Wilhelm Zierow

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Wilhelm Zierow (born October 19, 1870 in Nienhagen , † October 5, 1945 in Güstrow ) was a Low German writer and teacher.

Life

Wilhelm Zierow was the son of a teacher and attended school in Sarmstorf after the family moved . He first went to the teachers' seminar in Neukloster in order to then complete additional training as a sports and drawing teacher in Dresden . In 1894 he became an assistant teacher in Schwerin . From 1895 he worked as a sports and drawing teacher at the cathedral school in Güstrow , where he retired in 1936.

He became known in Mecklenburg as an author in Low German . Zierow wrote stories and short stories, but also comedies that were also performed. Contributions from him can also be found in Mecklenburg. Journal of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg and Die Mecklenburgische Heimat as well as the Mecklenburgischen monthly issues .

His son Ulrich Zierow (1906–1949 or later) studied at the University of Rostock and was a contributor to the Quickborn's communications from 1933 , where he campaigned for the needs of the Flemings and the Low German movement in the National Socialist sense . After the Second World War he worked as a librarian in Berlin.

Fonts

  • Earthy smell. Heimatbiller un lütt tales ut Meckelborg , 1912
  • The gravel barg. Lustspill , 1912
  • The hobble skirt. En Funny Spill , 1913
  • Plaugfohren. Meckelbörger stories and Heimatbiller , 1918
  • Minschen un Vöß , 1918
  • Dat horns. En Funny Spill , 1922

Honors

literature

  • Franz Brümmer: Wilhelm Zierow. In: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present , Volume 8 (1913), p. 269
  • Georg Clasen: Wilhelm Zierow: on his 50th birthday. In: Quickborn 14, 1920, pp. 2-5.
  • Zierow, Wilhelm In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, Vol. 1936-1970 (1973), p. 765
  • Stephan Sehlke: Pädagogen - Pastoren - Patrioten: Biographical manual on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , 2009, p. 424
  • 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. 11184 .
  • Arnold Hückstädt : "A piece by dat Volk, as dat thinks and deit" - Wilhelm Zierow (1870–1945), drawing teacher, nature lover and Low German poet of Mecklenburg . In: Literature in the succession of Fritz Reuter, Klaus Groth and John Brinckman . Edited by Christian Bunners, Dieter Stellmacher and Jürgen Grote, Rostock 2018, pp. 64–72

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel file with signature: DLB 59 in the Deutsche Lehrerbücherei - personnel, personnel file / Ulrich Zierow [reference], Deutsche Lehrerbücherei <Berlin>, Berlin, 1947–1949 v. a. 1949. - 37 sheets, handwritten, mach.
  2. ^ (First) entry by Ulrich Zierow in the Rostock matriculation portal in 1926
personal data
SURNAME Zierow, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Low German writer and teacher
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienhagen
DATE OF DEATH October 5, 1945
Place of death Guestrow