Wilhelm Frerking

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Wilhelm Frerking , pseudonym S. Wenzl , (born September 6, 1852 in Hanover ; † July 25, 1938 ibid) was a German school director , columnist , theater critic and writer .

Life

Born in the royal seat of what was then the Kingdom of Hanover , Wilhelm Frerking first attended the public school in Hanover, then the city's secondary school . After training as a teacher, he was appointed rector of the Hanoverian citizen school in 1902. On the side - but especially after retiring in 1917 - Frerking, who had joined the Hanover Art Association in 1891 , wrote in the features section and as a theater critic for the Hannoverschen Tageblatt , often under the pseudonym S. Wenzl .

Wilhelm Frerking wrote numerous, also numerous pranks and comedies . He died at the time of National Socialism in 1938.

His son was Johann Frerking .

Works (selection)

  • Three Schwänke for amateur stages. Kurirt - A Secret - A Pleasant Surprise (= Reclam's Universal Library , No. 1835,), 46 pages, Leipzig: Reclam, [o. D., 1890].
  • How our boys play Schiller's “Tell”. For performance at school festivals and student entertainment evenings / with a prelude by Wilhelm Frerking (= Danner's Jugendbühne , No. 14), Mühlhausen in Thuringia: Danner, [o. D., 1920]
  • Courage, it will go wrong! High-spirited knight comedy with obstacles in 1 act / by Wilhelm Frerking (= Ulk-Bücher , Heft 1), 7th edition (27 pages, with 4 [printed] full-page drawings), Berlin: Eduard Bloch, [19] 25
  • Karl-Friedrich Dressler, Wilhelm Frerking (Red.): Press festival on Saturday, March 7, 1925. Association of Lower Saxony Press (Association of Editors of the Hanoverian Newspapers), Festschrift 96 pages with illustrations and a picture panel, [Hanover]: [Hartmann & Merten ], 1925
  • Cured. Schwank in 1 act / W. Frerking. Revised by Wolfgang Altendorf , Unsellable [stage] pattern (head part for all roles ex. For stages and clubs) 12.- , 8 pages, [ typewriter autograph], [Bad Godesberg, Kölner Strasse 70]: W. Altendorf, [1946]

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Hugo Thielen : FRERKING, (2), Wilhelm. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 121.
personal data
SURNAME Frerking, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenzl, S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German school director, columnist, theater critic and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 25, 1938
Place of death Hanover