Korl Biegemann

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Korl Biegemann alias Karl Ulrich Volkhausen

Korl Biegemann , actually Karl Ulrich Volkhausen , (* February 6, 1854 in Volkhausen (today Bad Salzuflen ), † January 14, 1937 there ) was a Lippe doctor and dialect poet.

Life

Karl Ulrich Volkhausen was born on February 6, 1854 on the Volkhausen estate , today in the Bad Salzufler district of Retzen , as the youngest of four children of the magistrate Friedrich Philipp Volkhausen and his wife Henriette Wilhelmine, née. Falkmann born.

After attending the community school in Retzen, he went to the high school in Detmold from 1864 to 1872 . He then began studying medicine in Würzburg and continued it in Göttingen and Leipzig . On February 20, 1877, he graduated with excellent marks at the age of 23 and then had to do a year of military service, partly as a military doctor . From April 1, 1878, he practiced as a doctor in Schötmar. In 1892 Volkhausen passed his physics exam with three papers from the fields of forensic medicine, hygiene and forensic medicine. He did not need to take an oral examination due to the quality of his examination work. From 1894 Volkhausen also worked as a physician . This function corresponded to today's district doctor and took him to the cities of Salzuflen and Lage , as well as from the western border of Lippe to the gates of Lemgo and Detmold.

He gave up the private practice in Schötmar at the end of 1898 for health reasons. From January 1, 1904, Volkhausen was a district doctor in Detmold and in the following years he was awarded the title of medical and medical councilor . In 1905 he was appointed a member of the Medical College of the Princely Lippe Government.

Under the pseudonym Korl Biegemann , Volkhausen worked as a dialect poet and writer in his spare time. He wrote poems and stories that dealt in particular with the Lippe landscape and the people. Five volumes appeared between 1899 and 1929. The first and best-known work is the volume of poetry Twisken Biege un Weern (Between Bega and Werre) from 1900, which saw a total of three editions. In 1919 Plattdeutsche appeared in Lippe common idioms, idioms, proverbs, etc. Then followed in 1923 the volume Late Sommer (late summer) , which contained epic-lyrical stories from the Lippe peasant class . In 1925 Dat leste Blatt appeared with Low German poems and finally in 1929 Iut Deppelt's Aeolen Dagen (From Detmold's Old Days) with Low German stories from earlier Detmold. In addition, his poems were repeatedly reprinted in the Lippe daily newspapers and home calendars.

His poems and stories reproduced Volkhausen's experiences with the people of Lippe in town and country, whom he met during his frequent visits to the sick. He is said to have spoken only Low German with the farmers . His own health wasn't the best, however. He suffered from severe asthma and later bilateral opacity of the lens . For these reasons he was retired on April 1, 1915 - but apparently for another reason. The retirement was preceded by a tangible scandal, because neither Medical Councilor Dr. Volkhausen nor the head of the Detmold State Hospital, Dr. Georg Schemmel, recognized a rapidly spreading smallpox epidemic in the spring of 1914 . Both doctors were then on leave. Regardless of this, the city of Detmold awarded Ulrich Volkhausen honorary citizenship on the occasion of his 80th birthday in grateful recognition of his services to the native dialect and its poetic design , and in particular as thanks for his conscientious and beneficial medical work.

Volkhausen spent his old age alternately in Detmold and on the Volkhausen farm. He died there on January 14, 1937.

Today he is far better known under his pseudonym than under his real name. Several streets in Lippe were named after him, either as Volkhausen- or Korl-Biegemann-Straße: In Bad Salzuflen " Volkhausenstraße ", in the district of Retzen, in Lemgo , Lage , Oerlinghausen , Barntrup and in Schieder " Korl-Biegemann-Straße " .

Works

  • Twisken Biege and Weern. 1900 ( ULB Münster )
  • Low Germans in Lippe are common idioms. 1919 ( LLB Detmold )
  • Late summer. 1923
  • The last sheet. 1925
  • Iut Deppelt's Aeolen Dagen. 1929

literature

  • Burkhard Meier: Dr. Ulrich Volkhausen alias Korl Biegemann . In: Heimatland Lippe . Issue 1 + 2/2004.
  • Karl Wehrhan : Oesterhaus, Volkhausen and Wienke - Three poets of the Lippe region , in communications from the Quickborn, Hamburg, 10, 1916/17, pp. 34–42.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Bender: Dr. med. Ulrich Volkhausen (alias Korl Biegemann) in: "The hand on the pulse of time - Lippische everyday history of the late 19th century in the mirror of official medical reports", Lippische Geschistorquellen , ISBN 3-923384-15-7 , Detmold, 2000.
  2. ↑ a b c Burkhard Meier: Dr. Ulrich Volkhausen alias Korl Biegemann in his home country Lippe, issue 1 + 2/2004
personal data
SURNAME Biegemann, Korl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Volkhausen, Karl Ulrich (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Volkhausen manor near Schötmar
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1937
Place of death Schötmar