Friedrich Völklein

Friedrich Völklein (born June 12, 1880 in Lehmingen ; † July 7, 1960 in Nördlingen ) was a Bavarian homeland poet.

Life

Völklein was born on June 12, 1880 in Lehmingen, a small village in Nördlinger Ries ( Bavaria ), which is now part of Oettingen , as the eldest of four sons of a farming couple. After his training as a teacher, he initially taught on a temporary basis in Rieser communities and then for 40 years in Würzburg . It was bombed out during the air raid on Würzburg in March 1945. Then he made his way on foot to his brother Johann and his family in Lehmingen. After the Second World War he moved to Nördlingen, where he died on July 7, 1960. He is buried in the Emmerams cemetery in Nördlingen .

Völklein has made a name for himself as a poet and writer in his homeland, the Ries. It was his concern to let the homeland become a conscious experience, to get to know it, to love it, to work for it and to preserve it. In 1964 a street in Oettingen was named after Völklein, and since 1986 a memorial plaque on the house where he was born commemorates him.

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The following works by Friedrich Völklein have been published:

• Rieser Heimatlied (lyrics)
• The Wanderer (poems)
• The miracle of home (short stories)
• Between home and foreigners (short stories)
• The future is near, the bright bride (poems)
• In the bright mornings (poems)
• Turn and change (poems)
• The sun is shining (children's verses)
• The meadow is in bloom (children's verse)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Article of July 7, 2010 in the Augsburger Allgemeine
2. ↑ Rieser Heimatlied (lyrics)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Rieser Heimatlied (sheet music)

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Völklein in the catalog of the German National Library