Paul Weyers

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Paul Weyers (born April 9, 1890 in Dülken , † June 19, 1972 ibid) was a Lower Rhine dialect poet .

Life

Paul Weyers was born as the middle of eleven siblings in Dülken. He went to what was then the north school. Then he attended high school, today's Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium , up to secondary school. Like his uncle , he wanted to be a painter , but followed his father and embarked on a career as a businessman . Until his retirement in 1951 he was an authorized signatory of the Angora plush factory. In 1914 he was drafted into the First World War and wounded by poison gas in the Battle of Ypres . These experiences deepened his longing for peace, which found in the small town of Dülken. He was looking for silence, was considered to be close to nature and godly. It is reported that he hiked the Süchtelner heights into old age and returned almost daily with a new idea or a new poem. He was very fond of spending time in his former elementary school and introduced the pupils of that time to the Dülken dialect.

He was married and had four children.

After his death he was buried in the Dülken cemetery.

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At the age of 15 he wrote his first poem in High German , the first lines in dialect were written at the age of 18. He tried to process his traumatizing impressions during the First World War in high German poems. Most of his works, however, came into being after his retirement. The central theme of his poetry was the small impressions of his daily life and everyday observations of the rural, typically Lower Rhine. Familiar people, language (dialect), surroundings and manners meant Weyer's homeland - which is why his work is often seen by the local press in the tradition of local poets .

Paul Weyers was very involved in dialect matters during his lifetime and was well known in the area around the Lower Rhine region of Platt. He maintained contacts with Krefeld poets such as Josef Brocker, Theo Mülders and Johanna (Hannsche) Overdieck and gave lectures in Cologne. A point of contention among colleagues was the spelling of the dialect. This also made the publication of his poems difficult. He was deeply friends with the Viersen writer Agnes Neef-Winz, who encouraged him to write not only poems but also prose texts in dialect.

Some of his texts have been set to music, performed and published on records.

Today his memory is mainly kept by the working group dialect of the Viersener Heimatverein, which has also been looking after his grave at the Dülken cemetery since 2006.

Appreciations

In 1967 Weyers received the "doctor humoris causa" from the Dülken Narren Academy for his work and services to the culture of the Lower Rhine .

The north school in Dülken, which Weyers attended, was renamed Paul Weyers School in his honor on August 1, 1973 .

In 2006 a stele was erected on which the line of poetry "Allenengen ös jett Sonn" can be read. A memorial plaque points to his house on Augustastraße 8.

Publications

  • Peoples . In: Heimatbuch des Grenzkreis Kempen-Krefeld , Kempen 1961, pp. 71–73
  • The semolina, a Dülken size . In: Heimatbuch des Grenzkreis Kempen-Krefeld , Kempen 1962, pp. 118 ff
  • Ut et Dölker Belderböökske . In: Six centuries of the city of Dülken . Dülken 1964, pp. 110-119
  • Under the sign of the windmill. Experienced, researched and conceived . Dulken 1965
  • How to celebrate St. Martin in Dülken . In: The Lower Rhine . Krefeld 1970, ISSN  0342-5673
  • Allengen ös jett sun. Lively Dülken dialect. From the estate of Paul Weyers . "Voices of the Landscape", Volume 20. Van Acken, Krefeld 1973

literature

  • Jürgen Grams, Gerhard Rehm: Bibliography of the district of Viersen . Viersen 1999, ISBN 3-931242-15-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Speech in 1973 by chaplain Wolfgang Mayfisch on the occasion of the renaming of the north school to Paul-Weyers-Schule
  2. ↑ Transcript of a conversation with his son Bruno Weyers, without a date
  3. ↑ "'Allenengen ös jett Sonn' - The Dülken native poet Paul Weyers is 75 years old" - Rheinische Post from April 8, 1965
  4. ^ Speech on September 23, 1990 by Prof. Dr. Helena Siemes on the occasion of a matinee for the 100th birthday of Paul Weyers
  5. ↑ Kaufmann and Heimat Dichter - Westdeutsche Zeitung of April 9, 1965
  6. ↑ Christmas on the Lower Rhine. D'r Steär noa . Aulos, Münster 1982; The four seasons . Children's choir and youth symphony orchestra of the New Language High School in Dülken. 2 records. Collata, Viersen 1981
  7. ↑ Foolish honor for local poet Weyers. - Rheinische Post from November 13, 1967
personal data
SURNAME Weyers, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lower Rhine dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Dulken
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1972
Place of death Dulken