Nikolaus Warker

Nikolaus Warker (born February 17, 1861 in Echternach , † December 2, 1940 in Arlon ) was a Luxembourgish writer .

Live and act

Nikolaus Warker was trained at the normal teacher school in Luxembourg and was a German teacher at a middle school in Brabant from 1882 to 1886 , then in Arlon. Here he published folk tales and collected sagas and fairy tales in which he found Germanic character and spirit . From 1902 to 1914 he was secretary of the German Association founded by Godefroid Kurth for the promotion and maintenance of the mother tongue in German-speaking Belgium . Here he campaigned for the Germanization of the Belgian province of Luxembourg . He preferred historical material in his dramas. From 1914 he worked with the German occupiers , published articles in the Arloner Zeitung , which was published by the German administration, and gave German courses to prospective teachers, which resulted in legal proceedings and the loss of his teaching post after the war. It was not until 1921 that he received the pension he was entitled to. In old age, Nikolaus Warker published linguistic studies on Luxembourgish names and proverbs.

Warker wrote poems, plays and short stories in German and Luxembourgish .

Awards

• 1941: Joseph von Görres Prize (posthumously by the National Socialists for "services to the promotion of German culture abroad", proposed by Franz Steinbach )

Works (selection)

• Wintergreen. Legends, stories, legends and fairy tales from the province of Luxembourg , Arlon 1890 ( read )
• Heather flowers. Poems, Arlon 1890
• The Swan Knight or The Ancestor of Gottfried von Bouillon. A legend from the Ardennes , Esch / Alzette 1892
• Legends of the Luxembourg people. From Belgian Luxembourg and from the Eischthal , Arlon 1893
• Kandsle'ft or 't Forget-Me-Not from Mammegrâf. Volks- a Zaldote set from the time of Napoleong a 5 acts , Arlon 1908
• De Mêschter Schuowert. Loschtspil on three acts , Luxembourg 1921
• T Livia. Mourning spil a 5 files from the time of Kreschteverfollowong zu Tre'ier am Johr 286 , Luxembourg 1927
• What our people say here and there , Luxembourg 1933
• The hunn. E deletes Stodentestrêch. Loschtspil on 2 files , Luxembourg 1935
• Sprachwîrder a Vîrniém , Luxembourg 1937

Web links

• Literature by and about Nikolaus Warker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Nikolaus Warker in the Luxembourg authors' lexicon