Ursula Kurz

Ursula Kurz (2012)

Ursula Kurz (born January 25, 1923 in Wittenburg as Ursula Koch ; † July 16, 2018 there ) was a Low German poet. She used the pseudonym UKW ( U rsula K urz W ittenburg).

Life

Ursula Kurz completed a ten-year school education with a “secondary school leaving certificate”. She then learned the job of an administrative clerk in the city administration of Wittenburg and worked there until 1947. Then she became a helping wife in the book and stationery shop of her husband Karl Kurz in Wittenburg and devoted herself intensively to the upbringing of her four children. From 1972 to 1976 she was the head of the working group “Maintenance of the Low German Language” at the Wittenburg School and successfully organized public appearances for her students.

She has been writing poetry since her own school days. Short stories and short stories in Low German were added later. In her works she took up problems of the present, described the life and coexistence of people and nature in the change of the seasons. Many of her poems testify to her great affection for children - she wrote not only about, but also for them. In doing so, she fulfilled the special concern of conveying Low German literature to the youngest and passing it on to the next generation. Her poems are also included in school books.

Over 20 composers and songwriters have set more than 300 of their most beautiful poems to music and published them on CD and in audio books. In 1998 she was awarded the Johannes Gillhoff Prize for her life's work . In 1999 she received a certificate of honor from the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Harald Ringstorff . In 2000 she was awarded the honorary prize of the city of Wittenburg for successful work on a cultural level. In 2007, the district administrator of the Ludwigslust district presented her with the certificate of honor for voluntary, committed work and special services in cultural and homeland care. On November 7, 2012, she received the Fritz Reuter Literature Prize 2012 in Stavenhagen on the occasion of Fritz Reuter's 202nd birthday . This prize was awarded to her by the mayor Bernd Mahnke, the chairman of the Sparkasse Neubrandenburg-Demmin Peter Siebken and the director of the Fritz Reuter Literature Museum Stavenhagen presented to Cornelia Nenz for her volume of poetry Ein Handvull Glück .

“With Ursula Kurz, probably the greatest contemporary poet in the Low German-speaking area has passed away. We adored her very much, learned a lot from her and are infinitely grateful to her! "

Works

• Heimatbiller (self-published, 1984)
• Heimatleiw (self-published, 1986)
• Heimatkläng'n (self-published, 1988)
• Ollwiewersommer (self-published, 1990)
• DU UN ICK (Eichenverlag Hagenow, 1994)
• Plietsch möt'n sin (Hinstorff Verlag Rostock, 1998)
• Ick fleut di wat! (Hinstorff Verlag Rostock, 2007)
• Dor hett 'n Ul saten (BS-Verlag-Rostock A. Bruhn, 2010)
• A handful of luck (BS-Verlag-Rostock A. Bruhn, 2011)
• Where nich blot Boddervagels laughs (BS-Verlag-Rostock A. Bruhn, 2014)

Publications in anthologies (selection)

(Hinstorff Verlag GmbH Rostock)

• 1980 Up Platt is ock still has something - Christa Prowatke
• 1984 Ick far a country - Jürgen Grambow and Wolfgang Müns
• 1987 In'n Wind gahn - Christa Prowatke
• 1988 Dat du mien Leewsten bust - Heike Müns
• 1992 Pusteblomen - Anna-Margarete Zarenke and Gerd Richardt
• 1993 Keen Tiet för den Maand - Johann Diedrich Bellmann
• 1996 to 2019 Voss and Haas - North German home calendar - Hartmut Brun
• 1998 Lüttstadtland West Mecklenburg (illustrated book) - Jürgen Borchert
• 2000 Browsing, smooching, chatting - Mecklenburg Foundation in Ratzeburg
• 2001 Fustdick achter de Uhren - Stiftung Mecklenburg in Ratzeburg
• 2002 Here is neither game nor imitation, Gillhoff Prize winner, a reader - Hartmut Brun
• 2003 Versök dat eis up Platt - Mecklenburg Foundation in Ratzeburg

(other publishers)

• 1990 The house donkey - Johannes Erich Flade, scientific contributions - Ziemsenverlag Wittenberg
• 1994 Wat ick di vertellen mücht - Volkskulturinstitut Mecklenburg and Vorpommern in the Kulturbund eV
• 1997 to 2011 Mecklenburg church calendar - Stock & Stein Verlag / Obotrite printing (Schwerin)
• 1997 Wittenburg in old views (illustrated book) - Margret Hacker, publishing house SUUM CUIQUE Laibach / Slovenia
• 1998 Wat möt, dat möt - Jürgen Borchert, Kulturinitiative Maurine-Radegast eV, Rehna
• 2000 Hundred Poets - Stichting International Forum, Leiden / Netherlands
• 2000 Dat Riemelbook - Frederike Remm, Quickborn-Verlag Hamburg
• 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 - Pampower north German song books by Eberhard Barbi (Nordwindpress)
• 2001 Wi sünd de lütt Plattsnakers - Prof. Dr. Irmtraud Rösler, Low German children's song book, Rostock old town print
• 2001 Koppheister - Bolko Bullerdick, Quickborn-Verlag Hamburg,
• 2001 Wittenburg - Pictures tell - Margret Hacker, Geiger-Verlag, Horb am Neckar
• 2010 Pustewind - Frederike Remm, Quickborn-Verlag Hamburg

Further publications in

• Home magazines (Mecklenburg-Magazin, Heimathefte MV, Kiekut etc.)
• Radio and television
• Daily newspapers and magazines
• CD (2003) "Start with Daagwark with Hoegen." Songs based on texts by Ursula Kurz, composed and sung by Wolfgang Kniep
• various CD and audio books

Web links

• Literature about Ursula Kurz in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Ursula Kurz in the state bibliography MV
• Institute for Low German Language Bremen, Low German Biography and Bibliography (PBB)
• Hinstorff Verlag Rostock (authors)
• http://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendung/nordmagazin/media/nordmagazin13665.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Hagenower Kreisblatt. July 21, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Ursula Kurz. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2016/2017. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045397-3 , p. 574.
3. ↑ Hartmut Brun; Wolfgang Kniep: Grande Dame of Low German lyric poetry. [Obituary]. In: Schweriner Volkszeitung / Mecklenburg-Magazin (July 20, 2018), p. 22.