Karl Fieke

Karl Fieke (born February 5, 1857 in Altenau , † December 12, 1945 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld ) was a German book printer , newspaper publisher and local writer .

Life

Fieke was the son of a hut keeper. He attended elementary school in Altenau and learned from 1871 to 1876 at Ed. Pieperschen Buchdruckerei in Clausthal takes over the printing trade. He later worked as a printer's assistant with Georg Westermann in Braunschweig , in Wernigerode (1910 to 1912) and from 1912 to 1919 again in Clausthal.

Together with the factor Karl Mootz from Pieperschen Druckerei, Fieke founded the Upper Harz War Mood Pictures in 1914 , in which he published field post letters , among other things . This was followed by the local political weekly newspaper Stimmungsbilder from the Upper Harz (1918 to 1921), Der Harzfreund (1922 to 1929) and the Oberharzer Bürgerzeitung (1929 to 1932).

Fieke founded his own printing company in Clausthal as early as 1919. He also wrote poems and novels himself. In 1920 his miner's novel Der Harzwaldwilderer was published. In 1924 and 1928 the poetry collections Der Harz im Liede und Liedbuch for Germany's miners and ironworkers followed. The Brunswick court music director Max Clarus set his poems Die Sage vom Harzer Berggeist and Im Traume mein to music . As a local researcher, Fieke published several works on Upper Harz history and geography. He had to sell the print shop for economic reasons. Most recently, from 1932 to 1942, he published the local supplement of the former Oberharzer Bürgerzeitung as an independent monthly under the title Glückauf .

Works

• Altenau in the Harz region in poetry, legend and history (1908)
• The water overcoming of the pits in the Upper Harz (Wernigerode 1909)
• On the economic emergency in the Upper Harz (Clausthal 1912)
• The Harz Poacher (1924)
• The charcoal burning of the Harz (Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1934)

literature

• Heinrich Lücke: Karl Fieke (1857–1945). A memorial sheet for his 100th birthday on February 5, 1957 . In: General Harz-Berg-Kalender 1958, p. 67