Jakob Kneip

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Blackboard at the Jakob Kneip Museum in Morshausen

Jakob Kneip (born April 24, 1881 in Morshausen ( Hunsrück ), † February 14, 1958 in Mechernich ) was a German writer and poet.

Live and act

He was born in the Threse house as the first of three children to the farmer couple Johann Joseph and Elisabeth Ludovika, née. Wind houses. After attending primary school in his hometown and completing his Abitur at the Empress Augusta Gymnasium in Koblenz in 1902, Kneip attended the seminary in Trier . However, he dropped out of theology studies and instead studied philosophy, German and modern philology in Bonn , London and Paris . After the state examination in 1908 he was a candidate for teacher training and teacher a. a. in Wiesbaden , Hadamar and Diez for English, French and German.

In 1912, along with Josef Winckler and Wilhelm Vershofen , Kneip was one of the co-founders of the workers at House Nyland . Here he also got to know the painter Franz M. Jansen , with whom he had a lifelong friendship.

During the war from 1917 to 1918 he worked as an interpreter in the Prussian War Ministry and at the Berlin Interpreting School. On June 1, 1922, he married Ida Karoline Sophie Neukranz in Bonn ; the marriage remained childless. From 1921 he was a teacher at the Oberrealschule in Cologne (Humboldtstrasse). In 1925 he suggested the "Rhenish Poet Meetings" and founded in 1926 a. a. with Alfons Paquet the "Bund Rhenish Poets", which was dissolved in 1933. In 1927 his first novel "Hampit the Hunters" was published, the majority of which he wrote during his stays in Irmenach . There he became acquainted with the later Hunsrück local poet Albert Bauer , who came from Raversbeuren , and became his friend and sponsor. In 1929, Kneip left school and worked from then on as a freelance writer.

In the Third Reich, Kneip was a well-respected author. In the years between 1934 and 1938 alone, three volumes of poetry and two novels were published. In addition, his poems were published early in National Socialist publications. In Paul Fechter's “History of German Literature” from 1941 it says about Kneip's novel “Fire from Heaven”, “The feeling for land and people is condensed with such a strong hand and shaped into shapes that warmth and unity, folkism and will to live become more rounded Wholeness have grown together. ”In 1953, the tenth edition of his book“ The Companion ”was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the GDR.

In 1942, in the cultural and political papers published by the Gau Moselland , he praised the war diary of the Nazi-captured poet Heinrich Lersch and his text Soldiers' Farewell (“Germany must live, and if we must die”) as a poem that “every schoolchild in Germany knows".

After 1942 there was tension between Kneip and the ruling regime. In order to avoid any reprisals in Cologne , he moved to Pesch in the Eifel , where he lived until his death.

In 1946 he became president of the "Rheinische Kulturinstitut" in Koblenz, which he co-founded . Since 1949 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In the following year, together with Gerhard Ludwig , he initiated the Cologne event series Wednesday Talks (1950–1956). In 1951, a 500-year-old oak tree was named after him in a ceremony on his birthday in Morshausen and a statue of the Virgin Mary was inaugurated next to it, which his friend Eugen Keller had created. In 1956 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class.

Kneip was killed in a railway accident in 1958. On the way to a reading in Wittlich , he got on the wrong train in Mechernich . He noticed the mistake in good time, but got off on the wrong side, so that he got onto the sidings and was caught by another train there.

His grave is in Pesch; He remained lifelong connected to his home village.

Works

  • We three (with Josef Winckler and Wilhelm Vershofen), poems, 1904
  • Confession , poems, 1917
  • Mercy , 1918
  • To France , essay, 1918
  • The living God , poems, 1919
  • Hampit the Hunter , novel, 1927
  • Maria Eulenbruch and her students , introductory contribution to the work of Maria Eulenbruch , around 1932
  • Porta Nigra or The Vocation of Martin Krimkorn , novel 1932
  • Farmer's bread , poems, 1934
  • Hunsrück Christmas , novel 1934
  • Abundance of Life , Poems, 1935
  • The Kingdom of Christ , essay, 1935
  • Fire from Heaven , 1936
  • Mountain Christmas , 1937
  • A German testament , poems, 1938
  • Cologne Cathedral , essay, 1939
  • The Siebengebirge , essay, 1941
  • Mrs. Regine , novel 1942
  • Message to the Young , Essay, 1946
  • The spiritual task on the Rhine , essay, 1948
  • Light in darkness , novel 1949
  • World decision of the mind on the Rhine , essay, 1953
  • Johanna - a daughter of our time , Roman 1954
  • The Apostle , novel 1955
  • The new morning , poems, 1958

literature

Web links

Commons : Jakob Kneip  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Werner Lenartz: Patriotic celebrations . Düsseldorf 1933.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-k.html
  3. ↑ Jakob Kneip: Fragments from a war diary of Heinrich Lersch. In: Moselland. Kulturpolitische Blätter, July-September 1942, pp. 28–30, here p. 28.
  4. ↑ . Dörstel, Wilfried, Historical Archive (Cologne): The Cologne Wednesday talks: 1950-1956; free entry, free questions, free answers . Histor. Archive, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-87519-126-9 , pp. 13/15 .
personal data
SURNAME Kneip, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland poet in the Hunsrück
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Morshausen
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 1958
Place of death Mechernich