Canoe shepherd

Kanut Schäfer (born March 15, 1894 in Mannheim , † February 7, 1971 in Michelstadt ) was a German veterinarian and writer who wrote several short stories, folk plays and plays in High German and Western Ore Mountains dialect. He also wrote a number of Erzgebirge songs , including the Wiegnlied or De Heiligobnd-Frad .

Life

Schäfer was a member of the government in Glauchau , Dresden and Zwickau . Most recently, he was the director of the employment office before moving to the seclusion of the forest in Fällbach , where he worked as a farmer for several years and managed the Fällbachhütte family pension . After the war he worked as a veterinarian in the Odenwald.

His son was the writer Paul Kanut Schäfer (1922-2016).

Works

• The stone . Leipzig 1936
• Dr Staa . Leipzig 1937
• The lucky valve . Leipzig 1937
• Stülpner Karl . Leipzig 1938

literature

• Horst Henschel : Singing Land. 400 dialect songs from the Ore Mountains . Hofmeister, Leipzig 1939 ( Erzgebirgische Heimatkunde 19), p. 512.
• Bernhard Sowinski: Lexicon of German-speaking dialect authors . Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1997, pp. 183-184.