Eugen Motsch

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Karl Eugen Motsch (born August 13, 1932 in St. Ingbert ; † March 12, 2003 ibid) was a local poet who wrote mainly in Saarland , but also partly in High German .

Life

Motsch was the son of a construction worker and grew up in St. Ingbert . Due to the war, he finished primary school early and, after the war, because he enjoyed writing at an early age, he attended a correspondence course of the Studiengemeinschaft Darmstadt , initially in High German, later in dialect. Immediately after the war he worked in the St. Ingberter Grube (Rischbachstollen) and in various breweries.

Its first publication was a dialect poem in 1966 in the monthly mining magazine " Schacht und Heim ", which was published by Saarbergwerke AG . Overall, his topics revolved mainly around the miner's profession, everyday occurrences and local history. He is quite critical of society and focuses on social inadequacies, a lack of moral courage, a lack of helpfulness or discrimination against outsiders. However, the tenor is a positive attitude towards life.

In addition to several of his own volumes of poetry, Motsch was co-author of the standard work “St. Ingberter Dictionary ”(1997) (together with the dialect expert Edith Braun and the phonetician and linguist Max Mangold ). This dictionary contains 12,000 key words with which most of the dialect of the city of St. Ingbert should be documented. It also contains important grammatical forms, parts of the theory of syntax, idioms and everyday sayings.

Works

  • Engebrog money. Dialect poems, Rohrbach , 1988
  • Dehamm em Oord. Dialect poems, Rohrbach, 1990
  • Gedischde, Ballaade on dausend Uuznoome from Dengmerd, Haasel on Rohrbach, Rohrbach 1994
  • Edith Braun, Max Mangold, Eugen Motsch: St. Ingberter Dictionary, St. Ingbert 1997
  • Between Geiskärsch onn Schmöls. Poems in dialect from St. Ingbert on Dromeromm, Rohrbach 2001

literature

  • Reiner Marx (Ed.): "Time brings fruit". Saarpfälzisches Authors Lexicon. Writer from the Saar-Palatinate region from humanism to the present day . Saar-Pfalz-Kreis, Homburg 2008, ( Saarpfalz special issue, ISSN  0930-1011 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From 1940 onwards, the company magazine was called “Der Junge Saarbergmann”, from 1955 to 1971 “Schacht und Heim”, from 1972 “Saarberg”, before its own paper was also issued on the Saar when the Ruhrkohle was taken over.
personal data
SURNAME Motsch, Eugene
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Motsch, Karl Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2003
Place of death St. Ingbert