Ottjen Alldag

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The Ottjen Alldag sculpture by Claus Homfeld in the Schnoor district of Bremen

Ottjen Alldag is the title character of the novel trilogy about a childhood in Bremen with autobiographical features written by the Bremen Low German writer Georg Droste (1866–1935) in the 1910s.

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Ottjen Alldag is a Bremen boy, smart ("plietsch") and witty. He grows up in a family that is at home on the right bank of the Bremen Weser , directly behind the Osterdeich . Georg Droste tells Ottjens development from birth to adulthood in the Bremer Platt .

According to Radio Bremen , which the novel in a joint production with the NDR in the 1950s to several times thereafter transmitted radio drama series processed is "Ottjen Alldag [...] that, for long-established Bremen what Klein Erna for Hamburg or Tünnes and Schääl for Cologne are ".

The Ottjen Alldag relief

The fictional character Ottjen Alldag is also the focus of a memorial to its creator Georg Droste, which was erected in Bremen's Schnoorviertel and inaugurated on December 6, 1963. In front of the wall of the house at Schnoor 39, at the corner of Spiekerbartstrasse (Lage) , in the immediate vicinity and in terms of content related to the Institute for Low German Language , Schnoor 41, hovers a metal relief designed by the Bremen sculptor Claus Homfeld . The idea that every person - like Ottjen Alldag - “is entangled in the threads of their fate” is implemented in a filigree relief made of copper rods with figural elements made of bronze.

Another component of the ensemble is a well parapet of a draw well made of Obernkirchen sandstone, which is typical for the Bremen area . It is inscribed and dated to 1733, originally from a farm in Lankenau and was moved here from another location in Schnoor in 1963 and provided with a copper bowl for a fountain.

A Low German dedication, written by the writer Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien , reminds of the blindness of the author Georg Droste:

von't ole Bremen
un wo't leevt un laughs
sung us de poet
ut all sien night

Plastic and fountains have been a listed building since 1973.

Street name

Presence in the media

Based on the trilogy of novels Ottjen Alldag by Georg Droste, Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien, who wrote in High and Low German, designed a 16-part radio play series for Radio Bremen in the 1950s , which the station broadcast from 1954 to 1956. Director Bernd Wiegmann was in charge of the radio play series Ottjen Alldag , which was produced jointly with NDR . In 1954, Radio Bremen announced in a press release: A total of 178 speaking roles were assigned, not counting the countless voices that were not assigned a role of their own, but which nevertheless contributed to the success of the radio play series. The music was composed by Volker Gwinner , and Ferdinand Zeissner guides us through the story as speaker.

The radio play series was edited by Ilka Bartels and broadcast again in 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b accompanying text from Radio Bremen from 2008, on the repetition of the Low German radio play series Ottjen Alldag from 1954 (see various episodes and broadcast dates) ( Memento from February 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Karl Dillschneider : The Schnoor. New life in Bremen's oldest district. Röver, Bremen 1972, ISBN 3-87681-027-2 , p. 101 f. (citing a statement by the artist).
  3. ^ Beate Mielsch: Art in the Bremen cityscape. Schünemann, Bremen 1984, ISBN 3-7961-1758-9 , p. 12.
  4. ↑ These four-part fountain rings from Ziehbrunnen, which emerged in Bremen in the 18th century, are dealt with by Hans Hermann Meyer: From scooping and pumping, from drinking, watering and washing in the old Bremen region. In: water. On the history of the drinking water supply in Bremen. Focke-Museum , Bremen 1988, p. 91 ff., Esp. P. 98 ff. The fountain ring in Schnoor seems to be the oldest preserved of its kind in Bremen.
  5. ↑ (Fei): Ottjen Alldag is now climbing in the Schnoor. In: Weser-Kurier of December 4, 1963, p. 16.
  6. ^ Bremer Nachrichten of May 7, 1962.
  7. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen

literature

  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag un sien caper pranks. A plattdütsch Kinnerleben on the waterfront. Schünemann, Bremen 1913.
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag un sien Lehrtied. A vertellsel ut 'n Bremer Kopmannsleben. Schünemann, Bremen 1914.
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag un sien Moorhex. Een Vertellsel ut 'n Kinner- un Leefsleben. Schünemann, Bremen 1917.
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag. Novel. Complete edition. Three volumes in one volume. 9th edition of the complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 1982, ISBN 3-7961-1511-X .
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag un sien caper pranks. A plattdütsch Kinnerleben on the waterfront. Ottjen Alldag conquers his world, childhood on the water. In Low and High German. Translated by Rita Schloendorff. Reprint and revision. Kellner, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-939928-81-2 .

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