Karl Plenzat

Karl Plenzat (born July 22, 1882 in Groß Warningken , East Prussia ; † February 1945 in Schneidemühl , Pomerania) was a German educator and folklorist.

Life

Trained as a teacher in the Karalene seminar , he worked at various schools between 1905 and 1926, including the rector of a middle school in Soldau . At the same time, after the First World War , he studied German, English, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Königsberg . From 1926 he was a lecturer, then at the Elbing College for Teacher Training and from 1938 professor for folklore at the HfL Schneidemühl . From 1933 to 1935 (recalled) he headed the college for teacher training in Elbing, replaced by Karl Danzfuß . From 1941 to 1945 he was professor and head of practical training at the Schneidemühl teacher training college. During the Soviet invasion he and his wife committed suicide.

Plenzat was particularly interested in collecting oral traditions, such as folk songs and stories (sagas, fairy tales, Schwänken) (cf. Bönisch-Brednich 2002). In 1918, Plenzat published in his collection Der Liederschrein the folk song Zogen once pulled five wild swans and classified it - very probably incorrectly - as a Lithuanian folk song.

There are indications that Plenzat was later close to National Socialism. After the end of the war, Plenzat's works I heard a hero song say and sing (1943) and Das Reichslesebuch für Volksschulen in the classroom (together with Hermann Galbach , 1936) as well as in the German Democratic Republic The East Prussian Man and the German Spiritual Life (1935) were published in the Soviet occupation zone. placed on the list of literature to be discarded.

Works

Works edited by Karl Plenzat

• The golden bridge
• A musician goes through the world
• Mother Trapp
• Children's stories
• Katrinchen comes home
• Kinderland (home and youth memories)
• Heimat (songs and ballads)
• Becoming and work
• German word and work
• The East Prussian Mirror
• I heard a hero song say and sing
• The song shrine
• Adventures, novellas and pranks
• May game
• Rooster and chicken
• Christmas play (Leipzig, 1926)

literature

• Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich: Karl Plenzat . In: Rolf W. Brednich u. a. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of fairy tales . Concise dictionary for historical and comparative narrative research. Vol. 10. de Gruyter, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-11-016841-3 , Sp. 1077-1079.
• Alexander Hesse: The professors and lecturers of the Prussian educational academies (1926-1933) and colleges for teacher training (1933-1941) . Deutscher Studien-Verlag, Weinheim 1995, ISBN 3-89271-588-2 , p. 580–581 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Plenzat in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Karl Plenzat  in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ostdeutscher Literatur-Anzeiger, Volumes 15-16, 1969, p. 146 ( limited preview in Google book search).
2. ^ Alfred Cammann (Ed.): Glück und Unglück des Ostprussia Otto Bysäth as a contribution to contemporary history and folklore. O. Schwarz, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-509-01600-9 , p. 126 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ↑ Frauke Schmitz-Gropengiesser: once pulled five wild swans (2010). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
4. ↑ cf. Bönisch-Brednich 2002
5. ^ German administration for popular education in the Soviet occupation zone, list of literature to be sorted out Berlin: Zentralverlag, 1946 , accessed on May 24, 2014
6. ^ German Administration for National Education in the Soviet Zone of Occupation, List of Literature to be Separated, Second Addendum, Berlin: Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1948 accessed on May 24, 2014
7. ↑ Ministry of National Education of the German Democratic Republic, list of literature to be discarded, Third Supplement, Berlin: VEB Deutscher Zentralverlag, 1953 , accessed on May 24, 2014