Arthur Drey

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Arthur Drey (born 9. September 1890 in Würzburg , died 1. July 1965 in New York City ), was in 1913 in Marburg Dr. jur. PhD and was a German poet, playwright and essayist.

Career

During his studies in Berlin, Drey got to know Kurt Hiller and his new club , through which he came into contact with Georg Heym , Jakob van Hoddis and Ernst Blass and got to know other artists such as Else Lasker-Schüler , who, for example, Tilla Durieux at the event evenings of Clubs, the Neopathetic Cabaret , participated.

Thanks to Hiller's protection, he was able to publish some of his Expressionist poems in the magazines Die Aktion and Der Sturm and in the anthology Der Kondor published in 1912 from 1911 onwards . A pacifist essay appeared in Hiller's yearbook Das Ziel in 1916 . Call to active spirit . Of his two independent publications, the drama , referred to by Drey as a folk game , Die Mordweih of 1919, gained some fame because of its anti-war content. His collection of poems The Infinite Man from the same year was described by Oskar Loerke as a devaluation of Expressionist pathos.

Drey worked as a commercial clerk in Frankfurt am Main and had to emigrate in 1936. He came to the USA via Italy in 1938.

Works

  • The murder consecration. Berlin 1919.
  • The infinite man. Leipzig 1919.

literature

  • Walter Grünzweig: "Teach Me Your Rhythm": The Poetics of German Lyrical Responses to Whitman. In: Ed Folsom, (Ed.), "Walt Whitman: The Centennial Essays". Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994, pp.226-239.
  • Drey, Arthur. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 12-14.

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personal data
SURNAME Drey, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Poet, playwright, essayist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1965
Place of death New York City , USA