Oswald Andrae

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Oswald Andrae's grave in the cemetery in Jever

Oswald Andrae (born June 25, 1926 in Jever ; † February 19, 1997 in Sanderbusch ) was a Low German writer.

Life

Andrae was born in Jever in 1926 as the son of a watchmaker and attended the Mariengymnasium there . In 1943/1944 he was an air force helper and medic with the Volkssturm . In 1946 he graduated from high school and began training as an optician . In 1948 he passed his journeyman's examination in this profession at the Wilhelmshaven vocational school . In the period from 1950/1951 he attended the master class at the opticians' school in Jena, Thuringia .

His first literary work with short episodes in Low German "De Sünn schient every Dag" and some poems in High German was published in 1957. In the years that followed, Andrae found more and more his characteristic writing style, mainly in Low German, in which he was increasingly critical questioned political and social developments of the late 20th century. In 1971, the Alfred Toepfer Foundation awarded him the Klaus Groth Prize for this work .

In 1973 the so-called "Jeversche flag war" took place. The local newspaper Jeversches Wochenblatt had Andrae's poem “De Fahn”, an anti-militarist and anti-nationalist text, printed, which led to a violent dispute between opponents and supporters of his writings and caused a sensation nationwide. In 1976 Oswald Andrae was one of the founders of the "International Dialectinist Institute (IDI)". In the period from 1976 to 1978 he received a teaching assignment from the Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences with the title “Low German as the language of those affected”. In 1988 he received the Cross of Merit on Ribbon from the state of Lower Saxony. From 1989 to 1990 he was a guest of the artist foundation Villa Massimo .

In 1997 Oswald Andrae died of heart failure in Sanderbusch Hospital . In the city cemetery in Jever, a stone stele in the shape of a pencil commemorates the poet.

Act

Poetry

Oswald Andrae's literary work comprises many facets. A poetry and prose of internalization, in which considerations of nature and religious topics can be found, here influenced by Hein Bredendiek , stands alongside political texts and language experiments from concrete poetry (e.g. with reference to the Viennese group ). Andrae also achieved fame through his radio plays and his play "Laway - Uprising of the Dykes 1765", which describes a strike by Frisian dike workers in the 18th century. His internationally best-known text is probably “Dat Leed van den Inmate No. 562”, which is dedicated to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Carl von Ossietzky and which was circulated worldwide by the Scottish folk singer Dick Gaughan .

Political commitment

Oswald Andrae's poetic work and his political work cannot be separated from one another. He was an active part of the Frisian peace and environmental movement, which he repeatedly supported with his poems and songs. He was instrumental in dealing with the National Socialist past and reconciliation with the former Jewish roommates in his hometown of Jever. He also fought for the reinstatement of the grammar school teacher Dorothea Vogt, who had been suspended from school service due to her candidacy for the DKP .

Influence on the folk and songwriting scene

The Low German folk and songwriter scene has taken up and edited many of the texts by Oswald Andreas. The singers Knut Kiesewetter and Hannes Wader set Andrae's works to music. The songwriters Gerd Brandt and the group Laway and Helmut Debus worked directly with Andrae. Thanks to her work, Andrae's texts are still widely used today.

Works

  • De Sünn works every day. Vertellsels and Riemels up Hoch and Platt van Hinnerk Moin. Wiegleb, Wangerooge 1957.
  • Wat maakt wi? Low German dialect texts with high German translation. Henstedt-Handdr.-Verlag, Henstedt-Ulzburg 1971.
  • Hoppenröök ranks above. Texts in Low German dialect. Peter, Rothenburg ob der Tauber 1975.
  • Here unannerswor. Texts in the Jeverland dialect of the Low German dialect. Schmid, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-922299-00-8 .
  • Dat Leed van de Diekers 1765. Sülvstverlag, Jever 1977.
  • Wat ik meen. Low German songs. by Helmut Debus with texts by Oswald Andrae, Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Hu'e 1977.
  • De bruun Ranzel, ov: Wat'n mit mi maken kann. Publishing house Atelier im Bauernhaus, Hu'e 1977, ISBN 3-88132-006-7 .
  • Come to meet us = Kumm uns tomööt. Low German / English poetry. Sülvstverlag, Jever 1978.
  • Dat Leed van den inmate No. 562. Documentation about the origins and changes of a song. Jever 1979.
  • Dat Leed van de Diekers. About a dike workers uprising in 1765 on the North Sea. Publisher Atelier im Bauernhaus, Hu'e 1982.
  • Get de Duums for the parakeet. Wirtschaftsverlag NW, Bremerhaven 1983, ISBN 3-88314-292-1 .
  • Laway - Aufstand der Deicher 1765. First performed on the August Hinrichs stage on January 28, 1983, Oldenburg 1983, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater.
  • Orme d'ombra. Poetry e traduzioni dall'opera poetica di Oswald Andrae. Ed. Coop. Guidarello, Ravenna 1986.
  • Three-and-a-half gullets. van Acken, Krefeld 1987, ISBN 3-923140-25-8 .
  • Home - what is that? About the love for a country that some left. Isensee Verlag , Oldenburg 1996, ISBN 3-89598-355-1 .
  • Mank all mien Drööm. Low German texts, poems and songs. Isensee, Oldenburg 1996, ISBN 3-89598-389-6 .

Radio plays

  • Inselbesöök. NDR II + Radio Bremen RB I 1965.
  • Haifa. RB 1970.
  • Lavay - about dike workers' uprisings on the North Sea in the 18th century (Feature) RB 1973.
  • Let's go to Schipper up Wangerogh. (Feature), RB 1981.
  • De Straten stink on fire. Childhood during the Nazi era. (Feature), RADIO BREMEN 1985 and 1986.
  • The Janßen family goes to America. Stations of an emigration in 1883. (Feature), RB 1988.
  • Guest: Oswald Andrae (recording of a reading in the Niederdeutscher Theater Bremen). RB 1989, 1994.
  • In conversation with Oswald Andrae. Hamburg Welle (NDR) March 1990.

Awards

  • 1971: Klaus Groth Prize for lyric poetry in Low German
  • 1971: Foreign travel grant from the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1983: Lower Saxony artist grant
  • 1988: Cross of Merit on the ribbon of the Lower Saxony Order of Merit
  • 1989/1990: Guest of Honor at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome
  • 1991: Medal of Merit of the City of Jever
  • 1994: Foreign travel grant from the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2007: A street in the Großer Herrengarten development area in Jever is named Oswald-Andrae-Straße .

literature

  • Oswald Andrae and Hein Bredendiek : Hein Bredendiek on his 80th birthday. Holzberg, Oldenburg 1987, ISBN 3-87358-279-1 .
  • Hanno Willenborg: Oswald Andrae. Stations from the life and work of the poet. Isensee, Oldenburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-89995-844-7 .
  • Hans-Jürgen Klitsch: Oswald Andrae - author, Low German lateral thinker, intellectual from Jever, in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 2015, Isensee, Oldenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-7308-1216-7 , pp. 119–142.
  • Hans-Jürgen Klitsch: Oswald Andrae - author, Low German lateral thinker, intellectual from Jever, special edition, Förderverein Bibliothek des Mariengymnasium eV, Jever.
  • Hans-Jürgen Klitsch: Writing against the Duckmäusertum - On the 90th birthday of Jever's controversial author Oswald Andrae - He died in 1997 . In: Friesische Heimat , supplement 499 of the Jeverschen Wochenblatt of June 25, 2016 ( online publication , accessed on June 27, 2016).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oswald Andrae in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
  2. ↑ http://www.geschichtsatlas.de/~ga9/html/Andrae/Fahnenkrieg.html
  3. ↑ http://www.geschichtsatlas.de/~ga9/html/Andrae/theater.html
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lLNQls38cs&gl=US&hl=en ( Memento from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.etzel-ostfriesland.de/untergrund.htm
  6. ↑ nwzonline.de: Poet with corners and edges
  7. ↑ Hanno Kuehnert: Right that is too late is wrong . In: The time . No. 41/1995 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Helmut Debus in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)
  9. ^ Streets in Germany , accessed on February 19, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Andrae, Oswald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Jever
DATE OF DEATH February 19, 1997
Place of death Sanderbusch