Willy Hörning
Willy Hörning (born July 18, 1902 in Golzern ; † April 2, 1976 ) was a German teacher, local researcher and local poet.
Life
Willy Hörning was born in 1902 near the Saxon district town of Grimma and grew up in the countryside in Golzern. Even as a child he was enthusiastic about music and drawing. After attending elementary school, in 1916 he went to the teachers' seminar in Rochlitz , which was then known as a strict vocational training facility. Here he experienced the difficult years of the First World War and the post-war period. In 1923 he successfully completed his teacher training in Rochlitz.
His first places of work as a teacher were Nischwitz and Hohburg near Wurzen . He stayed at these smaller multi-class schools for only a few years. In 1927 he successfully applied for a teaching position in Thum in the Saxon Ore Mountains . He later moved to the neighboring Ehrenfriedersdorf as a vocational school teacher . Since then, the area around the Greifensteine has become his new living space, to which he devoted his local history research from then on. So it is not surprising that one of his most important publications is entitled The Greifenstein area . This is issue 13 of the traditional series Cities and Landscapes , which appeared in 1961 in the Bibliographisches Institut in Leipzig . In addition, Willy Hörning wrote our little traveling booklet of the same name , which appeared in at least five editions by the end of the GDR. He was also an expert in the traditional series Values of the German Homeland in the Akademie-Verlag. He also wrote the chapter Ehrenfriedersdorf in the Brockhaus travel guide Erzgebirge / Vogtland, which appeared in several editions until the end of the GDR.
The time of National Socialism did not pass him by without a trace. In 1934, for example, he wrote in the Erzgebirge Sunday paper about the German folklore in the Erzgebirge carving art . He was convinced of the rebirth of local art from the Erzgebirge in the National Socialist state and published thematically about it.
After the end of the Second World War he was actively involved in the reorganization of cultural life in the Ore Mountains. When the Kulturbund was founded, he became a member of it, and was later elected to the Zschopau district leadership for several years . Willy Hörning also headed the circle of writing workers , the theater ring and was involved in amateur theater. He tried himself to write plays, including people of the mountains , Berggust's holy night , play from the Frohnauer hammer and Christmas light . Since he was not a native of the Erzgebirge, he did not make the mistake of writing his dramas in the Erzgebirge dialect. Nevertheless, he also dealt with the dialect of the Ore Mountains and dialect creation. In total, Willy Hörning created 12 different dramas, one of which A guy named Stülpner was also played in the Eduard von Winterstein Theater in Annaberg-Buchholz . He also devoted himself to topics such as the long shift in Ehrenfriedersdorf around Oswald Barthel or the rural comedy Die Hirschbrunft . One of his early works is Ein Fest auf Haderslevhuus. Play in seven pictures based on the Storm novella of the same name , which appeared in print in Leipzig in 1932 as double issue 2/3 of series 2 in the youth club stage .
In addition to the drama, Willy Hörning also devoted himself to narrative poetry. The best known was the Erzgebirge Rhapsody , consisting of seven short stories. This work remained unprinted until his death.
As a local researcher in the central Ore Mountains, he made scientifically sound contributions to numerous local journals and calendars, including the Sächsische Heimatblätter , the Heimatfreund for the Erzgebirge or the calendar Sächsische Gebirgsheimat .
After almost 50 years of successful work in the landscape of the central Ore Mountains, he died in 1976 at the age of 74.
literature
- Konrad Rösel : Willy Hörning (July 18, 1902 - April 2, 1976) . In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 22 (1976), p. 283.
- Willy Roch : On Willy Hörning's 75th birthday . In: Glückauf, Pobershau 24 (1977), 7/8, p. 8
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German folklore in the Erzgebirge carving art ( Memento from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Erzgebirge in the "Oskar Seyffert Museum" in Dresden. ( Memento from March 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Genealogy - Oswald Barthel. niklaskirche.de, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hörning, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher, local researcher and local poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Golzern |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1976 |