Iven Kruse

Iven Kruse (born April 11, 1865 in Ruhwinkel ; † September 10, 1926 ) was a German poet , writer and editor .

Life

Johannes Kruse was born on April 11th as the first child of the master blacksmith in Ruhwinkel , Plön district. Kruse attends the one-class village school. He has no interest in blacksmithing; he much prefers to read the stories of Theodor Storm , Eduard Mörike and the works of Wilhelm Raabe . So he should start the teaching career. But the visit to the Preparande in Barmstedt fails; A short time later, because of homesickness, Kruse returns home. In 1884 he accepted a position as an unskilled worker with Wilhelm Biernatzkis in Kiel, who owned the ›Schlesw.-Holst. Publishes yearbooks. With the beginning of the traineeship at the ›Kieler Zeitung‹ in 1885, the first literary works appear. The publication of the Low German ballad ›De Schattentog‹ draws the poet Detlev von Liliencron's attention to Kruse. It is Liliencron who gives him the stage name "Iven".

From 1889 onwards, Kruse was a frequent guest in Kellinghusen with Detlev v. Liliencron and helps him proofreading and editing the volume of poems ›Der Haidegänger‹. When the volume finally appeared in 1890, it contained a printed dedication to the friend from Ruhwinkel. He is a member of the Berlin association> Free Theater 'because of internal differences over the increasing modern direction on August 2, 1890, together with Arno Holz , John sleep , Otto Ernst , Otto Julius Bierbaum , Detlev von Liliencron , Hermann Bahr and Bernhard Malnicke his resignation known from the association that does not want to be made into the "organ" of certain people or groups.

On the advice of Detlev v. In 1891, Liliencrons went to Munich as a freelance writer, where he joined a group of Scandinavian artists. He succeeds in doing some work for the newly founded magazine ›Moderne Dichtung. Monthly journal for literature and criticism (Ed. EM Kafka / hereinafter referred to as “Freie Bühne” and “Neue deutsche Rundschau”) (“Christ”, “The Crucified” and sensitive reviews, including on Paul Scheerbart ), also comes into contact with theosophical circles, in whose monthly journal ›Sphinx‹, edited by Wilhelm Hübbe Schleiden - primarily dedicated to metaphysical topics - he was able to publish the short prose poem ›Die Gekreuzigte‹ again in 1892. Overall, he does not manage to gain a foothold in Munich. Disillusioned, he moves back to his hometown six months later. During a stay in Hamburg he met the publisher of the ›Cuxhavener Tageblatt‹, Georg Rauschenplat, who offered him a job, and Kruse took it. In the years that followed, Kruse made friends with people such as Richard Dehmel , Otto Ernst (Schmidt) and Jacob Bödewadt, Timm Kröger and Hermann Löns . Further stations are: 1902 features editor at the ›Hamburger Nachrichten‹, 1911 editor-in-chief of the features editor at the Hamburger ›Fremdblatt‹, 1919 features editor of the ›Kieler Zeitung‹, 1922 editor of the ›Schleswigschen Grenzpost‹ in Flensburg, 1923 editor of the cultural supplement ›Salz und Brot‹ the ›Niederdeutsche Rundschau‹.

In 1925 another attempt to live as a freelance writer followed. His largest short story ›The Third Bismarck‹ is confiscated and destroyed by a court order after publication at the instigation of a Flensburg publisher. The places Ruhwinkel, Altekoppel, Wankendorf, the estates, landowners and other real people appear only slightly concealed. As of December 31, 1938, the work is classified as " harmful and undesirable literature ". During the commissioned work for the Ahlmann family on the history of the Hollersche Carlshütte in Rendsburg, Kruse died on September 10, 1926. He found his grave in the Bornhöved cemetery , to whose parish his place of birth belongs.

Kruse is best known as an idyllic artist with a naturalistic influence thanks to the atmospheric novellas and poems in Low and High German that are set in his Holstein homeland. - Contemporary writers commented benevolently on Kruse's stories and poems. Detlev v. Liliencron saw in him the revival of the Low German ballad. Timm Kröger praised the work and Hans Ehrke wrote: "No other poet has drawn the face of Holstein more excellently in this way"; and Hermann Löns , the Lower Saxon heath poet, wrote about the ›Schwarzbrotesser‹: “People in Northern Lower Saxony are like this: standing on the ground with coarse realism, with a trembling soul peering into infinity and the shortfall between debit and credit in human existence with quiet humor booking «. The late Theodor Fontane even called Kruse the Low German Dostoevsky because of the characters in "He will de Ogen todohn" and spoke of his characters: "Something of the blood of Tolstoy runs in your veins."

As a direct reaction to Kruse's work, streets in Bornhöved, Büdelsdorf, Ruhwinkel and Hamburg-Lohbrügge were named after him.

Poems (excerpt)

THE FOREIGN CITY
The express train played its roar
World melody for many long hours;
The monotonous, rarely pausing,
Before he found himself at his final destination;
He already had many thousands
Restlessly conquered by altitude,
Panting tremendously, but never erring
Hissing through tunnels, clinking over bridges.

My heart flutters and tiredness
But clutched his forehead with a pale hand;
How far was the red morning hour
Since I can see the glacial fur from afar!
Now it was behind us since noon
And evening sank ... It swayed in my heart
Like a flood of images, changing forever
Chopping every pure impression to splinter.

And evening sank ... But there is still twilight brightness.
How mountains and forest flee from my sight!
As if they left their place in horror
In a fogging white nowhere.
But it's us, restless like the wave
And pass by without a homeland,
Past some small stations
The fearful watched the vision.
[...]
(Excerpt from Iven Kruse: Brocken und Krumen. Reflections. Poems. Letters. Wankendorf 2000)

DODENVOLK
When de Maand an'n Häwen
Mang de Steerns, de he Höden deit,
When that lies' vun baben sounds,
As when the angels sing en Droomleed,
When the after-wind sinks in
In dat Koorn, dat sik bögen deit
Week inconsistent
In the warm, luscious summer night
Sometimes here and there
And then no more
As if dat en olen Grotvaderdanz weer -

If that were twelve of the Karktoorn,
Swar, lud, as en Stemm ut de eternity,
Because sik dat ok bi de lütte Kark,
Dat clumps, dat reddens, dat wunnerwarkt;
Because there was no life for Blomen and Krut:
The Dodenvolk stiggt ut the graves herut;
Lock more de Maand? He seems so nice -
Dor cares de Tog al ut dat Dor:

Verano loops de Lütten, all hand in hand,
Now it roars along the way, now to de Kant;
The young people then, en whole swarm,
Wölk gaht alleen, wölk arm in arm;
Un then de Olen, een bi een,
With crooked Rügg un stiwe Been;
So slowly gaht it, barely it can with -
You only see, you don't hear a step.
[...]
(Excerpt from Iven Kruse: Dodenvolk. Vertellns un Riemels. Wankendorf 1999)

Works

• Commemorative book to commemorate the jubilee of the 500th anniversary of the union of the Ritzebüttel office with the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . Cuxhaven 1895.
• Black bread eater. Holstein characters and stories. Georg Heinrich Meyer, Berlin / Leipzig undated [1900].
• Black bread eater. Holstein characters and stories. Franz Wunder, Berlin / Leipzig undated [1905].
• Ed. Iven Kruse: Plattdütsch Wunnerhorn. Ole plattdütsche folk leather collects, creates and rugs. Nordmark. Tondern 1923.
• To the silent Unexpected, and other stories. Carl Schünemann, Bremen undated [1923].
• Black bread eater. Holstein characters and stories. Carl Schünemann, Bremen undated [1923].
• The Third Bismarck. Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1925.
• [Anonymous u. posthumous] Book of the century of the Holler'schen Carlshütte near Rendsburg in particular a picture of the life of the founder Markus Hartwig Holler. Rendsburg 1927.
• Salt and bread. Holstein stories and poems. Edited by Volker Griese u. Harald Timmermann. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1998, ISBN 3-529-04714-7 .
• Black bread eater. Stories, reflections, poems. Edited by Volker Griese. Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3738606454 .

literature

• Volker Griese: Editorial report. In: Iven Kruse: The Third Bismarck. Holstein in the Weimar Republic. Wankendorf 1999.
• Volker Griese: Epilogue. In: Iven Kruse: Brocken and Krumen. Considerations. Poems. Letters. Wankendorf 2000.
• Harald Timmermann: Iven Kruse. In: Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesbibliothek with the assistance of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History and the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology (ed.): Biographical Lexicon for Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck. Neumünster 2000, vol. 11, p. 215f.
• For more information on the friendship between the two poets, see: Volker Griese: Detlev von Liliencron. Chronicle of a poet's life. Munster 2009.
• Iven Kruse: The rebirth of the Low German ballad. Kiel 1889, In: Volker Griese: Schleswig-Holstein. Memories of History. Historical miniatures. Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-1283-1 .
• Volker Griese: "The last of the old guard around Liliencron". The poet, poet, narrator and editor Iven Kruse on the occasion of his 150th birthday. In: Yearbook for local history in the Plön district. Eutin 2014, vol. 44, p. 37ff.
• Volker Griese: Iven Kruse. Life and work. Husum 2014, ISBN 978-3898767545 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Iven Kruse in the catalog of the German National Library
• http://www.ivenkruse.de/