Adolf Strodtmann
Adolf Strodtmann (born March 24, 1829 in Flensburg , † March 17, 1879 in Steglitz ) was a German poet , writer and translator .
Live and act
In 1847 Strodtmann came to Kiel as a student at Christian Albrechts University . In the following year he participated in the Schleswig-Holstein survey . He was wounded in one of the first skirmishes and was briefly taken as a Danish prisoner of war .
After his release, Strodtmann continued his studies at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität , where he became a student of Pastor Gottfried Kinkel . In the winter semester of 1848/49 he joined the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn and thus established closer contacts with Kinkel's friend and later liberator Carl Schurz . Strodtmann (supported by Kinkel) was able to compose his “political songs” already during his student days. Strodtmann was suspected of revolutionary activities and relegated because of his “song about winding” . In addition to Schurz, Adolf Strodtmann was one of the last and most intense fighters in speech and writing for the German Revolution of 1848/49 in Bonn.
Like Schurz, Strodtmann went into exile in Paris , where he became friends with Otto Braun . He later went to London . During his time in Great Britain he wrote a first biography of his teacher Kinkel. Strodtmann went to New York City in 1852 and opened a bookstore there. Since he had specialized almost exclusively in German-language political literature, he soon went bankrupt . He earned his living from journalistic reports for various German-language newspapers. During this time he made the acquaintance of Mathilde Franziska Anneke .
Strodtmann moved from New York to Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , where many Germans had emigrated. In addition to his job, he wrote poems in which he T. glorified the ideals of the March Revolution . Strodtmann returned to Germany in 1856 and settled in Hamburg . There he acquired citizenship and now worked almost exclusively as a freelance writer.
At the same time, Strodtmann devoted himself to the detailed study of Heinrich Heine , whose work he published in 21 volumes (plus supplement) from 1861. He was able to supplement this edition of the work with his Heine biography. Strodtmann also made a name for himself as a translator from English, French and Danish.
During the Franco-Prussian War , Strodtmann acted as war correspondent for several large daily newspapers and accompanied the German 3rd Army under the leadership of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm during the entire duration of the war. From his personal experiences and impressions his Pan-Germany into France arose ! . After the war ended, he settled in Steglitz near Berlin, where he died a week before his 50th birthday.
Works
Fiction
- Songs of a prisoner of war on the Dronning Maria. Hofmann & Campe, Hamburg 1848.
- Songs of the night . Bonn 1850.
- Gottfried Kinkel. Truth without poetry. Biographical sketchbook . Hamburg 1850–51 (2 vols.)
- Lothar. Time arabesques. 1853
- Rohana, a love life in the wilderness of Berlin 1872.
- Poems . Second, greatly increased (total) edition. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1870; Leipzig 3rd edition 1880.
- A Song of Songs of Love Hamburg 1858.
- Brutus! are you sleeping? Zeitgedichte Hamburg 1863 Google Books
Non-fiction
- Heinrich Heine's work and striving, shown in his works. Hamburg 1857.
- Heinrich Heine's life and works . Berlin 1867–69 (2 vols .; 3rd edition. 1884)
- "All Germany into France!" War memories. Berlin 1871.
- The spiritual life in Denmark . Berlin 1873.
- Sealing profiles. Literature pictures from the 19th century Stuttgart 1878.
Strodtmann as editor
- The locomotive. New flying leaves from America . Philadelphia 1853–54 (3 vol.)
- Heinrich Heine: Last Poems and Thoughts. First published from the poet's estate. Hamburg 1869.
- Immortellen Heinrich Heine's . Berlin 1870 (2nd edition Hamburg 1871)
- Letters from and to Gottfried August Bürger . Berlin 1874 (4 vol.)
Translations
- Book of songs and ballads by contemporary American and English poets . Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 1862.
- The working-class poetry in France . Hamburg 1863.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : Uncle Tom's Hut , or: Life among the transgressors . Freely edited from English by Adolf Strodtmann. Thomas, Philadelphia 1864.
- Alfred Tennyson's selected seals . Hildburghausen 1868.
- Shelley's seals . 2 vols. Hildburghausen 1867.
- American anthology . Hildburghausen 1870.
- Montesquieu's Persian Letters . Berlin 1866.
- George Eliots Daniel Deronda . Berlin 1876-77
- Georg Brandes ' Main Streams of 19th Century Literature . 4 vols. Berlin 1872–76.
- I. Simes: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing . Berlin 1878.
literature
- Ludwig Julius Fränkel: Strodtmann, Adolf . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 605-611.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 672-674.
- Erika K. Hulpke, Fritz Paul (Ed.): Translators in the field of tension between different languages and literatures. The case of Adolf Strodtmann (1829–1879) . Erich Schmidt, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-503-03087-5 .
- Arno Matschiner: [Article] Adolf Strodtmann . In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon. Vol. 11, p. 264.
Web links
- Literature by and about Adolf Strodtmann in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strodtmann, Adolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strodtmann, Adolph; Strodtmann, Adolf Heinrich; Crepin, Annette (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Writer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1829 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Flensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 17, 1879 |
| Place of death | Berlin-Steglitz |