Wilhelm Schneider-Clauss

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Wilhelm Schneider-Clauß (born January 29, 1862 in Cologne , † November 7, 1949 in Cologne-Junkersdorf ) was an author in Cologne dialect , headmaster and president of the carnival club Kölsche Funke rut-wieß from 1823 .

Life

Wilhelm Schneider-Clauss was the son of Ludgerus Rüdiger Schneider, a master blacksmith and locksmith from Hermülheim and his wife Katharina Segschneider from Gymnich .

After graduating from high school in Cologne, Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium , he studied medicine at Heidelberg University from 1882 . He did his military service with the body regiment of the King of Bavaria . He then studied philology at the University of Strasbourg , passed the state examination and wrote a doctoral thesis on the poetry of Properz .

In 1888 he did a probationary year at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Cologne) and in 1889 took over the rectorate school for boys with boarding school in Kerpen near Cologne as headmaster and private entrepreneur . In 1906 he became a senior teacher at the municipal paritätischen Progymnasium in Eupen . In 1907 he became a professor appointed and returned in 1913 back to Köln, where he taught till 1927 as a teacher at Lindenthaler secondary school .

Wilhelm Schneider-Clauss began working as a writer as early as the 1890s. His works include numerous dialect plays, stories, novels and poems as well as some works in High German. In 1902, 1903, 1904 and 1911 he won the Johannes Fastenrath Prize at the Cologne Flower Games .

After the First World War, Wilhelm Schneider-Clauß suggested that laypeople should play his plays instead of professional actors and founded the Schneider-Clauß-Bühne in 1919 .

He made another contribution to the promotion of the Kölsch dialect as president (1923/24 and 1930-1933) of the Kölsche Funke rut-wieß from 1823, active there under the name Rutsteff .

Born Wilhelm Schneider, he used the pseudonym Dr. Wilhelm Clauss to. After the press "uncovered" this, he called himself Wilhelm Schneider-Clauss from then on (even with official approval in 1921).

His grave is in the Cologne-Junkersdorf cemetery .

Honors

Works

stories
  • Us our Lotterbovejohre
  • Altfränsche Lück. Five resemble Stöckelcher
  • Husmannskoss. Lück un Levve from the ale Kölle
Novels
  • Alaaf Kölle. En Schelderei us great Zick, Publisher: Hoursch & Bechstedt , Cologne 1925
Volksschauspiel (plays)
  • Home feeling
  • De egg queen
  • Unger the Krützblom (1913)
  • D'r real secret ... (1914)
  • Et great Loß (1916)
  • D'r Schudderhot (1919)
  • Aachunveezig (1920)
For the Hänneschen Theater
  • D'r Düxer Bock
  • When ahl choirs burn
Poems
  • Adam and Eve
  • Ald widder op eneuts
  • The Knight
  • Do ha'mer der Rähn
  • Et ale Kölle goes to the Troor?
  • Fastelovends-Leedche
  • Jan and Griet
  • November
  • Easter eggs
  • Vill Glöcks!
  • Defend yourself!
  • Do you still know?
  • Where the groove is greatest ...
  • The smartest man

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article on the 50th anniversary of his death in the program of the Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch. (PDF; 33 kB) Archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; Retrieved November 29, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Enno Stahl (Ed.): Cologne Authors' Lexicon 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. 205-206 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich S. Soénius (Ed.): Kölner Personen-Lexikon . Greven-Verl, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-7743-0400-0 , p. 483 .
personal data
SURNAME Schneider-Clauss, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schneider-Clauss, Wilhelm; Schneider, Wilhelm (maiden name); Rutsteff (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cologne dialect author
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1949
Place of death Cologne