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Nathan Katz (24 December 1892, in
Official site of the Nathan Katz Cultural Heritage Prize, created in Strasbourg in 2005
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Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek 1892 births Alsatian Jews 1981 deaths French male poets German male poets 20th-century French poets 20th-century French male writers {{Germany-poet-stub
Nathan Katz (24 December 1892, in Waldighofen
Waldighofen (; gsw-FR, Wàldighoffe) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.
File:Im_Nathan_Katz_si_Geburtshuus.jpg, Birthplace of Nathan Katz
File:Herrawag.jpg, Street sign with Alsatian name
Populatio ...
– 12 January 1981, in Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian language, Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''Mill (grinding), mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin Departments of France, department, in the Grand Est Regions of France, region, eastern France, close to the France–Switzerl ...
) was a Jewish Alsatian poet from the Sundgau
Sundgau ( or ; ) is a geographical territory in the southern Alsace region (Haut Rhin and Belfort), on the eastern edge of France. The name is derived from Alemannic German ''Sunt- gowe'' ("South shire"), denoting an Alemannic county in the Old Hi ...
region. He wrote in Standard German
Standard High German (SHG), less precisely Standard German or High German (not to be confused with High German dialects, more precisely Upper German dialects) (german: Standardhochdeutsch, , or, in Switzerland, ), is the standardized variety ...
as well as the Alsatian dialect
Alsatian ( gsw-FR, Elsässisch, links=no or "Alsatian German"; Lorraine Franconian: ''Elsässerdeitsch''; french: Alsacien; german: Elsässisch or ) is the group of Alemannic German dialects spoken in most of Alsace, a formerly disputed regio ...
.
Serving at the East Front during the First World War, he was made prisoner in Nizhny Novgorod
Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...
, where he wrote ''Das Galgenstüblein'' in June 1915.
External links
*Official site of the Nathan Katz Cultural Heritage Prize, created in Strasbourg in 2005
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Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek 1892 births Alsatian Jews 1981 deaths French male poets German male poets 20th-century French poets 20th-century French male writers {{Germany-poet-stub