John Brinckman

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John Brinckman

John Brinckman (born July 3, 1814 in Rostock , † September 20, 1870 in Güstrow ) was a Low German writer.

Life

John (pronounced [joːn]) Brinckman - baptized as Johann (Friedrich) Brinckmann - was born the younger son of his parents in Rostock, where the family had only recently settled, and was baptized on July 8, 1814 in Rostock's Marienkirche. His father, the merchant and captain (Caspar Christoph) Mich (a) el Brinckmann (* 1786), sank with ship and crew off Jutland in 1824 . His mother Anna (1794–1870), daughter of the port commander Ruth in Gothenburg , raised nine children in economically modest but secure circumstances.

John's schooling began in a clip school with Aunt Treppern , who was still working in 1836 at the age of 84. Then he attended the preschool of the ministerial candidates Johnßen and Reuss and in 1824 became a pupil of the great city school Rostock . At Easter 1834, Brinckman passed the final exam at this grammar school.

Nineteen-year-old John studied law at the Rostock University from Easter 1834 to 1838 . During his studies in 1834 he became a member of the Old Rostock Burschenschaft and the fraternity community . He had been a member of the Corps Vandalia Rostock since 1835 . He was sentenced to three months in prison for “attempting to found a banned political association at the University of Rostock” (connection to anti-monarchist fraternities). He asked for a sovereign pardon from Grand Duke Paul Friedrich , who granted it on January 25, 1839. But he did not finish his studies.

Brinckman's decision to go to America remains contradictory. The fact is that in September 1839 he set off from Rostock via Hamburg on a boat trip to New York . From November 1839 to April 1842 he stayed in America. After surviving a yellow fever infection, he went on board an English steamer in April 1842 and, after a stopover in England, arrived in the port of Hamburg in May 1842.

On the advice of his doctor, Brinckman moved in May 1842 to his college friend Gustav Adolf Wilhelm Lierow, who was pastor in the Dobbertiner monastery village of Lohmen . For Brinckman, the rectory was a point of calm and self-discovery during this period. During a visit from his friend's brother, Ludwig Lierow, who worked as an official clerk in the Dobbertiner monastery office, he met Elise Burmeister, who was then twenty-one year old, the fun-loving daughter of a Goldberg doctor, who was an educator in the house of the official actuary. Both brothers Lierows helped John Brinckman with their contacts and relationships of the nationally known monastery Dobbertin in the job search.

From October 1842 to September 1844 he was tutor to Herr von Schack at Gut Rey near Neukalen . The family atmosphere there and the relationship with the employer were not right. Especially the chamberlain’s wife in her domineering, aristocratic, arrogant manner made life in Rey very difficult for him.

Monastery governor's house in Dobbertin 2011

After the conversation on October 21, 1844 with the monastery captain Carl Peter Johann von Le Fort in the Dobbertin monastery , he was able to take up the position of tutor in the monastery office on November 2, 1844 . Three days later he moved into his room in the monastery captain's house and taught his three sons David, Ludwig and Franz von Le Fort until December 1846. Here Brinckman found satisfaction in his teaching and was close to his Elise, who is now back in Goldberger, four kilometers away Father house lived.

John Brinckman School in Goldberg 2012

At the beginning of January 1846 Brinckman moved to Goldberg (Mecklenburg) in Lange Straße 116, today's town bakery. Diagonally across the street in Langen Strasse 105 was the Schroeder private school, which was very popular in Goldberg. On April 3, 1846, Elise Burmeister's wedding took place in the house of his father-in-law, the doctor August Burmeister. Pastor Joachim Birkenstädt performed the wedding in the Goldberg Church .

As a member of the Goldberger Reformverein and as an author of sharp satirical poems against the conservative landowning nobility, he was involved in the revolution in Mecklenburg (1848) . Brinckman and Fritz Reuter took part in the first Mecklenburg reform day in Güstrow. Avoiding the open disputes in Goldberg, he applied for a vacant position at the community and secondary school in Güstrow. On September 20, 1849, Brinckman was hired as an interim assistant teacher after a successful trial lesson . His annual salary was 316 thalers and 32 shillings. The Brinckman family moved and initially took an apartment in Güstrow at horse market no. 233, now no. 32.

Often he had to ask for allowances; for there were no fewer than ten children in the family. Brinckman taught English, French and Latin and gave private lessons in Spanish. As a member of the citizens' committee, he campaigned for better school conditions from 1856 to 1862.

Since 1854 John Brinckman published Low German poems and short stories, which made him increasingly known. The success of his works did not become apparent until after his death.

Brinckman died of a stroke at the age of 56. His grave is in the Güstrow cemetery.

Honors

  • July 3, 1908 Fountain in Güstrow with the animal figures "Voss un Swinegel" by Wilhelm Wandschneider donated by the son Consul Max Brinckman in Hamburg
  • 1914 Gravestone with bronze relief in the Güstrow cemetery by Wilhelm Wandschneider
  • July 5, 1914 Memorial stone with bronze relief in the Warnemünde spa park by Wilhelm Wandschneider
  • July 26, 1914 Brinckman Fountain in Rostock by Paul Wallat (relief stolen in summer 2009)
  • 1919 In the east of the city of Rostock, the construction of a new settlement area begins, which has been called Brinckmansdorf since 1921 . Numerous streets there are named after his works and characters from them.
  • July 3, 1934 memorial plaque with bronze relief at the Rostock birthplace (today in the Rostock Cultural History Museum)
  • July 10, 1988 "Kasper-Ohm riding the Voss Wallach" by Jo Jastram
  • February 6, 1990 founding of the John Brinckman Society eV
  • October 7, 2000 memorial stone in Rostock-Brinckmansdorf
  • January 1st, 2010 The fourth corp house of the Vandals is named "John Brinckman House"
  • Memorial plaque on the residential building in Güstrow, Hansenstrasse 19
  • several schools in Mecklenburg bear the name John Brinckman, including the former cathedral school in Güstrow
  • The John-Brinckman-Weg is dedicated to him in Cuxhaven
  • 2014 commemorative exhibition in the Rostock Cultural History Museum
  • 2014 ( posthumously ) honorary citizenship of the city of Güstrow

  • Warnemünde

  • Brinckman Fountain Rostock (stolen in 2009)

  • "Kasper Ohm up sin Ross" in Rostock

  • Boltenhagen

Works

  • Kasper Ohm un ick . (Rostock rascal pranks, memories of Brinckman's childhood 1855–1868) ( full text 2nd edition ).
  • Vagel grip . (Volume of poetry 1859) ( full text ).
  • Voss and Swinägel . (Fox and hedgehog; stories 1854)
  • Peter Lurenz bi Abukir . (a cheerful seafaring story 1868)
  • Higher up . (the story of a poor peasant child from Güstrow who, through luck and skill, becomes a knight of the duke in 1885)
  • Moth Spinkus and fur . (a funny story about Güstrow Jews 1886)
  • From Anno Toback… . (a Rostock seafaring novel)

In 1976 Kurt Batt published Brinckman's works in two volumes at Hinstorff Verlag Rostock .

Letters, documents, texts

Edited by Wolfgang Müns with the collaboration of Jürgen Grambow (up to vol. 2) and Ulrich-Christian Pallach (from vol. 4). Published 2002–2013 in the series Documentation of the "Writings of the Institute for Low German Language " by Schuster in Leer .

  • No. 22 = Vol. 1 (2002): The young Brinckman (1834-1845) , ISBN 3-7963-0355-2
  • No. 26 = Vol. 2 (2004): Goldberg and Güstrow (1). (1846−1870) , ISBN 3-7963-0365-X
  • No. 28 = Vol. 3 (2007): Güstrow (2). History of editions and reception (1846–1870) , ISBN 978-3-7963-0369-2
  • No. 38 = Vol. 4 (2009): Shakespeare Lectures (Güstrow 1864, 1865, 1869) , ISBN 978-3-7963-0371-5
  • No. 42 = Vol. 5 / I (2010): John Brinckman in New York (1839-1841). The "New Yorker Album"; Started in New York on May 1, 1842, finished in Rey (Mecklenburg) on ​​October 24, 1842 [first edition], ISBN 978-3-7963-0389-0
  • No. 42/2 = Vol. 5 / II (2013): John Brinckman in New York (1839-1842) as translator. Translations from German into English, English-language correspondence, translations from English into German , ISBN 978-3-7963-0391-3

Portraits

  • Two photographs, around 1860 (in the possession of the Museum of the City of Güstrow)
  • John Brinckmans mask by Adolph Siegfried , around 1900, tinted plaster (owned by the Museum of the City of Güstrow)
  • Oil painting by Adolf Jöhnssen , approx. 1910 (in the possession of the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum Stavenhagen )
  • Oil painting by Adolf Jöhnssen, approx. 1910 (owned by the Museum of the City of Güstrow)
  • Lithograph by Adolf Jöhnssen, 1913 (in the possession of the Museum of the City of Güstrow)
  • Oil on canvas by F. Bognerky, early 20th century (owned by the Museum of the City of Güstrow)
  • Painting by Bruno Hellmich, approx. 1967 (owned by the John Brinckman High School, Güstrow)
  • Oil painting by Günter Horn , 1973 (in the possession of the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum Stavenhagen)
  • Bust of Heinrich Bodenberger, 2004 (in front of the John Brinckman Hotel in Boltenhagen )

Radio plays

estate

John Brinckman's estate is kept in the Rostock University Library

literature

in order of appearance

Web links

Commons : John Brinckman  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The census list on August 2, 1819 in Rostock recorded the parents of the family (4th Bürgerfahne, 1st Corporalschaft, p. 193, No. 70-77): Michel Brinckmann , Schiffer (* 1787 in Rostock) and Anna Brinckmann , his wife (* 1796 - sic! - in Gottenburg ), in the village for 5 years, their four children MH Brinckmann (* 1812 in Copenhagen ), JF Brinckmann (* 1814 in Rostock), Alexa: Brinckmann (* 1815 ibid), Anng : Brinckmann (* 1817 ibid), Anna Brinckmann (* 1819 ibid) and Marg: Brinckmann (* 1789 ibid), a sister of the father.
  2. ↑ See baptismal entry, shown in Wolfgang Siegmund and Gerd Richardt: John Brickman. The pictorial biography. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2014. ISBN 978-3-356-01815-8 . P. 15.
  3. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
  4. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 93-95.
  5. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 122 , 315
  6. ^ Wolfgang Siegmund: Brinckman, John Frederic. 2009, p. 81.
  7. ↑ The secondary literature mostly mentions 1842 as the return date, which is wrong. In the New York album there is a poem entitled Der Nachtwächter , which ends with “Hamburg, December 24th. 1841 ”is dated. On his résumé he noted the name of the ship that brought him back to Europe, the Amelia Hill . The Hamburger Tageblatt Börsen-Halle notes the arrival of Amelia Hill from New York for December 10th. See John Brinckman: Letters, Documents, Texts . Volume V / 1, p. 247
  8. ↑ Horst Alsleben: John Brinckman, search for traces in the Dobbertin monastery office. 2014, p. 16.
  9. ^ Wolfgang Siegmund: Brinckman, John Frederic. 2009, p. 83.
  10. ↑ Horst Alsleben: John Brinckman, search for traces in the Dobbertin monastery office. 2014, p. 20.
  11. ↑ Website: http://www.brinckmangesellschaft.de/
  12. ↑ Honor to John Brinckman
personal data
SURNAME Brinckman, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brinckman, John Frederic (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH September 20, 1870
Place of death Guestrow