Ernst Schenke

Ernst Schenke (* May 24, 1896 in Nimptsch , Lower Silesia; † December 11, 1982 in Recklinghausen ) was a German homeland poet . He is considered one of the few important Silesian dialect poets of the 20th century .

Life

Schenke, who began composing Silesian dialect poems as a youth , took part in both world wars as a soldier. After the Second World War he shared the fate of the displaced with many of his compatriots . The period between the wars can be considered the most productive of the Silesian homeland poet. From 1948 onwards he mainly reissued out-of- print items from the 1920s and 1930s , initially in small booklet editions such as his Silesian children's book classic Hoase Langbeen ("Which tribe has a book like Hoase Langbeen to show - the life of the rabbit in dialect verse?" once the cultural historian, philosopher and Silesian literary expert Wilhelm Menzel ). With The Colorful Silesian Chest (1950), Schenke finally began a series of constantly new compilations of old and newer works, which were published under titles such as Das hehre Ernst Schenke Buch (1965) or Mein Silesian Reading and Lecture Book (1977).

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Poetry

His first volume of poetry, Laba und Treiba (1922), which had its second edition as Schlesische Gedichte (1928) and under this title is now one of the best-known German dialect books ( last edition 1999), was soon followed by a second, Drinne und Draußa (1923).

Narrative

In 1928 Schenke introduced himself as a narrator with Twelve Stories in Silesian . The so-called Hasengeschichte Hoase Langbeen (1929), published the following year and illustrated by Kurt Arendt , was, however, a longer poem by the author. Further narratives and stories followed, along with texts from other genres, in The cheerful village (1938) and Bei ins derrheeme (1949).

novelist

Ernst Schenke published his only novel with People in the Valley . The work published in 1942, which is set in the Silesian foothills, is mostly written in High German . In the first edition, the novel has 261 pages. To date, people in the valley has not been relaunched; Even the Gesammelte Werke , the fourth and so far last volume of which appeared in 1996, still exclude it.

Drama

stage

As a playwright came tavern with The Reese uff a Heiroatsmorkt (1937), a "serene Silesian comedy in three acts," the cheerful scenes The gefuppte relationship (1936) and Operation trip (1937), and the twelve "short Stückla" in spieln Mir Theatre! (1938). Schenke wrote a total of five large and thirty small plays and dramatic poems in the 1930s, which were preferably performed by amateur theaters.

Radio

Furthermore wrote tavern for Breslauer Rundfunk radio plays and was at Hörfolgen as the Silesia is involved.

Dialect cantata

The composer Karl Sczuka and Schenke also developed a new, independent genre of music literature for radio - the dialect cantata , which represents a further development of folk music traditions in connection with dialect poetry. Dialect cantatas by Sczuka / Schenke such as The Silesian Year were extremely successful and so popular that parts of the cantata programs were also played over and over again in other programs.

picture books

For a short time, Schenke also wrote children's books in High German in collaboration with the illustrator Marianne Schneegans , which were published by supraregional publishers: Des Sommerwaldes sweet gifts that all children like (1936) and What helps and benefits all children and protects them from bad illness (1936 ) contained illustrated children's verses Schenkes; Langbein aus dem green Busch (1937) was a translation into High German of his Silesian children's classic Hoase Langbeen . The poem Der Spatz with pictures by Ewald Welzel was published as early as 1934 . quoted by Dieter Hildebrandt In his book: "Our Father - right after the advertisement" p. 238 (hopman44)

Local lore

With Dorf der Ahnen (1935), which sheds light on the Silesian customs passed down from generation to generation and the traditional Silesian humor from its time, Schenke also made a contribution to local history .

Others

Schenke's texts on records were also used, e. B. with Paul Heinke and Hermann Lenschau as reciters. Wilhelm Menzel chose Schenke's poem 1000 Words Silesian as the introduction to a Silesian text collection A wing Schläsch (1959) on record. At the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s , Schenke also recorded his own records: Ernst Schenke speaks his own poems in the Silesian dialect and his native Silesia. "Bei ins derheeme" .

Ernst Schenke is also the author of the Klassla song ( Klassla, Klassla, body dishes ... )

Collected Works

Schenkes's collected works are now being looked after by Schlesierverlag Heege; Volume 1 is his Silesian reading and lecture book , as Schenke had put together himself. Volume 2 (1983) contains poems in Silesian dialect and the texts of his famous six radio cantatas, as well as other poems in the course of the year. Volume 3 (1996) completes the collection of poems, plus the texts from Laughs you people (1939), The happy village and other Silesian dialect stories. The fourth volume (1996) contains plays.

Honors

• 1973: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1974: The city of Münster names a street after him

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Schenke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography with picture by Ulf Porrmann

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturportal West Ost - Schenke, Ernst. In: kulturportal-west-ost.eu. December 11, 1982. Retrieved January 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 71, April 11, 1973.
3. ^ City of Münster: Surveying and land registry office - street names in Münster Ernst-Schenke-Straße. In: stadt-muenster.de. May 22, 1974. Retrieved January 27, 2018 .