Benno Rüttenauer

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Benno Rüttenauer (born February 2, 1855 in Oberwittstadt ; † November 1, 1940 in Munich ) was a German teacher, writer and translator.

Benno Rüttenauer - bronze bust

Life

Rüttenauer attended the teachers' seminar in Ettlingen, was then a high school teacher and received his doctorate in 1882 at the University of Freiburg i. Br . From 1888 he was a teacher in Mannheim. In 1903 he ended his teaching activity in order to settle in Munich on June 13th as a writer and "private scholar". Here he married Karoline Stahl on February 6, 1904, who came from a well-known Mannheim merchant family. From the marriage the son Ernst Wolfgang (born December 3, 1904) and the daughter Irmgard Maria (born October 31, 1906) emerged. With the renowned writer Gabriele Reuter , Rüttenauer had the daughter Elisabeth Reuter, born in 1897, called Lili, who later married the painter Johannes Maximilian Avenarius . Isabella Rüttenauer is a daughter-in-law of Rüttenauer, Andreas Rüttenauer is a great-grandson.

Benno Rüttenauer's work included essays on art and literature, stories with an autobiographical and local background, historical novels and translations by Honoré de Balzac and Stendhal . Alexander Schmälzle achieved a certain fame - not least because of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 that occurred in it . Here he has processed his own experiences as an 11-year-old boy with the war. Rüttenauer himself, however, resisted classifying Alexander Schmälzle as an autobiography.

Rüttenauer's eventful vita meant that two places now regard him as her son: on the one hand Oberwittstadt as the place of his childhood and youth and later as the setting for literary stories, on the other hand Munich, where he settled down after traveling through France and Italy in 1903 and thus his spent whole second half of life. With the move to Munich he gave up the teaching profession in order to devote himself exclusively to his writing activities. He became an active part of Munich and Schwabing cultural life.

The Diary of a Lady (1907) caused a social scandal and a censorship process. The editor was Benno Rüttenauer. In anticipation of the later attacks, he wrote an apologetic introduction as "a friend".

The crazy stories after Balzac were his greatest success. The work experienced numerous new editions. The latest edition was published in 1987 by Suhrkamp / Insel.

The Munich Literature Archive Monacensia contains letters and manuscripts by Benno Rüttenauer in the Würzburg City Archive.

Honors

  • 1925: Benno Rüttenauer on the 70th birthday of Wilhelm Schäfer
  • 1930: Honorary citizen of Oberwittstadt, Benno-Rüttenauer-Strasse in Oberwittstadt
  • 1930: Festive banquet of the city of Munich in honor of Rüttenauer's 75th birthday
  • 1940: Johann Peter Hebel Prize
  • 1947: Rüttenauerplatz in Munich-Obermenzing.
  • 1975: On the occasion of the 1200th anniversary of Oberwittstadt, Benno Rüttenauer was honored as the town's most famous son.

Works (selection)

author

  • The devil as a bell ringer - Munich: Kösel & Pustet 1933
  • Woman saga, histories and legends - Munich: Georg Müller 1930
  • Alexander Schmälzle - Hamburg: German house library 1930, once. Output
  • The naked emperor - Munich: Georg Müller 1927
  • The God and the Satyr - World Spirit Books 1927
  • The blue stocking at court. A women's mirror from the Rococo Munich: G. Müller, 1925
  • World history in Hinterwinkel Leipzig: Reclam jun. 1925
  • The piper from Niklaushausen - Würzburg: R. Pfeiffer, 1924
  • St. Angelika and her unholy patroness - Freiburg (Baden): W. Heinrich, 1922
  • Pompadour - Munich: Georg Müller, 1921
  • From the landscape of Hinterwinkel - Konstanz: Reuß & Itta, 1920
  • Summer colors - Leipzig: Reclam, 1919
  • Bertrade. The chronicle of the monk from Le Saremon Munich: G. Müller, 1918
  • Count Roger Rabutin - Munich 1914
  • Alexander Schmälzle / Vol. 2 1913
  • Alexander Schmälzle / Vol. 1 1913
  • Am Mägdefelsen - Berlin: Hillger, 1913
  • Tankred - Munich: G. Müller, 1913, 2nd edition.
  • From someone who thought he was the knight Bluebeard - Leipzig: Xenien-Verl., 1913
  • Liselotte's granddaughter - Munich 1912
  • The Cardinal - Munich 1912
  • Princess Jungfrau - Munich 1911
  • Jesus Christ as a moral ideal - Munich-Schwabing 1905 online  - Internet Archive
  • The struggle for style - Strasbourg 1905
  • Larissa, novel by a dancer - Leipzig: Herrmann Seemann successor, 1903
  • Study trips - Strasbourg, 1902
  • Arts and Crafts - Strasbourg 1902
  • The new troubadour - Berlin: Hillger, 1901
  • Walpurgis Nights - Berlin: Hillger, 1900
  • Symbolic art - Strasbourg 1900
  • Two races - Berlin 1898
  • Painter-poets - Strasbourg, 1897
  • The little Bolland or Acta Sanctorum minora. di 20 more pious legends brought into German rhymes by P. Hilarius a la Santa Clara. Berlin, (1896)
  • Events & disputes - Heidelberg 1895
  • Saints - Heidelberg 1895
  • Unmodern stories - Heidelberg 1894
  • Siebenschön - Leipzig 1884
  • On the prehistory of criticalism and idealism - dissertation, Freiburg i. Br. 1882 online  - Internet Archive

Translator, editor, writer of introduction

  • The beautiful Imperia Balzac, Honore´ de. - Berlin-Tempelhof: Enck-Verlag, 1925
  • The succubus Balzac, Honore´ de - Weimar: Reiher-Verlag, 1924
  • The thirty maddened stories, called Contes drolatiques two volumes - Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1911 online edition Piper Munich 1908  - Internet Archive
  • The venial sin Balzac, Honore´ de - Munich-Pullach: P. Stangl [K. Knippe], 1923
  • Rhyming sayings by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - Edited in a synonymous compilation and introduced by Benno Rüttenauer - Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder, 1922
  • Our dear women life in 20 woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer with an introduction by Benno Rüttenauer, Düsseldorf, 1920
  • The memoirs of the Duke of Lauzun Lauzun de Gontaud, Louis Armand- Munich: Georg Müller, 1912
  • Diary of a lady Meinhold, Elfriede - Munich: Piper 1907
  • From Lukas Cranach's woodcuts by Cranach, Lucas - Berlin 1907
  • The Memories of Cardinal Retz Retz, Jean Franc¸ois Paul de Gondi de. - Munich: G. Müller
  • The little Bolland or Acta Sanctorum minora di Twenty more pious legends in courageous and Most edifying German rhymes brought by Father Hilarius à la Santa Clara OQSF Munich 1893

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Benno Rüttenauer's doctoral thesis in the Open Library
  2. ↑ Literature by and about Wolfgang Rüttenauer in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ Gerhard Weiß: Thoughts on Rüttenauer's work
  4. ^ Project historical novel
  5. ^ Literature by and about Benno Rüttenauer in the catalog of the German National Library
  6. ^ Literature by and about Benno Rüttenauer in the catalog of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  7. ↑ Literature by and about Benno Rüttenauer in the HEBIS union catalog
personal data
SURNAME Rüttenauer, Benno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberwittstadt
DATE OF DEATH November 1, 1940
Place of death Munich