Wilhelm Börker

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The first production by the Low German Theater Braunschweig in autumn 1925: “De Erste Gast” by Heinrich Behnken

Wilhelm Börker (born July 23, 1869 in Braunschweig ; † August 15, 1953 in Braunschweig) was a German teacher , writer, publicist , local researcher and theater director of the Low German Volksbühne in Braunschweig, which he founded .

Life

Education and teaching profession

Wilhelm Börker was born on Wilhelmstrasse in Braunschweig . He attended the municipal high school and then completed training as a teacher at the Braunschweig teachers' college from 1886 to 1890 . He worked at the garrison school in Braunschweig and at the orphanage school until the state examination in 1893 . Börker passed the rectorate exam in 1896 and subsequently worked at the Braunschweig teachers' seminar until it was closed in 1928. He then worked as a teacher at the Raabeschule in Braunschweig until his retirement in 1932 .

The Niederdeutsche Volksbühne

In June 1925, in the local press, Börker called on friends of the Low German language to meet at the Hôtel d'Angleterre on Breite Strasse . His goal was to found a Low German amateur theater . In addition to Börker, the founding members of the Niederdeutsche Volksbühne Braunschweig , founded on June 16, 1925, include the actress Helene Evers , Rudolf Fricke and Rudolf Rossée. The Niederdeutsche Volksbühne, which used the unfamiliar North Low Saxon Low German, quickly became known and performed in more than 90 locations in northern Germany until 1945. She gave guest appearances in the Celle Castle Theater , in the Braunschweig Castle , in the Schauspielhaus in Hanover and on the occasion of Wilhelm Raabe's 100th birthday in the Lessing Theater in Wolfenbüttel . She gave her 100th performance on October 21, 1931. Börker worked as a director and acted in numerous leading roles. He ended his active participation in 1938. His successor as theater director was initially the teacher Karl Hermann Osterburg, who was one of the victims of July 20, 1944 due to an "open word". After the end of the Second World War , Helene Evers took over the management of the Niederdeutsche Volksbühne until 1967.

Journalistic and writing activity

As an employee of several magazines, Börker devoted himself to homeland care and the Low German language. From 1923 to 1934 he was editor of the local history journal Braunschweigische Heimat , which is published by the Braunschweigisches Landesverein and of which he was a member. Börker's High German works include some nationally colored “festivals” on different occasions as well as the edition of the anthology of poems Flotte und Kolonie in the mirror of German poetry from 1911. During the First World War , he published four booklets in 1915 in Low German, Waffenbruder Humor, Fidele Schützengrabenbücherei . In his Ostfälische ("Bronswieksches Platt") short prose ( Hannechen , En Knust Groffbrot ) published after the end of the Second World War, Börker shows himself to be a sensitive narrative novelist. As a member of the Braunschweig Freemason Lodge Dankward zum Rauhen Stein, Börker also published articles on the world of Freemasonry .

family

In the ninth heavy air raid on Braunschweig on February 10, 1944, Börker lost his wife Marie Ebeling. The apartment at Waterloostraße 4 was destroyed, so that he and his second wife Elsbeth, nee. Reason to move to Schöningen . There he founded the art community . In 1949 Börker and his wife returned to Braunschweig. Börker died there in August 1953 and was buried in the main cemetery.

Honors

Börker was a great admirer of Wilhelm Raabe. Not least for his publications about the Braunschweig poet, Börker was honored with the Raabe plaque of the city of Braunschweig in 1946 . Wilhelm-Börker-Straße in the Braunschweig district of Gliesmarode is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Festival for the inauguration of the new seminar building , 1894.
  • In the Easter light, an Easter game , 1909.
  • A Christmas Tale , 1909.
  • The Masonic Thought. First issue. Published by the Association of German Freemasons. With contributions by E. Clausen, JC Schwabe, W. Börker, O. Heinichen , E. Diederichs, Jena 1912.
  • Varesfelt. As it might have been before Vorsfelde came into being . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1929, 20, pp. 105-107.
  • Low German Volksbühne, Braunschweig. Annual report 1928–1929 . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1929, 20, pp. 130–132.
  • Lower Saxon tribal peculiarity in Wilhelm Raabe's essence and poetry . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1931, 22 (3), pp. 66–73.
  • We need a Low German yearbook . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1934, 25, pp. 24–26.
  • (under the name Willem Börker ): En lüttjen Streemel ower plattdütschet Bühnenspeel . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1934, 25, pp. 58–60.
  • In memory of Heinrich Eggersglüß . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1935, 26, pp. 37–40.
  • August Hermann in memory of his 100th birthday . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1935, 26, pp. 123–128.
  • Village stages . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1936, 27 (1), pp. 4–7.
  • Around Christmas . In: Braunschweigische Blätter 1936, 27 (3), pp. 3–5.
  • Hannechen: Un annere lüttge Vertelligen and Stipstreken in Bronswiekschen Platt , with drawings by Adolf Otto Koeppen , Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1948.
  • En Knust Groffbrot: All kinds of snack in bronswieksch Platt , with drawings by Adolf Otto Koeppen, Verlag Joh. Heinr. Meyer, Braunschweig 1950.
  • Schöppenstiddesche pranks , with drawings by Ortwin Knabe, Verlag Richard Hermes, Hamburg 1952.
  • Christmas from my youth . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1952, 38 (4), pp. 97-103.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernd Jericho: Börker, Wilhelm . In: Luitgard Camerer , Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (eds.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1992, ISBN 3-926701-14-5 , p. 36 .
  2. ↑ Armin Reiche: The 80th William Börker . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1949, 35, p. 95.
  3. ↑ Braunschweigische Heimat 1931, 22, p. 123.
  4. ↑ Braunschweig address book for the year 1942 . Entry Osterburg, Karl Hermann, Dr. phil., teacher, Fasanenstrasse 51a.
  5. ^ Siegfried Wolter: Wilhelm Börker, the champion of Low German. A look back at the 100th anniversary of his birthday . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 1969, 55, p. 142
  6. ^ Wilhelm Kosch et al .: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Volume 3: BLAAS - BRAUNFELS, Zurich and Munich, 2001, Sp. 324f.
  7. ^ Herbert Blume: Börker, Wilhelm . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 78 .
  8. ^ Messages from the Association of German Freemasons. Yearbook 1910–1911, Leipzig 1911, p. 23

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personal data
SURNAME Börker, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, writer, publicist and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 15th August 1953
Place of death Braunschweig