Albert H. Rausch

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Albert Heinrich Rausch (born May 5, 1882 in Friedberg (Hesse) ; † October 11, 1949 in Magreglio on Lake Como , Italy ), pseudonym Henry Benrath , was a German writer .

Life

Rausch was born at 41 Friedberger Kaiserstraße. In his Hessian hometown he attended the Augustinerschule (humanistic high school).

In 1900 he began studying German, Romance languages ​​and history in Giessen, and in 1904 he studied at the Sorbonne , Paris. In 1906 he met Stefan George after the blows caused by the death of his childhood friends , which had a major impact on his writing development. He found his motto "Ne Se Rend" ("Not surrender") in 1907, Luigi Morini designed his personal signet for him: lilies, crown and sword.

Rausch spends the war abroad, most recently in Magreglio, where he intervened to save the population of two villages from destruction by the Nazis and where he stayed until his death on October 11, 1949 .

Act

Rausch's first publications were made in 1907, especially volumes of poetry with classically beautiful poems comparable to Stefan George's work.

This is followed by vivid, dreamlike travel descriptions about Italy, "Southern Journey" as well as novellas and stories with a homoerotic background, such as "Ephebic Trilogy", "Jonathan", "Patroclus", "Fairy Tales Under Palms" and "Eros Anadyomenos"

In 1932 Rausch received the Büchner Prize .

Since 1932, with the publication of the novel "Ball auf Schloß Kobolnow", Rausch wrote under the pseudonym Henry Benrath .

The empress novels "Die Kaiserin Galla Placidia ", "Die Kaiserin Theophano " and "Die Kaiserin Konstanze ", which like his work "Kaiser Otto III. “To empathize with the visions of the early medieval imperial concept in artistic exaggeration and with remarkable stylistic originality and concentration .

Among other things, his work "The Gifts of Love" appears posthumously, which reflects Rausch's ever increasing focus on merging European and Asian culture in his great friendship with the Annamite prince Nju - Yan Tehol.

Friendship, the poet's fixed point, would surely have been the theme of the work “Yves de Lannion”, which was only devised in plans and no longer published.

In honor of Henry Benrath, the former comprehensive school in Friedberg was renamed the Henry Benrath School.

List of works

(chronologically by year of publication):

  1. The dream of loyalty (poems, 1907),
  2. Early verses from the Parke des Eaux-Vives and stanzas from the Villa des Glycines (1907),
  3. The urns of carnations and chrysanthemums and the chants for Cyril and Konradin (1908),
  4. The book for Tristan (sonnets, odes and elegies, Tristan songs, 1909),
  5. The youth of our time (Three Essays, 1910),
  6. Flooding (10 novellas, 1910),
  7. Echoes, inscriptions, messages (poems, 1910),
  8. Platen's intellectual attitude (preface to a new edition of Platen's poems, 1910),
  9. Vigils. Missa Solemnis, Dream of Faithfulness, Tristan (poems, prose, verse, 1911),
  10. The Book of Mourning (Poems, 1911),
  11. Sonnets (The Tuscan Sonnets, The Hessian Sonnets, 1912),
  12. In memoriam. Hymns to the life of the eternal friend Hugo von Stumm (prose, 1912),
  13. Southern Journey (prose, 1914),
  14. Jonathan / Patroclus (novellas, 1916),
  15. The soul of Lorraine (speech, 1918),
  16. Cassiopeia (hymns, elegies, odes, 1919),
  17. The dreams of Siena (novella, 1920),
  18. Golden Oriole or The Secret Joys of Life (satirical novel, 1921),
  19. Ephebic Trilogy (3 stories: The Gate, Intermezzo, The Dreams of Siena, 1924),
  20. Portrait (memorial book for Paul von Salisch, 1924),
  21. Ticino (prose poem, 1925),
  22. Prelude and Fugue (Prose, 1925),
  23. Platen of the Europeans (celebratory speech, 1926),
  24. Roses. (Memento of the Schultheis rose exhibition, 1927),
  25. Eros Anadyomenos (prose, 1927),
  26. Patroclus (novella. Separate edition, 1927),
  27. Chants to Aldo (poems, 1928),
  28. Jonathan (novella. Separate edition, 1928),
  29. The world of the rose (1928),
  30. Fairy tales under palm trees (Yusuf and Abdullah. The story of Prince Alexius, 1928),
  31. The country around Friedberg and Bad Nauheim (essays and poems, 1930),
  32. Ball at Kobolnow Castle (novel, 1931),
  33. Opinions are divided (Kulturpol. Essay, 1933),
  34. Parisian elegy. In memoriam Andreas Walser (prose, 1933),
  35. The mother of wisdom (novel, 1933),
  36. Dorian chant (Three essays, 1933),
  37. Cross and Grail (attempt at an introduction to Otto Rahn : Crusade against the Grail , 1933),
  38. Nine poems from the as yet unpublished Book of Stoa (1933),
  39. The Empress Konstanze (Biogr. Roman, 1934),
  40. On the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet August von Platen (1935),
  41. Stefan George (1935),
  42. Thanks to Apollon (poems from 1902–1920, 1937),
  43. The Empress Galla Placidia (Biogr. Roman, 1937),
  44. World in blue (Articles: Tessin, Gefilde, Apulien , 1938),
  45. Paris (Paris Elegy, Poems to Paris, 1938),
  46. Paris (10 stories, 1938),
  47. The voice of Delphi . Sappho , Platen, George (Articles, 1939),
  48. The Empress Theophano (lecture, 1939),
  49. Carmen Helveticum. To Switzerland (prose, 1939),
  50. Memory of women (poems, 1940),
  51. The Empress Theophano (Biogr. Roman, 1940),
  52. Preparatory work for 'Die Kaiserin Theophano' (1941),
  53. Paris (single edition of the 'Poems to Paris', 1941),
  54. Requiem (In memoriam Andreas Walser, 1941),
  55. Stoa (poems from the years 1921–1933, 1941),
  56. Nirvana (Proverbs, 1942),
  57. Leukas Petrae (Proverbs, 1942),
  58. Biography: A. Hrazky : Henry Benraths Lyrik und Deutungen (Diss., 1943),
  59. Prism (Collected Sayings, 1943),
  60. Thanatos (Three Elegies, 1943),
  61. The Way (autobiography, 1943),
  62. The gong (Six Elegies, 1943),
  63. Infinity (United Edition of Leukas Petrae and Nirwana, 1949),
  64. The emperor Otto III. (Roman, 1951),
  65. The gifts of love (novel, 1952),
  66. Dream of the landscape (essays, 1952),
  67. In the shadow of Notre Dame (Commemorative Book. Paris Elegy, Requiem, Dying Joy, 1952),
  68. Stories from the Mediterranean (Association. Ed. By Patroklos, Jonathan, Märchen unter Palmen, 1952),
  69. Memory of the earth. Mnemosyne (20 elegies, 1953),
  70. Love (poems, 1955).
  71. Siegfried Hagen : Henry Benrath. The poet and his work (1978).
  72. Christian Hartmeier : Albert H. Rausch - Henry Benrath. Forgotten poet? (2000).

literature

  • Carl Enders:  Benrath, Henry. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 54 ( digitized version ).
  • Rolf Italiaander (ed.): Henry Benrath in memoriam. Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1954.
  • Christian Hartmeier (2002): "Albert H. Rausch - Elevation Against the Modern World: A Writer Between Aestheticism and National Socialism". In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 49, pp. 3–140.
  • Christian Hartmeier (2009): 'A song from days of gods weighs me.' - Albert H. Rausch / Henry Benrath (1882–1949) - humanist, cultural critic, sympathizer of the dictatorship. A biographical and historical study. Würzburg: Ergon.
  • Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller (2010): "Rausch, Albert H.". In: The same (ed.). Man for man. Biographical lexicon on the history of love for friends and male-male sexuality in the German-speaking area . Second part of the volume. Berlin: LIT. Pp. 958-960.
  • Karl-Josef Müller (1994): Aristocratic Spirit in National Socialism. Henry Benrath's Empress novels . (Publications by the Research Center for Literary Culture in Upper Hesse in the German Studies Department at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Volume 4). Fernwald: Litblockín.

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