Louis Pinck
Louis Pinck (born July 11, 1873 in Lemberg , Lorraine , † December 8, 1940 in Saarbrücken ), also known under the names Ludwig Pinck and Lois Pink , was a Catholic priest of the diocese of Metz as well as a folklorist and folk song collector from Lorraine.
Life
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Louis Pinck was the third oldest of 13 children of the Catholic postmaster and mayor Nicolas Pinck in Lemberg . Even the father collected antiquities from Lorraine. Louis Pinck gained deep access to the Christian faith through his evangelical mother. A sister of Pinck became a nun, and one of the brothers also became a priest. In 1901 Louis Pinck was ordained a priest in the Metz Cathedral ; In 1903 he became vicar to Saint Vincent and preacher at the cathedral in Metz. At the same time, the clergyman took over the two Catholic papers Lothringer Volksstimme and Metzer Catholic Volksblatt . Because he was critical of the Prussian royal house and Prussian politics in Lorraine, he was transferred to Hambach near Saargemünd in 1908 .
There he began to consciously hear folk tunes for the first time. He found that the older generation of singers possessed an amazing treasure trove of songs, all of which they knew by heart. The real trigger for interest was a Friday in the autumn of 1914 when Pinck watched an old man in his Hambach church praying the fourteen Stations of the Cross and singing a Lorraine passion song. That old man was Jean Pierre Gerné (1831–1923), called Papa Gerné, from Gibhausen , who was able to sing pastor Pinck hundreds of songs from his homeland in Lorraine. Then the priest began to literally collect the ancient folk songs. He recorded them and finally published them in his large, multi-volume collection of songs, Verklingende Weisen . Already during his collecting activity, which soon made him known, the professors at the University of Strasbourg , impressed by his work, suggested that Pinck should do a doctorate as a musicologist , but his bishop refused him permission because he was concerned about Pinck's work as a pastor. Pinck visited more than 150 villages, initially on foot, by bicycle or horse-drawn vehicle, and later also by car. Since Pinck himself could not write notes by ear, he used the help of numerous musicians, and later also a phonograph .
In 1935 Pinck published Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's folk songs from Alsace and Lorraine . In 1929 he was awarded the title of Dr. phil hc from the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the Joseph von Görres Prize in Bonn in 1936 . Pinck sent a copy of the first volume in 1926 to the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doorn , whereupon he received a personal reply from the monarch, who expressed his joy that apparently wrong decisions (namely the transfer of punishment) could still lead to correct results.
In Rome, too, Pinck's work was viewed as very valuable. After the publication of the 2nd volume of the folk song collection, Cardinal Andreas Frühwirth OP, as Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, dated October 8, 1929, sent a letter of appreciation on behalf of the Pope.
Because of the outbreak of the Second World War, Pinck had to leave his parish in Hambach near the border and was evacuated to southern France by the French authorities. From there he came back sick in the autumn of 1940 and died in Saarbrücken in December of that year.
The clergyman was also a passionate collector of historical and folkloric objects, which he brought together from the villages of his home region. The extensive collection of Lorraine antiques came into the possession of the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken after his death . The priest had originally set up a museum room, his “Lorraine Room”, in his Hambach rectory. Since 1998, the treasures have adorned a reconstructed Lorraine farmhouse, the Haus Saargau home and farm museum in Gisingen ( Saarlouis district ).
Work and aftermath
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The songs from Pinck's collection
Pinck's life's work are the five volumes Die Ausklingende Wisen ; 4 vols. 1926-1940; Vol. 5 was published posthumously in 1963 by his sister Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck and the Saarbrücken musicologist Joseph Müller-Blattau .
The main criterion for inclusion in the collection was that the song should have been written before 1870. In the forewords and afterwords, Pinck meticulously names the names of his informants, mostly simple farmers who usually spoke the Lorraine dialect .
Pinck had always been critical of German claims to hegemony. He always regretted and despised the abuse that the German National and National Socialist side carried out with his work in the 1920s and 1930s (cf. the afterword to vol. 5).
Numerous composers have arranged songs from Pinck's collection, e. T. for choral instrumentation, z. T. for solo voice and accompanying instrument.
Pinck's books were adorned with numerous pictures (mostly woodcuts ) by the Lorraine artist Henri Bacher (1890–1934).
The Saar-Sängerbund (now the Saarland Choir Association ) and the Saarländischer Rundfunk have been holding a composition competition for choral music since 1998 in order to bring the folk song treasures of Louis Pinck and other historical folk songs from the German-French-speaking area back to mind and at the same time provide new impulses for the rich choral landscape to give to this region. The award-winning works will be edited in the Louis Pinck Edition.
One of the most famous songs collected by Louis Pinck is the German Mariengesang Die Schönste von allen . It was included in most of the diocesan parts of the current Catholic hymn book Praise God . In some cases it is expressly stated that it is a song from Louis Pinck's collection Verklingende Weisen ; so z. B. in the regional part of the Diocese of Speyer and the Diocese of Hildesheim .
Pinck's importance for Lorraine and the folk song
- 1988 first award of the "Louis-Pinck-Prize" of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS (until 1992, after that the prize was discontinued)
- 1992 Foundation of the "Association des Amis de Louis Pinck" in Hambach
- since 1998 "Louis Pinck Composition Competition for Choral Music" of the Saar Singers Association
- 1999 Exhibition "Henri Bacher and Louis Pinck - collectors of Lorraine folk songs at the beginning of this century" in the Saarland Museum in Saarbrücken
Works
From Pinck
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Fading Sages. Lothringer Volkslieder, ed. by Louis Pinck ,
- Vol. 1, Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1926 (ND Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1962);
- Vol. 2, (= publications of the Alsatian-Lorraine Scientific Society of Strasbourg), Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1928 (ND Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1963);
- Vol. 3, Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1933 (ND Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1963);
- Vol. 4, Lothringer Verlags- und Hilfsverein Metz 1939 (ND Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1962);
- Vol. 5, ed. by Angelika Merkelbach-Pinck and Joseph Müller-Blattau, Vol. 5, Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1962.
- Folk songs from Alsace and Lorraine - Folksongs by Goethe collected in Alsace with melodies and variants from Lorraine ; Metz 1932 (Lothringer Publishing and Aid Association)
- Lorraine folk songs with pictures and wise men. From the "Fading Wise Men" edited by Dr. hc Louis Pinck. Bärenreiter-Verlag Kassel 1937 (Landscape folk songs with pictures and ways published on behalf of the Association of German Societies for Folklore Issue 31), 90 pages, foreword by Joseph Müller-Blattau.
Settings
- Fritz Neumeyer: German folk songs from Lorraine, collected by Dr. hc Louis Pinck, 2nd issue, Geistliche Lieder (= Bärenreiter edition 1082), Kassel o. J .;
- ders .: German folk songs from Lorraine, collected by Dr. hc Louis Pinck, 3rd issue, songs for mixed choir (= Bärenreiter edition 1620), Kassel o. J .;
- ders .: German folk songs from Lorraine, collected by Dr. hc Louis Pinck, 4th issue: Songs for women's choir (= Bärenreiter edition 1670), Kassel o. J .;
- Hans-Klaus Heinz: Songs from the “Fading Wise Men”, collected by Louis Pinck, 1st cycle No. 1-6, op. 73, Saarbrücken 1998 (edited by Thomas Bergholz).
Recordings
- Klaus Fischbach : Fading ways. Lorraine folk songs from the Louis Pinck collection. Trier Cathedral Choir. Madrigal Choir Klaus Fischbach. With instrumental soloists from Saarländischer Rundfunk and Saarbrücken State Theater, Elisabeth Hoffmann, Petra Köster, Thomas Reichert (vocals), Klaus-Ewald Fischbach (piano), double CD 1999.
Edits
- Louis-Pinck-Edition (published by the Saarland Choir Association): (V) sounding ways - folk song arrangements from the German-French language area
- Eckhardt, K., Eckhardt, H .: Listen to my voice - Rediscovered folk songs . BoD Norderstedt, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7347-3193-8
literature
- Eugen Bongraß: Dr. Ludwig Pinck, the collector of the "Fading Wise Men" , in Lorraine poets, Saarbrücken, 1941.
- Joachim Conrad: Pinck, Louis. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 27, Bautz, Nordhausen 2007, ISBN 978-3-88309-393-2 , Sp. 1059-1068.
- Wolfgang Freund: People, Reich and Western Frontier, German Studies and Politics in the Palatinate, Saarland and annexed Lorraine 1925–1945 (publications by the Commission for Saarland State History and Folk Research, Volume 39), Saarbrücken 2006, pp. 289–291.
- Otto Holzapfel (et al.): Pastor Louis Pinck (1873-1940). Life and work . Freiburg im Breisgau 1991.
- Hermann Keuth: Pastor Louis Pinck from Hambach to the memory , in "Westmärkische Abhandlungen zur Landes- und Volksforschung", Volume 4, 1940, Institut für Landes- und Volksforschung Kaiserslautern.
Web links
- Literature by and about Louis Pinck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erledanz concert program with songs from Louis Pinck's collection "Verklingende Weisen"
- Louis Pinck on saarland-biografien.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Pastor Pinck's collection in the "Saargau House", Gisingen. ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The most beautiful of them all (PDF; 9 kB);
- ↑ Musikverlag hayo, Großrosseln
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pinck, Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pink, Lois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folk song researcher and collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lviv Lorraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1940 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |