Martha Müller-Grählert

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Martha Müller-Grählert

Martha Müller-Grählert (born December 20, 1876 in Barth ; † November 18, 1939 in Franzburg ) was a local poet from West Pomerania . She is the poet of the Ostseewellenlied.

Life

Martha Müller-Grählert was born as Johanna Friederike Karoline Daatz as a premarital child. After her father, the master miller Friedrich Grählert from Zingst , married her mother in 1879, he also had the daughter's first name changed and from 1879 the child was called Martha Grählert. She spent her childhood and youth in Zingst at Lindenstrasse 7.

She then attended the Franzburg teachers' seminar and then worked as a tutor. She started writing verses early on. In 1898 she moved to Berlin . She began to work as an editor of the "Deutsches Familienblatt" and in 1904 married Dr. Max Müller, an agronomist. In a foreign city of Berlin she wrote her poem about the Baltic Sea waves in Western Pomerania Platt , with the title "Mine Heimat", which was published in 1907 in the volume "Schelmenstücke".

In 1911 she went to Japan with her husband, who had accepted a visiting professorship in Sapporo . After the outbreak of the First World War , they returned to Germany in 1914 after a long, arduous journey. Here the marriage broke up and Martha Müller-Grählert got into economic hardship. She tried to supplement her income with lecture tours and reading evenings. In 1920 “Mudder Möllersch 'Reis na Berlin” was published. In 1924 she moved back to Zingst and tried to make ends meet with poems in newspapers and lecture evenings, which was not possible in the long term.

Grave in the Zingster cemetery
Friesenlied 1952 with the Walter Jenson Orchestra

In the meantime, her poem “Mine Heimat” had become very well known: A wandering glazier journeyman from Flensburg carried the newspaper clipping from the then well-known “Meggendorfer Blätter” with the poem to Zurich, and so it came to the then conductor of the male workers' choir there, Simon Krannig . He set the poem to music (1908/10) and the song quickly spread. Friedrich Fischer-Friesenhausen changed the text accordingly and published the song as a North Sea Wave song (Friesenlied) .

Martha Müller-Grählert lived in economic hardship in the following years. Despite a lengthy, exhausting process, she did not succeed in asserting her copyrights for the Ostseewellenlied and its repetitions or in receiving royalties .

In 1925 she wrote Volume I of “Sünnenkringel” with a slightly changed version of “Mine Heimat”, Volume II followed in 1931. Some poems appeared in the Barther Tageblatt of the Riga city capital and publisher Julius Dahlfeld; the entire business was run by his son Adolf. This publisher published a total of three books of the works of Martha Müller-Grählert.

In 1936 she and the composer Krannig were finally granted the copyrights, too late for the poet to benefit materially from them. Before the rules of the judgment became final, Martha Müller-Grählert died on November 18, 1939, almost blind, poor and lonely in the Franzburg retirement home near Stralsund . Her grave is in the cemetery in Zingst with the inscription: "Here is my home, here bün ick to Hus".

Works

  • Roguish pieces . Berlin 1907
  • Mudder Möllersch 'Reis na Berlin . Barth 1920
  • Sünnenkringel . Volume 1, Königsberg 1925
  • Sünnenkringel . Volume 2, Koenigsberg 1931
  • Collected Works . 10 booklets ed. v. Adolf Dahlfeld Erben, Barth 2008–2013

Honors

In 2006, a Martha Müller Grählert Park was created in Zingst .

The life and work of Martha Müller-Grählert is thematized in the following museums:

  • Museum and museum courtyard Zingst
  • Martha Müller-Grählert Museum in the old print shop in Barth

literature

  • Irene Blechle: Poetry and origin of the "Ostseewellenlied". In memory of Martha Müller-Grählert (1876–1939) . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 4/2007, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 42-43.
  • Gunnar Müller-Waldeck: Müller-Grählert, Martha (1876-1939) . In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 2 ( = publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.2). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-412-22541-4 , pp. 185–188.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Dutch mill of the father's company was located on this property until 1917. It was dismantled and rebuilt in the Deutsches Museum in Munich, where it burned down during bombing raids in 1944. After 1990 the house had to give way to a larger new building. Today's house number is 41.
  2. ↑ Zingst Museum. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
  3. ↑ www.Stadt-Barth.de official website of the city of Barth. Retrieved June 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Müller-Grählert, Martha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Barth , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1939
Place of death Franzburg