Max Kuckei
Max Hinrich Nikolaus Kuckei (born January 7, 1890 in Tondern , † August 13, 1948 in Elmshorn ) was a German folklorist and folk song collector.
Life
Max Kuckei was a son of the enforcement officer August Robert Kuckei, who came from the former province of Posen and his wife Katharina Dorothea, née Ibsen, who came from a Hallig. He attended an elementary school and completed a teacher training at the Tondern preparatory institute and the local teacher training college. He then taught in Morsum , Dägeling , Suxdorf , Friedrichsthal in Holstein, Altona and Elmshorn.
Kuckei was married to Berchta Lau, with whom he had two children.
Act as folklorist
Kuckei got involved in the German youth movement and, together with Hans Ruhe, set up the Schleswig-Holstein folk song committee and the folk song archive. He headed both organizations for several decades while teaching. Together with the German Folk Song Archive , he compiled folk songs from Schleswig-Holstein and carried out research on them. The Schleswig-Holstein State Library took over the holdings in 1969, which were then looked after by the Institute for Musicology at Kiel University .
Kuckei dealt primarily with folklore collections. He also published on folklore and pedagogy.
literature
- Paul Selk: Kuckei, Max . in: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . Volume 2. Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1971, pp. 191–192
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kuckei, Max |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kuckei, Max Hinrich Nikolaus (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folklorist and folk song collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tondern |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 13, 1948 |
| Place of death | Elmshorn |