Bruno Goetz

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Bruno Goetz (born November 6, 1885 in Riga ; † March 19, 1954 in Zurich ) was a Baltic German poet , writer and translator .

Life

Bruno Goetz attended the Alexander Gymnasium in his hometown and studied in Munich and Vienna from 1904 to 1910 , after which he wrote for a few years as a theater critic and columnist for Riga newspapers. From his youth he suffered from melancholy . Because of his melancholy, he consulted Sigmund Freud in order to get the recommendation from him not to conduct psychoanalysis . From Vienna Goetz went to Ascona to the artists' colony Monte Verità , where he stayed until 1909 and belonged to the circle around Johannes Nohl , Erich Mühsam and Lotte Hattemer († April 1906 through suicide ).

He fled Ascona with Carlo Holzer and was then a wandering bohemian until the 1920s , staying in Zurich and Berlin, where he worked as a correspondent for various newspapers. During his wandering years he made acquaintances with Friedrich Glauser and Gusto Gräser . Around 1917/1918 Goetz made friends with the historian and lawyer Heinrich Goesch (1880–1930), with whom he later moved to Berlin. From 1923 he lived as a freelance writer in Überlingen , the last years of his life after 1946 again in Zurich. Under the title Die Kolonie im Tessin , Goetz wrote an appeal in 1931 to found a community that would pursue goals similar to those of the well-known Monte Verità of Ascona. The colony did not come about, but a circle of friends and "ideology" formed around Bruno Goetz, which also included the brothers Friedrich Georg and Ernst Jünger . This so-called "hill circle" of Überlingen is part of the background to Ernst Jünger's sensational novel On the Marble Cliffs from 1939.

Bruno Goetz was married to Elisabeth von Ruckteschell (1886–1963). He had two sisters, Erika Goetz and Margarethe Agnes Binswanger-Goetz, who initially continued his literary legacy and later ceded them to the association of friends around Bruno Goetz . In 1999 he passed responsibility on to the Zurich Central Library.

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Bruno Goetz wrote two novels about his time on Monte Verità. In his first novel Das Reich ohne Raum - consisting mainly of dream scenes - a wanderer in the sacred fool's dress is the protagonist . The traveler and poet Gusto Gräser from Monte Verità can easily be recognized in the hiker who calls young people to succeed him out of civil security . Another stimulus for the dreams was his friend Heinrich Goesch, who had Otto Gross analyze him. Carl Gustav Jung took the work as an opportunity to discuss it in his seminars. His student Marie-Luise von Franz commented on it, chapter by chapter, in a new edition.

In the second novel, The Divine Face , he elevates Lotte Hattemer , a settler from Monte Verità, to the status of a natural saint who is driven to death by the analysts of the colony ( Johannes Nohl and Otto Gross) (Annegret Diethelm and Atillio D'Andrea: The “ New light ”in the Arcegno waterfall. In: Tessiner Zeitung, October 1, 2010, p. 15).

Works

author
  • Crooks and slaves. A play in 4 acts, Weinböhla 1918
  • The realm without space. Novel. Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1919. Extended edition: The realm without space. A chronicle of strange events. New unmutilated edition , Konstanz 1925. New edition with comments by Marie-Louise von Franz : Origo Verlag, Zurich 1962.
  • The last and the first day - Zeitgedichte , Verlag Benz & Gen. Überlingen on Lake Constance 1926
  • The divine face. Novel. 1927.
  • New nobility. Otto Reichl Verlag, Darmstadt, 1929.
  • The wing horse . Poems. Silberburg, Stuttgart 1938.
  • The seven-headed dragon . Novellas . Bühler, Baden-Baden 1948.
  • The point between the eyes . Novellas, Bühler, Baden-Baden 1948.
  • The god and the snake . Ballads . Foreword by Werner Bergengruen . Bellerive, Zurich 1949.
  • Songs of the gods . Poems. Cycle of woodcuts images of gods by Werner Gothein . Origo, Zurich 1952.
  • The potion of life . Seal . With 6 original etchings by ME Houck, limited edition, Chr.Bichsel & Sohn, Zurich 1954
  • The prisoner and the flute player. Schneider, Heidelberg [1960].
  • That's all I have to say about Freud. Memories of Sigmund Freud . Friedenauer Presse , Berlin 1969.
Translations
editor
  • The young Balts. Poems, Charlottenburg 1918
  • Überlinger Almanach , Überlingen 1925

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article Otto Gross
  2. ↑ Friedrich Glauser
  3. ^ Bruno Goetz estate in the Zurich Central Library, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hermann Müller: The Empire and the Dream of Ascona at gusto-graeser.info, accessed on November 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Bruno Goetz: The realm without space. A vision of the archetypes. Commentary MLv Franz . Origo Verlag, Zurich 1962.
  6. ↑ Bruno Goetz: The realm without space . G. Kiepenheuer, 1919.
  7. ↑ The focus of the novel is on the Russian painter Marianne von Werefkin
personal data
SURNAME Goetz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baltic German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1954
Place of death Zurich