Karl Hartmann (poet)

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Karl Hartmann (born March 26, 1857 in Eiserfeld , † February 9, 1910 in Betzdorf ) was a German teacher and a native and dialect poet .

Life

The home in Eiserfeld, home of Karl Hartmann's parents

Dr. phil. Hartmann grew up as the son of Johann Heinrich Hartmann, a miner and shift supervisor in Eiserfeld. The father died early, his mother Sophie Catharine Baumgarten married the wealthy Eiserfeld craftsmen Friedrich Stolz in 1859 . His parents' house was today's Eiserfeld Heimathaus (museum). Hartmann visited wins the junior high school , made his high school in Duisburg , studied languages and science in Bonn, Berlin, Freiburg and Münster and received in 1889 the doctorate . Hartmann doctorate 1889 in Marburg in Romanesque Seminar of Eduard stem a Provencal text , using the input episodes of Cheltenhamer version of Girart de Viane . A silent participation in the Alter Hammer , a rolling mill owned by his half-brother Wilhelm Stolz , made him financially independent.

In 1906 he moved to Betzdorf, found a job at the Progymnasium , gave private lessons and founded a boarding school for English students. In 1884 he married the teacher's daughter Anna Ronte and had four children with her. He died on February 9, 1910 in Betzdorf and was buried there. His grave is framed with quartz stones from the Reinhold Forster Erbstollen . It is the ore mine in which his stepfather Friedrich Stolz had shares and which formed the financial basis for his studies.

Services

Hartmann made use of an inner seriousness in his homeland poems for the first time. Thereby it differed noticeably from everything that was previously written in rhyme or prose in Siegerland dialect .

Today the song: “Where the victory in a wide arc…” and the dialect poem: “Iserfeäll, min Heimatdeärfche, just like eänem Blomekärfche läijste doa eäm deefe Grond…” (in High German : “Eiserfeld, mein Home village, just like a flower basket you lie there in the deep ground ... ")

A Karl-Hartmann-Straße in Siegen is still reminiscent of the first Siegerland local poet.

Works

  • The professor from Kalau at the international art exhibition combined with the large horticultural exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1904 in Knittelversen u. ditto prose ... Münster, 1904. ( digitized version )

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the Marburg section in: German-language dissertations (D, A, CH) of the year 1889–90 . Edited by Stuart Jenks