Bodo Wildberg

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Bodo Wildberg (actually Heinrich Ludwig William Gabriel Dickinson , born August 7, 1862 in Lemberg , † January 31, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German writer and translator.

Life

Bodo Wildberg, son of a wealthy officer who died in the battle of Königgrätz , attended the Vitzthumsche Gymnasium in Dresden and the Theresianum in Vienna . He then studied law in Vienna and philology and philosophy in Prague .

From 1895 to 1907 he was the features editor of the Deutsche Wacht and a writer in Dresden . He wrote regular contributions ("Dresdner Briefe") for Die Gesellschaft . He later moved to Berlin and lived mainly on the considerable fortune that his parents had left him.

His works are essentially fantastic stories that often deal with monomania and instinct confusion. He also translated several short stories by Edgar Allan Poe . According to Robert N. Bloch , Wildberg's work was comparable to the English adventure literature by H. Rider Haggard and John Davies Beresford (1873-1947).

Throughout his life he claimed his real name was Heino von Dickinson-Wildberg and had this name entered in reference works such as Kürscher's German Literature Calendar .

Works

Novels

  • Roller Sahib. An Indian novel , H. Minden Verlag, Dresden 1914
  • Othmar Weber's Escape from India , novel, Hermann Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1918
  • The secret crown , novel, H. Minden Verlag, Dresden 1920

Short stories

  • Tödliche Triebe , E. Pierson's Verlag, Dresden 1894 (contains: Blonder Zauber , Der Sigenstein , The unfree will )
  • Alpine novels. First episode , E. Pierson's Verlag, Dresden and Leipzig 1894 (contains: Stille , Der Alp , Jägerglück )
  • Die Sehnsüchtigen , E. Pierson's Verlag, Dresden 1900 (contains: Citronenfalter , Die Paradiesinsel , Sisters , You shall not kill , Am See , Das gray Thal , Schloss Öd )
  • Dark stories , with a foreword by W. Urban, Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1910 (contains: Vitzliputzli , Der seltsame Fall der Madame Buroff , Dalmanns Haupt , Tante Engeltraut's ghost , The ghostly airship , The flower from the island of Ranvalona )
  • Snakeskin and other strange stories , Richard Tändler Verlag, Berlin 1911 (includes: Eugen The Lion , The Hand of chitin , the air passenger , snakeskin? , The Dogs of Romanowo , Swaps , The Guardian Angel , The Lady with the otter , Hermione Lichtenau , Signe Sakrow , The Blue Stone and the Seal of Fortune , The Lost Stream )
  • Beside the world and other stories , Reclam-Verlag, Leipzig 1911 (contains: Beside the world , beauty , the castellan , the destroyer )
  • The sixth panther and other novels , Hermann Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1912 (contains: facsimile print of a Wildberg letter , the sixth panther: the lady from Ammertal , the host of "black dragons" , the monastery of the great angel , the water castle , the two green diamonds , the comet bird , the great and the bad , an adventure in Bohemia , the sapphire shooter , the snow-white poodle , to the wrong address , Mariken Ahrens )
  • The blue lobster , Hermann Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1917 (contains: The blue lobster , Beware of Anka Nenadowitsch , The giant of Wertach , In the woods besieged , The Königseiland )
  • Novellas from German-Austria , Frankenstein and Wagner Verlag, Leipzig 1920 (contains: The Empire of Simon Tempe , The Wolfhound , The Dungeon , The Eyes in the Wall , The Drawn , Crash , The Life of Kunz Kristaller )
  • The dogs of Romanowo , Georg Müller Verlag, Munich 1927 (contains: the dogs of Romanowo , snakeskin? , The blue stone and the seal of happiness , the lost power , Eugen the lion , Hermione Lichtenau , bridesmaid pm , the white woman from the Rosenburg , The life of the singer Marten , Nights in the Hirschgraben , A Day of Lola Montez , The Gardens of Turlu , The Vase from Shantung , The Gray Hare , The Two Larvae , Adam, the Blacklayer , Spook at Lake Panschakuri , In the Land of Sirens , Lord Fish , The Free Will )

Volumes of poetry

  • On the wave of life , poems, E. Pierson's bookstore, Dresden and Leipzig 1882
  • Chiaroscuro songs , poems, E. Pierson's Verlag Dresden and Leipzig 1897
  • Hours and Stars , Poems, Österreichische Verlagsanstalt, Vienna 1903

Plays (selection)

  • Mirogh's maiden. Sita. Two seals , E. Pierson's Verlag, Dresden 1888
  • Rosa Margarete. Dream fairy tales in 5 pictures , JJ Plaschka Verlag, Vienna 1906
  • Oriental night. Comedy in 3 acts , Lincke Verlag, Dresden 1912

As editor

  • The Dresden Court Theater in the present. Biographies and characteristics , F. Pierson's Verlag, Dresden 1902

Reprints

  • Reversed (1911), in: Robert N. Bloch: Jenseits der Träume. Strange stories from the beginning of the century , Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1990 (Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 1595) pp. 66–72
  • Snakeskin (1911), in: Frank Rainer Scheck: Priest of Death. Morbid stories around 1900 , Blitz Verlag, Windeck 2011, pp. 230–238

literature

  • Rainer Maria Rilke , Ruth Sieber-Rilke (eds.): Complete works: Malte Laurids Brigge; Prose 1906–1929, In: Volume 6 of Complete Works, Rainer Maria Rilke, page 1612, Insel-Verlag, 1966
  • Rein A. Zondergeld, Holger E. Wiedenstried: Lexicon of fantastic literature. Weitbrecht, Stuttgart a. a. 1998, p. 369
  • Keyword: Bodo Wildberg, in: Robert N. Bloch (ed.): Beyond the dreams. Strange stories from the beginning of the century . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt a. M. 1990, p. 198
  • Keyword: Bodo Wildberg, in: Frank Rainer Scheck (ed.): Priest of Death. Morbid stories around 1900 . Blitz, Windeck 2011, pp. 313/314

Web links

Wikisource: Bodo Wildberg  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Robert N. Bloch. Bodo Wildberg , in: Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Utopisch-Phantatische Literatur, Corian-Verlag, Meitingen, 45th supplement, 1995
personal data
SURNAME Wildberg, Bodo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dickinson, Heinrich Ludwig William Gabriel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Lviv
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 1942
Place of death Berlin