Heinrich Steinberg
Heinrich Steinberg (born December 17, 1913 in Schimmerwitz , Lauenburg i. Pom. , † May 5, 1995 in Arnum , a district of Hemmingen ) was mayor ( FDP ) of Hohenkirchen in the 1950s and later appeared as a poet of shaking rhymes emerged.
Life
Heinrich Steinberg was born on December 17, 1912 in Schimmerwitz in the district of Lauenburg i. Pom. in Western Pomerania as the son of the teacher Hermann Steinberg and his wife Ida, b. Born Stach. After graduating from the Staatliche Bildungsanstalt (StaBila) Köslin, he was initially a bank apprentice, then a leader in the Reich Labor Service (RAD) and ended the Second World War as the commander of a tank department under the command of Lieutenant General Kurt-Jürgen von Lützow . After his release from Polish captivity, Steinberg ran a haulage company in Hohenkirchen from around 1951 , was elected mayor ( FDP ) there in 1952 despite his status as a “refugee” and remained so until 1959. A street in the town is also named after him. He also studied business administration , came to Hanover , where he was an authorized signatory at Continental AG until he retired . Politically, he had meanwhile switched to the SPD .
As a pensioner he was able to concentrate more on his hobbies. One of them was the shake rhyme . It took seven years to implement his long-cherished plan to "shake up" Goethe's Faust . In 1984 this endeavor was completed with a fist shaken . It was followed by Reinke Fuchs (1989) and as editor and co-author Bridge cheer? (no year, after 1989). Individual rhyme poems were included in various anthologies. He has repeatedly appeared on the radio with his works and also appeared on a talk show. Steinberg was a member of the Heimatbund Lower Saxony , local group Hemmingen. He was married twice and had four children.
Works
- Heinrich Steinberg: fist - shaken. A predominantly cheerful game in 12 pictures quite clear to Faust . Lax, Hildesheim 1984, ISBN 3-7848-8251-X .
- Heinrich Steinberg: Reinke Fuchs. A very old, very new book of Levites in rhymes and hexameters . Lax, Hildesheim 1989, ISBN 3-7848-8258-7 .
- Heinrich Steinberg (Ed.): Bridge cheerful? - that I don't laugh… . topp + möller, Detmold without year (after 1989).
As a co-author in anthologies:
- Karl Leberecht Emil Nickel (Ed.): Schüttelsprüche. An anthology about shaken proverbs, life rules and wisdom, sayings, reflections, commandments and maxims by over 87 authors from more than a hundred years in a total of 775 shaking verses and shaking poems. Lax, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-8269-8262-2 .
- Sita Steen (ed.): New shake poems of the master guild. Edited by Sita Steen. Lax, Hildesheim 1985, ISBN 3-7848-8252-8 .
Reviews
"Goethe, who had a lot of fun with irony and satire (although one often tried to suppress this and is still trying to do so) would have read this Faust - Schüttelt with joy."
"" Faust shaken "by Heinrich Steinberg is the work of an artist, a person who one must assume that he also dreams in shaking rhymes. But apart from this astonishing skill of being able to 'examine' certain syllable constellations instantly in a crab: Steinberg's text is peppered with puns and allusions, tricky language acrobatics (even with Latin, English, French chunks) and masterful taming of conventional German grammar. In addition, and not infrequently, there is the dimension of time criticism, social satire and political discussion. Anyone who wanted to think that with the shaking rhyme only light-footed humorous things, only slightly funny things, should learn something new with Steinberg. "
“Steinberg's contemporary, formally and in terms of content, updated arrangement fits easily into this narrative tradition. In earlier centuries this Reinke Fuchs would certainly have been placed on the index, today it should be used as a school book. "
"The reader will find: the author is a modern man in his choice of words, in his morality at the height of our time and in his form a virtuoso."
Honors
- Heinrich-Steinberg-Strasse in the northwest of Hohenkirchen, municipality of Wangerland, commemorates his services as mayor .
literature
- Horst-Rüdiger Marten: Heinrich Steinberg. In: home country. Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care. No. 2, 1990.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Steinberg, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Mayor (FDP) and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schimmerwitz , Lauenburg i. Pom. |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 5, 1995 |
| Place of death | Arnum |