M. Düsterbrock

M. Düsterbrock (* December 18, 1865 in Anklam ; † February 14, 1947 there ), actually Luise Kaliebe , was a German playwright and homeland poet .

Life

With a father, a pool attendant , who was committed to promoting his daughter's talents, Luise Kaliebe received piano training at an early age and also received private school lessons. When she was a young girl, she was able to attend the school for higher daughters in Jarmen .

She then wrote and published numerous literary works until the 1920s, which appeared under the pseudonym M. Düsterbrock . Under her real name Luise Kaliebe , she organized popular lecture evenings in her home country, where she recited from her work, but also played the piano.

She didn't get married. When the Red Army marched into her hometown of Anklam in 1945, she lost most of her manuscripts and other documents as well as her typewriter. In 1947 she died in Anklam, meanwhile completely impoverished. Her remaining literary estate is in the museum in the Steintor in Anklam.

Literary work

Her literary work ranges from the lyric poem to the short story or scene to the full-length theater piece.

Düsterbrock wrote for the theater in both Low German and High German. With Die Friedenstaube a “performance for virgin stages in one lift” appeared in Danner's women's theater in 1918, also in print. This was followed by the Christmas play Das Pampered Princess in the same year and The Converted Hitzkopf (1920). With 'ne gaudelösung (1922) and De geflickten Büren (1924), two more extensive Low German comedies were published, before Düsterbrock again became the one-act act or the cheerful one with Sie kann nichtochen (1924), Dorf und Stadt and Das Liebesexamen (both 1925) Scene turned.

Düsterbrock organized performances mainly on peasant stages. The comedy in one act, A Difficult Engagement , which appeared in 1927, was expressly "also suitable for bachelor parties and silver weddings".

In the early 1920s, she published some of her stories in Low German with titles such as De olle Beerenboom in the magazine Unser Pommerland . With Bur Kranich un anner Lüd , a reissued book was also published. En poor Planten ut minen Goren was published as early as 1905, and Jeremias Bräsig in 1907 . Cheery from a small town .

After Düsterbrock's death, the text Lütt Nägenklauk was particularly popular because the famous German actor Paul Dahlke , who also came from Pomerania, recited it at a “celebration in connection with the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft”, which appeared on a popular record entitled Heimatland Pommern .

meaning

Around the turn of the century, she was mentioned in the same breath as Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (in 1905 one of her works was even published with the famous moral painting Die Judenbuche in one volume), otherwise almost forgotten, but Düsterbrock is still valued as a Pomeranian homeland poet. Her poems and stories continue to appear in anthologies with titles such as Pomeranian. A reader . The traditional calendar published by the museum in the stone gate of the place where she was born also paid tribute to her in 1991 with a detailed article.

Web links

• M. Düsterbrock in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)

Footnotes

1. ^ The Pomeranian Newspaper. No. 20/2009, p. 2.