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Max Nacke (born April 26, 1883 in Altenberg ; † August 8, 1958 there ) was a dialect poet and singer from the Ore Mountains.

Live and act

Memorial stone in Altenberg

Gravestone in Altenberg

Nacke was born the son of a miner and a straw weaver in comparatively poor circumstances as the eldest of nine siblings. After attending school he worked as a farmer's boy and foreman in Altenberg and Reinhardtsgrimma before he found a job as a miner in Altenberg's tin mining. He later worked as a musical instrument maker for the Kalliope Musikwerke company , which moved from Leipzig to Dippoldiswalde in 1910 . After the First World War , Nacke worked again as a polisher and carpenter in Altenberg, but became unemployed due to the inflation of the early 1920s . After running a drinks bar with entertainment in a snow hut in Altenberg in the winter of 1923/1924, he set up a small drinks kiosk in a forest area south of Altenberg at an altitude of 800 meters in 1924, which he gradually turned into his own inn, the " Old caterpillar nest ”, extended.

As early as 1925 Nacke founded the Nacke Trio , later known as the Erzgebirgslieder Trio Max Nacke , together with his younger brother Willy Nacke (1893–1974) and Anton Krämer (1900–1993) , which gained national fame through appearances on the radio, concerts and TV productions . As early as 1936, the ensemble won 2nd prize at the first Erzgebirge controversy in Schwarzenberg. After Altenberg's destruction in 1945, Max Nacke donated a large sum to rebuild his hometown. About 40 songs were written by Max Nackes, including a .:

• De Krit'schen Tog (1930)
• Autumn song (1932)
• Dr old Baam on dr gable wall (1932)
• 's Watter (1933)
• Luck on (1935)
• 's Bimmelbahnel or Ho iech en good Freind im mich (1935)
• City and Country (1937)
• De Holzfuhrleit
• De old pust

His most famous song is "s Bimmelbahnel" .

In 1907 he married Bertha Richter from Freital, and in 1919 he married Frieda Gersdorf from Freital.

literature

• Max neck. Homeland singer of the Eastern Ore Mountains (1883–1958). In: Auer Employment Initiative eV (ed.): Small chronicle of great masters. Ore Mountains we are proud of. Volume 2. Self-published, Aue 2002, pp. 188–190.
• Jürgen Albertus: He sang and said "... grod, how dr Schnabl looks". in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 2/2008, pp. 17–19
• Heinz Bernhardt: Max Nacke, local poet and local singer of the Osterzgebirge. in: Mitteilungen des Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz 3/1996, pp. 19–24
• Horst Henschel (ed.): Singing Land. 400 dialect songs from the Ore Mountains. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1939 ( Erzgebirgische Heimatkunde 19, ZDB -ID 29604-1 ).