Louis Riedel (dialect poet)
Karl Louis Riedel (born April 29, 1847 in Gelenau , † March 31, 1919 in Plauen ) was a German dialect poet . He is considered the founder of the Vogtland dialect poetry.
Life
Riedel, who came from a poor background, attended the village and factory school in Gelenau. As a child he had to work in the cotton mill, where he received two hours of lessons after a twelve-hour working day. The pedagogically gifted Riedel later switched to the teachers' college in Annaberg and got his first job as a teacher in Gottesberg in the Vogtland . In 1867 he went to the school in Meßbach , where he worked for several decades.
Riedel wrote more than 30 small volumes with dialect poems, stories and small plays. He also worked on the first issues of the calendar published by Woldemar Müller for the Ore Mountains and Vogtland.
His son Max Riedel carried on the father's tradition and also published small volumes with his own stories and poems in the Vogtland dialect.
literature
- Gottfried Doehler: Karl Louis Riedel and his writings in Vogtland dialect. A study. Plauen 1893.
- Karl Hans Pollmer : Erzgebirge Calendar Stories , Berlin 1972, p. 63.
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Riedel in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riedel, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riedel, Karl Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German dialect poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1847 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Exactly |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 31, 1919 |
| Place of death | Plauen |