Klaus Groth

Klaus Groth ( born April 24, 1819 in Heath, † June 1, 1899 in Kiel ) is one of the most well-known Low German poet and writer. Considered together with Fritz Reuter as one of the founders of modern Low German literature.

5.1 radio play Klaus Groth
5.2 musical settings
5.3 Banknotes
5.4 Literary survival

Biography

Klaus Groth was born on 24 April 1819 as the son of a miller in Heide ( Dithmar / Holstein). As Groth was 14 years old, he was first clerk in the parish administrator in Heath, but switched in 1837, at age 18, then, at the teacher training college in Tønder. Due to lack of money he spent four years later broke off his studies and became a teacher at a girls' school in his hometown Heath. 1847 had Groth, who was frequently ill, a physical and mental breakdown and therefore different from the education service from. By the year 1853, he was with his friend Leonhard Selle to recovery on Fehmarn. There he wrote his poem collection Quickborn Low German, which appeared in 1853. This poem book Groth made famous with one blow.

In 1853 he moved at the age of 34 years to Kiel. He worked there from October 1854 to April 1855 with Professor Karl Müllenhoff to the creation of the Low German grammar and spelling, as well as to the new requirements of Quickborn. During the winter of 1854/55 the prose work was Vertelln.

Due to doctor's recommendation he made in the spring of 1855 a journey which led him first to Bonn. Here he was awarded the Faculty of Arts of the University by unanimous decision of the honorary doctorate. His journey led him further into Switzerland, later Leipzig and Dresden to Thuringia.

In 1857 he returned for the first time back to Kiel, where he held a postdoctoral lecture in September 1858 the Faculty of Arts, in 1866 awarded him the then Austrian governor of Holstein the title of professor of German language and literature. His former years money was 600 dollars and was increased in 1871 to 1200 Prussian Thaler. In Kiel also his most extensive work of this period, the epic De Heisterkrog, and Min Jung paradise and numerous poems were composed. Many of these poems were summarized in 1871 in the second part of the Quick Born.

In August 1858, he became engaged to Doris Finke and on 24 August 1859, the marriage took place. He lived for many years in the 1865/66 built house in Schwanenweg in Kiel. Heavy blows were the death of his wife in 1878 and his son's death in August 1889. Klaus Groth 's 1893 appear Collected Works in Lipsius & Tischer. In 1895, he spent the winter on Capri in the Villa of Christian Wilhelm Allers.

On his 80th birthday him the cities of Kiel and heath awarded each honorary citizenship. Six weeks later, on June 1, 1899, died Klaus Groth. At the site of his former home in Kiel today the hospital "quick Born", which bears this name in memory of the most famous work of the poet. In the buildings of the old " house Quickborn " today has the DRC National Association of Schleswig -Holstein his seat directly in front of the entrance there is a memorial stone, reminiscent of Klaus- Groth. His grave is located at the Kiel South Cemetery (on the figurehead there ends overview map as point "E" marked).

Honors

Groth and the Low German language

Groth's aim was to expand the Low German language as a literary language. This meant for him especially the treatise serious issues in Low German on literary high level. Groth tried to make it clear that the Low German language for all purposes is capable of. However, he stressed that " the Low German language is not to be used to empty formulas and verbiage, but what it lacks in capacity for abstraction, it would be at great sensual security commandments." His opinion of the Low German language literature differed from the Fritz Reuter, the other famous writers Low German, which is essentially, however, was important as a prose writer. His concern was, the people's cause to connect with its language. These different opinions it came to dispute with Fritz Reuter.

Groth Reuters Louse un Riemels: " [ ... ] but they are common throughout. They show us just clumsy, ignorant or dirty, sly figures. [ ... ] That would be the flowering of people's life? that his poetry that we disregard him and bring him back? No, that is all in the smoke and the beer parlor Wust - down and draw where the story goes in the schluderigsten speech Vademekumsanekdoten. Since everything is the same, ie everything in common, civil and noble, high and low " Reuter it to Groth: ". . No, sir, our paths on the poetic and popular areas vary widely, as far as our dialects "

Groth's high and Low German poems and songs were set to music by famous composers, most notably Johannes Brahms, as well as Arnold Schoenberg. The preservation and maintenance of the literary oeuvre of Klaus Groth is dedicated to the Klaus- Groth - society.

Works

Overview

"Quick Born"

In November 1852, the Low-German poetry book Quickborn came out. Up to this new beginning of Groth Low German literature was most recently in the 17th century significant. Low German languages especially people on the land and people in the lower and middle strata of society. These low German language was increasingly displaced by the High German written and spoken language. The people who did not speak High German, were excluded. Groth tried with Quick Born oppose this development, because all the poems and texts in his work, even the most demanding, are written in the so-called " Dithmarsch Platt".

" Vertelln "

In his story collection Vertelln Groth describes the people of the country and the experiences and feelings of ordinary people.

" VOER de Brat "

These are Low German nursery rhymes. They were famous because the rhymes were used mainly as lullabies and play songs.

" Mien young paradise "

The little story Mien young paradise has predominantly autobiographical character. The narrative leads to Tellingstedt, his mother's birthplace.

Fort effect

Radio play about Klaus Groth

1952 Albert wrote Mähl his radio play The Quick Born, which is located in the fall of 1852 in country churches on Fehmarn, where Groth after his dismissal from the education service in Heath, has the Cantor Leo Selle found his friend a shelter. In the production of NWDR Hamburg Heinz Lankans spoke the part of the poet, his brother Rudolf Beiswanger the Johann Hartwig Sievers embodied Selle Leo and Erna Raupach -Petersen whose housekeeper Gretenmedder. The film was directed by Hans Freundt.

Musical settings

More than 1140 musical settings with biographical notes on the composer Peter Höhne: sung poems - Klaus Groth and its composers. Arezzo Musikverlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034088-8

Settings of poems by Klaus Groth
Karl Banck (1809-1889), 12 songs. Friedel: Dresden.
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), op 59, 63, 66, 97, 104, 105, 106
Gülzow Adalbert (1862-1933), Six Low German Songs ( for soprano ) by Klaus Groth. Schlesinger, Berlin.
Ulrich Hildebrandt (1870-1940), mats Hat, op 19
Otto Jahn (1813-1869), Songs from Groth 's Quick Born. Breitkopf & Hartel: Leipzig 1858 and 1858.
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), egg you Lütte.
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944), Night Rider, op 4.4.
Caroline Wichern (1836-1906), Lütt mats, de Has
Fritz Bultmann (* 1937), Lütt mats, de Has.

Banknotes

Literary survival

In his novel The School of atheists Arno Schmidt makes numerous references to Klaus Groth. There he is, but then Klaus Langelütje what conclusions to Klaus Lütt, which is the pseudonym of the Danish translator of Quick Born- poems permits. Groth's paternal grandmother was called Catherine Klehn or Kleen, so " small". Groth had for that time an extraordinary height, was so "long ": From these set pieces Arno Schmidt has apparently be " Langelütje " knitted. Arno Schmidt also mentioned the plaque with the Groth - reminiscence at the Gasthof "Zur new forgetfulness ", built on the site of the demolished in 1893 birthplace of Klaus Groth's mother.

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