Oscar Seifert
Oscar Seifert (born March 11, 1861 in Neuschönefeld , † December 25, 1932 in Leipzig ) was a Leipzig showman , traveling salesman and Leipzig original .
Life
Oscar Seifert was born in Neuschönefeld in 1861 , which became a district of Leipzig in 1890. He lost his parents to cholera at an early age and grew up with foster parents. His pun as a flying trader made him a Leipzig original as Seifert's Oscar . Towards the end of his life, Oscar Seifert bought a carousel with six cars, powered by an electric motor, which was an attraction at the Leipzig small fair as "Seifert's Oscar's superb car corso".
He lived with his seven children on Elisenstrasse in Leipzig (today's Bernhard-Göring-Strasse), and some of his children and grandchildren also worked in the showman's trade until after the fall of the Wall. The family tradition was continued with the passing on of the first name Oscar. Currently one great-grandson and one great-great-grandson carry this name on. Seifert Oscar's grave is in the Leipzig South Cemetery .
- Seifert's Oscar in action
A tram of the Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe carries his name today.
claims
- "Gindersch, gooft Gämme, 's gomm laus'sche Zeiden!" ("Children, buy combs, there are lousy times!")
- The Leipzig dialect poet Edwin Bormann (1851–1912) describes an encounter with Seifert's Oscar:
- “... A dense knot of people with a few hundred heads, mostly men and boys, surrounds a sales stand spanned by canvas. In the middle, a couple of white shirt sleeves roll around in the air, and from a distance you can hear a loud, somewhat hoarse crier, sometimes interrupted by laughter from the crowd. A laugh that is always kept to a minimum of time, because nobody wants to miss anything from the wisdom that is roaring into the air and is about to come. 'Here you have six fine thieves!' exclaims Seifert's Oscar, the man in shirt sleeves who has pressed the soft felt hat crookedly on his ear. 'Well what do you take? - Here this ff. Harmonega! ' He takes a harmonica and plays a few bars: Oh dear Augustin. 'Eißerschder Fawrikpreis one and a half marks. I'll let you have fifty fences, thirty! Blessed Mendelssohn , if he had an experience, would be envied of them. Un Richard Wagner hädde with so Enner Harmonega de Niwelungen still emal so fast and so Scheene gebrachd to paths! Nobody? Ei fui Deifel - nobody in the great music city of Leipzig: Heide is awer ooch nothing with eich! Five hundred and fifty thousand people around the Bude 'and never mausenr sees that something is going on!' "
Web links
- Shellac record recording of the Leipzig Crystal Palace singers - Seifert's Oscar at the Leipzig Trade Fair on YouTube
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seifert, Oscar |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Seifert's Oscar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German showman and original |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neuschönefeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1932 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |