Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide

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Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (born March 14, 1872 in Bixterheide (now Iserlohn ), † March 23, 1936 in Dortmund ) was a German writer and editor . He is considered a pioneer of Westphalian dialect literature .

Life

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide was born on March 14, 1872 in Bixterheide (now Iserlohn) in the Sauerland. His father, the enforcement officer Wilhelm Uhlmann (born February 3, 1846 in Griesenbrauck (now Iserlohn), † March 23, 1894 in Iserlohn), came from the noble family of the Barons of Cloedt-Remblinghausen; his mother, Karoline Uhlmann, née Grote (born September 16, 1849 in Iserlohn; † December 31, 1920 ibid), a family of farmers and small industrialists presumably from the Rhineland.

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide attended secondary school in Iserlohn. Since he did not have the money for further studies, he entered the postal service. The Reichspostamt determined it for use in China , and so he studied modern oriental languages, especially Chinese, at the seminar for oriental languages in Berlin . He also attended lectures on history, literature and economics. In 1902 he switched to the telegraph service in Dortmund, where he was promoted to telegraph inspector in 1926.

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide was also politically active. He joined the National Liberal Party , which was reorganized into the German People's Party in November 1918 . In 1919 he ran in vain for the DVP to the German National Assembly . From 1910 to 1933 he was a city councilor in Dortmund. He was chairman of the German Association of Officials in Dortmund. In this function, he sided with the Republic during the Kapp Putsch - in contrast to parts of his party. He also fought the subsequent communist uprising. During the occupation of the Ruhr he organized the passive resistance of the officials, which among other things led to the fact that no telephone or telegraph connection was possible in Dortmund for months.

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide was represented as a local politician on several supervisory boards of municipal companies. He was also a member of several school boards. However, he devoted his actual local political work to cultural policy. This was also reflected in the membership in the Dortmund Immermannbund, the Dortmund Literary Society and the Association of Friends of the City Library. He was also appointed to the committee for literature in the Westphalian Heimatbund .

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide was married to Elsbeth Uhlmann-Bixterheide, née Oehlmann (born August 27, 1879 in Hemer; † December 7, 1965 in Dortmund), daughter of the factory owner Friedrich Oehlmann and his wife Marie Oehlmann, née Hecker. The couple had a son.

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide died on March 23, 1936 at the age of 64 in Dortmund. He was given a grave of honor in the main cemetery in Dortmund .

Services

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide began literary work in his youth. He was friends with Detlev von Liliencron , Peter Hille and Michael Georg Conrad . Uhlmann-Bixterheide's first poems were published in Conrad's magazine Die Gesellschaft . In his first independent publication, Westphalian Poetry of the Present (1895), he pointed out the importance of Westphalian for German literature. With his impressionistic natural poems and prose volumes such as Chronika van Iserliaun. Serious and funny stories iut oaller un nigger Teit (1896) or Westfalenfahrten I. Time and hiking pictures from Mark and Süderland (1906) he became a pioneer of Westphalian poetry.

Another focus was the industrial world of work that he found in Dortmund. He was in connection with the Ruhr district and also published in the yearbook Die Ruhr by the worker poet Christoph Wieprecht . It was in this context that his best-known Night Drive was created .

In addition to his own work, Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide's merit lies primarily in the publication of numerous Westphalian homeland books, including Die Rote Erde. A home book for Westphalia (1913), The Sauerland Bergland. A book of the plaice (1919), Westphalian legend book. The most beautiful legends of the Red Earth (1921) and men and heroes of the Red Earth. A book of the Westphalian style (1921) as well as the two anthologies Das Plattdeutsche Westfalen. A book of dialect local poetry (1921) and Westphalia's narrator and poet. High German part of the Westphalian Poets' Association (1922).

Awards

Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide's poem advertising was awarded the Carmen Sylva Prize and the City of Barcelona Ribbon of Honor. In 1912 he received the Prize of the Fastenrath Foundation in Cologne, in 1921 the Ebner-Eschenbach Prize and in 1934 the Goethe Medal for Art and Science and the North Westphalia Culture Prize. On the occasion of his 60th birthday, the city of Dortmund named a street after him.

Works

  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide, Carl Hülter: Westphalian poetry of the present . Contributions to the appreciation of the Westphalian intellectual life. Lenz, Leipzig 1895.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide, Carl Hülter: Chronika van Iserliaun. Serious and funny stories are all but niggles . In: Chronicles of Low German Cities . tape 3 . Lenz, Leipzig 1896 (Low German).
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide: Westphalia trips I. Time and hiking images from Mark and Süderland . Koeppen, Dortmund 1906.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (ed.): The red earth. A home book for Westphalia . Brandstetter, Leipzig 1913.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (Hrsg.): The Sauerland mountainous region. A book of the floe . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1919.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (Hrsg.): Westfalens Sagenbuch. The most beautiful legends of the Red Earth . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1921.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (Hrsg.): Men and heroes of the red earth. A Westphalian-style book . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1921.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (Ed.): The Low German Westphalia. A book of local vernacular poetry . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1921.
  • Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (ed.): Westphalia's narrator and poet. High German part of the Westphalian Association of Poets . Ruhfus, Dortmund 1922.

literature

  • Hedwig Gunnemann: Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide on the 100th birthday (March 14, 1872 to March 23, 1936) . In: Dortmund City and State Library (ed.): Autograph exhibitions . tape 12 . Dortmund City and State Library, Dortmund 1972.
  • Karin Jaspers / Wilfried Reinighaus: Westphalian-Lippian candidates in the January elections 1919. A biographical documentation , Münster: Aschendorff 2020 (Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia - New Series; 52), ISBN 9783402151365 , pp. 191f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Alois Klotzbücher: Uhlmann-Bixterheide, Wilhelm . In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 2 . Klartext, Essen 1998, ISBN 3-88474-677-4 , p. 130 ff .
personal data
SURNAME Uhlmann-Bixterheide, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlmann, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bixterheide (now Iserlohn )
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1936
Place of death Dortmund