Gustav Leutelt

Gustav Leutelt ( born September 21, 1860 in Josefsthal, † February 17, 1947 in seamounts ) was a Sudeten German poet and writer.

Life

Gustav Leutelt was born in Josefsthal in the Jizera Mountains, North Bohemia, son of a teacher. He was a great-grandson of the "Miracle Doctor " Johann Josef coat. Leutelt settled in the College of Education to train as a teacher Leitmeritz and worked as a teacher at the elementary school of his father. As a senior teacher, he took over in the near Untermaxdorf ( Dolni Maxov ) initially the local elementary school, and later the training school. At this institution he came into contact with glass workers and finishers, whose craft he chose to study his life. In Untermaxdorf he founded in 1906 a local museum, in which he was compiling documents, pictures and other exhibits relating to the economy and history of the Upper Kamnitztales. After 1922 he moved as a pensioner after Jablonec nad Nisou.

By the Beneš decrees Leutelt in 1946 as 85- year-old driven from his home. He died in 1947 in seamounts near Gotha at the age of 86 years. The inscription on his grave stone in the cemetery of seamounts: "Here rests away his beloved forest home to a doyen of German art, Gustav Leutelt, the poet of the Jizera Mountains, born to Josefsthal on September 21, 1860 died on 17 February 1947 in Seebergen ". Is located on the memorial stone a blackboard: " The memorial stone was erected by Gablonzer compatriots from the Jizera Mountains in the Sudetenland, which were sold in 1945 to Thuringia renewed by the Leutelt Society in Schwäbisch Gmünd in 2002. ".

Artistic creation

Due to its connected to the nature of the Jizera Mountains prose he was described as "the poet of the Jizera Mountains ".

Quotes

" The home is not everything, but the root system, from the rising of the World Tree. Neither patriotism as escapism, nor Allerweltsliebe of disdain for the home are good. Well home education is not an end in itself; but it should lead to the awe of the home. And one way to this we must look that is feasible even for those who are estranged. World love with the home in the heart should be the highest of us. "

Awards and honors

Works

  • Descriptions of the Jizera Mountains, 1899
  • The Royalties, 1906
  • The second face, 1911
  • Cabin home 1919
  • From the Iserbergen. Narratives, 1920
  • The Glass Forest, 1925
  • The book of the Woods, 1928
  • Images from the life of the glass workers, 1929
  • Seventy years of my life, 1930
  • St. John's Eve. Sudeten Germans stories, 1930
  • Doctor Smock, 1943
  • Glassmakers, 1944
  • Fate, 1944

Werkausgaben

  • Collected works in three volumes, Carlsbad: Adam Kraft Publisher 1934-1936 (2nd edition 1941-1943 )
  • Gustav Leutelt. Complete edition in two volumes, ed. v. Adalbert Schmidt. Augsburg: Adam Kraft Publisher 1953-1955
  • Complete edition in five volumes, Schwäbisch Gmünd: Leutelt Society 1986-1990
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