Max Tandler

Max Tandler (born March 24, 1895 in Böhmisch Zinnwald , † June 17, 1982 in Forchheim ) was an Ore Mountains dialect poet.

Life

The youngest son of a man from Obersteig attended elementary school in Bohemian Zinnwald and the community school in Aussig . He lost his parents as a child, his mother died in 1901 and his father in 1910. At that time he was in third grade at the Mariaschein grammar school. Prince Lobkowitz , owner of the Zinnwald ore mines, took over the study costs so that he could attend the grammar school to the end and take the high school diploma . In 1915 he was called up for military service like his brothers Rudolf and Heinrich . His two brothers fell, and he himself saw the end of the war at the front in Italy. He went to Prague and attended lectures at the law faculty there, but had to drop out after a semester penniless. He managed to get by with auxiliary work until he was able to successfully pass the Abitur at the Aussiger Commercial Academy. He acquired his teaching qualification at the Komotau educational institution . After unemployment, he got a job in 1921 in Sodau / Karlsbad, Espenthor and finally at the community schools in Karlsbad itself, Marienbad and from 1930 in Schlackenwerth near Joachimsthal.

Before he was expelled from Czechoslovakia as a German in 1946 , he spent 15 months in Neurohlau b. Karlovy Vary was interned and badly mistreated during this time. A former student eventually obtained his release. Since there was nothing against him in court, he was deported to Forchheim via Schwabach . Here he began as a lamp painter, but became unemployed and lived spartanly in a small apartment in the Catholic rectory of St. Martin.

Far from his homeland, which had become inaccessible for him, he increasingly turned to dialect poetry and published the Erzgebirgsweise in 1952 and his proverbs from the Erzgebirge in 1956 . In 1955, Helmuth Stapff included some poems in his publication Christmas in the Erzgebirge . In addition to many other dialect poems, Max Tandler also wrote in High German.

He died on June 17, 1982 after a brief serious illness at the age of 87 in Forchheim.

Publications (selection)

• 1933 From the Erzgebirge (collection of poems / self-published by Max Tandler)
• 1936 Mei Gebarche you (collection of poems / Max Kraus publishing house in Reichenberg)
• 1937 Bargwind. Poems in the dialect of Zinnwald in the Ore Mountains ( Voices of the Landscape , Vol. 4, Bastei-Verlag Dresden)
• 1952 Erzgebirgsweise (edition by Kammweg Verlag)
• 1956 saying wisdom in Erzgebirge
• The following years calendar , the mother in the cradle , contemplation
• 1965 Freit eich, ihr Leit (Record spoken and sung by Max Tandler / Aufstiegs-Verlag Munich)

Honors

In Forchheim, Max Tandler received many honors and appreciations for his work. He received u. a. the Adalbert Stifter Medal , the gold medal of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and, as the honorary cousin of the Eghalanda Gmoi, their medal .

literature

• Manfred Blechschmidt : Max Tandler, the poet in Zinnwald dialect . In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter . No. 4 , 2009, ISSN  0232-6078 , p. 6-8 .

Web links

• Max Tandler from Zinnwald, the poet of the Ore Mountains. www.zinnwald.de, accessed December 30, 2017 (biography and works).