Karl Graefe

Karl Gräfe (born January 12, 1878 in Borlas , † March 26, 1944 in Freiberg ) was a German educator , poet and composer .

After completing his training at the Dresden-Friedrichstadt and Dresden-Plauen teachers' seminars, Karl Gräfe became an assistant teacher in Johnsbach near Glashütte in 1898 . From 1901 until his retirement he worked as a teacher and from 1931 as a senior teacher in Rechenberg-Bienenmühle . On site he was involved in various associations such as the Erzgebirgszweigverein , in which he acted as secretary, the gymnastics club "Eintracht" and the military club . In 1937 he retired in Freiberg, where he died in 1944 at the age of 66.

In his spare time he wrote and composed. In total, over 200 poems were created - partly in High German and partly in Eastern Ore Mountains dialect  - as well as fairy tales, short stories or stories. One of his best-known titles is the native song “Mein Rechenberg im Muldental”, published in 1926 as a song postcard .

literature

• Horst Henschel : Singing Land. 400 dialect songs from the Ore Mountains . Hofmeister, Leipzig 1939 ( Erzgebirgische Heimatkunde 19), pp. 38–40.
• Bernhard Sowinski : Lexicon of German-speaking dialect authors . Olms, Hildesheim et al. 1997, p. 184.
• Jörg Richter: In memory of Karl Gräfe , in: Glückauf! Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein 117 (2006), issue 10, pp. 233–235. ISSN  0342-5150