Moritz Jahn (Author)

Moritz Jahn (born March 27, 1884 in Lilienthal , † January 19, 1979 in Göttingen ) was a German writer who wrote mainly in Low German .

Life

Moritz Jahn, who was initially a primary school teacher , studied German and art history in Göttingen from 1921 to 1925 . Until 1943 he was active in the school service, most recently as rector in Geismar , and after his retirement in 1944 became a freelance writer.

Jahn was a member of the NSDAP between 1933 and 1935 and in 1941 took part in the Weimar Poets 'Meeting organized by Goebbels , at which the National Socialist European Writers' Association was founded. Jahn gave a speech at the conference in which he sharply attacked the literary emigrants. During the National Socialist era , he was made an honorary doctorate from Göttingen University in 1944.

In the Göttingen district of Geismar (Göttingen) , the Moritz-Jahn-Haus is named after him.

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Jahn's work, which is mainly written in the Low German language, includes above all poetry - including ballads - fairy tales, short stories and historical stories. Sometimes also in letter form.

My interest in this language was not historical, but rather aesthetic; I felt it was bursting with artistic possibilities that, in my opinion (...) had hardly been seen,

the poet describes his drive as an ambitious writer to devote himself to Low German. Parts of his work, which is also mainly located in the Low German region, can be characterized as brooding or tragic, while others are full of satirical or comic elements. Jahn's favorite topic is the life of eccentric people and their failure in society. B. in the collection of poems and ballads Ulenspegel and Jan Dood (1933). Other well-known works are the short story Frangula (1933), the novella De Moorfro (1950) and Lucifer (1956), again a short story. The volume of poems Unkepunz was equally important . A German Face (1931) and Im weiten Land (1938), a collection of stories. His story The story of the people on the Outer Foehrde belonged to the literature used for propaganda purposes under National Socialism, which was printed in higher editions than usual.

Awards / recognitions

• 1936 Literature Prize of the Province of Hanover (together with Alma Rogge and Wilhelm Scharrelmann )
• 1941 Mecklenburg Literature Prize
• 1944 Honorary doctorate from the Philosophical Faculty of the Georg-August University in Göttingen
• 1959 Fritz Reuter Prize
• 1964 Medal of Honor from the City of Göttingen
• 1984 Scientific colloquium in Göttingen on the occasion of the poet's 100th birthday
• Klaus Groth Prize of the Low German Association Hamburg
• Indigenous people of the East Frisian landscape

Works (selection)

• The story of the people on the Outer Foehrde. Junge Generation Verlag, Berlin 1930
• Boleke Roleffs. A Low German story. Spielmeyer, Göttingen 1930
• Unkepunz. A German face. Spielmeyer, Göttingen 1931
• Frangula or The Heavenly Women in the Forest. Reclam, Leipzig 1933
• Ulenspegel un Jan Dood - Low German poems Verlag Westphal, Lübeck 1933
• In the vast country. Stories, Langen Müller, Munich 1938
• The same. Langen Müller, Munich 1939
• The Monument of the Bachelor. A harmless story. Langen Müller, Munich 1942
• Moritz. The Monument of the Bachelor. A harmless story. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1948
• De Moorfro. Publishing house of the Fehrs-Gilde, Hamburg 1950
• Lucifer. Publishing house of the Fehrs-Gilde, Hamburg 1956

literature

• Stellmacher, Dieter (Ed.): Studies on Moritz Jahn , Verlag C. Bösendahl Rinteln 1986 (= name and word. Göttingen works on Low German Philology, Vol. 8) - ISBN 3-87085-104-X
• Friedrich Ernst Peters : "Ulenspegel un Jan Dood": the figure of a poet from Low Germany , in: ders., In the service of form. Collected essays, Göttingen: Deuerlichsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1947, pp. 49–59. Potsdam University Library
• Blome, Hermann: Moritz Jahn. In: D [eter] P. Meier-Lenz and Kurt Morawiecz (eds.): Niedersachsen literarisch. Bio-bibliographical data, photos and texts from 65 authors from Lower Saxony. Bremerhaven: Wirtschaftsverlag NW GmbH 1978, pp. 161–167, ISBN 3-88314-003-1
• Böger, Joachim: Moritz Jahn - "poeta doctus" of Low German. In Niedersachsen. Journal for Home and Culture 98/3 (1998). Pp. 138-13
• Eberhard Rohse, Dieter Stellmacher, Dirk Hinrichs, Karl Semmelroggen (eds.): Augist Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn. A literary comparison 1870-1970 . Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Vienna: Peter Lang. Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften 2011 (= literature - language - region , vol. 8) ISSN 1434-3061 ISBN 978-3-631-60820-3
• Rohse, Eberhard : “And dat in de Chasmersche Kantorije!” - Moritz Jahn as a poet in Geismar. Outline of a literary portrait. In: Vera Lenz and Karl Semmelroggen (eds.): 1055–2005. 950 years of Geismar. History and stories. Duderstadt: Mecke Druck und Verlag 2005, pp. 205–236 - ISBN 3-936617-33-3
• Rohse, Eberhard: Moritz Jahn in his literary works. In: Rohse / Stellmacher […]: August Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn. [...] Frankfurt a. M. […] 2011, pp. 93-131
• Rohse, Eberhard: Fairy tale models as poetic potential between contemporary novels and theodicy discourse: August Hinrich's "Das Licht der Heimat" and Moritz Jahn's "De Fisker un sien Fro". In: Rohse / Stellmacher […]: August Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn, […] Frankfurt a, M. […] 20111, pp. 217–254
• Rohse, Eberhard: Beyond world literature? Moritz Jahn's Low German story “Lucifer”. In: Soltauer Schriften / Binneboom. Series of publications of the Freudenthal Society and the Heimatbund Soltau. Vol. 22 (2016), pp. 10-40, ISBN 3-933802-37-7
• Schrader, Hans-Jürgen: Moritz Jahn's unkepuncial thought and poetry model. In: Rohse / Stellmacher […]: August Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn. [...]. Frankfurt a. M. […] 2011, pp. 133–164
• Stellmacher, Dieter: August Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn in the Low German literature. In: Rohse / Stellmacher […] August Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn. [...]. Frankfurt a. M. […] 2011, pp. 165–175
• Heise, Klaus: Do you know this Moritz Jahn? An excursion into the poet's personal environment. In: Rohse / Stellmacher […]: August Hinrichs and Moritz Jahn. [...]. Frankfurt a. M. […] 2011, pp. 19–38
• Strathmann, Peter: On the figure of Ulenspiegel in Moritz Jahn's cycle of poems "Ulenspegel un Jan Dood". With a postscript on the topicality of the reception. In: Eulenspiegel-Jahrbuch 48/49 (2008/2009), pp. 103-120 - ISSN  0531-2159 ISBN 978-3-923233-11-3

Discography

• Moritz Jahn, "Lucifer", poems from "Ulenspegel un Jan Dood" (series: Low German Voices )

Web links

• Literature by and about Moritz Jahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Moritz Jahn in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joachim Böger: Moritz Jahn , at Ostfriesische Landschaft , PDF