Karl Prümer

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Karl Prümer

Karl Prümer (born May 23, 1846 in Dortmund ; † January 26, 1933 there ; pseudonyms: Johannes Kruse , Klaus Thomä , Rudolf Gerlach ) was a German publisher and writer . He published many writings on local literature and in Westphalian dialect .

Life

Karl Prümer was born on May 23, 1846 in Dortmund as the son of Carl and Sophie Prümer. He had four brothers and a sister. The father, born in 1815, came from Schwelm and was a Protestant pastor at the Marienkirche in Dortmund . The mother was the daughter of the Dortmund lawyer and councilor Friedrich Schmidt.

Karl Prümer attended the Dortmund grammar school, presumably up to the prima level, and began an apprenticeship in an Elberfeld bookstore in 1865 . He went on a hike and made acquaintance with authors, publishers and scientists, for example in Hamburg with Klaus Groth , in Graz with Peter Rosegger or in Rome with Theodor Mommsen . His last stop was Vienna since 1872, where he worked on the occasion of the world exhibition . After the world exhibition he returned to Dortmund. Prümer moved to Munich in 1906, to Bochum in 1910 and then back to Dortmund. He was married to Anna Prümer, née Foltz († 1933), with whom he had three daughters. Karl Prümer died on January 26, 1933 at the age of 85 in Dortmund. He was given a grave of honor in the main cemetery in Dortmund .

Services

After his return from Vienna in 1873, Karl Prümer founded a bookstore with a publisher and printer in Dortmund opposite the grammar school, but sold it again to Herrmann Julius Meyer in 1877 in order to be able to write himself. He first founded the weekly Der Progress , which was discontinued in 1878. Then he published his first Low German book Dä Westfälsche Ulenspeigel in 1881. Funny histories for the uncomfortable , his most famous work. In 1886 he tried again as a publisher and this time also as an editor with the free-spirited, twice-weekly Neue Westfälische Zeitung for the northern districts of Dortmund. The satirical two-week publication Dortmunder Tante appeared as a supplement . This newspaper was also discontinued in 1890. During his publishing activities he had published the book Histories un Gestalten ut Westfolen in 1889 , followed by Dä Chronika van Düöpm in 1891 . Thus Prümer was "the Low German poet of the Westphalian Mark" ( Joseph Risse ). Prümer also wrote in High German, for example Westphalian village stories (1920/1921) or, under the pseudonym Johannes Kruse, The Poor Pastor. An image of life and culture from the time of the Old Westphalia (1908).

Prümer's merit lies primarily in his ethnographic and cultural history work. So he collected Westphalian jokes, anecdotes, proverbs, rhymes, folk and children's songs and published them in works such as Westphalian folk wisdom (1881) or Grüß dich Gott, Westfalenland! (1890). Prümer was co-editor of the papers for Rhenish-Westphalian folklore . He also appeared as a Dortmund chronicler, above all the pictures from Old Dortmund (1925–1929), which document the change in Dortmund from an agricultural citizen to an industrial city.

In addition to this broad main work, Prümer also wrote various odd jobs such as The Exploitation of the Workers and the Causes of Their Impoverishment. A contribution to the social question (1886) or to the history of the trade association 1840–1890 (1890). He was also involved in numerous Dortmund associations such as the Historical Association for Dortmund and the Grafschaft Mark , the Association for Rhenish and Westphalian Folklore , the Association of Friends of the City Library, the Dortmund Literary Society and the Freemasons.

Awards

On the occasion of his 80th birthday, the city of Dortmund honored him with the naming of a street and the award of a gold medal.

plant

  • Dä Westfölsche Ulenspeigel. Funny histories for the uncomfortable . Prümer, Dortmund 1880, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-60921 .
  • Dä Westfölsche Ulenspeigel. Funny histories for the uncomfortable . Prümer, Dortmund 1891, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-60951 .
  • Hacketauerlieder in Hoch and Platt. Poetry by a land striker . Prümer, Dortmund 1886.
  • The exploitation of the workers and the causes of their impoverishment. A contribution to the social question . Prümer, Dortmund 1886.
  • Stories and shapes in West Folen. In addition to the song appendix . Soltan, North 1889.
  • Howdy God, Westphalia !. Our home in song and song . Prümer, Dortmund 1890, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-78212 .
  • On the history of the trade association 1840–1890. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the trade association in Dortmund . Trade association, Dortmund 1890.
  • Dä Chronika van Düöpm. Serious and funny epistle with all sorts of shy billers . In: Chronicle of Low German Cities . tape 1 . Lenz, Leipzig 1891, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-2898 .
  • De Dod as Richter un annern Sang . Lenz, Leipzig 1908.
  • The poor pastor. An image of life and culture from the old Westphalian era . Lenz, Leipzig 1908.
  • Karl Prümer (Ed.): From Old Westphalia. Folklore and cultural-historical contributions . Lenz, Leipzig 1908.
  • Our Westphalian homeland and its neighboring areas. Landscapes and architectural beauties, territories, cities and towns, folk soul, customs and traditions, legends, agriculture, trade and industry . Goatherd, Leipzig 1909.
  • Casino in Dortmund 1812–1912. A commemorative publication for the centenary celebration on November 27, 1912 in Dortmund . Dortmund 1912.
  • Westphalian village stories . tape 1-4 (1920-1921) . Lensing, Dortmund.
  • Folk wisdom from County Mark. Low German proverbs, idioms, folk songs, rhymes and children's songs . In: Karl Prümer (Ed.): Westfälische Volksweisheit . 2nd Edition. Lenz, Leipzig 1924.
  • Pictures from old Dortmund . tape 1-3 (1925-1929) . Krüger, Dortmund, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-9301 .

literature

  • Peter Bürger: Low German war poetry from Westphalia 1914–1918. Karl Prümer - Hermann Wette - Karl Wagenfeld - Augustin Wibbelt. Eslohe 2012 ( sauerlandmundart.de PDF).
  • Joseph Risse: On the 80th birthday of Karl Prümer . In: The home . tape 8 , no. 5 . Dortmund 1936, p. 137 f .
  • Karl Wagenfeld: Karl Prümer on his 75th birthday . Offered by the Dortmund Immermann Bund. In: Erich Schulz, Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (ed.): Westfälisches Magazin . Lensing, Dortmund May 23, 1921.
  • Ludwig Schröder: Karl Prümer. A commemorative sheet for his 80th birthday . In: Central Board of the Sauerland Mountain Association in Arnsberg (Hrsg.): Sauerländischer Gebirgsbote . tape 34 , 1926, pp. 48 .
  • Karl Prümer: When we were young. Humorous small town images . Lenz, Leipzig 1912 (autobiographical writing).
  • Karl Prümer: The humor of an old bookseller from his wandering years . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1920 (autobiographical writing).
  • Karl Prümer: From a sunny youth in the rectory . Lenz, Leipzig 1923 (autobiographical writing).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Alois Klotzbücher: Prümer, Karl . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 2 . Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-677-4 , p. 89 ff .
  2. ↑ Streets named after Freemasons
personal data
SURNAME Prümer, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kruse, Johannes (pseudonym); Thomä, Klaus (pseudonym); Gerlach, Rudolf (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 1933
Place of death Dortmund