Ludwig Bate

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Ludwig Bäte (born June 22, 1892 in Osnabrück ; † April 30, 1977 there ) was a German writer , poet , cultural historian and translator.

In his hometown he established the custom of riding a hobby horse in memory of the Peace of Westphalia of 1648.

Life

In Osnabrück, the hobby horse sculpture is a monument to the custom brought to life by Bäte

Ludwig Bäte was the son of a craftsman from Osnabrück and had two younger brothers. After attending the Protestant Citizens 'School in Osnabrück and the Preparatory Institute, he attended the Royal Prussian Teachers' College from 1909 to 1912. Until 1915 he taught at the elementary school in Riemsloh and in Hoyel (today the city of Melle ). In the same year he became a middle school teacher at the Höhere Stadtschule in Melle, where he taught until 1928. In 1919 he married Dorothea Albers (1893–1944). Sons from this connection were Hans-Justus (* 1921) and Albert-Ulrich (* 1928).

From 1928 to 1945 Bäte worked as a teacher at the Möser Middle School in Osnabrück. He was not called up for military service because of severe myopia . Its role during the Nazi era is diffuse. Until 1945 he belonged to various organizations of the Nazi regime, including the National Socialist People's Welfare , the Nazi Teachers' Association , the KDF and the Reich Colonial Association . According to erroneous information in the Killy Literature Lexicon, he was banned from publishing during the Second World War because of his humanistic commitment. In fact, he continued to publish, e.g. B. in: "The bridge from home to the front" Feldpostbrief of the NSDAP., Kreis Osnabrück-Stadt Episode 5, May 1940 page 2 "A birthday gift for the Führer" ... Verses by Ludwig Bäte: "To the Führer. What a old city given in great time "... etc." We stand like our walls around your work, and sacrifice is life's deepest meaning ". Wilpert names 28 independent book publications between 1933 and 1945. His Möser biography was published in 1944.

In 1943, at his instigation, the historic Friedenssaal of the Osnabrück City Hall, in which the Osnabrück Peace Treaty to end the Thirty Years' War had been concluded in 1648, was cleared . This saved the inventory when the town hall burned down by bombardment on September 13, 1944.

In May 1945, Bäte was commissioned by the British Military Governor to set up a cultural office for the city. On January 1, 1946, he was appointed director. In August 1946 he was to denunciation in custody taken on 14 August ordered the military government to release him. The main denazification committee acquitted him on September 5, 1946. On November 11, 1946 he took office again and was appointed city archivist in 1947. He held this office until September 30, 1949. At this time he also met the Dutch writer Ben van Eysselsteijn , both of whom had published in the Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands (DZN) during the war (in Eysselsteijn's case initially involuntarily, as the DZN simply used his work), loudly the latter, however, was not known at the time. Bäte and Eysselsteijn each translated the other's works into their own language, and Eysselsteijn Bäte dedicated some poems under the name Für Ludwig Bäte , while Bäte dedicated Eysselsteijn his volume of poems Alles ist Wiederkehr .

In 1947 Bäte married Hildegard Roseeu (1915-2006) for the second time. The daughter from this marriage is called Cornelia-Gabriele (* 1950). He also had two sons.

In 1948 the first hobby horse riding was held in Osnabrück to mark the 300th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia . It is based on a legend from Nuremberg, but was moved to Osnabrück by the Emsland poets Clara and Emmy von Dincklage in their book Stories for the Young from 1875. In 1953, at the instigation of Bätes, another hobby horse ride was held. Since then, hobby horse riding has taken place in the peace city of Osnabrück every year in October.

In 1953 , together with the Westphalian writer Josef Winckler , Bäte re-founded the writers' association Die Kogge , which he had belonged to, which was dissolved in 1933 by the Reichsschrifttumskammer .

From 1950 to 1955 Bäte worked as a teacher again. Until he retired, he taught at the Wittekind secondary school in Osnabrück.

Ludwig Bäte died on April 30, 1977 at the age of 84 and was buried in the Heger cemetery in Osnabrück .

A few weeks after Bäte's death, the Dortmund City and State Library showed an exhibition that began on June 21, 1977 and should have been dedicated to his 85th birthday. The exhibition was shown in Münster in 1978 and later in Osnabrück.

Awards and honors

Works (selection)

  • Summer rides. Poems , 1916
  • Field loneliness. Poems from Lower Saxony , 1917
  • Moonlight and gable roofs , 1919
  • Friedrich Leopold von Stolberg (Sondermühlen) , 1919
  • The trip to Göttingen. A story , 1922
  • The Blackbird. Poems , 1922
  • The eternal fatherland. Stories and Pictures , 1922
  • In the old room. Stories , 1923
  • Wittekindsland. A book from home , 1924
  • From golden streets. Stories about German poets , 1925
  • Path through meadows. New poems , 1926
  • Jenny from Voigts . A forgotten friend of Goethe , 1926
  • John's sleep. A speech , 1927
  • Lost fate. Stories from the Harz Mountains , 1927
  • Tilman Riemenschneider. Novella , 1928
  • Lost hours. Stories and Poems , 1928
  • Song to the south. New poems , 1931
  • The peace. Roman , 1934
  • Worpswede. Poems , 1934
  • Heart in Holland , 1936
  • The schooner "Johanna". Roman , 1936
  • Annette on Lake Constance , 1937
  • The flower of Isenheim and other short stories , 1937
  • Stage in the dawn. Novel by the actor Conrad Ekhof , 1938
  • The Hall of the Peace of Westphalia in Osnabrück , 1938
  • Chronicle of the city of Osnabrück , 1938
  • The beautiful cathedral , 1938
  • The honorable Soest , 1938
  • Window to the north. A story book , 1939
  • Münchhausen and Eulenspiegel. Low German humor , 1940
  • Osnabrück and the Peace of Westphalia , 1940
  • Herman Anders Kruger. Picture of a poet , 1941
  • A woman defeats the ocean , 1941
  • Legend of the four women , 1944
  • Schwegerhoff. Story , 1944
  • Low German anecdotes , 1945
  • The way to her. One life , 1946
  • The drunken death. A Grabbe novella , 1947
  • Encounters. Memories from my life , 1947
  • St John's legend , 1947
  • Amore Pacis. Seal of the Peace of Westphalia , 1948
  • The peace rider. Story , 1948
  • Johann Gottfried Herder. The way, the work, the time , 1948
  • The morning star. Poems , 1948
  • Johann Carl Bertram Stüve , 1948
  • Tilman Riemenschneider returns home. Story , 1948
  • Mr. Lichtenberg's mistake. A story from the Rococo , 1950
  • Everything is a return. Poems , 1952
  • Meisenheim novella , 1953
  • The Queen's Courier. Story , 1955
  • Roses to Lidice. Story , 1956
  • Weimar. Face of a City , 1956
  • Braid the ring tighter. Poems , 1957
  • Weimar Elegy. Poems , 1961
  • Justus Möser. Advocatus patriae , 1961
  • Gustav Adolf's son. Portrait of a stranger , 1962
  • Franz Hecker. Painter and graphic artist , 1963
  • Goethe and the Osnabrückers. With unknown picture u. Manuscript reproductions , 1970

Translations

Editorial activity

  • With us in winter , 1919
  • The book of the small German town (together with Kurt Meyer-Rotermund), 1920
  • From Theodor Storm's garden of life. A picture of his daughter Gertrud , 1921
  • The moon has risen. German evening songs , 1921
  • Rest in the Teutoburg Forest. A summer gift from German poets , 1921
  • The Johannes sleep book. On his 60th birthday (with Kurt Meyer-Rotermund and Rudolf Borch), 1922
  • The little night watchman (with Kurt Meyer-Rotermund), 1923
  • Vossian house idyll. Letters from Ernestine Voss to Heinrich Christian and Sara Boie (1794-1820) , 1925
  • Wreath around Jean Paul. Heidelberg Festival in unprinted letters from Heinrich Voss (1817-1820) , 1925
  • John's sleep. Life and Work (with Kurt Meyer-Rotermund), 1933
  • The golden car. A book to read aloud , 1940
  • The peace in Osnabrück 1648. Contributions to its history , 1948
  • Johann Gottfried Herder. A selection from his works , 1956
  • The Johannes Schlaf files , 1967

literature

  • Ludwig Bäte on his 70th birthday . Schippel, (Dortmund-Hörde) 1962.
  • Ludwig Bäte on his 85th birthday. Manuscripts, correspondence, book publications (exhibition June 21 to July 12, 1977), compiled by Hedwig Gunnemann. City u. State Library, Dortmund 1977.
  • Ludwig Bäte: (June 22nd, 1892 - April 30th, 1977); Poets from landscape and history ; on the occasion of a commemorative exhibition in the Münster University Library from March 11 to April 15, 1978 / Münster University Library. Edited by Bertram Haller. - Münster, 1978.
  • Horst Meyer in: Biogr. Handb. Osnabrück, 1990 page 19 with portrait
  • Wilpert, Gero von: First editions of German poetry  : a bibliography of German literature 1600 - 1990. - 2nd, completely revised. Edition - Stuttgart: Kröner, 1992, pages 57-60; 109 numbers, including numbers 38 to 66 = 28 numbers from 1933 to 1945
  • Silke Pohl: Ludwig Bäte. A biography. Online PDF

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilpert, Gero von: First editions of German poetry: a bibliography on German literature 1600 - 1990 . Stuttgart: Kröner 1992, p. 57-60 .
  2. ↑ Henk Nijkeuter: Ben van Eysselsteijn - Drent uit heimwée en require , Van Gorcum, Assen 1996, ISBN 90-232-3175-9 , p. 65 u. 129 (Dutch)


personal data
SURNAME Bate, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, cultural historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 1977
Place of death Osnabrück