Heinrich Traulsen

Heinrich Traulsen (born August 3, 1843 in Dollrottholz , Schleswig-Flensburg district , † February 7, 1914 in Flensburg ) was a German farmer, dock worker and writer.

Life

Heinrich Traulsen's father came from Mehlby . After the marriage, he bought a cottage in Dollrottholz in 1834 . Heinrich Traulsen was born there as the only living child. The other three children died early. After primary school in Süderbrarup , Heinrich Traulsen was a boarder on his uncle's farm in Langdeel. He married in 1866 and took over his father's Kate the following year. In 1874 he sold them and bought a small brick factory in Steinfeld. But his good-naturedness and his trustworthiness repeatedly led to financial difficulties. He had a family of eight children to support. He tried again as a farmer, was a leaseholder of an inn for a short time, but here too he was unsuccessful. Finally, in 1881, he hired himself out in Flensburg as a port worker for a shipping company and coal merchant at the Flensburg harbor , and later he became an administrator responsible for the houses of a building cooperative. In Flensburg he began to write poems and stories, mostly in Low German. In 1900 a collection of six stories was published, “Sluder un Snack. Süs Vertelln in Angler Plett un en Narop op Mutter Smidt ”. In 1901 he met the fairy tale researcher Wilhelm Wisser , who recognized his talent. When in 1904 the Berlin Scherl-Verlag put out a price for a fairy tale, Wisser sent in Traulsen's fairy tale “Erika” - without his knowledge. This fairy tale surprisingly won the first prize worth 3,000 gold marks. It was published in 1905 and was a huge hit. In 1936 the fairy tale became the basis of the opera “ Schwarzer Peter ”, the libretto was written by Walter Liek and the music was composed by Norbert Schultze . Traulsen's last years were overshadowed by a cancer that had befallen both him and his wife. His wife died in 1911 and three years later he too succumbed to the disease.

Works

• Sluder and snack. Süs Vertelln in Angler Platt un en Narop op Mutter Smidt. 6 stories, Flensburg 1900
• Erika, Märchen, in: Neuer deutscher Märchenschatz, Berlin 1905
• The people in the Watt (Dörpslüd), story, Leipzig 1907
• Olaf Trygvason, historical drama, 1906 (?), Unpublished
• Poems, short stories, fairy tales, published in newspapers and magazines

literature

• Johannes Callsen, Heinrich Traulsen (1843–1914). Biography of a local writer, in: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, vol. 49, 1985, pp. 119-131
• Berthold Hamer, Biographies of the fishing landscape, "Heinrich Traulsen" (author J. Callsen), pp. 756–757, Husum 2007
• Gundula Hubrich-Messow, Heinrich Traulsen as a storyteller and storyteller, in: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, vol. 53, 1989, pp. 208-223
• Gundula Hubrich-Messow, storyteller and recorder from fishing, Flensburg and Schleswig, in: Yearbook of the Heimatverein der Landschaft fishing, vol. 72, 2008, pp. 137-160
• Wilhelm Wisser, Low German folk tales. Jena: Eugen Diederich 1913
• Wilhelm Wisser, Looking for a fairy tale, Hamburg / Berlin 1926
• Wilhelm Wisser, Low German folk tales, new series. Jena: Eugen Diederich 1927
• Gundula Hubrich-Messow, Legends and Fairy Tales from Flensburg, Husum 1992
• Kurt Ranke, Schleswig-Holstein Folk Tales, Vol. 1–3. Kiel 1955–1962

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich Traulsen in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)