Fritz Skowronnek

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Fritz Skowronnek (born August 20, 1858 in the forester's house Schuiken near Goldap , East Prussia ; † July 7, 1939 in Oranienburg ) was a German writer . He dealt with the regional studies of Masuria and also wrote under the pseudonyms Fritz Bernhard and Hans Windeck .

Life

Skowronnek's "clan comes from the village of Lisken near Johannisburg". Fritz Skowronnek's younger brother Richard Skowronnek wrote hunting stories , homeland novels and his autobiography . Her father Adam (1822–1916) was not the firstborn heir and was supposed to study Protestant theology , but found a forester profession .

The brothers grew up in Sybba ( Polish Szyba ) from 1864 and attended the Royal Lyck High School . After graduating from high school, Fritz studied philology and philosophy at the Albertus University in Königsberg . As a member of the soon-to-be-dissolved Academic Scientific Association (1880), he frequented Baltia , his brother's corps . From 1883 to 1889 he worked as a teacher . He later moved to Berlin , where he worked as a journalist from 1892 and as editor- in- chief of the Breslauer Morgenzeitung from 1897/98 . In 1898 he became a dramaturge and freelance writer .

As a passionate fisherman and hunter , he was familiar with Masuria and the Masuria like no other. Growing up on Lake Lycksee, as a young man he examined and mapped the countless lakes of the Lyck district for the East Prussian fishing association. He wrote a lot about the "Bucklige Welt", as the landscape around Lyck with its Ice Age hills and moors (the "floating meadows") was called. He fished with the farmers and fishermen on the Spirdingsee , discovered the ancient pile dwellings in the Malkienensee, and remembered the castle mountains with their legends and tales . In old age he dealt intensively with the Russian Old Believers, the Philippons .

Skowronnek's novel The Gray Stone , published in 1918, could be described as a psychologically structured, tense detective novel . The brothers Fritz and Richard must have had national pride and honor in equal measure. Above all, Fritz made an effort to allow his homeland and his compatriots to benefit from the blessings of advancing socialism . He complained: "Unfortunately, Masuria is still so unknown to many that even an outstanding writer recently declared that in the eyes of West and South Germans there was no particular difference between Siberia and East Prussia."

In autumn 2009, the Lyck district community renewed the gravestone at the Oranienburg city cemetery and added a stone tablet:

FRITZ SKOWRONNEK HOME POET FROM LYCK / EAST PRUSSIA

Tomb care is guaranteed until Skowronnek's 100th anniversary of death in 2039.

Works (selection)

  • The hunt , 1901
  • Masurian Blood , 1904
  • My friend Baruch and other stories , 1907
  • With rifle and fishing rod: Forays, 1908
  • The sport of fishing , 1909
  • The German Waidwerk , 1909
  • Halali. Colorful pictures from woad and fish woad , 1910
  • The hunger farmer. A village novel from Masuria , 1911
  • Soul life of animals , 1911
  • Hunting stories , 1911
  • The newspaper of the forest and other hunting stories , 1912
  • The engagement while catching a bear and other humorous stories , 1913
  • Josepha and other stories , 1913
  • Hohensalchow manor. Gutsroman , 1914
  • The Heir's Son , novel, 1915
  • The brown Sascha and other Masurian village stories , 1915
  • From Masurian Forests , 1915
  • The man of iron. A novel from the days of horror in East Prussia , 1915
  • The punishment of Serbia. Descriptions from World Wars 1914-16 , 1916
  • U-Germany's ride , 1916
  • The pike in the carp pond. A funny novel from Masuria , 1916
  • Stove and sword. A novel from East Prussia , 1916
  • The Pension of Happiness , novel, 1916
  • The sinking ship. Novel from the Ostmark , 1916
  • Hindenburg, the liberator of the German East , 1916
  • On one's own floe , novel, 1917
  • Strange Girl , Roman, 1917
  • Der Muckerpfaff , novel, 1918
  • An Honest Scoundrel , Roman, 1918
  • The Polish refugee. A novel from the east , 1918
  • The gray stone. A novel from Masuria , 1918
  • The creeping poison. Masurian novel , 1919
  • Pan Kaminsky , novel, 1919
  • The Lore on the Roof , Roman, 1919
  • Home Fire , novel, 1920
  • The legacy. A Polish mansion novel , 1920
  • The demon of Kolno. A frontier novel , 1921
  • Dies irae. An East Prussian science fiction , 1922
  • Life story of an East Prussian (autobiography, 1925)
  • The demon , novel, 1927
  • The daredevil , novel
  • The model boy , novel
  • Lederstrumpf's friends , Roman Meidinger's youth publications Berlin 1928

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedenauer Lokal-Anzeiger, Vol. 23, No. 19, January 23, 1916, p. 2.
  2. ^ Prominent residents of Elk
  3. ↑ Paul Brock : Towered over by the tower of the church. Lyck, the capital of Masuria, was founded 555 years ago . Ostpreußenblatt of August 30, 1980, p. 11
  4. ↑ Fritz Skowronnek: I was the first to introduce the new colors , in: Kurt U. Bertrams, Als Student in Königsberg , Hilden 2006, pp. 111–113
  5. ↑ Only one of the three Philippon monasteries in the Johannisburger Heide has survived in Eckertsdorf .
  6. ↑ Ostpreußenblatt, No. 46, November 14, 2009, p. 14

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personal data
SURNAME Skowronnek, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernhard, Fritz (pseudonym); Windeck, Hans (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and regional historian of Masuria
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Forsthaus Schuiken near Goldap , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1939
Place of death Oranienburg