Hans Ackermann (poet)

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Hans (Johannes) Ackermann was a German poet who wrote in the first half of the 16th century.

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Ackermann's life is not fully documented. Earlier authors wrote that he worked as a schoolmaster in Zwickau . K. Hahn later suspected that Ackermann was a goldsmith working in the city who lived modestly and went to school with Sankt Roth. From 1538 he worked as a tester and silver worker in Marienberg in the Ore Mountains .

In 1536, Ackermann published the three-act Lutheran school play The Prodigal Son in Zwickau . He was probably based on "Acolastus" by Wilhelm Gnapheus and wrote simply and honestly. In 1540 the third, significantly changed edition of “Der ungeratene Sohn” appeared. In doing so, he was undoubtedly influenced by Hans Sachs' “Ungeraten sun” , wrote didactically and placed Martin Luther's doctrine of grace at the center of the work.

Ackermann influenced the poets H. Scharpfenecker, N. Risleben, Ludwig Hollonius , J. Nendorf and, indirectly, N. Locke and English comedians with his drama "The ungrated son" . In 1539 he published the "Game of Tobias" in Zwickau, which he divided neither into acts nor scenes. He dedicated the piece to Paul Rebhun , claiming that trust in God will be rewarded in the end.

The "Game of the Good Samaritan" published by Ackermann in Zwickau is dated to the year 1545. He never designed the text in the form of a drama, but wrote polemically against Catholicism and interpreted texts in line with the Lutheran doctrine of grace. He wrote dramas and a proverb about the St. Martin's goose . He worked without embellishments, sometimes dryly and simply and comfortably described the career of a simple petty bourgeois who unwaveringly adhered to the Lutheran faith.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Hellmut Rosenfeld:  Ackermann, Hans (Johannes). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 37 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Ackermann, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackermann, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century