Heinrich Schacht (writer)

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Heinrich Schacht

Heinrich Schacht (born June 23, 1817 in Hamburg ; † July 13, 1863 there ) was a Hamburg writer and worker poet who published in High German and Low German .

Life

Heinrich Schacht was the son of a master blacksmith. He would have loved to go to sea, but couldn't afford any equipment. He completed an apprenticeship as a blacksmith and worked for years as a ship smith. From 1848 on, Schacht published his own texts in the Hamburg newspaper Die Reform by the publisher Jacob Ferdinand Richter. The newspaper was considered a democratically oriented paper that was read by the Hamburg petty bourgeoisie. Richter began to promote Schacht and enabled him to earn a living beyond the blacksmith's profession. From 1853 Schacht earned his living as a colporteur (flying bookseller) and occasional poet in Hamburg.

Along with Gorch Fock, Schacht is considered to be one of the most important representatives of the younger seaman's song . The Seemanns Liedertafel collection published by him in 1860 , which had twelve editions by 1903 and contains 52 of his own songs as well as texts by other authors, is held to convey essentially nineteenth-century nautical romance and to reproduce a "mostly completely unrealistic description of the life of a seaman".

Heinrich Schacht is the author of the shanty De Runner von Hamburg , which was recorded by Hannes Wader , among others , and the song A proud ship about German emigrants in the 19th century , which was popularized by the folk band Zupfgeigenhansel during the folk song revival of the 1970s . However, the version by Zupfgeigenhansel was based on a sheet of text that was found incomplete and without naming the author in the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg, so that Schacht was only rediscovered as the author of the song text by chance in 1995.

Works

  • Pictures from Hamburg's folk life. JF Richter, Hamburg 1855 ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Fables written for the fibula theater. A cute Christmas present for children; High and Low German poems etc. Hamburg 1855.
  • The small farms with their ailments. In Low German rhymes. Höber, Hamburg 1856.
  • Hamburg Children's Theater and Polichinell. In Low and High German; eight pieces. Hamburg 1858.
  • Bimbam polka by L. Brandt jun. or: On Sunday evening in Millerndhor, the last five minutes before Sperr. Hamburg 1859.
  • De Hamborger Uutroop. Poem. Hamburg 1859.
  • Friedrich Schiller's life in Low German verse. Self-published, Hamburg 1859.
  • Seemanns Liedertafel. Hamburg, Kramer 1860 (twelve editions until 1903).
  • Hamburg hen party poems. New original poems and jokes in Low and High German; for one or more people, as well as for children. Hamburg 1861 (further editions: 1878, 1892).

Posthumous publications

  • Low German poems to be presented in sociable circles. Hamburg 1874 (further editions: 1876, 1877).
  • (with Albert Peter Johann Krüger ): De plattdütsche Pulterobend. For delighted Lüüd / von Schacht and Krüger (= Hamborger Volksböker. 2). Steudel et al. Hartkopf, Hamburg 1902.
  • Plattdütsche Schipperleeder. For joyful Seelüd (= Hamborger Volksböker. 3). Steudel et al. Hartkopf, Hamburg 1903.

literature

  • Ingrid Bigler: Schacht, Heinrich. In: Wilhelm Kosch (abbreviation): German Literature Lexicon . 3. Edition. Volume 14: Salt Knife - Schilling. Francke, Bern 1992, ISBN 3-317-01649-3 , Sp. 145 ( online via De Gruyter online).
  • Heinrich Schacht: Heinrich Schacht's biography (communicated by himself). In: ders .: Pictures from Hamburg's folk life. JF Richter, Hamburg 1855, pp. IX – XV ( full text in the Google book search).
  • Wilhelm Seelmann : The Low German literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: biobibliographical compilation. Soltau, 1897 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heike Müns : "The job of the seaman has always been a singing one" - On the change in the functions of the shanty in the Baltic Sea region. In: Ekkehard Ochs, Peter Tenhaef, Walter Werbeck (eds.): Song and song idea in the Baltic Sea region between 1750 and 1900: Papers of the 8th international musicological conference "Musica Baltica - interregional music-cultural relations in the Baltic Sea region", Greifswald-Lubmin, November 1998. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-631-36237-4 , p. 307 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. Hans-Dieter Loose: On the function of Low German in the caricatures of the Hamburg newspaper “Reform”. In: Journal of the Association for Hamburg History Volume 60 (1974) pp. 163–190 ( online ).
  3. ^ August Marahrens: Grammar of the Low German Language. Altona 1858. Reprint: Salzwasser, Paderborn 2011, ISBN 978-3-86444-182-0 , p. 23 f. ( online ).
  4. Heike Müns : Fields of work and methods of folklore stereotype research. In: Hans Henning Hahn, Stephan Scholz: Stereotype, identity and history: the function of stereotypes in social discourses. P. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-631-38473-4 , p. 148 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. Ute Hinrichsen: Blue Boys: Popular Sailor Pictures since the Imperial Era. Husum, 2005, ISBN 3-89876-235-1 , p. 65 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  6. ^ Heinrich W. Schwab : The club song of the 19th century. In: Rolf Wilhelm Brednich , Lutz Röhrich , Wolfgang Suppan (eds.): Handbuch des Volksliedes. Volume 1. The genres of the folk song. W. Fink, Munich 1973, DNB 740341057 , p. 869 ( limited preview in the Google book search).