Severin Rüttgers

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Severin Rüttgers (born September 27, 1876 in Ameln near Jülich ; † September 22, 1938 in Koblenz ) was a German pedagogue , author , editor and translator who is best known as a reteller of German and Scandinavian folk books and heroic sagas , with which he Tried to propagate “popular” values.

Life

Rüttgers was a teacher in the Düsseldorf area, later a government and school councilor in Koblenz and a lecturer at the college for teacher training in Koblenz. He joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1932 .

After some hard-to-date writings on art history, which at least appeared before the First World War , folk books , Germanic and Scandinavian heroic sagas and Christian legends became the focus of his (post) narrative work. In addition, there are retellings of the stories from the Arabian Nights , Robinson Crusoe and medieval chivalric novels , some of which he translated himself from Flemish , English and Early New High German .

Rüttgers was also active as an editor of popular book series (including folk books for young people) and as a co-author of textbooks (Raum und Volk; German reading books for young women in higher education institutions). In addition to his adaptations of older literature, he published politically oriented writings by authors of the 19th century , such as Gustav Freytag (The Young Empire of the Germans), Heinrich von Treitschke (The German Ordensland Prussia) and Theodor Fontane (Spreeland).

Fonts

  • On literary education as a problem in the work school: A contribution to the reform of language teaching and reading books and to a reading plan for German youth, Leipzig 1910
  • Wodan's Rise and Fate: The Germanic Paganism, Cologne 1911
  • The flowers of evil: speech to the friends of children about trash literature, Leipzig 1911
  • The poetry in the elementary school: A manual for teachers, Leipzig 1914
  • The pedagogical faculty: necessity, institution, tasks, Leipzig 1920
  • Reader and class reading: A contribution to education through poetry on the occasion of a dispute, Bielefeld 1922
  • Maria in German Art, Saarbrücken 1923
  • Rheinsagen, Cologne 1929 ( online )
  • Literary education: An attempt on the youth literature question on a sociological basis, Langensalza 1931
  • History of German Folk Poetry: A Book for Young Germans, Langensalza 1933
  • Awakening the people through his poetry: considerations and advice on popular education, Leipzig 1933
  • The golden morning: A German farming year in the Bronze Age, Langensalza 1934

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Federal Archives, NSDAP Central File (No. 116832)
personal data
SURNAME Rüttgers, Severin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pedagogy lecturer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Ameln
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1938
Place of death Koblenz