Herbert Bellmer

Herbert Johann Bellmer (born February 28, 1895 in Rönnebeck ; † January 5, 1950 in Lübeck ) was a German educator and as a writer an important representative of Low German literature. He taught at several schools in Northern Germany and was intensely committed to maintaining and promoting a Low German (Low German) language culture.

Life

Origin, education and private life

He came from a traditional sailor family in Lower Saxony - his father Johann Bellmer († 1897) was also a captain - and was born in Rönnebeck on the Lower Weser . His education joined Bellmer 1914 at the secondary school in the near Bremen district of Vegesack from.

He then studied at the University of Kiel , the University of Marburg , the University of Rostock and the Royal University of Greifswald German . During his time at the latter institution, he joined the local association of abstinent students , which was organized in the German Association of abstinent students . Between 1916 and 1918 he took part in the First World War as a front-line fighter , most recently as a deputy sergeant in the 3rd Guards Field Artillery Regiment . Shortly before the end of the war, on October 8, 1918, he was awarded the Iron Cross, 2nd class . After resuming his studies, he passed the state examination for higher education in German, English and philosophy with honors on March 5, 1920 in Greifswald . His assessor work was about the consideration of Low German in German lessons at secondary schools . From April 1920 he completed his pedagogical training at the secondary school in Eckernförde and at the grammar school in Plön . In the summer of 1923 he put in Greifswald successfully the final exam and was with a dissertation on the word repetition in the works of Wolfram von Eschenbach PhD .

Herbert Bellmer married in December 1928. After the German surrender and his release (see next section), he was imprisoned for ten months in the Gadeland internment camp . In 1949 he went through a denazification procedure in Bremen , but was already severely marked by economic hardship, incurable illness and the physical consequences of imprisonment. He died in Lübeck in early 1950.

Professional career

From April 1921 to April 1925 Bellmer worked at the German dismantling department of the Danish state school in Aabenraa . This was followed by teaching activities at the Lyceum in Elmshorn and at the advanced school in Kappeln , before he switched to the advanced school in Bremen (today's grammar school on Hamburger Straße ) in April 1926 . With effect from September 23, 1940 he was appointed director of the Lübeck Ernestinenschule - a high school for girls. In his speech on the dismissal of high school graduates in 1943, which was printed in the Lübecker Zeitung , “[he] made use of the Nazi ideology” and spoke of the “Soviet-Jewish world revolution”, the “German rights to life and the struggle for fate, in which the Germans too Girls would have to participate ”. On the orders of the British military government , he was dismissed from school in the summer of 1945.

In addition to his full-time work as a teacher and headmaster, Bellmer distinguished himself as an author and promoter of the Low German language . He wrote several stage plays and fairy tales, a treatise on the Bremen writer Wilhelm Rocco and also edited a selection of his and Georg Droste's works - whereby Droste, according to Günther Flemming's judgment, "was appropriated as a 'national writer'". Bellmer's pieces were premiered at the Niederdeutsche Bühne Oldenburg and the Niederdeutsche Bühne Hamburg , among others . During his time in Bremen he cooperated closely with the local Low German Association and in 1939 organized a Low German working group for teachers at secondary schools on behalf of the school authorities.

Works

Low German plays

• De swarte Hahn. A happy murder story in a trip . Hermes-Verlag Hamburg 1935.
• Whipping cloth. A funny spill in three trips . Hermes-Verlag, Hamburg 1936.
• De Düvel dances. Speel in three trips . Hermes-Verlag, Hamburg 1938.
• Jan Pannkoken un de gel hex. Plattdüütsche Määrken . Meißner-Verlag , Hamburg 1939.
• Söven Milen versus Stroom. Plattdütsch Kumödie in 3 trips . Hermes-Verlag, Hamburg 1949.

High German plays

• The faithful wife. Fairy tale game in 10 pictures based on the folk tale of the same name . Arwed Strauch Verlag , Leipzig 1927.
• Thorstein. A youth game about faith and love . Arwed Strauch Verlag, Leipzig 1928.
• The three holy kings. A nativity play . Rauhen Haus agency , Hamburg 1934.

prose

• Wilhelm Rocco as a Low German poet . Arndt-Verlag Melchers & Boettcher, Bremen 1931.
• as editor: Georg Droste. A selection from his writings . Meißner-Verlag, Hamburg 1934.
• as editor: G. Droste: Ottjen Alldag . Slightly abridged one-volume new edition of the three series novels. Schünemann Verlag , Bremen 1937.
• as editor: W. Rocco: De Banditenbruut in Verden un anner Stuckschen . Meißner-Verlag, Hamburg 1938.

radio play

• 1966: De swarte Hahn. Cheerful Low German radio play - Director: Curt Timm

Speaker:

• Henry Vahl : Albert Wöhlers
• Hilde Sicks : Aleid, his wife
• Edgar Bessen : Friderk, your son
• Hans Fitze : Lüder Husmann, neighbor
• Ingrid von Bothmer : Metjen, his wife
• Ingeborg Walther : Hanne, your daughter

Remarks

1. ↑ Rönnebeck was still an independent community at that time. The place was incorporated into Blumenthal in 1907/08 and finally, together with this, to Bremen in 1939.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Entry on Herbert Bellmer in the Rostock matriculation portal . Retrieved from purl.uni-rostock.de on April 22, 2016.
2. ↑ Freideutsche Jugend - A monthly magazine . Volume 2, No. 3/4, 1916, p. 587.
3. ↑ ^{a b} https://archivdatenbank.bbf.dipf.de/actaproweb/archive.xhtml?id=Vz++++++db1efaaa-a977-4094-8e41-ce8cc9fb9e9a#Vz______db1efaaa-a977-4094-8e41-ce8cc9fb9e9a in the library for educational history research . Retrieved from bbf.dipf.de on April 22, 2016.
4. ↑ Herbert Bellmer in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Short biography and list of publications on Herbert Bellmer. ( Memento from April 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved from mahnke-verlag.de (Karl Mahnke Theaterverlag) on ​​April 20, 2016.
6. ↑ Repertory for holdings 7.97 of the Bremen State Archives. Retrieved from wilhelm-helene-kaisen-stiftung.de ( Wilhelm und Helene-Kaisen -Stiftung) on ​​April 20, 2016.
7. ^ J. Fligge : Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich". A study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich . Schmidt-Römhild , Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , p. 628.
8. ^ J. Fligge: Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich". A study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , p. 1075, note 2249.
9. ^ J. Fligge: Lübeck schools in the "Third Reich". A study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5214-0 , p. 880.
10. ↑ G. Flemming (Ed.): Georg Droste: Achtern Diek. Autobiographical writings . Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86267-044-4 , p. 26.