Alfred chest
Alfred Brust (born June 15, 1891 in Insterburg , † September 18, 1934 in Königsberg ) was a German writer .
Life
Breast wrote dramas, novels and was also active as a poet. His dramatic one-act plays are attributed to literary expressionism, of which the first works created in adolescence were performed by his patron Francesco Sioli . In his prose work he turns to religious topics and deals with the Pruzzen people in his East Prussian homeland. In 1926 his novel The Lost Earth was nominated for the Kleist Prize , which Brust received in 1929. He criticizes civilization with his novel Eisbrand (1933).
During the First World War, Brust met Richard Dehmel , Arnold Zweig , Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Sammy Gronemann , among others, in the censorship department of the Commander-in-Chief . The encounter with Jewish life at this time had a lasting impact on his work, as did his friendship with Peter Gast before the World War, and through him the work of Friedrich Nietzsche was conveyed . Breast belonged for a short time and as a marginal figure to the expressionist architectural association Glass Chain around Bruno Taut .
After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , in October 1933, together with 87 other writers, Brust signed a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . While the National Socialists initially welcomed his down-to-earth attitude, they soon described his work as decadent and banned his work from the repertoire and the book market.
His written estate, which was in Königsberg in 1945, has not been preserved. A collection of letters and documents subsequently created by his son Cornelius is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .
Works
- Games. Dramas. 1920.
- Tolkening. Trilogy of drama. 1921-1923.
- Self-image. autobiographical. 1923.
- Sky roads. Stories. 1923.
- The lost earth. Novel. 1926.
- Cordatus. A dramatic commitment. 1927
- Jutt and Jula. Narrative. 1928.
- I am. Poems. 1929.
- Festive marriage. Novel. 1930.
- The Dunnersholm Smile. Stories. 1931.
- Eisbrand - The children of omnipotence. Novel. 1933.
literature
- Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures . First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .
- Helmut Motekat: Breast, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 690 ( digitized version ).
- Horst Denkler (Ed.): Alfred Brust. Dramas 1917–1924. Munich 1971
- Kurt Fischer: Alfred Brust, the lover. In: Die Horen. No. 4, 1928, pp. 1073-1081.
- Manfred Gehrke: Withdrawal from external reality using the example of Alfred Brust. In: Problems of the Constitution of Expressionism. Frankfurt am Main 1990, pp. 228-235.
- Henry Kuritz: Alfred breast - a monographic study. Master's thesis at the Institute for German Studies at the TU Dresden, 1998. (fee required)
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfred Brust in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Alfred Brust in the Gutenberg-DE project
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: Kulturlexikon. P. 85.
- ↑ Horst Denkler: Epilogue to the 1971 Drama Edition, p. 299.
- ↑ Forerunner: The Eternal Man. Drama in Christo from 1919. His pseudonym "Cor" in the group Gläsernekette 1920 was derived from Cordatus , cf. also the first name of his son. Cordatus appeared in the Horen-Verlag of the National Socialist Hanns Martin Elster , in whose magazine Horen he also published.
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SURNAME | Chest, Alfred |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breast, Alfred Friedrich |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1891 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Insterburg |
DATE OF DEATH | September 18, 1934 |
Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) |