Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz

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Bernhard Petrus Johannes Meyer-Marwitz (born June 24, 1913 in Hamburg ; † May 14, 1982 ibid) was a German publisher and publicist . He published the first works of the writer Wolfgang Borchert and published his complete works in 1949.

Life

Meyer-Marwitz, who had to break off his studies for financial reasons, began his journalistic activity in 1936 as a freelancer for Hamburger Anzeiger , whose features section was headed by Hugo Sieker . He completed his training in 1939 with the qualification asmain editor ”, but in the same year he was excluded from the editorial office by the National Socialist rulers because of “political unreliability” , but was hired again the following year.

He was particularly interested in Low German literature. He belonged to the Association of Low German Hamburg and a group of friends around Sieker, the Low German author Hertha Borchert and the actress Aline Bussmann . In 1935 he wrote the Low German play De swatte Slüs for the Low German Stage , which later became the Ohnsorg Theater . In 1939 he presented the scientific study The Low German Stage Play of the Present . Between 1936 and 1946 he wrote several novels and short stories, which he classified in retrospect as “youth works” and did not have them reprinted after the Second World War .

In 1945 Meyer-Marwitz was again active as a journalist in the Hamburger Nachrichtenblatt of the military government and later in the Hamburger Freie Presse . After the re-establishment of the Low German Association ( Hamburg-Gesellschaft from 1951 ) on his and Paul Neumann's initiative, he became its managing director. In 1946 he founded the Hamburgische Bücherei publishing house , which mainly published works with a north German and maritime focus. After the currency reform , he switched to Hamburg , company publications and publications of the Hamburg Society . He was a consultant in his hometown Hamburg for documentary and cultural films and designed the annotated bibliography Hamburg im Buch , which was completed in 1959 .

In 1945 Meyer-Marwitz met Wolfgang Borchert , who appeared as an actor for the last time at his Janmaaten cabaret event in the harbor , before his serious illness tied him to bed and threw him back to writing. Meyer-Marwitz became Borchert's friend and was one of the close acquaintances to whom the writer read the draft of the drama Outside the Door from his sick bed in the late autumn of 1946 . He organized Borchert's first reading evening and published his collection of poems Laterne, Nacht und Sterne in the Hamburg library at the end of 1946 , as well as the prose collection Die Hundeblume in June 1947 .

After Borchert's death, Meyer-Marwitz agreed with Ernst Rowohlt , the publisher of Borchert's later works, on a joint publication of the complete works, which appeared in 1949 under the imprint of both publishers. While Rowohlt Verlag took over the distribution, Meyer-Marwitz took care of the compilation and, according to Michael Töteberg, an " emphatic afterword". With his classifications of the drama Outside the Door (" This is Borchert's play: Schrei! This is the only way it can be understood and evaluated.") Or the prose text Then there is only one! (“A few days before his death, Borchert raised his voice once more out of this knowledge and fear in a final shrill warning call.”) Meyer-Marwitz determined the public's reception of the writer and his image for decades. Wolfgang Borchert dedicated the prose piece Conversation Above the Roofs to his friend.

Publications

As an author

  • Between two banks. A Hamburg picture of fate . Pröpper, Hamburg 1936.
  • The Low German stage play of the present . Pröpper, Hamburg 1939.
  • Bridge to life . Alster, Wedel 1941.
  • The street of youth . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1946.
  • Men, ships, seas . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1947.
  • Wolfgang Borchert . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1948.
  • Beloved stream . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1949.
  • Cosmopolitan city of Hamburg . Albatros, Hamburg 1954.
  • That's how you live, that's how you love, that's how you laugh at the Alster and Elbe . Albatros, Hamburg 1956.
  • Hamburg's way to the world port . Okis Sattelmair, Hamburg 1960.
  • Mercury, Neptune and Hammonia . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1961.
  • Hamburger. Attempt a topography . Hamburger Journal, Hamburg 1963, with Fritz Kempe .
  • The Hamburg book . Christians, Hamburg 1980.
  • Hamburg circular routes . Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1983.

As editor

  • Hamburg, home on the river . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1946.
  • Under Hamburg's towers . Hamburgische Bücherei, Hamburg 1948.
  • Wolfgang Borchert: The Complete Works . Rowohlt, Hamburg 1949.
  • Big Hamburg mirror . Christians, Hamburg 1978.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Michael Töteberg: Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz , pp. 261–262.
  2. ^ Gordon Burgess: Wolfgang Borchert. I believe in my luck . Structure, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2385-6 , pp. 28-29.
  3. a b Michael Töteberg: Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz , p. 262.
  4. ^ Gordon Burgess: Wolfgang Borchert. I believe in my luck . Structure, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2385-6 , pp. 162-163.
  5. ^ Gordon Burgess: Wolfgang Borchert. I believe in my luck . Structure, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2385-6 , pp. 201-204.
  6. Michael Töteberg: Afterword . In: Wolfgang Borchert: The Complete Works . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 978-3-498-00652-5 , p. 556.
  7. ^ Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz: Afterword . In: Wolfgang Borchert: The Complete Works . Rowohlt, Hamburg 1949, ISBN 3-498-09027-5 , p. 341.
  8. ^ Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz: Afterword . In: Wolfgang Borchert: The Complete Works . Rowohlt, Hamburg 1949, ISBN 3-498-09027-5 , p. 347.
  9. ^ Michael Töteberg: Bernhard Meyer-Marwitz , p. 261.
  10. ^ Claus B. Schröder: Wolfgang Borchert. The most important voice in post-war German literature . Heyne, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-453-02849-X , p. 310.