Fritz Thörner

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Fritz Thörner (actually: Friedrich Otto Heinrich Thörner , born March 10, 1869 in Neustadt (Dosse) ; † April 1, 1940 in Hanover ) was a German journalist writer and Hanoverian "local poet ". He is considered to be the author of the Lüttje Lage song . As a publisher , he also specialized in the publication of songs and postcards with his Hannovera Verlag around 1900 .

Life

Thörner's Hanover song published around 1900 based on a melody by Albert Krause and, according to the reverse, “For piano, male choir, orchestra and on records, Hanover-Verlag, Hanover”
multicolored lithograph by Jaab & Kohlrautz; Picture postcard from the “Collection Prof. Dr. S. Giesbrecht ”at the University of Osnabrück

Growing up in the Mark Brandenburg as the son of the painter Friedrich Thörner , Fritz Thörner completed an apprenticeship as a bookbinder before moving to Hanover at the age of 18. From there he went to Bad Kissingen in 1890 , but after a while returned to Hanover as a "reporter". Here he wrote as a local reporter for various newspapers , while in parallel with its Hannovera- publishing the [former] "Goetheplatz 11, 3. Et. Sales" Postcards with songs.

Fritz Thörner was very close to nature and was considered an outspoken connoisseur of the Deister Mountains , which he explored with countless hikes. The sociable man enjoyed great popularity as a “local poet”, above all because of his self- rhymed “festive poems, which he was able to recite at celebrations and festivities off the cuff”. The Lüttje-Lagen-Lied , which was sung a lot at the beginning of the 20th century, goes back to Thörner and has served as a toast when enjoying a Lüttjen Lage - sometimes up to the present day :

"I was born in the Rösehof as the son of a poor servant ..."

In Hanover, Thörner was also in contact with the local poet Hermann Löns , who at the time worked as a local editor for the Hannoversche Anzeiger , as well as with Hans Joachim Toll , the local editor for the Hannoversche Anzeiger .

Postcard German Brummerlied ...

Apparently Fritz Thörner - despite patriotism and enthusiasm for the war - did not have to serve as a soldier in World War I and was able to publish, for example, a propaganda picture postcard with his publisher under the title Deutsches Brummerlied :

"The praise of the heavy artillery ... The world will recover from the German being."

glorified a projectile from the fat Bertha mortar cannon of Friedrich Krupp AG with the subtitle " Made in Germany " .

Fonts (selection)

  • Helmut Gotthilf's new birth. A true life story in verse (in Gothic script ), by Fritz Thörner. Pictures by Carl Grimm, Hanover: Hannovera-Verlag, 1916
  • Thörner's book of sports songs (with illustrations), Hanover: Hannovera-Verlag Fr. Thörner, 1916

Archival material

Literature (selection)

Web links

Commons : Fritz Thörner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hugo Thielen : THÖRNER, Fritz. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 360.
  2. ↑ Compare the information under the GND number of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d N.N .: German Brummerlied. - A bullet came flying - Made in Germany on the website of the University of Osnabrück
  4. ^ NN : Letter from Fritz Thörner to Unknown City Library Hanover; Frank Wedekind collection in the Kalliope union catalog
personal data
SURNAME Thörner, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thörner, Friedrich Otto Heinrich; Thörner, Fr.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist writer and Hanoverian "local poet"
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt (Dosse)
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1940
Place of death Hanover