Alfred Richard Meyer

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Alfred Richard Meyer alias Munkepunke (born August 4, 1882 in Schwerin , † January 9, 1956 in Lübeck ) was a German writer , poet and publisher .

Life

Alfred Richard Meyer graduated from high school in Braunschweig in 1901 . In Marburg and Würzburg he became a member of the Corps Hasso-Nassovia and Nassovia in 1902 .

As "Munkepunke" Meyer cultivated the bohemian way of life . He was a gastrosoph , gourmet and culinary expert on all legible, edible and drinkable pleasures, as well as author and conférencier at the Berlin cabaret Schall und Rauch , poet and especially word acrobat, highly educated bookworm, fan of nude bathing , narrator, antiquarian collector and publisher . As such, he became particularly important as a successful discoverer, editor and promoter of many early Expressionist poets, such as Heinrich Lautensack ( Collected Poems , 1910), Paul Zech ( Waldpastelle , 1910), Gottfried Benn ( Morgue and other poems , 1912), Rudolf Leonhard ( Angelic Stanzas , 1913), Else Lasker-Schüler ( Hebrew Ballads , 1913), Alfred Lichtenstein ( The Twilight , 1913), Ernst Wilhelm Lotz and Yvan Goll ( The Panama Canal , 1914).

As early as 1912 he tried his hand at mediating European modernism in Germany with Marinetti's collection of Futurist Poems ( Marinetti's first and only German translation) and in 1913 with Apollinaire's long poem Zone (the first German translation of Apollinaire). Meyer also published his own work in the expressionist magazine Der Sturm .

After the First World War , Meyers Verlag in Berlin-Wilmersdorf also published the first three volumes of poetry by Joachim Ringelnatz : Turngedichte , followed by Kuttel Daddeldu or the slippery suffering (both in 1920) and the tie-dyed shoemaker's pate from 1921. In the period from 1930 to 1945 was he managing director of the Notgemeinschaft des Deutschen Literatures .

In October 1933 Meyer was one of the 88 writers who signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . In 1934 he was among the founders of the Max Dauthendey Society in Würzburg, along with other writers such as Georg Harro-Schaeff-Scheefen and Adalbert Jakob . From 1935 he headed the student body for poetry in the Reichsschrifttumskammer , since 1936 he was also a consultant for the writers recorded in the Reichsschrifttumskammer, later head of the “Writers Group”. In 1937 he joined the NSDAP .

After his Berlin apartment and library burned down in the last days of World War II , he made his way to Lübeck, where he spent the last years of his life. He was no longer successful with his post-war works.

reception

Heinrich Lautensack wrote about the volume of poetry Nasciturus in 1911: "... this narrow booklet contains a kind of painful life that has been purified by the finest art, that I would like to wish young and old men, young women and women, that they read it and keep it like a small postil."

In the 1921 guide through modern literature , on which u. a. René Schickele collaborated, were described as particularly characteristic of Meyer's work in the volume of poems Das Buch Hymen , the arabesques Würzburg im Taumel and the grotesque Der Barbier von Wilmersdorf .

Frank Wedekind praised Meyer's erotic novella The Aldegrever Girl as a “jewel”.

After the end of the war, Munkepunke's writing Soldiers' Letters from Great Men (1941) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone .

From September to October 2006, a special commemorative exhibition on the subject of Munkepunke took place in the Till Eulenspiegel Museum in Schöppenstedt near Braunschweig on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of the poet and publisher.

Publications

  • Würzburg in a frenzy. Arabesques. AR Meyer Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1911.
  • with George Grosz : Lady Hamilton or Posen Emma or from the maid to beef steak à la Nelson. A travesty that is as novel as it is rocking novelty. Most diligently and meatily illustrated by George Grosz. Berlin: Fritz Gurlitt Verlag (1923).
  • with Arno Holz : Less solemn than essential words on Arno Holz's 60th birthday spoken on April 26, 1923 in the Lessing Museum Berlin. Berlin: Werk-Verlag, 1923
  • The big Munkepunke. Collected works by Alfred Richard Meyer. Cover illustration by G. Walter Rössner. With a silhouette by Erika Plehn. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe, 1924
  • 1000% Jannings from Munkepunke. Hamburg: Prismen-Verlag, 1930
  • The honest German skin. Guys and owls. With drawings by Bruno Skibbe . Berlin: Propylaea, 1939
  • Soldiers' letters from great men . Ed .: Alfred Richard Meyer. Berlin: Verlag Deutsche Buchvertriebs- und Verlags-Gesellschaft, 1942
  • The mouth in the right place. Scholasters, poetasters and prison beards. Nuremberg: JL Schrag-Verlag, 1943
  • Because it is important to live . Lübeck: JM Wildner, 1946
  • The Maer of the Musa Expressionistica. At the same time a little quasi-literary history with over 130 practical examples. The ferry, Düsseldorf-Kaiserwerth 1948.
  • Mr. Munkepunke's punch book . Berlin: Friedenauer Presse, 1964

literature

Web links

Commons : Alfred Richard Meyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 101/701; 142/564.
  2. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 408.
  3. ^ Heinrich Lautensack in German Monday newspaper , January 23, 1911.
  4. ↑ Guide through modern literature, ed. HH Ewers, Globus Verlag, Berlin 1921, p. 120.
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-m.html
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Alfred Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Munkepunke
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH January 9, 1956
Place of death Lübeck