Kurt Kremers

Kurt Kremers (* February 1920 in Rheydt , Niederrhein; † October 24, 1991 in Mönchengladbach ) alias turi was a German composer (including travel songs ), poet and writer .

Life

Kurt Kremers came from a strictly Protestant family. Both parents belonged to the youth association for decided Christianity . After eight years of attending a dwarf school, he trained as a weaver in a factory. From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of an association called Schüler , similar to the Wandervogel , which was later incorporated into the German Young People , the part of the Hitler Youth responsible for 10-14 year olds. At the time when National Socialism came to power, however, he resigned. He made long-term friendships with then illegal Bündischen , predominantly Nerother Wandering Birds from the order of the pirates, and joined the Kittelbach pirates . At the age of fifteen he was arrested by the Secret State Police during a major raid in Hülser Bruch near Krefeld . During this time, in 1935 and 1936, he was involved in a contact point for persecuted Bündische in Anrath near Krefeld and their help to escape to Holland. When he was seventeen, he was arrested for the second time and interrogated by the Gestapo. Thereupon he went into hiding in the Reich Labor Service . There he was a member of a secret group of former Bündnis, which was led by a leader from the Catholic storm band.

During the Second World War , Kremers was drafted as a soldier in early 1940. It was used in Bonn , Thorn , Poland and Norway . At the end of 1941 he spent four months in the Ackershus fortress near Oslo . He then spent half a year in a penal company in Russia until he deserted. He was caught and sentenced to fifteen years in prison to serve at the end of the war.

In 1950 he founded the first order of the pirates in Nerother Wandervogel after the war. He remained active there until 1954. Kremer translated Scandinavian folk songs, among other things.

Works

• Northward hoo! , Story about a trip to Lapland. Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim 1965, ISBN 3-88258-000-3
• Laulaja-Laulu . Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim 1978, ISBN 3-88258-041-0
• Under the North Star , song book. Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim 1983, ISBN 3-88258-075-5

Also articles and stories in "puls 5/6" Südmarkverlag, Heidenheim / Brenz 1979, ISSN  0342-3328

Web links

• Works by and about Kurt Kremers in the catalog of the German National Library
• Kurt Kremers in "Pathfinder wiki, scout-o-wiki"
• On the biography of Kurt Kremers (Turi). Turi - a kind of little German Francois Villon? On the biography of Kurt Kremers (Turi), an alliance songwriter and writer in the Nerother Wandervogel. An interim report (as of August 23, 2015). From Helmut Wurm.