Willibald Eisert

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Willibald Eisert (born July 5, 1875 in Zwickau ; † 1950 ) was a German poet and composer who wrote and composed in the Ore Mountains dialect .

Willibald Eisert grew up in Zwickau-Marienthal and in 1890 moved to what is now the Dresden district of Trachau , where he lived at Wilden Mann in today's Dorothea-Erxleben-Strasse 10 and worked as an administrative inspector. He was married to Elsbeth Eule from Löbau since 1900 .

Eisert wrote and composed several native songs in the Ore Mountains dialect. The best known was the four-stanza Christmas carol , the first stanza of which reads: Christmas is, silent night./ Tough, how wood cracks in the Ufen, / it's ice cold outside, there's no snow, huh./ Thu is free early, but not naus needs ze gieh. It was written in 1937 and is still sung at the beginning of the 21st century during Advent and Christmas.

literature

  • Horst Henschel : Singing Land. 400 dialect songs from the Ore Mountains . Hofmeister, Leipzig 1939 ( Erzgebirgische Heimatkunde 19), pp. 30–34.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Clauss: The Erzgebirge: Land and People , Weidlich, 1967, p. 125.
  2. ↑ Manfred Blechschmidt (Ed.): Behüt eich fei des Licht - A Christmas Book of the Ore Mountains , VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, 4th edition, Leipzig 1986, p. 189
personal data
SURNAME Eisert, Willibald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau
DATE OF DEATH 1950