Meinrad Alexius Nossek

Meinrad Alexius Nossek (born October 12, 1891 in Arnsdorf, today Arnultovice (Rudník) ; † December 6, 1946 in Wiener Neustadt ) was a Bohemian Roman Catholic clergyman, Cistercian and dialect poet.

Life

Alexius Nossek grew up at the southern foot of the Giant Mountains in Arnsdorf near Arnau (today Hostinné ) in the Hohenelbe district (today in the Czech Republic ). He studied theology at the German Karl Ferdinand University in Prague and, after a short stay in the seminary of the Königgrätz diocese, entered the Cistercian monastery Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna Woods in 1915 . There he took the religious name Meinrad (after Meinrad von Einsiedeln ). After his ordination in 1919, he was a monk and pastor in the Neukloster Priory (former Neukloster Abbey ) in Wiener Neustadt until the end of his life (also a religion teacher at various grammar schools until 1940 and again from 1945). He died as a result of an accident.

The dialect poet

Nossek, who called himself “Harfamon” (harp man), found recognition as a poet in the Silesian dialect , especially the mountain Silesian (also: Giant Mountains). In 1952, a dissertation on him and his work was defended at the University of Vienna. A publisher for expellees' literature published his poems 16 years after his death. In the cloister of the new monastery there is a memorial plaque with the following text:

“ In memory of the poet of our homeland Fr. Meinrad Alex Nossek SOCIST [dates of life]. His beloved home in the Giant Mountains with mountains and valleys, fields, meadows and forests, villages and towns was lost to his people. The German people were driven from their ancient homeland . Harfamon / An's Lied has a rest now. [The harp man is quiet now / And the song is over] His grateful friends from home . "

Works

dialect

• Derheem zom skirt. Poems , ed. by Anton Blaschka (1892–1970). Catholic press association for East Bohemia, Trautenau ( Trutnov ) 1923. (Riesengebirglers Heimatbücher 1).
• Pfafferküchlan. Poems . Catholic press association for East Bohemia, Trautenau 1927. (Riesengebirglers Heimatbücher 2).
• (posthumously) I want to om dearest hejm. Dialect poems from the Giant Mountains . Riesengebirgsverlag Renner, Kempten / Allgäu 1962.

Standard German

• A Christmas at Heiligenkreuz Abbey. Acting in one act . Heiligenkreuz Abbey 1923.
• When I thought home Poems . Self-published, Wiener Neustadt 1927.
• Gladly praise the Lord. Songs . Heiligenkreuz Abbey, Heiligenkreuz without year.

literature

• H. Watzl:  Nossek, P. Meinrad (Alexis). In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 154.
• Alois Klug (1897–1960): In the most beautiful meadow. Memories of my youth . Riesengebirgsverlag Renner, Kempten 1971.
• Gertrud Knefel: "P. Meinrad Alexius Nossek on the 50th anniversary of his death". In: Sancta Crux 58, 1997, pp. 91-100.
• Josef Mühlberger (1903–1985): The poetry of the Sudeten Germans in the last 50 years . Stauda, ​​Kassel 1929 (dissertation 1926 Karl Ferdinand University Prague, with August Sauer ).
• Josef Mühlberger: History of German literature in Bohemia 1900–1939 . Langen Müller, Vienna 1981.
  • (Czech) Dějiny německé literatury v Čechách 1900–1939 . Ústí nad Labem 2006.
• Riesengebirgs-Jahrbuch 1967, pp. 53–58.
• Friedrich Schön: History of the German dialect poetry. Vol. 3. The dialect poetry from outside of Germany in Europe. Dialect poetry in Austria and the former Austro-Hungarian countries, in Switzerland, in Luxembourg. FE Fehsenfeld, Freiburg im Breisgau 1931, p. 95.
• Berta Völgyfy: Father Meinrad Alexius Nossek. His life. His work. Dissertation Vienna 1952 (unprinted).

Web links

• Nossek, Meinrad, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)