Ewald Müller (writer)

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Ewald Müller (born January 21, 1862 in Drebkau ; † May 24, 1932 in Cottbus ) was a German teacher, local poet and local researcher .

Life

Ewald Müller was born in 1862. His father was the Drebkau master baker and confectioner Ludwig Müller. He attended high school in Cottbus and later the teachers' seminar in Altdöbern . From 1882 he worked as a teacher at various Cottbus schools. In 1884 he published his first volume of poetry, Spring Blossoms . This should be followed by a few more. For the volume of poetry published in 1893, Aus der Streusandbüchse , he received the Augsburg Schiller Prize . In addition to poems, Müller also wrote a short story and two plays. In addition, he published a variety of factual texts. In it he mainly dealt with his home in Lusatia . His two main works, The Wendentum in Niederlausitz and From the Niederlausitzer Wendei, have the Sorbs as their theme. In addition to other non-fiction books, he also wrote many articles in various home calendars and magazines. Müller had correspondence with various well-known writers, including Gustav Freytag , Martin Greif , Paul Heyse , Hermann Lingg and Otto Roquette .

Ewald Müller died in 1932. He was buried in the Cottbus North Cemetery.

Aftermath

Street sign for Ewald-Müller-Strasse in Cottbus

In the early 1990s called you in the Cottbus district Stroebitz a street after Ewald Müller, previously Johannes Dieckmann was dedicated. In 2010 new editions of his books Das Wendentum in der Niederlausitz and Aus der Niederlausitzer Wendei were published by Cottbus Regia-Verlag .

Works (selection)

Epic, lyric and drama

  • Spring blossoms , volume of poetry, 1884.
  • Restrained Gluten , volume of poetry, 1888.
  • Morkusko: a romantic song from the Spreewald , story, 1891.
  • From the sand can , volume of poetry, 1893.
  • Spreewaldgrüße , book of poems, 1901.
  • Prize of the Spreewald , volume of poems, 1912.
  • The secret king , play, 1914.
  • Heimat: Selected poems , volume of poems, 1923.
  • The settlement , play, 1927.

Factual texts

  • The turning point in Lower Lusatia , 1893.
  • Guide through the city of Cottbus , 1901.
  • A bike tour through the Spreewald , 1913.
  • From Wendei in Niederlausitz , 1925.

literature

  • Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. Volume 5th 6th edition, Leipzig 1913, p. 57 ( online , accessed on January 20, 2018).
  • Hans-Joachim Hoppe: teacher “goatee” . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , August 15, 1991, p. 15.
  • Hans-Joachim Hoppe: "Spreewaldgrüße" and other interesting literary works. In: Lausitzer Rundschau, March 24, 1995, p. 20.
  • Siegfried Kohlschmidt: Ewald Müller - the singer of the Spreewald . In: Lausitzer Land & People. Issue 1, January 2002, p. 4.
  • Peter Lewandrowski: teacher, poet and local researcher - Ewald Müller from Cottbus . In: Wochenkurier, February 9, 2017, ( online , accessed January 20, 2018).
  • Heinz Petzold: The gentleman from the three-miller house . In: Lausitzer Rundschau, May 24, 1997, p. 17.
    • Text can also be found in: Heinz Petzold: People from Cottbus. Pictures of life from the past ... Regia-Verlag, Cottbus 1997, ISBN 3-932363-09-4 , pp. 41–44.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b See Kohlschmidt 2002
  2. ↑ See Hoppe 1991
  3. ↑ a b Petzold 1997
  4. ↑ See Hoppe 1995
  5. ↑ Helmut Fleischhauer: "Das Wendentum in der Niederlausitz" by Ewald Müller - reprint published. In: Niederlausitz currently. May 8, 2010, accessed February 4, 2018 . Helmut Fleischhauer: "From the Niederlausitzer Wendei" by Ewald Müller has been newly published as a reprint. In: Niederlausitz currently. February 23, 2010, accessed February 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, local poet and local researcher
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1932
Place of death cottbus