Johannes E. Rabe

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Johannes Emil Rabe (born August 4, 1838 in Hamburg ; † August 24, 1924 there ) was a German local poet .

Life

Rabe lived in Bergedorf and worked as an editor and writer, mainly in the Low German language. Among other things, from 1915 onwards he published several collections of » Kasperschwänken « (according to his own statements, for the dispersal of soldiers deployed in the First World War ) in the Quickborn publishing house , thereby bringing about a revival of the »Kasper« game. Because of this, in 1949, 25 years after his death, the Johannes-Rabe-Stieg in Bergedorf was named after him.

In 2001 the Hamburg Research and Employment Center (FAS) "Education after / about Auschwitz" drew attention to the fact that Rabe's publications contained anti-Semitic passages. For example, in the volume Sünd ji all dor? Scenes in which Kasper mocks a Jew who demands money back from him ("Obrohom, you hest mi 'n comical Nees' [..]") and in the end kills him, after which the removal of the corpse by Gesang "Throws out , the Jews Itzig, Jews Itzig ... «is accompanied. Matthias Heyl , head of the FAS at the time, judged: »Johannes Rabe contributed to the spreading of anti-Semitic clichés with these" swans "for which he was responsible. The fact that Rabe did this in the First and not in the Second World War does not relieve him. Here the murder of the Jews was presented and practiced as child's play. Barely more than twenty years after the publication of the Rabesche books, it became bloody serious in Germany. People like Rabe are among the pioneers of this development. ”He called for the street naming to be reversed. In 2002 the Johannes-Rabe-Stieg was renamed Höperstieg (after Höperfeld or the former village Hope ).

Works (selection)

  • From old Hamburg stores and their people. Janssen, Hamburg 1913.
  • Sin ji all 'dor? : Old Hamburg Kasperszenen. Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 1915.
  • Vivat Putschenelle! Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 1916.
  • Kasper Putschenelle. Historical facts about the hand puppets and Punch scenes from Old Hamburg. Quickborn-Verlag, Hamburg 1924.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAS press release
  2. ↑ Rita Bake: A Memory of the City. Streets, squares and bridges in Hamburg named after women and men. Volume 3 ( Memento from July 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rabe, Johannes E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabe, Johannes Emil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland poet
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1924
Place of death Hamburg