Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg

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Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg (pseudonym for Friedrich Meyer , born October 19, 1912 in Wittenburg , † December 24, 1975 in Rostock-Groß Klein ) was a German writer .

biography

Meyer-Scharffenberg was the son of a nurse and a former seaman. He grew up with his grandmother in the small town of Wittenburg. From 1918 he lived in Schwerin . There he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter after attending middle school from 1929 to 1933 . He was then unemployed and earned his living doing temporary jobs, including a. as insurance agent and passenger. From 1934 to 1935 he was a soldier in Belgard . He then worked as a journalist in Neubrandenburg . From 1939 to 1945 he took part in the Second World War as a Wehrmacht soldier . In 1945 he became an American prisoner of war. In 1948 he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by a Soviet military tribunal in Schwerin for “failing to report” an acquaintance. a. imprisoned in Sachsenhausen . After his release he returned to Mecklenburg in 1953 ; Initially he lived in Bössow and Stellshagen , from 1960 in the Rostock district of Groß Klein . He worked as a journalist again and began writing in 1954.

Meyer-Scharffenberg wrote his first essay at the age of 17. In addition to writings on local history, he also wrote stories, novels, feature pages, poems and plays. He became known through stories (partly in Low German ) in which he described the everyday life of the Mecklenburg village population in a realistic way, as well as through animal stories that were deliberately kept unsentimental. Among others, Der Mann auf dem Kirr , Die Grasinsel , Der Angstman , but also his Low German body stories , which are among the outstanding works of Low German literature that were created in the GDR, gained fame . A lasting achievement of Meyer-Scharffenberg is his transfer of works by Fritz Reuter from Low German into High German. Reuters Franzosentid and Dörchläuchtig were praised in the Meyer version as "High German translations of Low German thinking" (Gundlach, Theil). The author and narrator Meyer-Scharffenberg is also an important chronicler of Mecklenburg thanks to his local history books such as Zwischen Meer und Bodden or Zwischen Strom und Haff .

His son Klaus Meyer is also a writer.

Awards

Meyer-Scharffenberg received a. a. The following awards: 1960 the John Brinckman Prize , 1964 the Johannes R. Becher Medal and 1973 the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.

Works

  • De Lüd sünd all in de Räuben , 1954, awarded
  • The island of Poel and the Klützer Winkel , Rostock 1957
  • Fiete in the net , Berlin 1958
  • Death ride, robber and carpenter , Schwerin 1958
  • Between Strom and Haff , Rostock 1958
  • Body stories , Rostock 1959
  • The mayor's son , Schwerin 1960
  • Schwerin and its seven lakes , Schwerin 1960 (together with Klaus Nitsche)
  • Mecklenburg , Schwerin 1965 (together with Heinz Föppel)
  • Wismar, the island of Poel and the Klützer Winkel , Rostock 1965
  • The love of Johanna Olsen , Berlin 1966
  • Boatswain Pütt and his women , Berlin 1967
  • The man on the church tower , Berlin 1969
  • Between the Sea and the Bodden , Rostock 1971
  • The years with Per , Berlin 1972
  • The fear man , Rostock 1975
  • Grasinsel , Berlin 1975
  • Under the poet's hat , Berlin 1977
  • Boddengeflunker , Rostock 1978
  • Zuckerkauken un Koem , 1982, collection of poems

Editing

Translations

  • Fritz Reuter: The French story , Rostock 1962
  • Fritz Reuter: His Majesty Dörchläuchting , Rostock 1963

literature

  • Siegfried Neumann (Ed.): Oral storytelling and dialect literature . Rostock 2002
  • René Wiese: Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg . In: Buchsteiner, Ilona (ed.): Mecklenburgers in German history of the 19th and 20th centuries . Verlag Koch, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3935319223 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , October 6, 1973, p. 4

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personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Scharffenberg, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedrich Meyer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenburg
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1975
Place of death Rostock