Adolf Meschendörfer
Adolf Meschendörfer (born May 8, 1877 in Kronstadt , Austria-Hungary , today Romania ; † July 4, 1963 there ) was a Transylvanian-Saxon writer and an important representative of Romanian-German literature .
Through his writing and as editor of the magazine Die Karpathen (1907–1914) he had a decisive influence on Transylvanian-German literature in the 20th century. His novel Leonore (1908) is considered to be the first modern novel in Transylvanian literature, his autumn poem Transylvanian Elegy (1927) was replicated by Transylvanian authors more often than any other German poem. The novel "Die Stadt im Osten" probably gave him that of his hometown leave the most beautiful declaration of love; the novel was awarded the silver medal of the German Academy in 1932.
Between 1926 and 1940 he was rector of the traditional Honterus grammar school . In 1937 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau .
Adolf Meschendörfer was the father of the painter and graphic artist Harald Meschendörfer and the uncle of the publisher Hans Meschendörfer .
Works
- Lectures on culture and art , 1906
- Leonore. Novel of someone who ended up in Transylvania , 1908 (new edition: Traversion, Dietingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-906012-02-5 )
- Transylvanian elegy , 1927
- Poems , 1930
- The City in the East , Roman, 1931
- Dramas , 1931
- The Buffalo Fountain , novel, 1935
- Transylvania, land of blessings , memoirs, prose, poems, 1937
- Stories , 1947
- When the soldiers were still being caught , 1966
- Poems, short stories, dramas, essays , 1978
literature
- Edith Konradt: Limits of an island literature. Art and home in the work of Adolf Menschendörfer (1877-1963). Frankfurt am Main u. a .: Lang 1987. (= European university publications; series 1, German language and literature; 1029) ISBN 3-8204-1215-8
- Ernst Kulcsar: literature of the astray - literature of the wrong path. Transylvanian-German literature in the middle of the 20th century. An examination of the sociology of literature using the example of Adolf Meschendörfer, Hans Liebhardt and Arnold Hauser. Erlangen-Nuremberg: Univ. Diss. 2001.
- Heinz Schullerus: Adolf Meschendörfer's Transylvanian magazine "Die Karpathen" 1907-1914. Zeulenroda: Sporn 1936.
- Stefan Sienerth : Meschendörfer, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 206 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kulturportal West-Ost - Meschendörfer, Hans , accessed on August 6, 2017
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Meschendörfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Transylvanian elegy
- Adolf Meschendörfer . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- short memorial page with some photos and pictures, some of his better-known book titles and brief biographical information, as well as an audio recording of his "Transylvanian Elegy", spoken by his great-great-grandson
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meschendörfer, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Transylvanian-Saxon writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kronstadt (today Brașov) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th July 1963 |
| Place of death | Brașov |