Peter Berchem

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Peter Berchem (born March 23, 1866 in Cologne ; † December 30, 1922 there ) was a German elementary school teacher and is considered the first important Cologne dialect lyricist.

Life

Peter Berchem was born in 1866 as the son of a greengrocer at the Great Greek Market in downtown Cologne and grew up in Schnurgasse. After attending the primary school in Martinsfeld , where he was taught together with Wilhelm Räderscheidt , he attended the preparatory school for the teachers' seminar at An der Wollküche . He completed his teacher training in Brühl .

After graduating, Peter Berchem taught at the elementary schools in Bayenthal and in Vringsveedel at St. Severin . At the elementary school Loreleystraße in the south of Cologne he worked for many years as vice-principal . From 1912 Berchem wrote numerous poems, songs, aphorisms and stories in the Cologne language , which were published by the Heimatverein Alt-Köln after the intercession of his school friend Wilhelm Räderscheid . Since then, his poems and stories have been published regularly in the Cologne daily newspapers and the magazines Alt-Köln and Jung-Köln . His first volume of poetry, Gespingks un spintiseet, was published at Christmas 1916, and it was quickly sold out. The second edition of this volume appeared on December 30, 1922, the day of his death .

Peter Berchem, deeply rooted in the Catholic faith , devoted himself intensively and self-sacrificially to the care of the poor and orphans as Vincent Brother and Prefect of the St. Paul Men's Congregation . On pilgrimages to Kevelaer he was venerated by the participants as the lead singer of the Lauretanian litany .

Memorial stone donated for Peter Berchem in Cologne's southern cemetery (hall 44)

On December 31, 1922, Berchem was buried in Cologne's southern cemetery, with great public participation . The grave was later cleared after the rest period had expired . A few years ago, local researchers from Cologne placed a memorial stone on the former grave site in hall 44.

Honor

In 1917, Peter Berchem was made an honorary member of the Heimatverein Alt-Köln. In the Cologne district of Lindenthal , a street was named after the Cologne dialect poet in recognition of his lifetime achievement . The complete edition of Berchem's works was published by the Heimatverein Alt-Köln after his death in 1964.

Works (selection)

  • Gespingks un spintiseet! JG Schmitz, Cologne 1916
  • Svien: Thought fragments in Cologne dialect , Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1923
  • E Stöck vum ale Kölle: poems, splinters of thought, prose , edited by Heribert A. Hilgers, Cologne 1993
  • Mie Stüvvge
  • Mie Piefge
  • Stell spinks of Ovend en mie Märcheland: Some of the most beautiful and famous poems by Peter Berchem. Selected and translated into High German by Péter Gaál , edited by Péter Gaál / Epubli, Berlin, 2019. ISBN 978-1678748517 .

Poems and songs (selection)

  • Ald Kölle (also set to music as a song)
  • Alaaf Kölle
  • Chreßbaumsleid
  • Chreßdagsklockeleed (for four-part male choir)
  • De home
  • The best snow
  • The Kölsch Zappes
  • Der stelle Wäch (movement for a male choir)
  • The om Wäg
  • E Mösche burial
  • Et Fröhjohr kütt
  • Fastelovend
  • Maäzleed
  • Easter bell
  • Wieße Sonndaag

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Kohlschmidt, Wolfgang Mohr: Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte . 1: AK. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-11-087956-5 .
  2. ↑ Everhard Kleinertz (Ed.): The Cologne Authors' Lexicon 1750-2000 . 1st volume: 1750-1900. Emmons, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89705-192-3 , p. 49 .
  3. ^ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.), Jürgen Wilhelm (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon. Greven, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 51.
  4. ^ Rheinische Volkswacht (Ed.): Obituary Peter Berchem . Cologne December 31, 1922.
  5. ↑ Günter Schwanenberg: Em Himmel es d'r Düvel loss ... Musical-literary forays into the southern cemetery. Marzellen-Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-937795-11-9 ( Edition Narrengilde 7), p. 47.
  6. ^ Konrad Adenauer, Völker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal . JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 123 .
personal data
SURNAME Berchem, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and Cologne dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1922
Place of death Cologne