Bernt from Heiseler

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Bernt von Heiseler (born June 14, 1907 in Brannenburg , † August 24, 1969 in Vorderleiten near Degerndorf am Inn) was a German writer .

Bernt von Heiseler with his grandson Till

Life

Heiseler was born the son of the poet Henry von Heiseler . He studied in Munich and Tübingen (including Protestant theology ) and then returned to the large farmhouse in Vorderleiten, which his father had bought and expanded, where he lived and worked as a freelance writer, interrupted by a few trips. He married Gertrud Maria Gräfin Resseguier-Miremont, who had a doctorate in German, whom he often jokingly called "the Papist". Since he was childless himself, he adopted his nephew Johannes Henrich von Heiseler (Wanja).

Grave site of the von Heiseler family, St. Margarethen churchyard (Brannenburg)

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was a member of the NSDAP from May 1933 . During the time of National Socialism he wrote various works, such as the book of poems Wandering Hoffen in 1935, the Schill play in 1937 and the collection of essays, Awareness and Statement in 1939 . His tragedy Caesar premiered in 1941 and canceled after the first performance.

In the post-war period he turned to religious topics such as the Book of Hours for Christians (1962) and the collection of poems, Evangelisches Marienlob (1966).

Heiseler was a versatile author and wrote poems, novellas, novels, plays, essays and biographies by Schiller and Kleist and his father (1932). From this he published a complete edition (3 volumes 1937f.) And a selection (1949), and he wrote a little pamphlet about him: Henry von Heiseler. His Path in the Works (1932). He also published the works of Eichendorff , Goethe , Hölderlin , Kleist, Mörike and Stifter at Bertelsmann in Gütersloh. In 1963 his play Till Eulenspiegel and the Truth appeared . He later dedicated this to his grandson Till Nikolaus von Heiseler . His voice can be heard on an Ariola record (1959): Von Heiseler reads his own poems and an excerpt from his novel “Reconciliation”.

He was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt. In 1967 he received the Konrad Adenauer Prize from the Germany Foundation .

His “Haus Vorderleiten” became a cultural focal point: recitations, readings, lectures and concerts took place in the threshing floor that was converted into a hall .

On August 24, 1969, he died unexpectedly of sudden cardiac death. In 1971 his memoirs appeared posthumously under the title Haus Vorderleiten .

Works

  • Soul game (drama, Berlin 1930)
  • The sulfur woods. A Christmas Game (Munich 1931)
  • Henry von Heiseler . His way in the works (Radolfzell 1932)
  • The inn in Prussia. A prelude in 1813 (Munich 1932, ²1936)
  • Kyffhäuserspiel (Munich 1934)
  • Wandering Hope (Poems, Munich 1935)
  • Chess for the soul. A knightly game (Munich 1935, Kassel 1954)
  • The incomprehensible. Stories (Potsdam 1936)
  • Stefan George (Lübeck 1936)
  • The loud secret. Comedy based on Calderon (Munich 1937)
  • Schill. A play (Munich 1937)
  • The king's shadow. Comedy (Munich 1938, Berlin 1942, Braunschweig 1949, Bussum 1956, Kassel 1957)
  • The good world. Roman (Munich 1938, ²1942 and other, Stuttgart 1961 and other)
  • Hunch and statement. Essays (Munich 1939, Gütersloh 1952)
  • Kleist (Stuttgart 1939 and others, Gütersloh 1951)
  • Caesar . Tragedy (Berlin 1940, Munich 1942, Gütersloh 1953)
  • Poems. Small Theater (Munich 1940)
  • Apollonia. Narrative (Munich 1940 and later, Stuttgart 1950 and later, Graz 1954)
  • The man under the stairs. A German Sage (Berlin 1942; Munich 1947, Paderborn 1958 as The Beggar Under the Stairs. A German Sage )
  • Semiramis . Tragedy (Berlin 1943, Bühl 1948)
  • Stories (Munich 1943)
  • Conversations about art (Krefeld 1947)
  • The personal god (Munich 1947)
  • De profundis (Krefeld 1947)
  • The Stephanusspiel (Munich 1948, Freiburg 1949)
  • The word of honor. Story (Düsseldorf 1948)
  • Hohenstaufen trilogy (Bremen 1948, Gütersloh 1958, etc.)
  • Philoctetes. Based on the drama of Sophocles (Munich 1948, Braunschweig 1952, Kassel 1965)
  • About the poet. Age and task (Frankfurt am Main 1949)
  • The Neubeurer Nativity Play (Kassel ²1949, etc.)
  • Mirror in the dark word. Poems (Munich 1949)
  • Vera Holm (Gütersloh 1950)
  • The life of Brigitte Weilmann (story, Gütersloh 1951)
  • Catherine. The word of honor. 2 stories (Gütersloh 1952 and other, Paderborn 1959, Munich 1971)
  • Prayers according to the Psalms (Gütersloh 1953)
  • Reconciliation. Roman (Gütersloh 1953 and others, Neuhausen-Stuttgart 1985)
  • The poet as a comforter. Reflections on the poetic task at this time (Berlin 1954)
  • The bottle with golden juice (Gütersloh 1954)
  • The Haller Play of the Passion (Gütersloh 1954)
  • Days. A memory book (Gütersloh 1954)
  • Allerleirauh. The fairy tales, ballads and narrative poems (Gütersloh 1955, Göttingen 1961)
  • One autumn afternoon (Laienspiel, Kassel 1955)
  • Hour of the Incarnation. A Christmas Contemplation (Stuttgart 1955)
  • Is Trust Still Possible? A Political Christian Primer (Lahr 1956)
  • The day begins at midnight (Gütersloh 1956 u.ö., Wuppertal 1968, ²1990)
  • Helena stays in Troy. Drama by Selahattin Batu. Free re-poetry (Bayreuth 1957)
  • Poems (Gütersloh 1957)
  • The Maltese. A play (Gütersloh 1957)
  • Life paths of the poets. 4 posts (Gütersloh 1958)
  • Philemon, the merry martyr. After the comedy of Jacob Bidermann freely edited (Stuttgart 1958)
  • Sense and absurdity. Novellas (Gütersloh 1958)
  • Schiller (Gütersloh 1959)
  • Two nobles from Verona. Comedy by Shakespeare . Freely edited based on the old translation by Dorothea Tieck (Kassel 1961)
  • Rural Winter Comedy (New York 1961)
  • Seven mirrors (Stuttgart 1962)
  • Book of Hours for Christians (Stuttgart 1962)
  • Till Eulenspiegel and the truth. A picaresque piece (Gütersloh 1963)
  • Journey overseas (Stuttgart 1963)
  • The secret word. Roman (Stuttgart 1964)
  • Fatherland no longer fashion? Eckartschrift issue 16, ÖLM (Vienna 1964)
  • A Protestant praise to Mary (Stuttgart 1966, Eppenhain 2001)
  • Christ and Fatherland (Munich 1967)
  • Life, Time and Fatherland (Stuttgart 1967)
  • The convicted nation. Theses and considerations Eckartschrift No. 26, ÖLM (Vienna 1968)
  • Versailles. Conversation about a strife Eckartschrift Heft 30, ÖLM (Vienna 1969)
  • Vorderleiten House (Stuttgart 1971)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d 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. 230.
personal data
SURNAME Heiseler, Bernt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Brannenburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1969
Place of death Vorderleiten near Degerndorf am Inn