Karl Vaupel

Karl Vaupel , also Carl Vaupel (born November 24, 1896 in Dahlhausen , † July 30, 1968 in Essen ) was a German teacher , reform pedagogue and poet.

Life

Karl Vaupel was the eldest son of the miner Carl Ludwig and Wilhelmine Vaupel, née Krampe. He had nine siblings. His father had an accident in 1905, had to be looked after by the family for several years and was unable to work. The mother supported the family with a small trade. Karl Vaupel initially also worked underground, but then decided to become a teacher.

After graduating from elementary school, the other stages of his life were: three years of preparation to become an elementary school teacher on the preparatory work in Essen, war veteran, wounding, hospital stay and attendance at the "vacation school" of the reform pedagogue Berthold Otto in Berlin, teachers' seminar in Hattingen, still in a soldier's skirt, teacher examination with distinction and since 1919 teaching position at the two-class Balkhausen elementary school in Kidneyhof.

The most fertile time of his life began here, while Karl Vaupel became famous for his children's books, his literary educational essays and the literary and musical activities of his students. A selection of his pupil pictures could be seen at the exhibitions in Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Milan, London, Tokyo and in 1931 at the World Pedagogical Congress in Nice. During this time he was an active member of the artists' association "Ruhrland", which was founded in 1923 by the painter and working-class poet Otto Wohlgemuth , who was born in Hattingen . During this time he encouraged his uncle Karl Krampe to write down his memories of life in the Ruhr region at that time.

In the spring of 1933, at the suggestion of the teacher Karl Vaupel, “men and women from the people” formed an amateur play group. At the same time, they founded the "Isenberg Open Air Theater as a natural stage in the Hattinger Land on the legendary mountain under rocks and beeches". "Here a village writes and plays its own games," as the letterhead put it. Through personal conversations with the company L'hoest in Cologne, which was still the owner of the Isenburg castle grounds in Hattingen, Vaupel received permission to build an open-air stage in the area of ​​the former neck ditch. It opened at the solstice on June 24, 1933.

In the plays that he wrote for amateur performances, he covertly expressed his opposition to the Nazi regime, so that his friends feared the worst after each performance. He himself ran the company as a game director and wrote for the stage that now meant the world to him. He was supported by his brother August Vaupel (born June 23, 1903 in Dahlhausen, † May 27, 1969 in Hagen), who wrote the comedies, some in Low German .

After the Second World War , Karl Vaupel was interned as a teacher and cultural worker by the English for a year and a half in their camp in Recklinghausen. In 1947 he was rehabilitated by the denazification commission and he returned to the school he had held since 1937 in the two-class Ketteltasche school in Kidneyhof.

The government gave its consent to his request to redesign the three-class school as an experimental school in the sense of “comprehensive teaching”. It was then expanded for this type of teaching with financial support from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. There were group, gymnastics, bathing, reading, work, photo and teaching material rooms, a staff room and a thousand-volume student library. All facilities were equipped with the most modern means.

During this time, at the suggestion of the government in Arnsberg, Karl Vaupel created his literary pedagogical reading work , which was intended to promote the subject knowledge and personality development of young readers in a language that is close to the present and appropriate to the respective age group. The first two volumes of this reading work, which was given the title “Reading and Listening”, appeared in 1959. By 1961, the complete work was then available.

In 1956 the reform pedagogue Vaupel was appointed to the "German Committee for Education". He belonged to it until 1965. During this time he was significantly involved in the “framework plan for the reorganization and standardization of the general public school system”.

In 1962 he finished his school activity as main teacher at the Ketteltasche experimental school in Niederbonsfeld.

Literary work

• One of his numerous children's books, The Children and Their Animals , was classified as Degenerate Art in 1933 and largely destroyed.
• The children say so. Pictures and stories from children in a village school . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Berlin 1929. 72 p. (ULB Düsseldorf)
• The children and their animals. Pictures and stories from children in a village school . Maier, Ravensburg 1930. 72 p. (Tax office Mülheim / R., Tax office Bochum)
• Children tell. Stories from children . Marhold, Halle 1931. 48 p. (= Marholds Jugendbücherei 32) (ULB Düsseldorf)
• Children in the industrialized country . Beltz, Langensalza 1933. 112 pp. (= From German literature and German culture , vol. 378/379)
• Comrades and heroes underground . Crüwell, Dortmund 1941. 32 p. (= Ennepe-Ruhr, your home speaks , Vol. 10/11), published by the Westphalian Heimatbund, district of Ennepe-Ruhr, in association with the school councils.
• From the Bergisches Sagenschatz. Told for the youth . Märkischer Verlag, Lüdenscheid 1956.
• Language and literary education . In: Erwin Klatt (ed.): Karl Vaupel, a teacher in the Ruhr area . Neue Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Essen 1971, pp. 15–62.

literature

• Erwin Klatt (ed.): Karl Vaupel, a pedagogue of the Ruhr area . Neue Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Essen 1971.
• Heinrich Eversberg (ed.): On the history of the artists' association "Ruhrland" .
• W. Crüwell Verlag (ed.): Mr. Karl Vaupel on his 70th birthday on November 24, 1966 . Dortmund 1986.

Web links

• Karl Vaupel in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Literature by and about Karl Vaupel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linden-Dahlhausen registry office, birth register number 531/1896
2. ↑ Registry Office Essen I, death register no. 1000/1968
3. ↑ Anita Overwien-Neuhaus: Myth, Work, Reality. Life and work of the miner poet Otto Wohlgemuth . Prometh-Verlag, Cologne 1986 (= Writings of the Fritz Hüser Institute for German and Foreign Workers ' Literature of the City of Dortmund , Series 2: Research on Workers' Literature , Vol. 3), ISBN 3-922009-80-8 . In it pp. 80–85: Otto Wohlgemuth and the »Ruhrlandkreis« , especially p. 81: The composition of the »Ruhrlandkreis« .
4. ↑ Holger Wosnitza: Chronicle of the Krampe family, Heisingen, Baak and Dahlhausen .
5. ↑ Erwin Klatt (ed.): Karl Vaupel, a pedagogue of the Ruhr area . Neue Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Essen 1971, pp. 13-14.