Will-Erich Peuckert

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Will-Erich Peuckert (born May 11, 1895 in Töppendorf , Goldberg-Haynau district , † October 25, 1969 in Mühltal ) was a German folklorist , university professor and writer . After the National Socialist rulers withdrew his license to teach in 1935, he was professor of folklore at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1946 to 1959 .

Life

Peuckert initially trained as a primary school teacher and between 1914 and 1921 worked in Groß Iser near Bad Flinsberg in the Jizera Mountains , then worked as a teacher in Breslau for a year . From 1922 to 1927 he studied German history , German literature , prehistory , folklore and ethnology at the University of Breslau . In the last academic year, he was with the dissertation The development Abrahams of Franckenberg until 1641 doctorate . From the following year he was a researcher at the German Institute of the Wroclaw University (until 1930) and at the same time lecturer of Folklore at the Pedagogical Academy , until he in 1932 for the subject of folklore with the work prophecies twelve Sibyls habilitated .

He then taught as a private lecturer in folklore until he was revoked on May 13, 1935, because of "political unreliability". In several articles, for example for the concise dictionary of German superstition , he questioned the alleged ritual murders that the Jews were officially accused of. Nonetheless, he considered it possible that "scientifically flawless and source-critical research" would allow "several precisely proven cases to be deduced from further ..." Due to the withdrawal of his teaching license, he was forced to stay as a private scholar and writer in Haasel (today: Leszczyna) in the Katzbach Mountains for the next ten years . In July 1942, after a politically undesirable book review, he was banned from further publication of reviews.

In January 1945 he fled with his family to the Upper Palatinate . In 1946 he followed the call of the University of Göttingen to the chair of folklore, in 1959 he retired . Since 1960 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .

Fonts

Literary works

  • Passion. A drama. New stage. Dresden 1919
  • The burning night. Three books of songs. E. Reiss, Berlin 1921
  • Apocalypse 1618. Novel. E. Diederichs, Jena 1921
  • Little comedy. Drama. Landhausverlag, Jena 1921
  • Luntroß. Novel. Diederichs, Jena 1924
  • Noack or Die Hungerleider. Novel. Süd-Ost-Deutscher Verlag, Breslau 1925
  • The three men in the mountains and other stories. Urquell-Verlag, Mühlhausen 1926
  • Andreas Hofer or The Peasants' War in Tyrol. Old and new reports retold. E. Diederichs, Jena 1926
  • Life, arts and opinions of the much vaunted Theophrastus Paracelsus von Hohenheim. Told according to the sources. E. Diederichs, Jena 1928
  • Two lights in the world. Stories from the forest. E. Diederichs, Jena 1929
  • Maria in the Ackerstrasse. A legend in nine pictures. Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1931
  • The golden mountains. A German heroic train. P. List, Leipzig 1933.
  • Holy oath. A celebration. Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1934.
  • The trail in the hay bush. A boy’s story from the Polish border. Wiking Verlag, Berlin 1939
  • Lucky child in Krakow . Novel. Wiking-Verlag, Berlin 1939
  • Love, journeys and adventures of the trumpeter from the Zips. Wiking Verlag, Berlin 1939
  • As long as the earth stands. Novel. P. List, Leipzig 1941
  • Home parish Birkigt. Cheerful stories. J. Bohn, Leipzig 1943
  • The alchemist and his wife. Crook and divorce trials of the alchemist Thurneysser. Frommanns Verlag, Stuttgart 1956
  • The Krist. Retold according to popular traditions. E. Diederichs, Düsseldorf / Cologne 1957

Biographies

  • The life of Jakob Boehme. E. Diederichs, Jena 1924
  • Theophrastus Paracelsus. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin 1941; 2nd improved edition ibid. 1943; 3rd improved and increased edition ibid. 1944, of which reprints: Olms, Hildesheim / New York 1976 and 1991, ISBN 3-487-05632-1
  • Paracelsus - The Secrets: a reading book from his writings / with introduction and commentary by Will-Erich Peuckert. Dieterich'sche Verlagsbuchh. 1941. Paperback edition. Droemersche Verlaganstalt 1990 ISBN 3-426-04241-X
  • Nicolaus Copernicus. Who made the earth circle. P. List, Leipzig 1943
  • Sebastian Franck. A German seeker. R. Piper, Munich 1943

Folklore (selection)

  • Silesian legends. E. Diederichs, Jena 1924; 2nd edition E. Diederichs, Cologne 1966; New edition E. Diederichs, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-424-00986-5 ; Paperback edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995
  • The legends of the mountain spirit Rübezahl. E. Diederichs, Jena 1926
  • Silesian folklore. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1928; Weidlich, Frankfurt 1978, ISBN 3-8128-0009-8
  • The Rosenkreutzer. On the history of a Reformation. E. Diederichs, Jena 1928; 2nd revised edition under the title Das Rosenkreutz. Pansophy Part 3. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1973, ISBN 3-503-00573-0
  • Folklore of the proletariat. I. Rise of proletarian culture. New Frankfurter Verlag, Frankfurt 1931
  • Silesia German fairy tale. Ostdeutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Breslau 1932; Olms, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 2006, ISBN 978-3-487-13314-0
  • Raven (Corvus corax). In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli , Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of German superstition. (= Concise dictionary of German folklore. Section I: Superstition ). 10 volumes, Berlin / Leipzig 1927–1942; Reprint, obtained from Christoph Daxelmüller , Berlin / New York 1987, here: Volume 7 (1935/36), Sp. 427–457.
  • Pansophy. An attempt at the history of white and black magic. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1936; 2nd revised and expanded edition. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1956
  • Silesian. R. Piper, Munich 1937, Volume VII of the series: What is not in the dictionary ; expanded new edition ibid. 1950; Weidlich, Würzburg 1985, ISBN 3-8035-1257-3
  • German folklore in fairy tales and legends, swank and riddles. W. de Gruyter, Berlin 1938
  • Small German book of legends. Rütten & Loening, Potsdam 1939
  • Black eagle under the silver moon. Biography of the Silesian landscape. H. Goverts, Hamburg 1940; New edition under the title: Silesia. Landscape biography. Claassen, Hamburg 1950
  • German folk belief of the late Middle Ages. W. Spemann, Stuttgart 1942; Olms, Hildesheim / New York 1978, ISBN 3-487-06638-6
  • The big turning point. The apocalyptic Saeculum and Luther. Intellectual history and folklore. Claassen & Goverts, Hamburg 1948 (two volumes, reissued in 1966 by the Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt)
  • Rebirth. Conversations in lecture halls and on the go. Weidmann, Berlin / Frankfurt 1949
  • with Otto Lauffer : Folklore. Sources and research since 1930. A. Francke, Bern 1951
  • Secret cults. C. Pfeffer, Heidelberg 1951; W. Heyne, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-09884-6
  • Silesian children's and household tales. Brentanoverlag, Stuttgart 1953
  • Marriage. Women time. Man time. Saeterehe. Court marriage. Free marriage. Claassen, Hamburg 1955, without ISBN
  • Lenore. Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Helsinki 1955
  • Astrology. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1960
  • Hidden Lower Saxony. Investigations into the Lower Saxon folk tale and the folk book. O. Schwartz, Göttingen 1960
  • Say. Birth and Answer of the Mythical World. Introductory volume to the European legends series . E. Schmidt, Berlin 1965
  • Pansophy. Second part. Gabalia. An attempt at the history of the magia naturalis in the 16th to 18th centuries. E. Schmidt, Berlin 1967

literature

  • Hermann Bausinger : Will-Erich Peuckert (1985-1969) , in: Zeitschrift für Deutsche Philologie , Volume 89, Issue 1, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin et al. 1970, pp. 2–3 ( full text )
  • Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich: Folklore research in Silesia. A history of science . Elwert, Marburg 1994, ISBN 3-7708-1041-4 .
  • Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich, Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (ed.): “Folklore is news from every part of the people.” Will-Erich Peuckert on his 100th birthday. Schmerse, Göttingen 1996, ISBN 3-926920-21-1 (with biography and incomplete catalog raisonné ).
  • Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich: Peuckert, Will-Erich. In: Encyclopedia of Fairy Tales . Vol. 10, 2002, Col. 827-831.
  • Rolf Christian Zimmermann: I pass the torch on. On Will-Erich Peuckert's work. In we. Peuckert: The Rosenkreutz. 2nd edition E. Schmidt, Berlin 1973, pp. VII-LI.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Will-Erich Peukert: Ritual murder. In: Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli, Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer (Hrsg.): Concise dictionary of German superstition. (= Concise dictionary of German folklore. Section I: Superstition ). 10 volumes, Berlin / Leipzig 1927–1942; Volume 7 (1936), Col. 727-739, here: Col. 734.
  2. ^ Dietrich Müller: Book review in the political context of National Socialism. Lines of development in reviews in Germany before and after 1933 . Dissertation, University of Mainz 2008 (online: urn : nbn: de: hebis: 77-19345 , PDF, 4.3 MB), p. 152.
  3. ^ Table of contents by Will-Erich Peuckert: Ehe. Women's time - men's time ... (1955): LOVE AND MARRIAGE: Quod est? · Two · The from one another - WEIBERZEIT: The Mediterranean world · The great mother · Woman giving birth · The snake goddess · Incomprehensible world · Time of change - MEN'S TIME: Cattle farmers and heroes · Mouths · Teeth and disputes - SAETEREHE: Huldrenliebe · The camp in the hay · Woman and concubine · Yngvild Wangenschön and Gudrun - DIE HOFEHE: I am a farmer · Advertising and marriage · Richard Hallmann · The rehearsal nights · Kosmas and Damian · The night free season · The mother - FREE MARRIAGE: The peace or free marriage · Maibuhlschaften · The consense marriage (431 pages, original linen).
personal data
SURNAME Peuckert, Will-Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folklorist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Töppendorf , Goldberg-Haynau district
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1969
Place of death Muhltal