Will Hermanns

Peter Josef Wilhelm Hermanns (born August 25, 1885 in Aachen ; † October 16, 1958 ibid) was a German dialect poet , journalist, publishing director, curator and head of the press office of the city of Aachen.

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After graduating from the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen, Hermanns studied philosophy , German literature and art history at the universities in Berlin, Munich and Bonn. After subsequent activities, first as editor in Bonn and then as publishing director in Aachen, Hermanns completed his habilitation at RWTH Aachen with the topic: Peter Josef Dautzenberg and his Aachen audience (Politischer Merkur) .

In 1928 Hermanns joined the city and later became director of the press, health and advertising office of the city of Aachen and head of the international newspaper museum . Finally, in 1935, he received an appointment as an adjunct professor for newspaper studies at RWTH Aachen, which he exercised part-time. Two years later he joined the NSDAP and became one of the main speechwriters for the incumbent mayor and also a party member Quirin Jansen . After the war, Hermanns had to go through a denazification process.

Hermanns' first dialect book Heahre Quelle was published in 1908. During the First World War, he published two volumes of poetry, Eiserne Wehr and Der Kreg . Other titles followed, for example the broadcast of Reineke Voss in Öcher Platt. His main work, to which the entire last phase of his life was dedicated, is the dictionary of the Aachen dialect ( Aachener Sprachschatz ), whose publication and completion (provided by Rudolf Lantin) he himself no longer lived in 1970.

With friends, Hermanns founded the Öcher Schängchen dialect puppet theater, which still exists today, in 1921 , for which he wrote many pieces. Together with Edgar Perseke , Hermanns developed the first traffic case in 1956 .

Works (selection)

• Shining days , 1905
• Hot source. Öcherdütsche Rümme , Aachen 1909
• Reinhart der Fochs sing a duet , Aachen 1916
• En Chronik van der Jrueße Kreg , 1919
• Öcher Üllespejjel , Aachen 1925
• Öcher Lachduvve , Aachen 1925
• Mascherang. Foffzig Saache för selvs ze laache än anger Lü Pläsier ze maache , Aachen 1927
• The beautiful German Rhine. Landscape, art and culture , Berlin 1930
• History of Aachen dialect poetry , Aachen 1932
• City in chains. History of the occupation and separatist times in and around Aachen 1918–1929 , Aachen 1933
• 4000 years of Aachen. Fate, constitution, economy, culture of the former free imperial and coronation city. A home book with many pictures , 1938
• Ore chair of the empire. Life history of the spa and Kronstadt Aachen , Ratingen 1951 (reprint: Aachen 2000)
• Home chronicle of the district of Aachen , Cologne 1953

literature

• Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945) (= Aachen Studies on Technology and Society 4). Mainz, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-86130-181-4 (also: Dissertation, Aachen 2003), p. 278 and others
• Annette Fusenig: How to invent a 'World Equestrian Festival'. The Aachen jumping, riding and driving tournament from 1924 to 1939 , dissertation, Aachen 2004, p. 181 ( PDF ).

Web links

• History of the Öcher Schängche on the website of the city of Aachen