Wilhelm Räderscheidt

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Räderscheidt's tombstone in Cologne's southern cemetery

Wilhelm Räderscheidt (born August 8, 1865 in Cologne ; † July 6, 1926 there ) was a Cologne dialect poet .

He worked as a primary and secondary school teacher and later as director of the Cologne commercial school. Wilhelm Räderscheidt was temporarily a member of the Cologne city council and since 1913 honorary member of the Heimatverein Alt-Köln .

He published early song texts for the Cologne Carnival under the pseudonym Willy Köhne . Since 1912 he wrote Cologne texts for the magazine Jung-Köln under the pseudonym Ohm Will . From 1915 to 1917 he regularly published mood pictures in verse and prose in the Kölnische Zeitung , which appeared in book form from 1916 under the title Köllen en Kreegszigge .

In 1912 Räderscheidt won first prize at the Cologne Flower Games for his poem The Bone of Remembrance and in 1914 won the Johannes Fastenrath Prize for Der missroode Son .

Wilhelm Räderscheidt wrote plays for the Hänneschen Theater in Cologne as well as prose and poetry . The carnival song De Geiß wollt 'ne long Stätz han was written by him. In 1925 a collection of his poems was published under the title "Ohm Will".

Wilhelm Räderscheidt was married to Elisabeth Beckmann (1868–1922) , together they had three daughters (Sophia Anna Maria (1888–1975) , Katharina (1899–1939) and Wilhelmine (1900–52) ) and four sons (Wilhelm (1889– 1978) , Ferdinand (1897–1917) , Hugo (* 1908) and the painter Anton Räderscheidt (1892–1970) ).

Works

  • The Ohm Will. Cologne: Greven 1988 (contributions to Cologne history, language and character; vol. 69) ISBN 3-7743-0246-4 (first: Cologne: JG Schmitz 1925)
  • WR u. Heinrich Vordemfelde: Textbook of the German standard shorthand. Cologne: P. Neubner o. J. (1926)
  • Jet för et Hätz: A dialect u. Heimatbuch fd Kölner Jugend. o. O. (Cologne: Oskar Müller) o. J. (1924)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Enno Stahl (Hrsg.): Kölner Autorlexikon 1750 - 2000. Vol. 1. 1750 - 1900 / based on preparatory work by Gertrud Wegener with co-operation by Heribert A. Hilgers . by Enno Stahl . Emons, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89705-194-X , p. 182-183 .
  2. ↑ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven-Verl, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 433 .
  3. ^ Olaf Peters :  Räderscheidt, Hubert Anton. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 106 f. ( Digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Räderscheidt, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ohm Will (pseudonym); Willy Köhne (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German elementary and middle school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1926
Place of death Cologne