Jens Emil Mungard

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Jens Emil Mungard (born February 9, 1885 in Keitum ; † February 13, 1940 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ) was an important poet of the North Frisian language .

Jens Emil Mungard was the eldest son of the linguist and writer Nann Peter Mungard . He was married to Anna Andresen from 1910 and had four children. The marriage later ended in divorce.

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Memorial stone in Sachsenhausen

Jens Emil Mungard was born on the North Frisian island of Sylt . He lost his mother at the age of three and was raised by his aunt from then on. From an early age he occupied himself with literature - especially poetry - and mythology . Although the father encouraged his son's literary inclinations, the relationship between the two was otherwise very tense, as Nann Peter Mungard constantly interfered in the personal affairs of his grown-up son.

After his marriage in 1910, Jens Emil Mungard took over his father's farm in Keitum. Economically completely untalented, however, he and his wife barely kept afloat. When the farm burned down in 1921, the situation deteriorated noticeably. He eventually lost the farm entirely, was divorced from his wife, and broke up with his family as well. From 1934 he left Sylt temporarily.

Jens Emil Mungard initially hoped that the National Socialists would promote Frisian culture, which he advocated throughout his life. However, he recognized the true character of the new rulers in Berlin early on and quickly began to openly take up opposition. In a few poems he denounced the regime and mocked it. Mungard was arrested for the first time in 1935. More arrests followed. Because of his contacts with Dutch West Frisians , Mungard was also considered "nationally unreliable". In the protective custody warrant of June 13, 1936, it said: "Your previous behavior justifies the urgent suspicion that you continue to seriously damage the reputation of the German Reich abroad." In 1938 Mungard was banned from writing. When he ignored this, he was arrested again at the end of 1938 and taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , where he died in 1940 after 377 days of the consequences of his imprisonment.

Works

From 1909 onwards, Jens Emil Mungard's first poems appeared in Frisian reading books, and from 1911 many more regularly, especially in the Sylter Zeitung . Jens Emil Mungard wrote a total of over 700 poems, six plays and numerous prose texts.

Here is an example of one of his most famous poems:


Ströntistel es min bloom,
Ströntistel neem's uk mi.
Jü gröört üp Dünemsön,
Ik üp des leewents-strön,
En proter haa wat biid!

Beach thistle is my flower,
they call it me too.
It grows on dune sand,
I on this beach of life,
And we both have spikes!

Honor

  • At his last place of residence on Sylt, a stumbling stone reminds of Mungard.
  • In 2011 a street in Keitum was named after him.
  • In October 2011, a plaque was inaugurated at the Sachsenhausen memorial to commemorate the poet.

literature

  • Jens E. Mungard: Ströntistel en Dünemruusen: the lyrical work . Published by Hans Hoeg. Quedens, Norddorf / Amrum 1995, ISBN 3-924422-37-0 .
  • Thomas Steensen: He died the death of the oppressed and tormented. Honor for Jens Mungard. In: North Friesland. No. 176, Dec. 2011, pp. 21-23.
  • Ommo Wilts: Jens Emil Mungard. In: Harald Schultze and Andreas Kurschat (eds.): "Your end looks at ..." Evangelical martyrs of the 20th century. 2., ext. and verb. Ed., Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2008, p. 394f. ISBN 978-3-374-02370-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipality of Sylt: Laying of stumbling blocks ( Memento from April 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ In the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial: Memory of a Sylter Dicher Sylter Rundschau of October 22, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mungard, Jens Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet of the North Frisian language
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Keitum
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1940
Place of death Sachsenhausen