Adolf Beiß

Adolf Beiß (born September 3, 1900 in Braunschweig ; † December 22, 1981 ibid) was a German German philologist , writer and university professor.

Life

Adolf Beiß was born in Braunschweig in 1900, where he attended the Martino-Katharineum . He then joined the Wandervogel , with whom he toured northern Germany. After studying German, Beiß worked as a teacher at the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben School in Braunschweig from 1929 . At the time of National Socialism , Beiß was a member of the NSDAP , actively participated in the National Socialist Teachers' Association and was an author on people and race . During the Second World War he was a sergeant major in the Luftwaffe. After the end of the war in 1948 he was given a teaching position at the Braunschweig University of Education . From 1949 until his retirement in 1968 he held the chair for German language and literature and methodology of German teaching there.

In addition to his teaching activities, he headed the library of the Pedagogical University until 1968. He was the editor of the PH Braunschweig series of publications. In the early 1950s, Beiß was chairman of the Braunschweig Literary Association for four years . From the end of the 1930s he published short stories, poems and scientific papers. Many of his poems were set to music by Walter Rein and Friedrich-Wilhelm Reich.

Beiß lived in the Braunschweig district of Gliesmarode from the 1940s until his death in 1981 .

Fonts (selection)

• Small world fugue , poems, Voggenreiter Verlag , Potsdam 1938.
• Der Freiheit Silberton , narrative, Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1938.
• Gift of love for parents and children , poems, Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1941.
• The silent garden , poems, 1950.
• The drama as a sociological phenomenon , 1954.
• Introduction to the great stage play , 1960.
• Nexus and Motive, a contribution to the theory of drama , 1962.
• Poems , illustrated by Rudolf Koch , 1965.
• Companions and faces , poems, illustrated by Hanna Nagel , 1967.
• One to the other , narrative, 1974.
• The guests of Dödeshamn , short story, 1974.
• Abgesang , volume of poetry, illustrated by Rudolf Koch, 1980.

literature

• Luitgard Camerer : Bite, Adolf . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 49 .
• Paul-Otto Gutmann: Beiß, Adolf . In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 19-20 .
• Kurt Hoffmeister : Braunschweig writers. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature. Self-published by Kurt Hoffmeister, Braunschweig 2003, DNB 968395368 , p. 179f.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kurt Hoffmeister: Braunschweigs literati. 140 author portraits. A slightly different history of literature. Braunschweig 2003, p. 179.
2. ↑ entry Beiss, Adolf . In: Quakers from politics, science and art. 2nd Edition. Claus Bernet, 2008, ISBN 978-3-88309-469-4 .
3. ↑ Braunschweig address book '71 / 72 : Entry Beiss, Adolf, Pensionner, Am Hasselteich 13 .