Vincent Hampel

Vinzenz Hampel (born January 29, 1880 in Mastig near Arnau , Hohenelbe district ; † June 27, 1955 in Altbach , Esslingen district ) was a German educator and musician. He is known as the composer of the Giant Mountains song .

Life

Vinzenz Hampel trained as a teacher and initially worked in Hohenelbe , Harta and Tschermna . In 1915 he was given the management of the “home for the weak-minded” in Hohenelbe, which in 1918 was converted into an educational institution for neglected, difficult-to-educate and psychopathic boys. The focus of Hempel's own teaching was on speech therapy, and his method of treating stuttering was particularly successful . Hampel managed the home and an adjoining student residence for pay children until his retirement in 1936. Even in retirement, which he first lived in Leitmeritz , he continued to work as a speech therapist. In 1941 a speech therapy school was built in Mährisch-Schönberg based on his method.

In Hohenelbe, Hampel was choirmaster of the choral society "Liedertafel", for which he also set texts by local poets and his own poems to music. His greatest success in 1915 was the composition of the Riesengebirgslied , whose text by Othmar Fiebiger he found in the 1914 Festschrift of the Trautenau Choral Society "Harmonie".

In 1945, he was out of his Sudeten German home sold . He and his family first took up residence in Thuringia . Since he was not well-liked by the rulers there, he finally moved to Altbach am Neckar via Berlin , where he died at the age of 75 after several strokes.

Fonts

• Linguistic schools in the Sudetenland. In: The German special school. 9th year 1942, 9/10, pp. 254-256.
• Stuttering eliminated quickly. Part I: Speech Primer . Part II: Instructions for using the speaking primer . Reichenberg 1942.
• The story of the song from the Giant Mountains. In: Hohenelber Heimatbüchlein. 1, 1949, pp. 108-112.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Preuss: “Bloe Barche, griene Täla.” The Riesengebirgslied, the hymn of a region (= Woas die Stoare pfeifa. Vol. 16). Working group archive for Silesian dialect in Baden-Württemberg, o. O. [Efringen-Kirchen] 2006 ( digitized ; PDF; 2.5 MB).
• Vinzenz Hampel, curative teacher and composer. 100th birthday. In: Mitteilungen des Sudetendeutschen Archiv, issues 58–61, ZDB -ID 30413-x , p. 23 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

• Vinzenz Hampel at Discogs (English)
• Vinzenz Hampel at Allmusic (English)