Albert Hoefler

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Albert Hoefler (born January 2, 1899 in Echternach (Luxembourg) , † September 28, 1950 ) was a Luxembourg poet, literary critic, journalist and novelist .

life and work

Hoefler came from underprivileged social circles, but was still able to take his Abitur in his hometown. After studying Modern German Philology at the University of Bonn , he worked with occasional jobs for several Obermosel newspapers: Obermosel-Zeitung (today: Lëtzebuerger Journal ), Luxemburger Zeitung , Escher Tageblatt and the Echternacher Anzeiger . In 1927 he started working for the ARBED mine management team in Esch an der Alzette . Friends of his youth gave him the opportunity to write for Les Cahiers luxembourgeois . Through her he also got in contact with left-wing intellectuals. It was during this time that his ultimately unsuccessful attempts, following the example of Norbert Jacques , to found his own Luxembourg writers ' association in the Confederation of Rhenish Poets .

During the Second World War, Hoefler went into hiding in France.

From August 1946 to June 1947 he took part in the Nuremberg Trials as an observer and reporter . He then published a feature section for the Lëtzebuerger Journal under the title Kaleidoscope almost every day until his death . After the war, Hoefler was no longer active as a lyricist. Jeff Schmitz thinks it possible that Hoefler, like Theodor W. Adorno, considered writing poetry after Auschwitz to be barbaric. His flight into exile in France during the war and the resulting increased engagement with French culture could, as a later kaleidoscope suggests, have ruined the usefulness of the poetry "for shaping war and post-war themes".

After visiting the Grevenmacher grape festival, Albert Hoefler drowned between Remich and Stadtbredimus in the Moselle .

Awards

  • 2nd prize of the Concours littéraire "Les Cahiers luxembourgeois" , 1933

Works

  • Rose blossom and sun gold. A book of verses , Luxembourg 1919
  • Nights. Poems , Luxembourg 1923
  • The cathedral , Luxembourg 1927
  • Poet of our country. 1900-1945 , anthology, Luxembourg 1945
  • Landscape in midday , Grevenmacher 1947
  • Finale. Last poems , Luxembourg 1951
  • Novel of a Life (autobiography). Ed. from the Center national de littérature (vol. 20), Mersch 2013, ISBN 978-2-919903-29-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor W. Adorno: Kulturkritik und Gesellschaft (1951). In: Collected Writings. Volume 10.1 Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1977, p. 30
  2. ↑ return to recovery? , in: Lëtzebuerger Journal, September 25, 1950, p. 2
  3. ↑ Jeff Schmitz: Introduction to the novel of a life. P. 9
personal data
SURNAME Hoefler, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg poet, literary critic, journalist and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Echternach (Luxembourg)
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1950
Place of death at Remich