Josef Feller

Josef Feller

Josef (Joseph) Feller (born January 15, 1839 in Wörth an der Donau , † November 4, 1915 in Chemnitz ) was a Bavarian dialect poet , bookseller and publisher .

Life

Josef Feller was born in Wörth an der Donau as the son of a master tailor into a large family. His parents' house was destroyed in a market fire in 1841. His parents wanted him to become a clergyman. However, he left the Humanist High School in Straubing and after his military service in Munich and Germersheim , where he served as a sergeant , turned to a commercial apprenticeship. After his apprenticeship he worked in a senior position. In 1863 he left Wörth to work as an authorized signatory in a larger company in Chemnitz . Josef Feller remained closely associated with Wörth throughout his life.

In 1863 he founded the first lending library and a bookstore in Chemnitz, and ten years later a publishing house at Theaterstrasse 8. At the same time, he wrote poetry and worked in numerous associations, such as the German School Association, the German Language Association, the Bavarian Association and, above all, the commercial association to Chemnitz, with. His first book of poems was also published. Feller developed into a recognized dialect poet and knew how to perform his verses skillfully. Numerous invitations to major German cities with lectures and lectures of his poems followed.

In his lending library he kept thousands of older and newer works of literature such as those by Karl Stieler , Alfred Brehm , Felix Dahn and Paul Keller .

Honors and honors

Because of his ties to the Kingdom of Bavaria, Josef Feller received the Order of Merit of St. Michael from Prince Regent Luitpold on June 1, 1900 . The city of Wörth an der Donau honored his work by dedicating the street name Josef-Feller-Straße . In 1908 there was a contribution by Professor of History Richard Graf Du Moulin-Eckart (from 1900 also Professor of the Technical University of Munich).

Works (selection)

Josef Feller: "Fresh o'zapft"

• 1881: "Much G'fühl" - Gschicht'ln and poems'ln in the old Bavarian dialect
• 1881: “In the first decade of the new empire” - Patriotic collection of poems love, suffering and lust; Kutschke in Nanzig and Berlin; So we greet the brave Upper Palatinate with all our warmest
• 1892: "Frisch o'zapft" - New G'sang'ln in old Boar dialect
• 1908: "Doanabatzerl" - Bavarian poems

Poem by Josef Feller

Short notice

At the Fürstlinga garden
there is the overseer from Toar.
I would have liked to have a look
and ask for it ehvoar

And say to eahm kindly:
pardon me, liaba Mo ',
and give it to mar amal information,
whether ma' go through there '?

And grumpily the old man says:
“What are you thinking! Goa koa 'Red';
Yes, kinna ko 'ma' scho ',
But deafa deaf ma' net! "

Others

When the royal couple Maximilian II and Marie von Bayern visited Wörth an der Donau on July 3, 1852, Josef Feller read a poem written by the then Wörth pastor and dialect poet Kaspar Deml (1808-1883) at the age of 13.

literature

• Josef Fendl (Red.): Wörth, city between river and mountain. Regensburg 1979, DNB 790673258 .
• Ludwig Schindler: Large community of the city of Wörth in the past and present. 1st edition. Wörth ad Donau 2001, OCLC 166027622 .
• Ludwig Schindler: Wörth on the Danube in old views. European Library - Zaltbommel / Netherlands 1987, ISBN 90-288-4565-8 .
• Fritz Jörgl: Brief Wörther folklore "10 years of volunteer work at home nurses ". Publisher City of Wörth ad Donau. Oberpfalzverlag Laßleben, Kallmünz 2012, ISBN 978-3-7847-1224-6 .

Web links

• Site of the local homeworker - Josef Feller
• Site of the local homeworker - Josef Feller and Pastor Deml