Robert Garbe (poet)

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Grave site in Ohlsdorf, sculptor Wilhelm Rex

Robert Garbe (born January 16, 1878 in Hamburg , † February 21, 1927 in Hamburg) was a Low German writer.

Garbe spent his childhood from 1888 in Hohnstorf on the Elbe . From 1889 he attended elementary school, the preparatory institute and the teachers' seminar in Hamburg . From 1899 he worked as a teacher.

1906 founded the “ Nedderdüütsh Sellshopp ” in Hamburg as a spin-off from Hamburg's Quickborn . Garbe developed his own spelling for Low German, which was largely met with incomprehension. Stylistically, his works hardly met with approval. Many representatives of the Low German associations took the view that Low German was exclusively a romantic language that related to the past and home. Garbe wanted to put the Low German language on an equal footing with High German and take up contemporary issues.

His estate is kept in the Hamburg State and University Library. In Hohnstorf, the “Robert-Garbe-Weg” and a memorial stone at the “Hohnstbody Fährhus” reminds of him. In Hamburg, Garbestrasse in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel is a reminder of the poet.

He is buried in the honorary cemetery for Low German poets in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Works

  • Gornriek. Poems for boys and kids. Gutenberg, Hamburg 1906
  • Dat Nödigst ut min flat-faced legal clock. Nedderdüütsh Sellshop, Hamburg 1910
  • Oole plattdüütshe Lëider. Friedrich Hofmeister publishing house, Leipzig 1913
  • Guys, almost catching up! Oole un neie Krigs- and Suldatenleider. Diederichs, Jena 1915
  • Upkwalm: poems. Hemp, Hamburg 1921
  • Gornrik. Poems for boys and kids. - 2nd, greatly expanded edition, Hanf, Hamburg 1922
  • Ëin nien Klank: Lëider för Gesank un Lutenspill. Publishing house of the Hammerbrook book buying and selling cooperative, Hamburg 1928
  • O Seel vull Lengen: Poems. Rutgeven by Georg Trenkelbach. Meißner, Hamburg 1938

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SURNAME Garbe, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1927
Place of death Hamburg