Hermann Allmers

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Hermann Allmers

Hermann Ludwig Allmers (born February 11, 1821 in Rechtenfleth ; † March 9, 1902 there ) was a German writer. As a “march poet”, he mainly wrote about the culture and landscape of his north-west German homeland.

Life

Hermann Allmers grew up as the only child of wealthy parents. His father Wirich came from a respected Osterstader farming family, his mother was a pastor's daughter from Sandstedt . Allmers' parents felt obliged to an enlightened Christianity. Because of the poor school situation in the Osterstader Marsch, Allmers received lessons from private tutors and was also dependent on autodidactic studies. The boy was first interested in natural history , especially tropical botany . Later the tutors awakened his interest in antiquity and history, especially the history of his homeland. The father enabled the son to travel through Germany, the Alps and Northern Italy , which Allmers reported in prose and poetry with great success in Bremen newspapers. In the 1840s, Hermann Allmers worked primarily in the field of popular education (founding a choral society and a public library), his motivation was political (Allmers felt committed to the goals of the Vormärz ). After his father's death in 1849, he took over the family farm.

Formative encounters

On his travels Allmers met well-known and influential personalities. In 1845 he made his first trip to see Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in Freyburg (Unstrut) . During a long stay in Berlin in 1856 he met Carl Ritter , the founder of comparative geography , and Franz Kugler , with whom Allmer shared scientific and artistic interests. Ritter encouraged him to continue working on his North German Vegetation Pictures , which were then published as a march book in 1858 .

On a second trip to the Alps in 1856 in Zurich he met the writers Adolf Stahr and Fanny Lewald . On June 6, 1856, he was accepted into the Masonic Lodge Zum Oelzweig in Bremen. In 1858 the march book with the subtitle Land- und Volksbilder from the marshes of the Weser and Elbe was published , the first complete representation of a German landscape. This book caught the attention of Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl , the founder of scientific folklore , who visited the author in Rechtenfleth and introduced him to the Royal Round Table , to which Emanuel Geibel also belonged.

Also in 1858 he made his most important and longest journey; it took him to Italy for 15 months. In Ischia he met his lifelong friend Ernst Haeckel , with whom he hiked across the island for a week, went to Naples, climbed Vesuvius , visited Capri and shared intensely perceived nature experiences. In Rome he gathered a group of German artists who met daily in a café on Piazza Colonna and therefore called themselves the Colonna Society . Allmers became friends with the court preacher Johannes Kessler . He processed his impressions in the book Römische Schlendertage .

Another important encounter from 1894 onwards was his close friendship with Hans Müller-Brauel , whom he dubbed his election nephew , who accompanied him on his travels to southern Germany in 1895. Then in 1896 separation from Müller-Brauel, who was accused of scheming behavior and "indiscreet handling of Allmers' collection of letters". In 1897 Müller-Brauel published his biographical sketches about Allmers: The marching poet Hermann Allmers. A literary-biographical sketch.

Harro Magnussen , Erwin Küsthardt and Walter Haeckel also belonged to the group of Allmers' nephews .

Rechtenfleth

Allmers' house in Rechtenfleth (1866)

After returning home from Italy, Allmers had his house and garden redesigned with the help of his artist friends in 1860. The residential part of the homestead was raised and provided with a stepped gable . The sculptor Diedrich Kropp, who was a friend of Allmers, provided the facade decorations . Inside, Allmers created - as a mirror of his worldview and his own work - a Roman room and the so-called march hall .

While the antique hall, which was painted by Arthur Fitger, was used to display casts of antique sculptures , Allmers had Heinrich von Dörnberg , Erwin Küsthardt (based on a template by Otto Knilles ), Hugo Händler and Fitger equip the hall above with paintings. These pictures make the Allmers-Haus a shrine of history for the landscapes on the German North Sea coast. With the renovation of his house, Allmers pursued the intention to create an artistic-historical place of education for his homeland; therefore everyone was free to visit the house during their lifetime.

When a Lutheran- Orthodox catechism was to be introduced in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1862 , Allmers vehemently advocated the retention of the previously valid enlightened catechism of 1790 and in 1863 participated as a synodal in the introduction of a Lutheran regional synod in which lay people should also be represented. With his writing The basilica as a model for Protestant church building , he participated in the public discussion about the building of neo-Gothic churches. His religious poems under the title Fromm und Frei (1889) advocate an undogmatic conception of Christianity.

In Bremen in 1864, Hermann Allmers initiated and financed the installation of a bronze portrait medallion for Johann Gottfried Seume based on the design by the artist Victor von Meyenburg (light gray granite border) on the workhouse on the street Herrlichkeit, because this is where the to Seume forced into military service had managed to escape with the help of Bremen citizens: Seume is said to have jumped from the ship at this point.

Otto Modersohn , Fritz Overbeck , Hermann Allmers, Fritz Mackensen , Heinrich Vogeler , Carl Vinnen 1895

Hermann Allmers was a regular guest at the painter Georg Müller vom Siel in the artists' colony Dötlingen . Here, among others, the poet Georg Ruseler , the painter and poet Arthur Fitger , the painter Ludwig Fischbeck , the editor Wilhelm von Busch and the graphic artist Marie Stein-Ranke met . Hermann Allmers also had regular contact with the painters in the Worpswede artists' colony . The traces of these and other lifelong friendships can be found to this day in Allmers' estate, which comprises more than 11,000 letters. The circle of correspondence partners is broad, from Nobel Prize winners to prisoners.

He was a friend and promoter of the art and culture of his homeland. In 1882 he founded the Heimatbund of the men from Morgenstern and on the western side of the Weser the Rüstringer Heimatbund . Both associations exist to this day and each have around 1,500 members.

It rests in a vaulted vault that was created in 1852 in the Rechtenflether cemetery under a hill surrounded by trees.

Honors

Georg Müller vom Siel : Hermann Allmers

plant

Allmers was a well-known writer towards the end of the 19th century for his poetry and prose. Today it is largely forgotten outside of northwest Germany. Literary studies struggle with the generation of writers whom Hermann Allmers valued and to which he himself belonged. Like their peers in the field of the visual arts, Emanuel Geibel, Friedrich Bodenstedt , Julius Grosse and Paul Heyse do not conform to the paradigm of scientific progress and their works are often dismissed as formalistic or obsolete in their time.

The most important prose works by Hermann Allmers are the Marschenbuch (1858) and the Roman Strolling Days (1869), after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Italian Journey, the most widespread Italian book in the German language (published in twelve editions).

Memorial plaque on the Rudelsburg

Allmers is the poet of the well-known student song Dort Saaleck, here the Rudelsburg (1846). When he was on a hike with students from Jena and Halle (Saale) , he was inspired by the delightful location of the ruins on a rock above the Saale , which attracted many students and made the castle a popular hiking destination. The song later became the recognition song of the corps students , whose annual meeting point was the Rudelsburg and has been back since 1994.

Two poems by Allmers were set to music by Johannes Brahms : Feldeinsamkeit (Op. 86 No. 2) and Spätherbst (Op. 92 No. 2).

Field loneliness

I rest quietly in the tall, green grass
and send my gaze upwards for a long time , surrounded
by crickets
swirling around without ceasing , wondrously woven by the blue of the sky .

The beautiful white clouds move
through the deep blue, like beautiful quiet dreams -
I feel as if I have long since died ,
And move blissfully through eternal spaces .

Works

  • Marsh Book. Landscapes and folk images from the marshes of the Weser and Elbe . Schulze, Oldenburg 1858. Reprint: Bernd Ulrich Hucker (Ed.): Facsimile edition, supplemented by the sections from later editions and a foreword. Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-145-7 .
  • Seals . Heyse, Bremen, 1860. ( digitized version )
  • Roman strolling days . Schulze, Oldenburg 1868 ( digitized 2nd edition 1870 )
  • Elektra . Drama in one act. Schulze, Oldenburg 1872. ( digitized version )
  • Hermann Allmers (ed.): Roman wall calendar of the German nation. 1884-1895.
  • Pious and free . 1889.

See also

Allmers School in Bremerhaven

literature

  • Axel Behne (ed.): Inside and outside - home and foreign. Hermann Allmers as a model. Contributions to a conference on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Men from the Morning Star. Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser e. V. Bremerhaven 2008, ISBN 978-3-931771-46-1 .
  • Axel Behne: The house of the poet Hermann Allmers in Rechtenfleth on the Weser. Completely revised 2nd edition. District of Cuxhaven, Rechtenfleth 2001, ISBN 3-934100-01-5 .
  • Axel Behne, Oliver Gradel (ed.): Being human and benefiting people. Hermann Allmers and his artist friends. (Catalog for the exhibition of the same name). District of Cuxhaven, Otterndorf 2002, ISBN 3-934100-04-X .
  • Johannes Göhler: Fromm und Frei - Hermann Allmers as a religious thinker, church reformer and opponent of neo-Lutheran orthodoxy. In: Ways of faith: Contributions to a church history of the country between the Elbe and Weser . Landschaftsverband Stade, Stade 2006, ISBN 3-931879-26-7 .
  • Hermann-Allmers-Gesellschaft eV (Ed.): Hermann Allmers for his 175th birthday. Self-published, Rechtenfleth 1996.
  • Bernd Ulrich Hucker : Hermann Allmers and his Marschenhof. The history of the Allmershof and the Osterstader village of Rechtenfleth in relation to the life and work of the patriot, poet and scholar; with a bibliography of his works . Holzberg, Oldenburg iO 1981, ISBN 3-87358-136-1 .
  • Hans Müller-Brauel: The marching poet Hermann Allmers. A literary-biographical sketch. With 22 art gifts. Carl Schünemann Verlag. Bremen 1897.
  • Dieter Richter : The march poet in the south. Hermann Allmers and Italy . In: Christian Marzahn / Dieter Richter (eds.): Bremen and Italy. About the history of a relationship . Bremen 1993, pp. 109-21.
  • Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography. Volume 1: Hanoverian men and women since 1866. Sponholtz, Hanover 1912, pp. 11–22.
  • Kurd Schulz :  Allmers, Hermann Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , pp. 203 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Kurd Schulz (Ed.): Hermann Allmer's works in selection . Reprint of the 1965 edition. Bremerhaven 2000, ISBN 3-931771-33-4 .
  • Theodor Siebs : Hermann Allmers. His life and poetry presented using his estate . 2nd Edition. Bremerhaven 1982, DNB 840478674 .
  • Hans Gerhard Steimer (Ed.): Hermann Allmers - Correspondence. Part 1: Correspondence with friends in Bremen . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8378-4022-3 .
  • Hans Gerhard Steimer, Axel Behne (ed.): Hermann Allmers - Correspondence. Part 2: Correspondence with friends in the northwest . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8378-4032-2 .
  • Hans Gerhard Steimer, Axel Behne (eds.): Hermann Allmers - Correspondence, Part 3: Correspondence with friends in the distance . 2 vols. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2017-2019, ISBN 978-3-8378-4051-3 and ISBN 978-3-8378-4061-2 .
  • Brage bei der Wieden, Jan Lokers (Ed.): CVs between the Elbe and Weser. A biographical lexicon Vol. 1. Landschaftsverband Stade, Stade 2002, ISBN 3-931879-08-9 , pp. 28–31.

Web links

Commons : Hermann Allmers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Hermann Allmers  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.seume.de/dokumente/Allmers%20Rom%20Kirche.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.seume.de  
  2. ↑ http://www.landschaftsverband-stade.de/herrmann-allmers.html
  3. ^ Ernst Haeckel: Italy trip. Letters to the Bride, 1859-1860. , ed. by Heinrich Schmidt, Leipzig 1921, pp. 69, 79. - Rudolph Koop (ed.): Haeckel and Allmers , The story of a friendship in letters from friends. Bremen 1941
  4. ^ Hans Gerhard Steimer, Axel Behne (Ed.): Hermann Allmers - Correspondence. Part 2: Correspondence with friends in the northwest . Edition Temmen, Bremen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8378-4032-2 , p. 705.
  5. ↑ http://www.hermann-allmers.de/besuch-im-allmers-haus/
  6. ^ Allmers' friends. In: Hermann Allmers Society. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  7. ^ Allmers' letters. In: Hermann Allmers Society. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  8. ↑ The name refers to the early medieval Gau Rüstringen , which was one of the seven Frisian Seelands.
  9. ^ Hermann-Allmers-Str., Otterndorf City Map - meinestadt.de. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  10. ^ Hermann-Allmers-Str in Otterndorf ⇒ in Das Örtliche. Retrieved August 5, 2020 .
  11. ↑ a b c Allmers' works. In: Hermann Allmers Society. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Allmers, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allmers, Hermann Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Rechtenfleth
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1902
Place of death Rechtenfleth