Max Schreyer
August Max Schreyer (born September 7, 1845 in Johanngeorgenstadt ; † July 27, 1922 in Pulsnitz ) was a Saxon forester and the poet of the song Dar Vuglbärbaam .
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August Max Schreyer was born as the fourth child of the first marriage of the mining auditor at the mining authority and miners' union clerk Carl August Schreyer into a family of miners from Johanngeorgenstadt. His parents' house in Schneeberger and later Bahnhofsstraße no longer exists today. In 1851 he started school in the municipal school in his hometown, where Christian Friedrich Röder was also teaching at the time . From 1856 he attended the Realschule in Annaberg , from 1863 to 1865 the Realgymnasium in Chemnitz . After a forest internship in Sosa , he studied from 1866 to 1873 at the Forestry Academy in Tharandt .
From 1873 to 1878 Schreyer worked as council forester for the city of Zittau , where he married the goldsmith's daughter Doris Hanner. With her he moved to the Golk near Diesbar as a district forester . In 1887 Schreyer returned to the Ore Mountains and took over the chief forester position in Grünhain . On November 1, 1893, Schreyer was appointed head forester in Großpöhla . He held this office until his retirement in 1919.
He was very connected to the Ore Mountains and probably composed the famous folk song Dar Vuglbärbaam in 1887 .
Schreyer, who had been promoted to forester in 1904 and to chief forestry officer in 1917, was considered a sociable and entertaining person. In addition to his main work , Schreyer, who has been writing since his student days, also wrote texts for other popular songs and poems in the Ore Mountains dialect. These include the songs Tschumperliedel , Da lusting Hammerschmiedsgselln (originally from Austria, see above), Do driebn un do draußn and De Schwamme . He also wrote the Schwank Dr Hammerlieb .
Schreyer spent the last years of his life with his daughter in Pulsnitz. A rowan was planted on his grave, which is now a listed building .
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his most famous song, a memorial plaque was placed in the rock for him 100 years after he took up his post in his former forest district on the summit of the Schatzenstein near Elterlein . A memorial stone on the market square also commemorates the Erzgebirge poet in his hometown Johanngeorgenstadt.
literature
- Manfred Blechschmidt : Max August Schreyer and the song about the rowan tree . In: Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung 26 (1981), pp. 100-105, JSTOR 847816 at jstor.org (subscription access). Printed in: Jahrbuch Erzgebirge 1985, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1985, pp. 35–41.
- Werner Keller: Clarity about the "Vuglbeerbaam". In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 5/1980, ISSN 0232-6078 , p. 123.
- Johann Georg Schreyer: In memory of the poet of the Vuglbeerbaams. In: Mitteilungen des Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz , Volume XXI, Issue 4–6 / 1932, pp. 144–150 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Max Schreyer in the catalog of the German National Library
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SURNAME | Schreyer, Max |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schreyer, August Max (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon forester and the poet of the song "Dar Vugelbeerbaam" |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 7, 1845 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Johanngeorgenstadt |
DATE OF DEATH | July 27, 1922 |
Place of death | Pulsnitz |