Reinhold Limberg

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Reinhold Limberg (born October 11, 1927 in Bütow , Pomerania Province ; † July 23, 1997 in Burg near Magdeburg ) was a German teacher, composer and poet.

Life

Limberg grew up in Mecklenburg . During the Second World War he was deployed, among other things, as a HJ naval helper on the North Sea island of Helgoland . Released from captivity, he initially lived on his father's farm in Holdorf . While working in the field in 1947 he developed the melody, sentence and text for the song “Jugend erwach!” , Which was published by Volk und Wissen Verlag that same year . Until 1948 Limberg was still a farm worker, from 1950 to 1958 he taught Russian in Trollenhagen . From 1960 he was a music teacher at the "Comenius School", later at the " POS Hermann Matern " in Burg near Magdeburg.

Works

Limberg's work comprises around 20 songs. His most famous song creation is undoubtedly youth awake! Also known as the refrain “Build up, build up, Free German Youth, build up!” , It became one of the most sung songs by the GDR youth organization FDJ . For many years it was in Leben Sing Fighting , the songbook of the FDJ. There are various adaptations of the text, for example by Heinz Kahlau . It has also been used in over 40 films, leading to an entry in the Guinness Book of Records in 1994 .

Awake next to youth! Limberg composed, for example, the song of the naval comradeship for shanty choirs and many about the heathland. He also wrote about 70 poems.

literature

  • Paul Nüchterlein: Limberg, Reinhold. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 421.
  • Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6 , p. 105.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ for the VII Parliament of the FDJ, published in: Neues Deutschland , May 18, 1963
  2. ↑ Silke Janko, Bernd Gottschalck: With "Build up, build up" Reinhold Limberg is now in the Guinness book . In: Volksstimme Magdeburg, June 30, 1996
personal data
SURNAME Limberg, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, composer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Bütow , Pomerania Province
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1997
Place of death Castle (near Magdeburg)