Franz-Joseph Ahles
Franz-Joseph Ahles (born September 18, 1869 in Würzburg , † April 10, 1939 in Burkheim ) was a German poet .
Life
He was the son of Christoph Ahles and his wife Kunigunde, née Schlegel. His father came from Burkheim and served as a fireworker in the 2nd field artillery regiment . His mother came from Gerchsheim in Baden-Württemberg . Ahles' childhood and youth were shaped by numerous moves. At the age of three he moved with his parents and siblings to Ebelsbach in 1872 , to Burkheim for the first time in 1879 , to Bamberg in 1880, to Ebelsbach again in 1880 and to Neuschleichach in 1882 . He lived there until he moved to Würzburg in 1885. After completing his schooling, he first worked in a book printer in Würzburg. However, this trade damaged his health by contracting tuberculosis, which was then considered incurable, through the printing ink . At the age of 17, Ahles finally moved to Burkheim with his parents and siblings in November 1886 . He once said of Burkheim: “There where life is cheaper and the air is cleaner.” On July 2nd, 1889, he was drafted and drafted for the Infantry Body Regiment of the Bavarian Army . He served there until November 13 of the same year when he was discharged from the army due to illness.
In 1902 he took over the small house and property from his parents. During the winter he worked as a broom maker. This activity inspired most of his poems. He once put it this way: “It's really lonely when you sit there and tie brooms. My mind then goes on a journey and wanders through the past, through its own and through that of all of humanity. ”Ahles had been interested in literature from an early age and wrote hundreds of poems for private and public during his main creative phase between 1910 and 1930 Occasions, newspapers and magazines. This made him known in the surrounding villages and communities and occasionally got commissioned work. On September 15, 1912, Ahles self-published the first edition of his book Lieder des Sängers vom Kordigast with the subtitle Poesien eines Besenbinders , the second the following year. In 1918, at the age of 49, he married Anna Kohles from Burkheim.
Around 1910 the Lichtenfels building contractor Hans Diroll began to promote the Burkheim poet strongly. In return, he wrote numerous occasional poems for Lichtenfels institutions and people until the 1930s. These include the quatrains on the “Diroll houses” in Lichtenfels.
In 1923 the third edition of the book of poems appeared under the same name. Since he didn't earn a lot of money with his books and couldn't find a publisher , he had to commission the books himself, so that he needed almost all of the proceeds to produce one. Because of his open sympathy for the Bavarian People's Party , he was taken into protective custody by the National Socialists in 1933 . It only appeared very rarely. After suffering for a long time, he died on April 10, 1939 at 12 o'clock in his house of bilateral pneumonia .
A fourth, unaltered, new edition of his volume of poetry, 3000 copies, was published in 1979 by the Kreissparkasse Lichtenfels . In 1995 a slightly expanded 5th edition appeared.
souvenir
In addition to his books, there are a few other memories of Franz-Joseph Ahles. The Colloquium Historicum Wirsbergense (CHW) had a memorial stone placed in front of its former home in 1946, which the Altenkunstadt community placed in 1989. In addition, two streets were named after him, one in the municipality of Altenkunstadt and the local thoroughfare in Burkheim. His poem Ein Lied vom Kordigast (→ Kordigast ) was set to music.
Published poems
Ahles always referred to his mostly strictly metrical-rhythmic poems as "songs". In them he worked on topics such as devotion to nature and experiencing the landscape, religion and world wisdom, everyday and fateful, human virtues and weaknesses. In many of them, Ahle's love of his homeland and fatherland, his deep religiosity and the human values that are important to him can also be seen. According to Friedrich Deml , Ahles' poems are to be interpreted and understood as "a testimony to the loyal and persistent disposition of a person who grew out of his homeland, like a tree on the Kordigast".
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1. Home
2. History and legend
3. Nature
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4. Human destiny
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5. Of human virtues and vices
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6. Religion and world wisdom
7. Poems of cheerful content
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literature
- Franz-Joseph Ahles, Kreissparkasse Lichtenfels (ed.): Songs of the singer from Kordigast , Verlag HO Schulze, Lichtenfels 1995, 5th edition, ISBN 3-87735-020-8 .
- Richard Kerling: Poetic from old Weismain . In: Günter Dippold (Ed.): Weismain , Volume 2, Weismain 1996, ISBN 3-9804106-0-9 .
- Josef Motschmann: Altenkunstadt - home between Kordigast and Main . Altenkunstadt community, Altenkunstadt, 2006, p. 172 f.
- Franz Wallisch: The "singer from Kordigast" . Altbayerische Heimatpost, 41 (1989), 15, p. 5
- Erich Walter: Mountain and Village - Kordigast and Burkheim . Government of Upper Franconia, Bayreuth, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ahles (1995), p. XII
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Ahles (1995), p. 178.
- ↑ a b c d e f Walter 1999, pp. 44–45.
- ↑ a b c d Kerling (1996), pp. 223-226
- ↑ a b Günter Dippold: The Lichtenfels Trade Association 1902 - 1934 ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Pp. 24–25, bekreis-oberfranken.de, accessed on December 2, 2012 (PDF 762.24 kB)
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| SURNAME | Ahles, Franz-Joseph |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wurzburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1939 |
| Place of death | Burkheim (Altenkunstadt) |