Helmuth Schröder (poet)

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Helmuth Schröder

Helmuth Friedrich Daniel Schröder , also Schroeder (born April 2, 1842 in Spornitz , † December 11, 1909 in Ribnitz ) was a German teacher and Low German poet.

Life

Helmuth Schröder was born as the youngest of ten children of the village school teacher von Spornitz near Parchim . His sense of practical life as well as history , legends , fairy tales , folk songs and the German and Low German language was awakened in the home. Originally he had wanted to become a businessman or a farmer (his mother came from a Spornitz farming family), but then he complied with the wishes of his family and decided - like his father, who died early - to become a teacher.

At the age of eighteen he passed the assistant teacher examination and first taught in Neustadt in Mecklenburg. He then attended the teachers' college in Neukloster and found a job in Parchim in 1866. After only one year he moved to Matzlow near Parchim, where he stayed for eight years and married the farmer's daughter Henriette Kohl. In 1875 Schröder took over a teaching position in Mistorf near Güstrow . Daughter Elisabeth Schröder was born in 1877 and later also became a writer.

In 1886 he then moved to Völkshagen , now part of the Mecklenburg small town of Marlow . How much he soon felt connected to this village is shown by his poem with the title Min leiw lütt Dorp!

After his retirement in 1908, Helmuth Schröder moved to Ribnitz, where he spent the last year of his life. He was buried in the old Ribnitz cemetery, where his grave is still today.

Services

Schröder came to poetry at the suggestion of the important German Low German poet Fritz Reuter (1810–1874). In addition to his work as a village school teacher, numerous Low German poems were written over the years, in which he repeatedly described nature and village life. They were published in several independent volumes during his lifetime.

The writer and dialect poet Gorch Fock (1880-1916) published a tribute in 1912 on the occasion of Helmuth Schröder's seventieth birthday, in which it says:

Son poems above hett em keeneen vormokt un bet closer still keeneen nomokt: de stoht completely for sick alleen un sünd op Plattdütsch anners not yet been schreben. Ut sien poems teaches us to know: how he feels un wat he from sien plattdütsch Sprook holln het, from sien olle world, from sienen Hertog, from his emperor and fromt dütsche Riek, from god un Heben, from Froo un child. The old man is all over in his place.

Many of Helmuth Schröder's poems were set to music - among others by the Damgarten composer Hermann Bendix (1859-1935), who rehearsed and repeatedly performed the choral movements with the choirs he directed (the mixed choir and the male choir Ribnitz ).

In Ribnitz-Damgarten , a street was named after Helmuth Schröder. The Völkshagen village association has called itself Helmuth Schröder e. V. given.

Works

  • As't de Garv givt - Plattdütsche Dichtels before Lütt un Grot (Güstrow, 1880).
  • Plattdütsche Kräns 'un Strüz' (Güstrow, 1899).
  • Schulten Fieken - 'Ne mekelbörgsch Dörpsgeschicht . (Price amendment). In: De Eekbom (Berlin, 1899).
  • Ut Mekelbörger Buerhüser
    • Bi Kräuger Bolts (Leipzig, 1901 and reprint Hörnum / Sylt, 1996).
    • Holzen Rike - En Vertellen ut de föftiger Johren in't vörrig Johrhunnert (Leipzig, 1905).
    • Veer Vertellen (Leipzig, 1907).
  • Ut minen Lütten Gorden. Low German poetry (Ribnitz, 1909 and Rostock, 1934).
  • Low German reading book. Poetry and prose by the Volkshäger teacher Helmuth Schröder. Selected and ed. by Hans Erichson. Rostock 2007. ISBN 978-3-86785-042-1 .

literature

  • Otto Decker: Helmuth Schröder - his life and works. Rostock 1911.
  • Richard Suhr: Helmuth Schröder, his life and his works. In: Festschrift for the anniversaries of the district town Ribnitz-Damgarten (1958).
  • Hans Esch: The Spornitzer local poet Helmuth Schröder. In: Spornitz through the ages (2000).
  • Hans Erichson: The Low German lyric poet Helmuth Schröder (1842-1909). In: Dei Ribnitzer Mückensprütters un anner Vertellers (2002).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gorch Fock: Helmuth Schröder - Een Word to sien 70th birthday. In: Quickborn (1911/12).
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Helmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schröder, Helmuth Friedrich Daniel (full name); Schroeder, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and Low German poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Spornitz
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1909
Place of death Ribnitz