Fred Endrikat

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Fred Endrikat (born June 7, 1890 in Nakel an der Netze , † August 12, 1942 in Munich ) was a German writer , poet and cabaret artist . His humorous cabaret texts and songs were very successful at the time.

Life

Endrikat, the son of a miner and also worked underground himself, spent his childhood and youth in Eickel and Wanne . In his poem Heimkehr there are reminiscences of his youth in Eickel and the Volkspark there. After that he lived in Berlin for a long time before coming to Munich. I.a. In the Schwabing cabaret Simpl he was on stage with his own texts. Most recently he lived in Leoni on Lake Starnberg .

Fred Endrikat died in 1942 at the age of 52 of a brain tumor and is buried in the old part of the Munich forest cemetery.

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Fred Endrikat's work, which is in the tradition of Wilhelm Busch , Christian Morgenstern and Joachim Ringelnatz , consists essentially of texts for literary cabaret. Mainly verse seal (Cabaret Songs, couplets ) verfassend, as well as scenes and one-act plays , created Endrikat small works that are as humorous, sometimes satirical, classify, without, however, being too critical of society. At the time, the poet was stuck with the label of the witty, frivolous scoffers who presented wisdom that was not to be taken very seriously.

Endrikat published four volumes of Verse in Brief on the Spice of Life , which were widely used. The first collection of poems that he wrote for the literary cabaret and performed there himself appeared with The Funny Arche (1935), an “animal primer” under the motto “The best people on earth, these are the dogs and the horses” for young and old ”. This was followed by the Most Secular Sin Primer (1939), which compiled the author's “moral” and “immoral” verses. After careless and lyrical (1940) with “Verses zum geschnügten Leben” (Verses zum geschnügten Leben), the Happy Diogenes (1942), which concluded his series of witty wisdoms, was the last publication before his death in 1942. He dedicated a short poem to the miner's cow .

After Endrikat's death, much more was published in Wahlen and the volume Sündenfallobst (1953).

effect

During Endrikat's lifetime, his verses were particularly popular with the petty bourgeoisie . Later, some of his lines of poetry became winged words: for example, the well-known saying “Doof stays stupid, no pills help” originally comes from a poem by Endrikat. Today the cabaret artist, who once compared sin to red poppies in a field of wheat ("Weed it up as a weed and twist it into a bouquet") is far less known than some of his sayings or cabaret songs. In 2004, the audio book Fred Endrikat presented a selection of his poems as recitations. After a brief renaissance in the 1970s , Endrikat's work was no longer available in book form before a reader with his texts was compiled in 2011.

In Wanne-Eickel , a district of the city of Herne since 1975 , Fred-Endrikat-Strasse was named after the writer in 1964.

expenditure

literature

  • Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Quadriga, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 371 (short biography).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fred Endrikat's sister, Herta Römer, about her brother. In: The Great Endricat Book. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-442-09168-3 , pp. 277-278.
  2. ↑ Fred Endrikat: Homecoming. In: The Great Endricat Book. Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-442-09168-3 , pp. 82-83.
  3. ↑ Koreen Maegie: Claire Waldoff: The Queen of Humor . MV-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9817009-0-9 ( google.de [accessed on May 8, 2017]).
  4. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Fred Endrikat
  5. ^ A greeting from home by the poet Fred Endrikat , accessed on February 8, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Endricat, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Nail on the netting
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1942
Place of death Munich