Georg Ruseler

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Georg Ruseler (born January 11, 1866 in Obenstrohe ; † March 6, 1920 in Oldenburg ) was an Oldenburg and Frisian local poet, writer and school principal .

biography

Life and work

Ruseler was born in Obenstrohe in what was then the municipality of Varel-Land as the son of the new köter Friedrich Ruseler and his second wife Sophie, née. Janssen, born. According to his own statements, he had already read all the classics at the age of 12 , which in retrospect he viewed as negative.

After finishing school he attended the Evangelical Teachers' College in Oldenburg from 1880 to 1884 . He initially taught at various small village schools until he was active at the Heiligengeistschule in 1886 and later from 1889 to 1899 at the city boys' school A in Oldenburg. Most recently, he moved to the city boys' school B in Oldenburg.

In 1895 Ruseler married the 18-year-old Anna Helms, who came from a civil servant family. From 1909 to 1918 he was the rector of the city boys' school B. His wife fell seriously ill during the First World War and died shortly before the end of the war in 1918.

At the end of 1918, Ruseler tried to make himself independent from school work and to work as a freelance writer, which he addressed in his autobiographical novel Das Haus am See . However, due to economic and health problems, he returned to school service in early 1920, but died a few weeks later on March 6th. His final resting place is in the Gertrudenfriedhof in Oldenburg .

Part of Ruseler's estate is in the Lower Saxony State Archives , Oldenburg Department .

The writer

Writing was perhaps Georg Ruseler's most important life. He created dramas and dealt with poetry . His first significant work was the historical tragedy Die Stedinger , which is based on the Stedinger uprising in the 13th century in today's Wesermarsch . It was premiered on November 2, 1890 in what was then the court, now the Oldenburg State Theater . The print version went into its fourth edition within a few months.

In the years that followed, there were other dramas such as Dathan's Doubt (1891), Michael Servet (1892), King Konradin (1893) and Count Anton Günther or Tilly in Oldenburg , which, however, could not build on the success of the Stedinger family .

At the beginning of the 20th century he also worked in the journalistic field. For example, he made numerous articles for the Oldenburg daily newspaper Nachrichten für Stadt und Land .

Between the world wars, his stories, poems and ballads were widely used; especially the historical story Der Verräter , the legends summarized in the volume Die Gläserne Wand and especially the children's stories Heiner im Storchennest . In The Battle of Lechtenburg , he took up the subject of the Stedinger uprising again in 1920. Ruseler also worked in Friedrich Naumann's Die Hilfe , together with Theodor Heuss .

Ruseler was a sharp critic of the conservative Protestant school college. Politically liberal, but never a party member, he was also interested in spiritism . He was a sponsor of August Hinrichs and very active in the Oldenburg State Teachers' Association , which tried to reform the school system.

Ruseler and Karl May

In 1901 Ruseler published his “notorious” article Karl May, a danger to our youth , in the news , in which he made the monstrous sentence: “I don't want to wish anyone evil; but I am not granting him another 10 years of his busy (sic) life; because I suspect that he would then write 25-30 novels. ”Ruseler's attack on Karl May caused quite a stir in the Oldenburg press, also because the anonymous E.Sch.E. an author spoke up who knew how to defend Karl May in an elegant manner. For a long time it was unknown who was hiding behind ash . But then the acronym was dissolved. It was the then only 19-year-old high school student Erich Schiff (* 1882, † 1970) from Elsfleth . Schiff would later become known as a lawyer and writer himself . The attack on Karl May was only an episode in Ruseler's literary work.

Honors, awards

Works

  • The Stedinger . A tragedy in five acts, 4th edition, Varel 1891.
  • Dathan's Doubt , 1891.
  • Michael Servet , 1892.
  • King Konradin , 1893.
  • Count Anton Günther, or Tilly in Oldenburg , 1895.
  • As editor with Gustav Götze: Gedichte , Varel 1896.
  • German songbook. Songs for school and life , Berlin 1904.
  • The Wunderborn. Lower Saxon-Frisian ballads , Bremen 1906.
  • Heiner im Storchennest and other fairy tales , Cologne 1914, re-published in 1992.
  • The glass wall - legends and little stories , Berlin 1908, re-published in 1976.
  • The fight for the Lechtenburg - Der Verräter (Two local history stories), re-published in 1995
  • With Wilhelmine Siefkes and Wilhelm Scharrelmann : Oldenburg school fights and German goals , 2 parts, Oldenburg 1918/19.
  • De dröge Jan (Low German texts), newly published in 1970
  • The house in the lake , Wilhelmshaven 1920.
  • De dulle Deern . A funny Burnspill in three trips, Bremen / Wilhelmshaven 1921.
  • When I hear Plattdütsk. Leder un Vertellses , Wilhelmshaven 1921.

Radio plays

Literature about Georg Ruseler

  • William Reinhard Frerichs: Georg Ruseler. Contribution to the history of literature in Low German , Greifswald 1931 (Phil. Diss.).
  • Hilke Günther-Arndt : Ruseler, Georg , in: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte Oldenburgs , Oldenburg 1992, pp. 624–626.
  • Wolfgang Sammer, Volker Griese : The Ruseler case. A chapter from the life of Karl May . Special issue of the Karl May Society No. 107. Föhren 1996.
  • Wolfgang Sämmer and Volker Griese: Georg Ruseler and his struggle for Karl May in 1901 , in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch , Volume 110. Ed. Oldenburger Landesverein für Geschichte, Natur- und Heimatkunde e. V. , Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 2010, pp. 111-135.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arcinsys. Retrieved November 5, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Ruseler, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Oldenburg and Frisian local poets
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Above straws
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1920
Place of death Vegesack