Wilhelm Schmidt (writer)

Wilhelm Schmidt pseudonym: Wilhelm Schmidt-Fischerbrook (born March 11, 1872 in Rostock ; † May 15, 1941 ibid) was a German educator, journalist, editor and Low German writer .

Wilhelm Schmidt (1872–1941)

Life

Wilhelm Schmidt was born in 1872 as the son of a Rostock shipper . After attending the community school, he first went to the preparatory institute and then to the teachers' seminar in Neukloster . From 1895 to 1921 he worked as a teacher in Rostock. He retired early due to a serious illness.

In 1898 he was a co-founder of the Plattdütschen Verein för Rostock and Üm region . He recited from the works of Fritz Reuter and John Brinckman and was a collector of Low German idioms and anecdotes in order to preserve this language and culture. Wilhelm Schmidt had an intense friendship with the folklorist Richard Wossidlo . On Schmidt's initiative, the Low German Association for Rostock and the surrounding area made Wossidlo an honorary member in 1907. Schmidt was particularly interested in the work of John Brinckman. In 1914 he was the editor of a John Brinckman biography. As early as 1904 , with the support of the illustrator Adolf Jöhnssen , he had started editing a selection of the poet's works. There was close contact with John Brinkman's widow and his son Max.

The Rostock city administration first awarded the John Brinckman Prize at the Low German People's Day in 1922, also based on an idea by Schmidt, in cooperation with the working group of the Heimatvereine . This was considered an honorary award for poets, writers, scientists and artists of the Low German nationality and the Low German language. Prize winners were Richard Ohnsorg , the director of what would later become the Ohnsorg Theater, and Professor Wossidlo. In 1935 Wilhelm Schmidt himself was honored with this prize for his complete work.

Schmidt used various pseudonyms, Wilhelm Fischerbrok and Hinnik Isen he chose for his journalistic work in the daily press, his own works were published under Wilhelm Schmidt-Fischerbrook or Wilhelm Schmidt-Rostock. Wilhelm Schmidt died in 1941 shortly after reaching the age of 69, he was buried in the Rostock New Cemetery.

Works (selection)

As a writer

• Wat Vagel Grip. Stories and Dönken in Meckelbörger Platt (Haak, Ribnitz 1910)
• Seemannsblot orer de Schönheit ut Tripolis Schwank, (self-published, Rostock 1912)
• John Brinckman. Life and work (Kaufungen, Rostock 1914)
• De delicious Fusiliers or De Häunerkrieg in Fischkaten: En Soldatenschwank (self-published, Rostock 1915)
• Swell. Schipper's Markets and Seaman's Tales (Hinstorff, Wismar 1919)
• Hannis Bo-i un anner stories (Koch, Rostock 1933)
• Ann Strand'n (cook, Rostock 1936)
• Kiek in de Sünn (Koch, Rostock 1940)
• Ick wants to distribute wat ... Low German fairy tales, riddles, lice, stories and poems (Hinstorff, Rostock 1988)
• Extremely well mannered! : Un anner Vertellers (Hinstorff, Rostock 1994)
• Schippermärken and seaman's legends (Hinstorff, Rostock 1996)

Numerous articles appeared in the Mecklenburg monthly magazine , a full list can be found at the LBMV (see web links), here is a selection:

• Adolf Jöhnssen, a painter from home (1927)
• From the Rostock Whitsun Market (1931)
• Detloff Carl Hinstorff . Life and Work of a Mecklenburg Bookseller (1931)
• Meckelbörger homework inside and out (1933)

As editor

• Vagel-Grip calendar (Adler's heirs, Rostock from 1760)
• Grand-Ducal Mecklenburg-Schwerinscher and Mecklenburg-Strelitzer calendars popularly known as: Voss-un-Haas calender (Hinstorff, Rostock from 1864) (here as an employee)
• Ludwig Kreutzer : Ten Mecklenburg folk tales , illustrations by Adolf Jöhnssen (Boldt, Rostock 1904)
• John Brinckman : Kasper Ohm un ick , illustrations by Adolf Jöhnssen (Nister, Nuremberg 1905)
• John Brinckman: De Generalreeder (Hinstorff, Wismar 1918)

literature

• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 8894 .
• Schmidt, Wilhelm . In: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 15, Saur, Bern (et al.) 1993, Col. 426
• Wilhelm Schmidt: on his 60th birthday . In: Mecklenburgische Monatshefte . tape 8 . Schwerin 1932, p. 131-132 ( digital copy - PDF ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Wilhelm Schmidt in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Wilhelm Schmidt in the state bibliography MV
• Wilhelm Schmidt in the Low German Bibliography and Biography (PBuB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Writers on the radio - Authors appearances on the radio during the Weimar Republic 1924-1932. German Broadcasting Archive, accessed on September 23, 2015 .