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Hermann Allmers

Arthur Fitger was ever ☞ here in the blog. The ghastly bad Bremer painter and playwright owes his rise to the poet Hermann Allmers. It has always surprised me, because after all, Allmers with Friedrich Theodor Vischer, the author of the novel also One (that's the wonderful novel, appears in the the malice of the object ) friends , corresponds with the spiritual world of the late 19 Century, contributing to young Worpsweder art colony. But the relationship with Fitgerald (and also to the equally bad dramatist Heinrich Bremer Bulthaupt ) is cooling off in the hard handover to Allmers eightieth birthday today, 110 years ago, which he devoted sixty writers and painters, both are no longer represented.

if you in Bremen with the data collected by Allmers fairy tales such as hoe Betge sien Duben , the Kyffhäuser tale , the Brahms set to music poems field loneliness and march book grew up, is a Allmers arrested as a poet in the northern German countryside for granted before. And naturally adds to the name of the epithet Allmers our march poet added. If today is content, a student, you sing well still be there Saaleck, here Rudelsburg . I knew Allmers' stories and the hoe Betge Kyffhäuser before I told a boy Allmers read, my grandfather, she had me. He had put on a philological text repentance not as great value and they have enriched with all sorts of fairy tales and fabulous from the Osnabrück region. But which one can resist well not if one is a born storyteller Westphalian and says a child: Grandpa, tell me a story . So begins all literature - whether the speaker now scop or Skald or is a retired teacher.

Allmers founded something one home to move - sometimes home protection movement (as in the art-historical term homeland security architecture ) - is called. A movement against the alienation of industrialization, a return to nature and landscape of the plates Wesermarsch. This home, moving with all its positive values is certainly the foundation of our Bremer been teaching local history that has us all tied closely to our school in our village. That is in school today so hardly that students learn everything about their town, and some know each other better today on Mallorca, as in the history of their Region.

The young Allmers with all my heart a supporter of the 1848 Revolution. He will regret it forever, even though he later grudgingly be a supporter of Bismarck. He will write a life image of Captain Henry evil, which is also a genre picture from Bremen, the French period. Evil is a freedom loving Bremer has been to the one from his private fortune hunter Bremen Corps to the fight against Napoleon and equips it to France pulls (it will be, fortunately, involved in any military actions). The top 48 also for the revolution occurs. And the canal co-founded. So a Allmers appears as the epitome of patriotic virtues. The Bremen captain evil could be today.

Allmers is also the volatile Arnold Ruge , former employees of Karl Marx, and will accommodate for it later sentenced to a fine. planted in memory of the March day he an oak tree in his garden, which he later decorated with an iron plate: Nothing but the word 'Germany's Spring 1848' is because, above a set starting Hoffnungssternlein and below --- a wicked slash . Disappointed hopes weighs more heavily. In love as in the Revolution.

Allmers is also a monument to Johann Gottfried finance Seume. Had been sold as a young man from the infamous Landgrave of Hesse in the English army fighting in the American Revolutionary War. From his time in Canada is the poem The Wild , at the time the most widely read German poem. As soon as he is back home from Canada, he is in the army that pressed Frederick, which we also call for obscure reasons the Great . Bremen citizens to help him during an escape attempt on the Weser, but he is caught again. Knows the great Frederick, who behaves like a friend of the arts, that because he holds a German poet in captivity in Emden? There is a Huguenot nobleman in Frederick's army, Baron de l'Homme and Seigneur de Courbier , the Seume that saves lives. He is a compassionate boss generous and will make him a private tutor of his children. Courbier is still at war against Napoleon, field marshal, he is a prime example of those Prussian virtues, which also had a Friedrich August von Marwitz, King of Prussia did not.

Seume addition to the memorial will be honored at Allmers behind the Weser dike at a small memorial for him let Charlemagne set up. You do not know where the Frankish Emperor has come with his army across the river Weser to defeat the Saxons. The agency which assumes Hermann Allmers of local pride (in shad at Rodenkirchen), is demonstrably false. But Allmers is to hold on to his life in this story. And since I am on the monuments, the monument of Rudolph Brommy - the first German Fleet Admiral - also adorns a poem by Allmers, he did not let it go.


Karl Rudolf Brommy resting in this grave
The first German Fleet Admiral
Think of the brave and the days
nice to hope, and bitter deception,
And does - then the turn by God's providence .

Farmers Allmers from Rechtenfleth, who also has Vogt and reeve is, has no school (there were not then in Rechtenfleth) visits, and no university. His wealth enables him to private study and travel widely, Roman Schlender days becomes the most widely read book of the 19 Italy Century. One can see by the way today. He has a lot of friends, his correspondence includes more than 11,000 letters, the Allmershof is in the last third of the 19 Century, a cultural center of northern Germany. I give the last word on our march poet once lived the writer Adolf von Wilbrandt , the Allmers at a Munich artist party:

was at once then another in the pulpit, his head was already on the overall fidelity did not appear to agree: powerful nose, lips compressed, eyes himmelnde, it might be more the preacher of a little fanatical sect. When he even opened his lips and his loud roar of "hard comrades," said, I was perturbed, and probably all: a harelip or a similar deformity disfigured his language so that it is to laugh. Wanted to talk here? And with the face? - Here I should now but experience what can a strong will and an enthusiastic mind. »Hard comrades" He repeated the word, regardless, a little more clearly, "he drove his tongue constantly over all obstacles, he described this forest full of people, what a great and beautiful miracle had such a feast. How does he feel happy here, heard of this art site dedicated to art-drenched disciples of beauty, joy in the light of the mother sun, the vibrant song of joy that makes us human beings from gods. Yes, the song of joy from the wells, the enthusiasm that gives the artist the breath. Without passion, nothing is created, which leads again to the joy that makes us happy .... About
in this sense, he continued speaking. His sky-eyes had become beautiful, they moved us to the sky. His speech error was forgotten, or did it just that a man of art with this defect so-and happily said. We heard his prayer with enthusiasm Gospel, the many good and thoughtful words. At the end, the applause broke out. Among the speakers at this pulpit, he had the most success.




And then I finally had two references: Hermann Allmers, works . Published . And worked on behalf of the Hermann Allmers Society of Kurd Schulz Gottingen: Sachse & Pohl 1965 [639 pages, best selection from the work, the ZVAB yet available]; Berd Ulrich Hucker, Hermann Allmers and his Marschenhof. The story of Easter and the Allmershofes Stader Rechtenfleth village in relation to the life and work of the patriot, poet and scholar with a bibliography of his works Oldenburg. Heinz Holzberg Verlag 1981 [153 pages, offers a nice overview of life, region and work, both at the Amazon Marketplace and the ZVAB still] available.

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