Johannes Stricker

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Johannes Stricker (also Latinized: Stricerius ; * around 1540 in Grube (Holstein) ; † January 23, 1599 in Lübeck ) was a Lutheran pastor and playwright.

Life

Johannes Stricker was the son of the Gruber priest of the same name, who married during the Reformation . After visiting the Katharineum in Lübeck and briefly studying at the University of Wittenberg , Stricker was ordained in 1561 when he was appointed preacher at the monastery church in Cismar by the bailiff Benedikt von Ahlefeldt . Around 1572 he also took over the pastorate of St. Jürgen in Grube from his brother Jeremias Stricker and around 1575 moved into the rectory of Grube, which was newly built in 1569 and is now in the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum in Molfsee . In 1576, his signature was found against the reservations of the clergy belonging to the Gottorf portion of the duchy against the formula of concord .

In his office he was confronted with the excesses and attacks of the Holstein nobility, which increased when the office of Cismar was pledged to Detlef von Rantzau on Kletkamp in 1576 . Stricker was exposed to the stalking of the nobles through his openly expressed criticism in sermons and writings. In 1584 he fled to the imperial city of Lübeck , where he received a sermon position at the castle church in 1587 .

In the same year his most important work was published in the printing house of Johann Balhorn , the Middle Low German drama De düdesche Schlömer (The German Schlemmer). The piece, which Stricker dedicated to the Bishop of Lübeck , Eberhard von Holle , is regarded both as an important language monument of Middle Low German and as an original adaptation of the Jedermann material . At the same time it is the implementation of the Reformation, especially the melanchthonian doctrine of justification in dramatic action.

In addition to one more drama that has only survived in a High German translation: From the pathetic fall of Adam and Eve , there are also references to a non-preserved book of edification by Stricker on Luther's catechism.

expenditure

  • Johannes Bolte (ed.): De düdesche Schlömer: A Low German Drama (1584) . Soltau, Norden / Leipzig 1889 ( prints of the Association for Low German Language Research ; 3)
  • Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien : De Dütsche Slömer: New Low German version of the drama by Johannes Stricker, compared to the original . With an introduction by Ulf Bichel . Edition Herodot, Göttingen 1984 ISBN 3-88694-511-1 (work edition Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien, volume 10)
  • Friedrich Lindemann : Dat Speel vun den rieken Mann: (free na Johannes Stricker “De düdesche Schlömer” 1584). Theater Verlag Karl Mahnke, Verden-Aller 1949 (new German translation)

Radio plays

literature

  • Arnold Erich Berger: Johann Stricker and his drama "De Düdesche Schlömer" (1584) . In: The Schaubühne in the service of the Reformation. Second part. Reclam, Leipzig 1936, pp. 135–347.
  • Hans-Uwe Hartert (Ed.): The history of the Erholort Grube from 1222-2002 and the Alten Gruber Bürgergilde e. V. from 1275-2002 . Grube 2002, ISBN 3-937324-14-3
  • Dieter Lohmeier: Stricker, Johannes . In: Alken Bruns (Ed.): Lübeck resumes . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1993, ISBN 3-529-02729-4 , p. 383 f.
  • Johannes Bolte:  Stricerius, Johannes . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, p. 579 f.

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personal data
SURNAME Stricker, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stricerius, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lutheran pastor and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH around 1540
PLACE OF BIRTH Pit (holstein)
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1599
Place of death Lübeck