Bernd Isemann

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Berndhard Alfred Isemann called Bernd Isemann (born October 19, 1881 in Schiltigheim , † October 5, 1967 in Gernsbach ) was a German writer .

Life

Bernd Isemann was born in Schiltigheim near Strasbourg in 1881 as the son of the Senate President at the Higher Regional Court of Colmar Valentin Isemann and his wife Marie Clara Natalie Emilie Isemann, née Marquire. After graduating from high school, Bernd Isemann studied old and new languages in Munich , Strasbourg and Heidelberg from 1899 to 1905 . During his time in Strasbourg, he was a member of the artist group The Youngest Alsace (also known as Stürmerkreis ). In 1905 he married the painter Helene Focking (died 1950) and moved from Munich to Schleissheim , to Freisinger Straße 28. Waldemar Bonsels , Isemann's co-publisher at EW Bonsels Verlag in Schwabing, lived with Isemann in his Schleissheim house for two years. From 1915 to 1918 Bernd Isemann worked as a teacher in the Schondorf Landerziehungsheim . In 1918 he became head of the Fecht Institute in Kirchheim unter Teck . The institute was hit by the global economic crisis and had to close. From 1921 to 1938 Bernd Isemann worked as a private teacher and writer in his home in Schleißheim. In 1938 he became a teacher in the Reichersbeuern educational home near Bad Tölz. After the death of his wife in 1950, Isemann stopped teaching, moved back to his home in Schleissheim and devoted himself to writing. In 1967 he moved to his sister in Gernsbach (Baden), who looked after him until his death on October 4, 1967. Bernd Isemann was buried in Gernsbach.

Works (selection)

  • Modern elegies. Poems. 1903
  • Statues of a youth. Poems. 1905
  • Double votes. Poems. 1906
  • The midnight, Christmas game. 1908
  • The musicians bush. 1908
  • In the twilight of love. Novella. 1910
  • The journey around the heart. New poems. 1912
  • Thomas Mann and Death in Venice: A Critical Defense. 1913
  • Lorraine novellas. 1913
  • Mary in the temple. Novellas. 1914
  • Secret letters. Novellas. 1920
  • Jan Philip's legacy. Novel. 1920
  • Nala and Re. An ant friendship. Stuttgart / Heilbronn, Walter Seifert 1920
  • Unwanted. The fate of a child. 1922
  • The leather caps. 1923
  • Timeline. New poems. 1923
  • My garden. A book of joie de vivre and love of nature 1924
  • Homestead in the Vosges. Novel-like stories , Hünenburg-Verlag Strasbourg 1941
  • The harder iron. 1942
  • The tanner's mill. A novel about Goethe. Stuttgart, Hünenburg-Verlag, 1956
  • Heimatgesichte Hünenburg-Verlag, 1961
  • The poetic sacrifice. Poems. Hünenburg-Verlag, 1966

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate 237/1881 at the registry office in Schiltigheim
  2. ^ Note in the margin in his birth certificate
personal data
SURNAME Isemann, Bernd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alfred, Berndhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiltigheim
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1967
Place of death Gernsbach