Achim from Akerman

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Achim von Akerman also Achim von Åkerman (born April 30, 1909 in Riga as Achim Engelbrecht Gerd von Akerman , † February 8, 1945 in Schneidemühl ) was a Baltic German writer and philologist .

life and work

Achim von Akerman , born 1909 in Riga, Latvia, was the son of Erwin von Akerman, an engineer and captain of the Baltic State Army, who later held the rank of German major. After attending various schools, such as the Leibniz Gymnasium in Berlin , the Latin School in Lindau, the Melanchthonstift in Wertheim (Main), where he met Wolfgang Frommel , and the Municipal German Gymnasium in Riga , Achim von Akerman studied first from 1928 to 1929 Philology in Riga, later the same subject in Berlin, Leipzig and Tübingen from 1929 to 1938 , only interrupted by the turning point in the Latvian military service in 1935 to 1936. In 1939 Akerman became a candidate for teaching in German elementary schools and was also head of the Library headquarters of the German National Community in Riga. In 1940 he briefly took a position as a qualified librarian in Frankfurt an der Oder before he took up his post as head of the state public library office and the city library in Hohensalza that same year . In September 1942 he married Rosemarie von Winterfeld. From 1943 on he served as a grenadier in the German army.

Achim von Akerman also worked as a writer from the beginning of the 1930s. He wrote short stories and poems. In 1933 von Akerman published the volume of poetry Gesichte der Heimat ( Gesichte der Heimat) in the publishing house Die Runde , and in 1938 his poetry volume Die Hour vor Tag was published by Insel Verlag . In 1997 the Castrum Peregrini Foundation published another volume of poetry under the title The Names of Childhood with its collected and left poems. In 2016 a selection of his poems was published under the title Traumfahrt in the poetry classics series: 50 timeless poems by Martin Werhand Verlag .

Achim von Akerman fell in the winter of 1945 as a paramedic at the age of 35 in Schneidemühl. Achim von Akerman's older brother was the writer Hasso von Akerman, his sister Ruth von Akerman, who was two years younger.

Under the pseudonym Achim von Okermann, he took literary positions in the Deutsches Adelsblatt and Zeitspiegel in 1932 and 1933 on friendly writers such as Stefan George and Lothar Helbings (alias Wolfgang Frommel) Third Humanism .

Fonts (selection)

Single volumes

anthology

  • "Morgengabe: Collection of Baltic German Poems", (poems), Leipzig, 1940 (Achim von Akerman; Werner Bergengruen )

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Achim von Akerman. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
  2. ↑ Classic poetry series: 50 timeless poems . Martin Werhand Verlag , 2016
  3. ↑ Achim von Akerman , Traumfahrt: 50 Timeless Poems in WorldCat 2016
  4. ↑ Achim von Akerman. In: Clarissa: Clarissas Krambude: Authors tell of their pseudonyms. , novum publishing gmbh, 2011, p. 261
personal data
SURNAME Akerman, Achim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Åkerman, Achim von; Akerman, Achim Engelbrecht Gerd von (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German writer and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1945
Place of death Schneidemühl