Wilhelm Spengemann

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Wilhelm Spengemann (* 26. July 1851 in Hannover , † 7 May 1918 ) was a from a German family of craftsmen derived carpenter , clerk , clerk , reciter , writers and dialect - poet , published mainly by its early 20th century Low and High German memoirs remained known.

Life

Wilhelm Spengemann was born in the royal seat of the Kingdom of Hanover in 1851 as the son of the plumber Leopold Spengemann (1818–1888), who was involved in the education of workers . Later, in his memories of his youth , Spengemann would describe, among other things, the Sunday church visits of the various regiments and military units between Welfenplatz and Waterlooplatz , accompanied by spectators and band music .

After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, Wilhelm Spengemann did not practice the profession he had learned. Instead, he worked at the beginning of the founding period of the German Empire from 1872, initially as a clerk, later and until shortly before his death as an office clerk in the mechanical weaving mill in Linden .

In 1876 Spengemann married Marie Lathwesen from Kolenfeld , with whom he had a son, Christof Spengemann . Christof Spengemann's son was Walter Spengemann .

Wilhelm Spengemann has appeared as a reciter of Low German texts since the 1880s . At the same time, he began to write his own poems and stories. These were continuously reprinted in the daily newspaper Hannoverscher Anzeiger and in the Hannoversche Tageblatt until 1913 .

After Spengemann's Hannoversche Jugenderinnerungen in Low and High German had already been published in 1905, Albert Schenk set Spengemann's poem Abschied von der Heide to music in 1916 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Mien Snack from Düt un Dat. Plattdütsche Riemkens , 96 pages, Hanover: Printed by Friedrich Culemann (M. Leonhardt), 1889
  • Hanoverian youth memories in Low and High German. 96 pages in Gothic script , reprint [of the edition] Hanover 1905. - Hanover: Harenberg, 1983; contents

literature

  • Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon , Vol. 18, Column 476
  • Helmut Zimmermann : Wilhelm Spengemann. In: Wilhelm Spengemann. Hanoverian youth memories , reprint [of the edition] Hanover 1905. - Hanover: Harenberg, 1983, pp. 99-101
  • Ines Katenhusen : Art and Politics. Hanover's confrontations with modernity in the Weimar Republic , at the same time a dissertation at the University of Hanover under the title Understanding a time is perhaps best gained from her art , in the series Hanoverian Studies, series of the City Archives Hanover , Volume 5, Hanover: Hahn , 1998, ISBN 3-7752-4955-9 , p. 424 and others.
  • Hugo Thielen : Spengemann, (3) 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. 340f.
  • Carz Hummel: Sundays after the List. Stories from old Hanover / based on the collection of Wilhelm Spengemann from Low German translated by Carz Hummel. (= Welfenschriften , booklet 40), 20 pages, partly illustrated, Wedemark: [Hummel], 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Hugo Thielen: Spengemann, (3) Wilhelm. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 575f .; online through google books
  2. ↑ Hans Werner Dannowski : Hanover - far from near: In city districts on the move , Schlütersche GmbH & Co. KG Verlag und Druckerei, 2002, ISBN 978-3877066539 , p. 41f .; online through google books
personal data
SURNAME Spengemann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1918
Place of death Hanover