Ferdinand Oppenberg

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Ferdinand Oppenberg (born October 24, 1908 in Duisburg ; † August 7, 1989 there ) was a German poet and prose writer .

Life

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Ferdinand Oppenberg began to publish his first poems and stories in the "Duisburger Volkszeitung" at the age of 17. In 1929, a lecture at the Duisburg adult education center on "civil and proletarian poetry" encouraged him to deal with a new genre of contemporary literature, workers' poetry. His enthusiasm for working-class poets brought him friendship with Heinrich Lersch , Max Barthel , Otto Wohlgemuth and especially with Christoph Wieprecht (1875–1942), whose daughter he married in 1933.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP in May 1933 . During the time of National Socialism Oppenberg was the main department head for ideological training in the Reich Youth Leadership. In 1935 his choral play, swinging hammers - flags fluttered, premiered.

After 1945 Oppenberg was the publishing director and editor of the almanacs Forest, Wild and We , as well as Us calls the forest . In the Soviet occupation zone and in the German Democratic Republic , several of his writings were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1957 he dedicated the book “Green forest calls gray city” to his hometown Duisburg, a work about the Duisburg forest and the neighboring forest area. Oppenberg's love for and concern for the Lower Rhine can be found in the volumes “In flight over the Lower Rhine” (1964), “Am Schöne Niederrhein” (1968), “Landscapes of the Lower Rhine” (1968), “Our colored Lower Rhine” (1973 ), and “Back then on the Lower Rhine” (1980). In 1978 a selection of his work was published under the title "Threatened Refuge".

After many years as the head of the Mercator publishing house in Duisburg, he retired from work at the age of 65.

Oppenberg was known beyond the Lower Rhine as a writer, above all as a conservationist . His love and thus his poetic and literary work belonged especially to the forest. In 1947 he joined the German Forest Protection Association . His contributions have been published in compilations, anthologies, school books, magazines, newspapers and home calendars and were broadcast on the radio.

The author provided these forest poems with his own silhouette, as did his natural balades: “Ghosts in the Moor” (1939–1961). In 1956 the fairy tale "The Tree of Life" was published, which was illustrated by its namesake and friend, the Lower Rhine painter August Oppenberg . Oppenberg headed the working group "Forests in Art and Poetry" and wrote about 30 books.

In 1991, at the instigation of his friend, the painter Arthur Schönberg, the volume “Heimkehr” appeared with a selection of prose and poetry. Schönberg provided the little book with pen drawings.

On Ferdinand Oppenberg's tombstone is an excerpt from one of his poems:

Much wrote my hand.
But what takes? The writing is fading
pale on yellowed paper
,
and all the seals in the sand that
tread on my feet are
soon wiped out by the wind.
Where my writing fades
and my traces blow away ,
the tree digs its roots.

Works

  • In the spherical glass of the world , Duisburg 1931
  • The big city is on fire , Duisburg 1933
  • Hammers swing - flags flutter , Berlin 1935
  • Siren sound and sickle sound , Berlin 1935
  • We build your cathedral , Berlin 1935
  • We tie the sheaves , Berlin 1935
  • The seeds came up , Hamburg 1936
  • The old song of freedom , Hamburg 1937
  • Seed and harvest , Hamburg 1937
  • Sword and plow , Hamburg 1937
  • Bunker Germany , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1940
  • The eternal fire , Berlin 1941
  • We have to march fighting , Berlin [u. a.] 1943
  • The forest is calling us , Rheinhausen 1954
  • Forest, wild and us , Rheinhausen 1954
  • Only clothes are fun , Rheinhausen-Niederrh. 1955
  • The tree of life , Rheinhausen 1956
  • Green forest calls gray city , Rheinhausen / Niederrhein 1957
  • The forest year , Rheinhausen / Niederrh. 1959
  • Ghosts in the moor , Rheinhausen / Niederrh. [u. a.] 1960
  • In flight over the Lower Rhine , Duisburg 1964 (together with Albert Kardas)
  • On the beautiful Lower Rhine , Duisburg 1968
  • Landscapes of the Lower Rhine , Duisburg [a. a.] 1968 (with Albert Kardas)
  • Our Lower Rhine in color , Duisburg 1973 (together with Eva Umscheid)
  • The Hohe Mark Nature Park , Duisburg 1974 (together with Albert Kardas)
  • Refuge under threat , Duisburg 1978

Editing

  • Heinrich Lersch : Heinrich Lersch , Hamburg 1938
  • German master novels , Hamburg 1939
  • Christoph Wieprecht : Work group , Potsdam 1939
  • Contributions to the regional and intellectual culture of the Lower Rhine landscape , Krefeld 1961
  • Back then on the Lower Rhine , Moers 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 443.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-o.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-o.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-o.html
personal data
SURNAME Oppenberg, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and prose writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1989
Place of death Duisburg