Peter Kintgen

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Peter Joseph Kintgen (born September 8, 1884 in Cologne-Lindenthal ; † December 15, 1957 in ibid.) Was a German pedagogue and important Cologne dialect poet .

Life

Peter Kintgen was born in 1884 as the son of Heinrich Kintgen and his wife Cäcilia. Schorn was born in the Cologne suburb of Lindenthal. After attending elementary school , he attended the preparatory school for the teachers' seminar in Cologne. He completed his teacher training in Siegburg .

After graduating, Peter Kintgen first taught at various rural schools in the Cologne area and after his military service went to Cologne as a primary school teacher . From 1910 he wrote not only High German but also dialect texts, poems and anthologies in Cologne, initially for newspapers and magazines. Due to an illness, Kintgen had to give up the teaching profession and from 1912 devoted himself exclusively to writing. Since 1929 he also wrote short texts and poems for the Kölner Rundfunk . From 1922 until his death in 1957 he worked for the magazine Jung-Köln .

Since 1927 he was married to Maria Wilhelmine Reusteck. He died at the age of 73 from kidney failure in a Lindenthal hospital.

Honor

In 1912, as part of the Kölsche Blomespilcher , Peter Kintgen was awarded the second prize of the Heimatverein Alt-Köln for serious dialect narration .

In the Cologne district of Lindenthal, Peter-Kintgen-Straße was named after the Cologne dialect poet in 1959 in recognition of his lifetime achievement .

Works (selection)

  • Us Levvensleed ... a few bars nor. Leedcher, Gedechger and Verzällcher
  • Ahl Linger fair
  • Alaaf the Cologne fair
  • Ash Mett Week
  • Colorful Cologne palette
  • Chreßmaatem ahle Kölle
  • Christmond in old Cologne
  • D'r ahle Krieler Kirchhoff
  • De ahl Broichmanns and Gedeersch
  • The old Lindenthal cemetery
  • Düxer Schötzefeß
  • Familije Schmitz feet fair
  • Fröhjohr
  • Cologne dozemol
  • Slowly de Blädder are turning
  • Master Breuer
  • Ming Groß would have sat for me
  • Ne Chreessbaum lööch uus fäner Zick
  • Ohm hen
  • Op Malote
  • Silent Advent Chreßdagszick
  • Us dömche
  • Our ash tree Kreßbaum
  • Us Familije
  • Vum Rievkooche Billa

literature

  • Kölsche Deechter and Gedeechte. A song and lecture book in Cologne dialect . In: Contributions to Cologne History, Language, Eigenart, Volume 53, Cologne 1971
  • Robert Steimel: Cologne Heads , Cologne 1958
  • Peter Kintgen , In: Heinz Rupp, Carl-Ludwig Lang (Hrsg.): Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Volume 8, De Gruyter, ISBN 978-3-907820-08-7 , Sp. 1181
  • Peter Kintgen - On his 65th birthday , in: Heimatblätter Alt-Köln , 3rd year, Cologne 1949, p. 60.
  • Peter Kintgen - On his 70th birthday , in: Our Cologne , 7th year, issue 6 Cologne 1954, p. 31.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 2762 from December 16, 1957, registry office Cologne Lindenthal. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Werner Kohlschmidt, Wolfgang Mohr: Reallexikon der deutschen Literaturgeschichte . 1: ak.Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 978-3-11-087956-8 , p. 521 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Peter Beyenburg: Rhenish dialects between 1950 and 1985 . Cologne 1985.
  4. ↑ Everhard Kleinertz (Ed.): The Cologne Authors' Lexicon 1750-2000 . 1st volume: 1750-1900. Emmons, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89705-192-3 , p. 139 .
  5. ^ Konrad Adenauer, Völker Gröbe: Streets and squares in Lindenthal . JP Bachem, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7616-1018-1 , p. 123 .
personal data
SURNAME Kintgen, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kintgen, Peter Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and Cologne dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Lindenthal
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1957
Place of death Cologne-Lindenthal