Bremen in literature

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The Hanseatic city of Bremen is the setting for many literary works in the form of stories, novels, fairy tales, poems and biographical evidence. The following selection includes works in which the city of Bremen is the theme or location.

Bio-bibliographical representations

Literature about people and Bremen

  • Johann-Günther König : Bremen in the mirror of literature: A manual and reading book . Schünemann, Bremen 1991.
  • Johann-Günther König: Bremen. Literary walks , Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2000.
  • Erwin Miedtke: Bremen in crime literature. Bremen City Library, Bremen 2009.

Novels and short stories

in alphabetical order

  • Yves Bertho: I was Pierre, Peter, Pjotr . Bremen, Verlag Klaus Kellner 2016, ISBN 978-3-95651-079-3 (German translation by Ingrid )
  • Yves Bertho: Ingrid . Paris, Editions Gallimard 1976; ISBN 978-2-07-029520-3
  • Otto Julius Bierbaum : Prince Cuckoo. Life, deeds, opinions and journey to hell of a voluptuous man , 3 volumes, Munich 1906/07, also reissued as a paperback: Droemer / Knaur: Munich 1981. Cf. Reallexikon der Deutschen Literaturwissenschaft. 2nd edition 1955–1965. P. 382 (key novel on the person of the Bremen literary man Alfred Walter Heymel and his circle around Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Hugo von Hofmannsthal and others)
  • Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe , 1719. The English hero is said to have been born in Bremen in 1632.
  • Georg Droste : Aft Diek. Serious and cheerful pictures of the old Osterdeich . 1908.
  • Georg Droste: För de Fierstunnen, Döntjes and Vertellsels ut Old Bremen. 1910.
  • Georg Droste Ottjen Alldag un his caper pranks. A plattdütsch Kinnerleben on the waterfront. 1913.
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag un sien Lehrtied. Een Vertellsel ut 'n Bremer Koopmanneben. 1915.
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag un sien Moorhex. Een Vertellsel ut 'n Kinner- un Leefsleben.
  • Georg Droste: Old Bremen mad and smuggled stories and anner funny vertellsels. 1932.
  • Georg Droste: Ottjen Alldag. Complete edition. Three volumes in one volume. Schünemann, Bremen 1977, ISBN 3-7961-1511-X .
  • Georg Droste: Aft Diek. Serious and cheerful things from the old Osterdeich . From the youth of a Bremen boy. Melchers, Bremen 1908.
Ulenspiegel sows stones
A market woman smashes her jugs, stamp design by Holger Börnsen
  • Eulenspiegelbuch , a Middle Low German folk book ; Some of the stories are set in Bremen:
    • "The 70th Histori says how Ulenspiegel in Bremen buys milk from the country women and puts them together". Then the market women scrambled for the milk from the big "tub" .
    • “The 72nd Histori says how Ulenspiegel in Bremen presses his guests with the roast and the obstacle that nobody wants to eat.” The guests refused to eat a roast that was drizzled with butter, which Till Eulenspiegel had previously put on his backside had stuck.
    • “The 73rd Histori says how Ulenspiegel saw stone in a town in Saxony. That's why he was spoken to and he replied, he saws Schälck. ”The city“ zu der Weßer ”is supposed to mean Bremen and the place“ for the town hall ”is then the Bremen market square , where Eulenspiegel sows“ little Steinlin ”from which fools should grow. He had to clear away the stones, but maybe some Steinlin were left lying around and Bremen fools grew out of them?
    • "The 87th Histori says, as Ulenspiegel does, that a woman broke all her pots on the Marckt in Bremen." With that he won a bet with the Bremen bishop, who did not believe that a market woman would smash her clay jugs.
  • Emil Felden : The Quellenhof . Frieten-Verlag, Bremen 1926.
  • Wilhelm Hauff : Fantasies in the Bremen Ratskeller, an autumn present for friends of wine . 1827.
  • Manfred Hausmann : The encounter. Before the Weser. Stories, 1936.
  • Manfred Hausmann: Farewell to youth , later farewell to the dream of youth . 1937.
  • Manfred Hausmann: Years of Life. 1938.
  • Manfred Hausmann: Abel with the harmonica . S. Fischer, Berlin 1932.
  • Philipp Kniest: On board and on the beach. Stories and pictures from trade and sea life , Concordia, Berlin 1898.
  • Philipp Kniest: From the good old days. New stories and pictures from the water's edge . Concordia, Berlin 1903.
  • Philipp Kniest: From the water's edge. Sketches from the life of a boatman . Roussel, Bremen 1884.
  • Friedo Lampe : Am Rande der Nacht , In: Das Gesamtwerk , Reinbek 1986. First published in 1933, immediately confiscated by the Nazis, the story takes place around 1930 in the Bremen harbor district.
  • Rudolf Lorenzen : Anything but a hero , first edition: Ullstein, Berlin 1959; edit again Paperback edition: Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1982; New edition: Schöffling, Frankfurt am Main 2002; Licensed edition: Gutenberg Book Guild, Frankfurt am Main 2002.; Paperback edition: Piper, Munich et al. 2004; New edition with a new afterword: Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89561-145-2 .- Society novel by the Bremen-born author about the fictional biography of a Bremen man between the Nazi era and the economic miracle.
  • Anna Mercator: First class merchants . Novel from today's Bremen, Haas, Mannheim 1908.
  • Theodor Plievier : A German Novelle , Weimar: Kiepenheuer, 1947; Bremen: Hertz, 1949. The life story of a fictional Bremen resident between 1918 and 1945, largely in the form of a breathlessly excited monologue, with numerous critical references to people and circumstances in Bremen.
  • Mario Puzo (known from The Godfather ): The Dark Arena . Heinemann, London 1973. Synopsis: Bremen under American occupation, including the black market trade.
  • Mario Puzo : The dark arena . Numerous German-language editions, including:
  • Sven Regener :
  • Alma Rogge
  • Wilhelm Scharrelmann : From home and childhood and happy times: Stories from the city of Bremen . Janssen, Hamburg 1903.
  • Wilhelm Scharrelmann: Stories from the Pickbalge , short stories. Fleischel, Berlin 1916.
  • Wilhelm Scharrelmann: Grandmother's House and Other Stories , 1913.
  • Wilhelm Scharrelmann: Around Sankt Annen , stories. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1919.
  • Wilhelm Scharrelmann: Snidder Weckstroh and anner Pickelbalgen stories . Wismar 1928.
  • Heinrich Schmidt-Barrien
  • Rudolf Alexander Schröder : Our old house . 1951; Youth memories of their parents' house on the Contrescarpe.
  • Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt (1846–1920): The old Smidt and his old Bremen. A memory book from his granddaughter. Leuwer, Bremen 1913.
  • Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt: Mayor Johann Smidt, the life picture of a Hanseatic. A memory book. Leuwer, Bremen 1914.
    • The angel's cradle . Communicated to the citizens of Bremen from the written Chronica of D. Bernardus Fabritius . Reissner, Dresden 1911. Synopsis: Bremen at the time of the Reformation .
  • Georges Simenon : Maigret and the Hanged Man from Saint-Pholien , 1931 (German: 1934, 1966, 1981, 2008)
  • Peter Weiss : The Aesthetics of Resistance , three-volume edition in one volume, Frankfurt am Main 1983, vol. 1, p. 99 ff. (On this: Peter Kuckuck: Die Bremer Räterepublik in the "Aesthetics of Resistance" by Peter Weiss , in: Labor Movement and Social History, Issue 21/22, December 2008, p. 7 ff.).

Fairy tales and legends

  • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm : The Bremen Town Musicians . In Children's and Household Tales ( Grimm's Fairy Tales ), 2nd edition, Volume 1, KHM 27a, 1819.
  • Peuckert, Will-Erich: Bremen legends. Verlag Otto Schwartz & Co., Göttingen 1961.
  • Wagenfeld, Friedrich. Bremen folk tales. Newly edited by Bernd Ulrich Hucker. Edition Temmen, Bremen 1996.

Poems

  • Joachim Ringelnatz 1924: “Bremen - I don't count anything here, and I would like something to count, because this city is real, and real is rare. The city is rich. And their skin is beautiful. Somebody tell me: What spirit built The Sankt Ansgari Church here? ... "
  • Heinrich Heine 1825 to 1826 in The North Sea in the second cycle (from works in one volume; Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1956, ISBN 3-455-03110-2 ): “In the port - happy the man who has reached the port, and The sea and the storms left behind, and now you can sit warm and calm in the good Ratskeller in Bremen ... "
  • Heinrich Heine: In: Book of songs . Poem for the rosé wine in the Ratskeller: "... this is the rose of roses ..."
  • Manfred Hausmann : Bremen at night and port city
  • Klaus Groth : Vegesack , Low German poem
  • Bernhardine Schulze-Smidt : Bremen homeland

Collections: Bremen in literature

  • Hans Kasten (ed.): Bremen in the story , Bremen 1946.
  • Hans Kasten (ed.): Bremen in the seal , Bremen 1946.
  • Weser-Kurier : Bremen in literature (episode 1 to 9). In: Kleines Bremer Lexikon , Bremen 1962.

Collections: Bremen authors

in chronological order

  • Bremen texts 3 . Bremen literary - by Bremen authors. 109 contributions by Bremen authors, ed. by Volkert H.-U. Koch with a foreword by Erwin Miedtke. Bremen, Edition Temmen, 2006; ISBN 3-86108-992-0
  • Bremen texts 2 . 137 contributions by Bremen authors on the subjects of love, lust and suffering, ed. by Volkert H.-U. Koch with a foreword by Erwin Miedtke. Bremen, Edition Temmen, 2005, ISBN 3-86108-192-X
  • Bremen texts 1 . 102 contributions by Bremen authors on the topics of water, energy, nature, ed. by Volkert H.-U. Koch with a foreword by Erwin Miedtke. Bremen, Edition Temmen, 2004, ISBN 3-86108-186-5
  • Bremen anthology , ed. by Volkert H.-U. Koch with a foreword by Erwin Miedtke. Bremen, Donat Verlag 2003.
  • Something better than death . 30 criminal declarations of love to Bremen and Bremerhaven ', ed. by Jürgen Alberts . Hillesheim, KBV 2013, ISBN 978-3-942446-78-5 .
  • Literature in Bremen 2008 . Annual gift for members, friends and sponsors. Edited by Inge Buck , Bremen, Bremer Literaturkontor 2008.
  • Christmas stories from Bremen , ed. by Gunel Paulsen. Husum, Husum-Dr.- and Verl.-Ges. 1988, ISBN 3-88042-042-4 .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-774