Hinrich Kruse

Hinrich Kruse (left)

Hinrich Kruse (born December 27, 1916 in Toftlund , Schleswig-Holstein province , Kingdom of Prussia ; † July 17, 1994 in Braak near Neumünster ) was a German writer , radio play author , editor and collector of Low German folk stories.

Life

Kruse spent childhood and youth in Dithmarschen . He is the son of the teacher and folklorist Johann Kruse . After training at the Kiel University for Teacher Training , he worked as a teacher. During the Second World War he was a soldier in Belgium, Russia and Italy. He then resumed teaching and lived first in the Segeberg district and later in Braak near Neumünster .

Editor and collector

In 1941 he published a collection of Low German folk stories translated into High German. A comparable collection was published in Low German under the title Dumm Hans (1946) by the same publisher in Hamburg and in 1953 in Rendsburg with Wat sick dat Volk Vertellt, Nedderdüütsche Volksgeschichten another volume with Low German anecdotes collected by Kruse. This collection, read by Ivo Braak , also appeared on a speech plate .

In 1955, under the title Füürpüster, he published a study he wrote himself about the arsonist topic in the vernacular, which marked the transition from his collecting activities to his first independent literary works.

poet

From 1955, Kruse published not only radio plays but also stories and poetry, not without giving Low German literature new impulses in terms of both form and content. For example, Ludo Simons saw Kruse's collection of stories Weg un Ümweg (1958) as the final entry of the short story into Low German literature. “ They have shed all anecdotics and become concentrated snapshots of the clash between man and man or between man and fate ”, Simons remarked in 1965 at a lecture on Low German literature since 1945 in Bevensen about Kruse's “stories ut uns' Tiet” in the volume . Other literary scholars also saw the short stories in the tradition of Ernest Hemingway or praised Kruse's choice of topics, which was groundbreaking in Low German literature, and who began to deal with the Nazi era with his work at a time when German society still wanted to displace the majority (including in literature) .

Kruse's lyrical work was published in the volumes Mitlopen (1961) and Dat Gleis (1967) , among others .

In 1974 Kruse was awarded the Quickborn Prize .

In the 1960s and 1970s , Hinrich Kruse became a kind of leading figure for many subsequent Low German authors who saw the prejudices attached to Low German literature such as naivety, sentimentality or superficiality finally refuted by the work of the author. In 1979 Kruse was awarded the Fritz Reuter Prize .

Radio play author

One of Hinrich Kruse's most important radio plays is De Bischoff von Meckelnborg (1964), which, written by Kruse under the impact of the building of the Wall, is today a living document about a time when the Second World War was still a life experience for the majority of Germans and in which the contrasts between east and west seemed almost insurmountable. The radio play was staged for Radio Bremen in the year it was written by Walter Arthur Kreye , who directed several Kruse radio plays .

The radio play Dat Andenken (1963), composed a year earlier, was awarded the Hans Böttcher Prize in 1965.

There were other radio plays that were initially produced and broadcast by Radio Bremen, later also in co-production with NDR

A car drives Jupiter (1955)
Klaas sien Peerd (1956)
Töven op wat (1959)
Quitt (1967)
Souvenir (1968)
Glatties (1969)
De Stimm (1971)
Statschon 45 (1971)
Op de Fähr (1972)
Wrist mount! (1973)
De Höll hitt maken (1974)
Een Breefdräger rings the bell (1976)
Rugenbarg (1977)
Bööm wasst Liekers (1979)
Ick harr mien cigarettes forgotten (1979)
De Schrievdisch weer blank (1981)
Slapen Huns (1984)
Trek the emergency brake (1986)

From the late 1960s to the 80s , WDR also produced original radio plays by Kruse exclusively under the direction of Wolfram Rosemann , a. a. Quitt (1967), Souvenir (1972) or Slaopen Rüens (1985), some of them new recordings of radio plays already produced by Radio Bremen .

Kruse's radio plays a. a. in Low German radio play book of the publishing house of Fehr's Guild , Hamburg.

Works

Speech records and audio books

For the record series Low German Voices , Hinrich Kruse read from Weg and Ümweg on March 28, 1967 , namely To Gast , Tusculum , Dat Dbod ahn Klock and De Weg . Kruse also wrote the lyrics for the record Dat hest di dacht! Döntjes with the Ohnsorg Ensemble , published in 1979 by Eckert-Verlag Kiel. The audio book CD Nicks för ungoot! (Texts by Hinrich Kruse), read by Wilhelm Wieben, Verlag Michael Jung, Kiel, ISBN 3-929596-97-0

Fonts

Niederdeutsche Volksgeschichten (Ed.), Hamburg 1941, Richard Hermes Verlag (Niederdeutsche Bücherei - Volume 164)
Stupid Hans - Volksgeschichten ut Nedderdüütschland (Ed. And Introduction), Hamburg 1946, Richard Hermes Verlag (Low German Library - Volume 194 with drawings by Ortwin Knabe). Also published in Flensburg in 1953 in the series of booklets of Flensburger Ganzschrift.
Wat sik dat Volk vertellt, Nedderdüütsche Volksgeschichten (ed.), Rendsburg 1953, book publisher Heinrich Möller Sons
Weg un Ümweg, stories ut uns Tiet, Hamburg 1958
Mitlopen. Poems, Hamburg 1961
Dat track. Poems, Hamburg 1967
Desire is not yet available. Vertellen, Hamburg 1969
Ümkieken. Poems, Leer 1979
The oyster story and other hungry and dozing stories, Leer 1983
Do and then. Poems, Leer 1989

Secondary literature

Jochen Schütt: Criticism of time in contemporary Low German literature. Studies on the work of Hinrich Kruse. Neumünster 1974

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personal data
SURNAME	Kruse, Hinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer, radio play author, editor and collector of Low German folk stories
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH	Toftlund
DATE OF DEATH	17th July 1994
Place of death	Braak near Neumünster