Leopold Weber (writer)

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Leopold Weber (born January 24, 1866 in Saint Petersburg , † (probably) November 7, 1944 ) was a German writer .

Life

Leopold Weber came from a German family who emigrated to Russia in the early 19th century. He was the first of five children of the German-Russian businessman Georg Philipp Weber and his wife Emilie geb. King; Leopold Weber's uncle was the industrialist Leopold Koenig . From 1879 onwards, Leopold Weber attended the German-speaking Petri School in Saint Petersburg . From 1884 he studied at the university there.

1886 went Leopold Weber with his mother and sister to Germany and began a study of German language and literature at the University of Munich . In Munich Weber met the Swiss artist Ernst Kreidolf , with whom he lived from 1888 to 1894 in Partenkirchen , Upper Bavaria . In 1894 Weber traveled to the United States , where he stayed for several months with his brother Moritz Julian Weber, who lived in Roseburg (Oregon) . After his return to Germany Leopold Weber worked for the magazine " Der Kunstwart " from 1896 to 1905 . From 1905 he continued his studies at the University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1912 with a thesis on a medieval rhyming sermon .

At the start of the war in 1914, Leopold Weber volunteered for military service; he took part in the First World War as a soldier on the German side , most recently as an interpreter on the Eastern Front. From 1918 to 1923 he worked as a librarian at the Bavarian State Library in Munich . He then lived as a freelance writer in Munich and published numerous adaptations of Nordic-Germanic heroic sagas for young readers. These works received special support from the National Socialist rulers after 1933: The volume "Our Heldensagen" was introduced as a school book in Bavaria in 1936 , and in the same year Weber received the " Hans Schemm Prize " for young people's literature donated by the NSDAP .

In November 1944, Leopold Weber disappeared under unexplained circumstances while driving to a friend in Munich; Rumor has it that Weber was assassinated by the Gestapo . - Leopold Weber's estate is among others. a. in the Bavarian State Library and in the Monacensia Collection of the Munich City Library . In the Soviet zone and the early GDR , three works by Weber were on the " list of literature to be sorted out ".

Works

  • Poems , Munich 1894
  • Dream figures , Leipzig 1900
  • Vinzenz Haller , Munich 1902
  • The gods of the Edda , Munich 1919
  • Asgard, the gods of our ancestors , Stuttgart 1920
  • Dream figures with pictures by Ernst Kreidolf, Zurich 1922
  • Midgard , Stuttgart 1922
  • Dietrich von Bern , Stuttgart 1924
  • The Hegelingen , Stuttgart 1925
  • Gisli, the forest walker from Iceland's heroic days , Stuttgart 1927
  • Parzival and the Grail , Stuttgart 1927
  • Walthari and Hildegund , Stuttgart 1928
  • Grettir, the wolf comrade , Stuttgart 1929
  • Njal, the seer , Stuttgart 1930
  • Gudrun , Stuttgart 1933
  • With Ernst Kreidolf in the Bavarian mountains 1889 - 1895 , Erlenbach-Zurich [u. a.] 1933
  • Our heroic sagas , Munich [u. a.] 1934
  • Nordlandmen , Drahowitz [u. a.] 1936
  • The Odyssey German , Munich 1936
  • The fates of emigrants , Leipzig 1937
  • The Icelandic Stories and the Edda , Berlin 1937
  • Boys' holidays at the Baltic Sea , Stuttgart 1938
  • The neighborhood children , Munich 1938

Editing

  • The warning , Munich 1912
  • Albert Welti : From Welti's life , Munich 1912
  • Ernst Kreidolf : Kreidolf folder , Munich 1919
  • Russian narrator , Munich
    • 1 (1923)
    • 2 (1925)

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personal data
SURNAME Weber, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: November 7, 1944
Place of death Munich