Ernst Niefenthaler

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Ernst Niefenthaler (born December 31, 1894 in Bürchau ; † August 17, 1970 ibid) was an Alemannic dialect poet .

Life

Niefenthaler was the son of a mountain farmer and received his education in a one-class village school. After his return from the First World War , he continued to work on the farm and began to write poetry on the side, soon switching from High German to dialect. Johann Peter Hebel was his idol. In 1920 he married Marie Asal, with whom he had five children, two of whom died in childhood and two in the war of 1944/45. In 1926 he was elected to the local council and worked there until 1945. A platform for first readings was found by Niefenthaler u. a. in the Hertinger Hebelschoppen . The first publications were made in the local newspapers and their supplements, such as Feldbergs Töchterlein , the Sunday supplement of the Markgräfler Tagblatt . In 1954, Niefenthaler's first volume of poetry, Dr Weg berguf , was published by Moritz Schauenburg . Alemannic poems , published, which saw a second expanded edition in 1978. In 1960 he was the first to receive the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Badge from the community of Hausen for his poetry . The solemn award of this award for special services to the Upper Rhine region, be it through artistic work (writers, poets, painters, musicians) or in the field of monument and homeland preservation takes place on the evening of the lever (the Saturday before May 10th) in Hausen im Wiesental. From 1948 to 1969, Niefenthaler performed his prologue on the Hebel evenings . A collection of these prologues was published in 1965 by the Heimatbund Kleines Wiesental. Another volume of poetry, Hinterem Pflueg , followed in 1967 - also by the Schauenburg publishing house - which was also published again in 1981.

Honors

In 1960 he was the first to receive the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Badge from the community of Hausen for his poetry . In 1964 he became an honorary citizen of the then still independent municipality of Bürchau. In 1969 the Muettersproch-Gsellschaft dedicated issue 5 of their magazine Ernst Niefenthaler. In the same year he became an honorary member of the Black Forest Association Schopfheim and the history association Markgräflerland . One station on the Feldberger Dichterwegli is dedicated to Niefenthaler. In Schopfheim-Langenau , Niefenthalerstraße was named after him.

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literature

  • Peter Hendrik Paul: Friends of Philipp Flettner - Ernst Niefenthaler eV, Bürchau. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 2/1998, pp. 146–152 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  • Ludwig Vögely : memorial sheet for Ernst Niefenthaler: 1894-1970. In: Badische Heimat. - 75. 1995, pp. 495-501
  • Gerhard Jung : Ernst Niefenthaler. Farmer and dialect poet (1894–1970). In: Das Markgräflerland, issue 1/1985, pp. 150–152, digital copy of the Freiburg University Library
  • Gerhard Jung: Ernst Niefenthaler. In: Badische Heimat. - 65. 1985, pp. 466-468
  • Kurt Ückert: The peasant poet Ernst Niefenthaler - a curriculum vitae , 1973
  • Gerhard Jung: To Ernst Niefenthaler for the "seventy-fifth." In: Das Markgräflerland, Issue 2/3 1970, pp. 148–149 digital copy of the Freiburg University Library
  • Fritz Schülin : Ernst Niefenthaler for his seventy-fifth on New Year's Eve In: Das Markgräflerland, Heft 2/3, 1969, p. 78 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see LeoBW
  2. ↑ see Paul p. 147
  3. ↑ The Heimatbund Kleines Wiesental was merged into the Markgräflerland history association in 1969. See announcement in the journal Das Markgräflerland Digitalisat of the Freiburg University Library
  4. ↑ see Paul p. 149 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
  5. ↑ From the chronicle of the association. In: Das Markgräflerland, issue 1/1970, p. 69 digitized version of the Freiburg University Library
personal data
SURNAME Niefenthaler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alemannic dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bürchau
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 1970
Place of death Bürchau