Richard Gang

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Richard Gäng (born April 21, 1899 in Immeneich ; † August 10, 1983 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German teacher, native and dialect poet .

Life

Richard Gäng comes from long-established families in the Black Forest. Richard Gäng speaks the language of the inhabitants of the Alb valley in his poems . After attending the Immeneich elementary school, he attended secondary schools in Waldshut and Freiburg and then the teachers' seminar in Ettlingen. In 1917/18 he took part in the First World War, where he suffered a serious wound.

After the war he was a teacher at various elementary schools.

In 1933 Gäng joined the NSDAP . He married in 1935. From 1942 to 1944 he was head of the district culture of the NSDAP in Freiburg. After the end of National Socialism in 1945, he was suspended from teaching. During the denazification he was put on hold as “less stressed” and in 1949 was put into provisional retirement for health reasons.

After 1949 he completed another university course in Freiburg, Heidelberg and Berlin, after which he was accepted into higher education in 1954. He then worked at the St Landolin Progymnasium in Ettenheimmünster until his retirement . On his 65th birthday he was given honorary citizenship by Immeneich. Richard Gäng was one of the founding members of the Muettersproch Society in the 1960s .

Pedagogy and Philosophy

He taught that big things are small, taught a love of language, differentiated between authenticity and inauthenticity in behavior, he was a keeper of the German and Alemannic languages . He was committed to the principle of teaching is evoking.

Works

  • Richard Gäng, Im Hotzenwald - High Alemannic Poems
  • Richard Gäng, Rosina , novella
  • Richard Gäng, Die Heimfahrt des Andreas Kumlin - Novelle, Insel Verlag, 1952

literature

  • Emil Müller Ettikon, The Poet Richard Gäng - On his 80th birthday on April 21, 1979 , in: Badische Heimat, Heft 1, March 1979, p. 65 ff.
  • Thomas Mutter, Guardian of Alemannic Culture and Language - The Albtäler poet Richard Gäng would have been 90 years old , in: Heimat am Hochrhein, Volume XV, 1990, pp. 120 ff.
  • Hanspeter Wieland , The big in the small. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Richard Gäng's death. In: Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, Heft I / II, 2008, pp. 67–68.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Foreword by Karl Friedrich Müller (Ed.) In: Richard Gäng, De Sunntigmorge - New High Alemannic Poems
  2. ^ Emil Müller Ettikon, The Poet Richard Gäng - On his 80th birthday on April 21, 1979 in: Badische Heimat, Heft 1, March 1979, p. 65 ff.
  3. ↑ Hanspeter Wieland , The great in the small. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Richard Gäng's death. In: Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, Heft I / II, 2008, p. 67.
  4. ↑ Muettersproch-Gsellschaft: Who sin to me anyway?
  5. ↑ Hanspeter Wieland , The great in the small. This year marks the 25th anniversary of Richard Gäng's death. In: Alemannisch dunkt üs guet, Heft I / II, 2008, pp. 67–68.
personal data
SURNAME Go ahead, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German native and dialect poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Immeneich
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1983
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau