Albert Sergel

Albert Sergel (born November 4, 1876 in Peine , † June 26, 1946 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Albert Sergel was born in Peine in 1876, but grew up in Hildesheim , where he also attended high school. After completing his Abitur, Sergel studied classical philology and German at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the Georg August University of Göttingen and the University of Greifswald . Then he moved to the University of Rostock , where he in 1907 about Adam Oehlenschläger with the dissertation Oehlenschläger in his personal relations with Goethe, Tieck and Hebbel doctorate . In it he states u. a. Information about the edition and translation history of Oehlenschläger's Correggio is available. In the same year he became a member of the cartel of lyrical authors .

Sergel settled as a freelance writer in Berlin-Halensee in 1908 and was best known for his children's poems. He married Hedwig Havemann, a sister of Hans Havemann . Together with his wife Hedwig, with whom he had several children, he published jointly written nursery rhymes. Your poems were z. B. with compositions by Engelbert Humperdinck under the title Bunte Welt! released. In 1912 Sergel published an anthology of national poems by various poets since the 18th century, which was illustrated by Anton Hoffmann .

During the First World War Sergel was an officer and was wounded as a company commander . After the war he settled in Berlin-Karlshorst .

In 1929 Sergel became a member of the executive board of the lyric authors' cartel and in 1930 a committee member. As a supporter of the National Socialists, he supported the coordination of the association in 1933 . He celebrated the National Socialist seizure of power with the volume of poetry Hitler Spring and became head of the main department or speaker of a department in the newly founded Reich Association of German Writers .

After the end of the Second World War, Sergel was put on the list of those authors in the Soviet zone of occupation , "whose entire production is to be permanently removed".

Publications

• Longing and searching , poems, 1904, 6th edition 1910.
• Beyond the street , poems and moods, 1902. 3rd ed. 1907.
• Marienburg , opera. 1906.
• Oehlenschläger in his relationships with Goethe, Tieck and Hebbel, together with an Oehlenschläger bibliography , dissertation, University of Rostock, 1907.
• Ringelreihen , Kindergedichte, 1907. Illustrated edition udT Dideldumdei , 1910.
• In the home port. A poetry book of love , 1909. 2nd edition 1910.
• Strampelchen , nursery rhymes, with Hedwig Sergel, 1912.
• Iron seeds , war poems, 1914.
• Summer Blessing , Selected Poems, 1919.
• Unterm Holderbusch , Children's Poems, 1922.
• Bell dream , poems, sayings and songs, 1926.
• Güldenkettlein - fifty new children's songs , 1926.
• Hitler Spring - Songs about the Führer , 1933.
• Little Souls, Children's Poems and Flower Faces , 1934.
• Suse suse child , 1937.
• Sergel was co-author of u. a. following picture books: The Pied Piper of Hamelin , Unserm heart love child , Sausewind .

As editor

• You my country. National Poems from Frederick the Great to the Present , 1912.
• Sowing and harvesting. German poetry of our day in self-selection by poets , 1924.
• The Rheingold . A youth care center in pictures and words, issue 1–10.

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th completely revised and greatly increased edition. 6th volume. P. 414.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar : 1943 . P. 1048.
• Stephan Sehlke: Pedagogues - Pastors - Patriots: Biographical handbook on printed matter for children and young people by authors and illustrators from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from the beginnings up to and including 1945 , 2009.
• Bibliographic monthly report on newly published school and university publications , Leipzig, 1908.
• Uwe Japp : The German artist drama: from the Enlightenment to the present , 2004.
• Wolfgang Martens: Commercial lyric: the cartel of lyrical authors 1902–1933 , 1975.

References and comments

1. ^ Directory of the literature to be sorted out, Only for official use !, Magistratsdruckerei, Berlin, February 12, 1946, p. 71.