Wilhelm Asche (writer)
Wilhelm Asche (born June 29, 1882 in Fallingbostel ; † June 11, 1955 in Tietlingen ) was a German farmer and seed breeder , composer , writer and local poet . He donated the Tietlinger juniper grove as the final resting place for the heath poet Hermann Löns and the Hermann Löns monument .
Life
After the death of his father, Wilhelm Asche and his brother August took over the regional product wholesaler Asche, which was founded in 1876. His brother took care of the commercial part of the company, while Wilhelm Asche took on the cultivation of plants. He soon gained an important reputation as a seed breeder.
In his private life, Asches was primarily interested in literature and music. He wrote numerous poems about the landscape of his homeland, the Lüneburg Heath , for which he composed some of the melodies himself. His poetry was also set to music by other composers such as Hans Dreyling or Wilhelm Bein . Two of Asche's songs were also released on record .
In addition to his lyrical work, Asche published a series of humorous stories that dealt with the people of the heath landscape. At the same time he saw himself as the keeper of the entire poetic legacy of the heath, and in particular promoted the Low German language .
In 1929 Asche donated the area for the Hermann Löns Memorial and in 1935 for the Tietlinger Wacholderhain .
On the occasion of the award of city rights for Asche's birthplace Fallingbostel in the post-war period , he composed a “Heimatlied” for the council meeting held in April 1949. Five years later he published the piece "Mein Fallingbostel", which he wrote and composed. But Asche also penned pieces like “Mein Hannover ” or “Mein Bad Pyrmont”.
After his death in mid-1955, Wilhelm Asche was buried on the Hilligenberg in the Tietlinger Wacholderhain near the Löns grave.
Glockenspiel in Fallingbostel
One of the four melodies that regularly resound from the tower of Bad Fallingbostel town hall comes from Wilhelm Asche: every day at 11:45 am, the carillon plays the piece "Mein Fallingbostel" composed and set to music by Asche.
Works (selection)
In Low German:
- Hein and Trien: En drullig Book , 192 pages, 1st edition, Hanover: Engelhard, 1927
- Hoch un platt - nu wähl di wat , 136 pages, Walsrode: Gronemann: 1936
literature
- Wolfgang Brandes: Fallingbostel in literature. / Powerpoint presentation / by Wolfgang Brandes , Bad Fallingbostel: Stadtarchiv, 2009
- “Up and down, now choose Di wat.” A Wilhelm-Asche-Evening in the Fallingbostel city library on Thursday, March 25, 1993 , Fallingbostel: City library, 1993
- German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical and bibliographical handbook , founded by Wilhelm Kosch, continued by Carl Ludwig Lang, ed. by Konrad Feilchenfeldt. Volume 1, Bern a. a .: Saur, 2000, column 358
- German biographical general register. List of references for more than 1000 biographical reference works that appeared between 1950 and 2000 , ed. by Willi Gorzny , Pullach im Isartal: Gorzny, 2001, p. 374
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e o. V .: Asche, Wilhelm in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 23, 2010, last accessed on May 14, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d e f g o. V .: Archive of the month August 2018: Wilhelm Asche composed and set "Mein Fallingbostel" to music , article on the badfallingbostel.de page [ undated , August 2018], last accessed on May 14th 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ashes, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German farmer and seed breeder, composer, writer and local poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 29, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fallingbostel |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1955 |
| Place of death | Tietlingen near Walsrode |