Otto Zerlik

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Otto Zerlik (born January 4, 1907 in Uittwa ; † April 24, 1989 in Geislingen an der Steige ) was a Sudeten German writer , dialect poet , editor and folklorist of the Egerland . Zerlik mainly collected poems, stories, wisdom and songs from Egerland, which he put together in several works and published.

Life

Otto Zerlik was the son of Eduard Zerlik and his wife Emilie, née Garkisch. He attended a two-class elementary school in the country and contributed to the family maintenance by working as a herding boy . At the age of 12 he began his training as a bricklayer and then worked as a journeyman. From 1929 to 1930 he studied at the Technikum in Bodenbach on the Elbe with a focus on building construction .

Via Hugo Liehm , then mayor of Luditz , Zerlik got a job as a traveling teacher at the Association of Germans in Teplitz-Schönau . As a part-time job, he devoted himself to Egerland dialect poetry and poetry, from 1932 onwards he worked for several magazines for language, saying and custom-made goods, and in 1936 he self-published his first assemblies. One of his great role models was Josef Hofmann . From 1937 to 1938 he was manager of the German rural youth in Czechoslovakia and after the annexation and the founding of the Reichsgau Sudetenland in Reichenberg, he became cultural advisor of the rural farming community in the Sudetenland.

In 1942 he was called up for military service and after the end of World War II in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States and Britain. After his release in 1948 he became managing director of the Adalbert Stifter Association in Munich and soon afterwards published his own works and collections of Sudeten German poetry and contributed to newspapers and magazines. From 1953 he was editor-in-chief of the Karlsbader Zeitung and was, among other things, managing director of the Eghalanda Gmoin Association for several decades . In this function he published the yearbook of the Egerlanders in 1954 , worked on the Sudeten German dialect dictionary and the Sudeten German folklore atlas and suggested the establishment of the Egerland fountain and the Ostland cross .

Since 1972, Zerlik lived with his wife and children in Geislingen an der Steige, where he died at the age of 82.

Publications (selection)

  • Secret bloom: poems . Self-published, Uittwa 1936.
  • A heart for d 'Hoimat . Kraus Verlag, Reichenberg 1936.
  • `s [es] blöiht da Epflbam: poems in Egerland dialect . H. Hohler-Verlag, Karlsbad-Donitz 1943.
  • Egerländer Bauernjahr: dialect poems . Heimreiter-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1955.
  • Egerland chat: Otto Zerlik talks about all kinds of people big and small . Aufstieg-Verlag, Munich 1964.
  • The health barometer: little stories, jokes, anecdotes . Kraft Verlag, Augsburg 1965. (illustrated by Toni Schönecker )
  • Experienced and tried: Egerland proverbs . Self-published, Geislingen an der Steige 1966.
  • I'm gout to you, Nuremberg 1983 . Preussler Verlag, Nuremberg 1983.

Awards (selection)

literature

  • Hand lexicon: German literature in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia . 1969.
  • Berta Rathsam: Otto Zerlik. In: Die Oberpfalz 54, p. 210.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Mannl: Otto Zerlik , geneanet.org.
personal data
SURNAME Zerlik, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, dialect poet, editor and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Uittwa
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 1989
Place of death Geislingen an der Steige