Peter Kremer (writer)

Peter Kremer (born October 14, 1901 in Kaisersesch in the Eifel ; † May 2, 1989 there ) was a Catholic local writer and editor. The focus of his extensive literary work was on the southern Eifel and the Moselle - Hunsrück region .

Life

Peter Kremer was born as the ninth child of a farming family in the southern Eifel. First he was to become a primary school teacher and, after graduating from high school , which he took in Cochem , enrolled at the teachers' seminar in Wittlich , but continued to attend lectures and seminars in German and history at the University of Bonn and was able to attend the provincial school board of the southern Take the state examination for teaching at grammar schools in Koblenz . Until the outbreak of the Second World War , he taught German and history as a study assistant, then as a teacher at the Wittlich grammar school. Between 1936 and 1940 he published his first books, which were also very successful beyond the Eifel. After military service and subsequent imprisonment in the USA, he was transferred to the grammar school in Bernkastel-Kues , where he worked until his retirement in 1966. The street in which the Nikolaus-von-Kues-Gymnasium is located was named Peter-Kremer-Weg in his honor.

Literary meaning

Alongside Nikolaus Kyll (1904–1973), Peter Kremer was considered to be one of the best experts on folklore, religious and profane art and the history of the Eifel. In contrast to Kyll, however, he has not published a major work on this subject, but published his research results in the form of articles in various regional newspapers and magazines as well as in home yearbooks. Overall, he became known to a wider audience primarily through cheerful, contemplative descriptions of daily life in his homeland and, above all, through his work on viticulture. He also contributed knowledgeable accompanying texts to a number of illustrated books on the Eifel, Hunsrück and Moselle regions. Especially in the 1950s and 1960s, he worked as a freelance writer for Südwestfunk.

Kremer was deeply religious, and his contributions to the culture and history of the Eifel-Mosel-Land are marked by a conservative Catholic tendency. This explains his literary commitment to the Trier diocese calendar ( Paulinuskalender ), as its editor-in-chief between 1962 and 1976. From his retirement until his death, he also edited the magazine Neuer Geist of the Trier-based religious community of the Mercy Brothers of Maria Hilf.

Honors

In 1965 Kremer received the newly founded "Eifel Literature Prize". On January 13, 1972, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his literary oeuvre .

Note

The author is not to be confused with the folklorist and historian Peter (Josef) Kremer (* 1953) from Düren, who focuses on legends and horror characters of the Eifel.

Main publications

The walk to Mette. Wittlich 1936
About wine and love on the laughing Moselle. Wittlich 1936
From the power of golden wine. Wittlich 1938
Of the glow of love and distress on the German river. Wittlich 1938
The laughing Eifel village. Purring and swaying. Wittlich 1939 (2nd edition Potsdam 1940/41)
The cheerful Moselle wine menu. Trier 1967 (further edition 1983)
The Eifel in color. The region in nine chapters (with Erich Justra). Ziethen, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-929932-74-1

literature

Martin Persch : Kremer, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 647-649. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Persch: Kyll, Nikolaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 864-865. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
↑ "K's literary work revolves around his homeland and the local cultural landscape, which he sees, like his own life, primarily embedded in God's hand." Quoted from: Martin Persch: Kremer, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 647-649. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
↑ Office of the Federal President

personal data
SURNAME	Kremer, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German native writer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kaisersesch
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1989
Place of death	Kaisersesch

[1] Martin Persch: Kyll, Nikolaus. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 864-865. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

[2] "K's literary work revolves around his homeland and the local cultural landscape, which he sees, like his own life, primarily embedded in God's hand." Quoted from: Martin Persch: Kremer, Peter. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 647-649. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

[3] Office of the Federal President