Joachim Ringelnatz Museum Cuxhaven
2009
As a poet of comic verse, Ringelnatz is still one of the most popular authors of the 20th century. But two important things have been forgotten in the meantime: firstly, that he also wrote many very thoughtful, sensitive and critical texts, and secondly - and above all - that he was also active as a painter in the 1920s and early 1930s, whose works were highly regarded and exhibited by important galleries alongside paintings by Otto Dix, George Grosz and Oskar Kokoschka, for example.
Joachim Ringelnatz's amusing verses in particular, such as those of the two ants, also inspire children with enthusiasm for the poet, whose real name was Hans Bötticher. He was stationed in Cuxhaven as a soldier during the First World War. [Ages 8 and up]
Further information at: www.ringelnatzmuseum.de