Mac. In: Folkmagazin. Issue 4/2000, ISSN  1439-8737
  9. ↑ Hilmar Wasseige: Mac (Erik Martin) is 70. In: die info. German forest youth. Hemer. Issue 4/2005, pp. 8–9.
  10. ↑ sequoiafarm-kaldenkirchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, songwriter and editor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2017