Hans Ehrke

Hans Ehrke (born April 10, 1898 in Demmin , † October 29, 1975 in Kiel ) was a German writer . He wrote mostly in the Low German language.

Life

Hans Ehrke was born on April 10, 1898 in Demmin, the son of a customs officer, but grew up in Holstein . From 1913 to 1921 he attended the preparatory institute and the teachers' college in Kiel , interrupted by his military service as a volunteer in World War I from April 1915 to the end of the war with the Ratzeburg Reserve Jäger Battalion No. 18 . From 1921 he worked as a teacher in Kiel and Rendsburg . In 1938 he was honored with the John Brinckman Prize . From 1938 to 1963 he was school rector in Kiel, interrupted by military service from 1939 to 1945. On October 29, 1975 he died in Kiel.

As a writer, Ehrke wrote works in High German, but mostly in Low German. He was a board member of the Eutin poets' circle , one of the most important groups of authors in National Socialist Germany, and the head of the Reichsschrifttumskammer . From 1952 until his death in 1975 he was editor of the magazine Uns' Moderspraak of the Schleswig-Holstein Homeland Federation .

In the Soviet occupation zone his writings Batalljon 18 (1936) and Armed Heart (1943) as well as in the German Democratic Republic Batalljon Achteihn (1936), Heimkehrer (1936) and Makedonka (1943) were placed on the list of literature to be excluded .

Awards

• Stavenhagen Prize of the Low German Stage Association, 1931
• Schleswig-Holstein Literature Prize, 1937
• John Brinckman Prize , 1938
• Mecklenburg Literature Prize, 1942
• Fritz Stavenhagen Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , 1959
• Klaus Groth Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS , 1968

Works (selection)

• Morning light. Home pictures from the Low German world. Nölke, Bordesholm 1921.
• November. Low German drama in four acts. Martin-Verlag, Itzehoe 1930.
• Makedonka. A book of the Balkan front (novel). Westermann, Braunschweig (among others) 1938.
• The last feud. Low German drama in three acts. Mahnke, Verden 1960.

Radio plays

• 1925: Narrenspegel - Director: Hans Böttcher , with Hermann Möller and Käte Alving ( NORAG )
• 1926: Dat Pastür - Director: Otto Mensing , with Otto Mensing, Willy Martini and Carl Heinrich Dumann (NORAG)
• 1926: Dat Pastür - Director: Hans Böttcher (NN speaker) (NORAG)
• 1927: Füer - directed by Otto Mensing, with Bruno Günzel , Hannah Jessen and Hartwig Sievers (NORAG)
• 1951: Füer - Director: Walter A. Kreye , with Heinz Krug and Ruth Bunkenburg ( RB )
• 1951: Dat Postür - Director: Fritz Börner (RB)
• 1951: Thies un Ose - Director: Hans Freundt , with Rudolf Beiswanger and Heidi Kabel ( NWDR Hamburg )
• 1952: Hans Brüggemann - Director: Eberhard Freudenberg , with Walter A. Kreye and Aline Bußmann (RB)
• 1953: De last Feihde - Director: Günter Jansen , with Hartwig Sievers and Erna Raupach-Petersen (NWDR Hamburg)
• 1956: Slut the diek! - Director: Hans Tügel , with Walter A. Kreye and Erika Rumsfeld (RB)
• 1957: Narrenspeegel - Director: Ivo Braak , with Carl Hinrichs and Annelore Kunze (RB)
• 1960: Ose von Sylt - Director: Gustav Burmester , with Jochen Schenck and Heidi Kabel ( NDR )
• 1961: Hans Brüggemann - Director: Walter Bäumer , with Walter A. Kreye and Erika Rumsfeld (RB)
• 1962: Besöök op Mettenwarft - Director: Otto Lüthje , with Erna Raupach-Petersen and Hilde Sicks (NDR)

literature

• Fritz Raeck: Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pommerscher Zentralverband, Hamburg 1969, p. 327.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Ehrke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hans Ehrke in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ He wrote down his experiences in his 1936 Low German play in 4 acts in Bataillon 18 .
2. ↑ Uwe Danker, Astrid Schwabe: Schleswig-Holstein and National Socialism. Neumünster 2005, p. 88.
3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-e.html
4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-e.html
5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-e.html