Wilhelm Kaune
Wilhelm Kaune (born September 16, 1895 - † July 19, 1981 in Ahstedt, Hildesheim-Marienburg district ) was a master wheelwright and Low German writer . In his time he was considered the only representative of East Westphalian dialect literature.
Language area
The East Westphalian-speaking area roughly encompasses southern Lower Saxony east of the Weser, extends to Hanover, Celle and Gifhorn in the north, to Braunschweig in the east and to the Harz in the south. The East Westphalian Platt differs in vocabulary and word formation as well as in intonation from the neighboring linguistic landscapes. Characteristic is the formation of the personal pronouns me and me (mek / mik), dir and dich (dek / dik), us (ösch or esch / üsch or isch) and you jök (jek) / jük (jüch), furthermore the diphthongization or triphthonging of long vowels. The u appears as iu, the ü as ui, the i as öi.
Life
Wilhelm Kaune was the eldest son of a carpenter. He could not pursue his wish to become a teacher, because after the early death of his mother it was necessary to quickly find a job and to support the family - he had six younger siblings. He became a wheelwright, became self-employed as a master craftsman in 1919 and worked in his profession for over 50 years. He became head master of the wheelwright's guild, was on the board of the Kreissparkasse Hildesheim and on the board of the Kreisheimatbund, of which he was one of the founding members in 1957.
He was an employee of the Hildesheimer Allgemeine Zeitung , which published his articles under the abbreviation WK or WKA.
The picture shows him at work in his workshop. Always with him under his workbench or in the pocket of his work apron was a notebook or an order or invoice pad, in which he entered with a fountain pen or with a carpenter's pencil in beautiful Sütterlin script verses and thoughts that came to him while he was working.
He began to write poetry when he was still at school. When he was thirteen, he dealt with his mother's death in the poem De Mudder starv. His first collection of poems, Heimatklänge, appeared in 1924. It was followed by several books in High and Low German. Well over 600 lecture events and a series of radio broadcasts made him known in all of Ostfalen and beyond. Many of his poems were set to music, e. B. by Dr. Friedrich Spanuth and Ludwig Rahlfs .
In the obituary by District Director Ignaz Jung-Lundberg it says:
“Wilhelm Kaune belonged to the Hildesheimer Land. He was and remains the poet of Hildesheim's homeland. He is not just a local poet in the sense that he writes about the Hildesheim region and uses its dialect. Wilhelm Kaune was certainly also a local poet in this sense. But his work went beyond that. Kaune was a poet who dealt with the world as a creative personality. Kaune had that in common with all poets. As a local poet, however, he was deeply rooted in the area of the local environment. This environment not only provided him with the material and content of his work. He mainly dealt with her. But this little world meant no restriction for him. Wilhelm Kaune's poetry, like all good poetry, contains what is seen, heard and thought, arising from the personal experience of the poet. Wilhelm Kaune understood how to use the poetic form of this personal experience to make a generally valid statement. Wilhelm Kaune, as a local poet, has grown beyond the Hildesheim region and has made generally valid statements about people and their environment. He has awakened understanding for the high value that home means for everyone, consciously or unconsciously. "
Honors
Wilhelm Kaune received numerous honors and awards for his work. In 1965 he was made an honorary member of the Lower Saxony Heimatbund. He received the Medal of Honor of the Hildesheim-Marienburg district and on October 1, 1965 the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit on ribbon.
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Wilhelm Kaune's books are largely out of print or only available in antiquarian versions.
- Sounds of home. Poems. Kellner publishing house, Hildesheim 1924.
- O my Hildesheim. Verlag Gebr. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1937, 2nd edition 1947. Unchanged reprint of the 1st edition. August Lax, Hildesheim 1997.
- My Lower Saxony. Poems and stories. Publishing house Gebr. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1937.
- My old Hildesheim. Publishing house Gebr. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1952.
- The twin farms. Serious and cheerful stories from Lower Saxony. Verlag Gebr. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1955, 2nd edition 1957.
- An'n Heimatborn. Heimatbund Lower Saxony, Hanover 1960.
- Far iuse Kinner. Low German poems and stories. Edited by Heimatbund in the Hildesheim-Marienburg district. No. 5 of the local history series. August Lax 1962, 3rd edition 1965.
- Möin Blaut sings a melody! Sounds of home from Wilhelm Kaune. 3rd edition Hildesheim 1957.
- Contemplative and cheerful. A collection of stories and poems. Cross-section through the high and low German work of the author on his 75th birthday. District Home Federation Hildesheim-Marienburg. Druckhaus A. Schlaeger, Peine 1970.
- Our home in the change of the seasons. Contributions to the landscape and customs of the Hildesheim region. No. 12 of the local history series of the Hildesheim district. Published by Heimatbund in the Hildesheim district. Druckhaus A. Schlaeger, Peine 1974.
- Our Hildesheim region. Contributions to the past and present, edited by Hans Meyer-Roscher. Heimatbund in the district of Hildesheim, 1982. Articles by Wilhelm Kaune appeared regularly in the series "Unser Hildesheimer Land". This volume IV is dedicated to the “memory of our honorary member, local poet Wilhelm Kaune, who died July 19, 1981”.
- Dei Notbichte in: One language - many tongues. Contemporary authors write in German dialects. Edited by Hans Scholz and Heinz Ohff. Sigbert Mohn Verlag, Gütersloh 1966. This collection includes authors such as Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Luis Trenker, Erich Kästner and Hans Baumann.
- Record: Steineklopper Kronenbarg söin Droom un annere Vartelligen. Schuster Verlag, Leer 1973.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilhelm Kaune in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaune, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German master wheelwright and Low German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1895 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1981 |
| Place of death | Ahstedt, Hildesheim-Marienburg district |