Carl Biberfeld

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Carl Biberfeld (born February 5, 1856 in Breslau , † September 18, 1924 in Zuckmantel ) was a German poet , essayist and editor .

Life

Carl Biberfeld came from a Jewish family in Breslau . He learned a commercial profession and worked as a bank clerk.

As early as the mid-1870s, Biberfeld made literary contacts with the Breslau poet school . In 1882 he took over the editing of the monthly papers of the Breslau poet school , in 1883 he was elected chairman. When he passed in 1909, he was offered the honorary chairmanship. From 1908 to 1910 he edited the successor sheet of the association body, which was now entitled The East . Margarete Kiefer-Steffe called him "the soul of the association".

On his initiative, the traveling journeyman craftsman Paul Barsch was invited to Breslau by chairman Theobald Nöthig to read from his poems. Together with Barsch, Biberfeld gave the Brause, du Freiheitssang! in memory of the Wars of Liberation .

In the 1890s he became a member of the finance commission of the Breslauer Schiller Association, which had been a branch of the German Schiller Foundation since 1863 .

Biberfeld was also involved in the Lobe Theater in Breslau , where he worked as a dramaturge and, for example, organized "Silesian historical comedy evenings" in 1896. In 1899 he wrote the prologue to a festival performance of Goethe's Tasso . He also gave celebratory lectures at Eichendorff celebrations and the inauguration of a monument to Gustav Freytag and became a sought-after occasional poet in Breslau.

For the composer Ludwig Heidingsfeld (1854–1921), with whom he had already worked on his comic opera The New Conductor , Biberfeld wrote the texts of the student songs in the successful operetta Alte Burschenherrlichkeit in 1910 .

His wartime glosses from the beginning of the First World War from 1915 were placed on the " List of literature to be segregated " in 1948 by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone .

Awards

In 1878, Biberfeld and Hedwig Nies received an award from the Breslau Poet School for the best epic poem for his manuscript Ella .

Works

  • Poems. Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1882
  • Pallas and Germania. Festival for the 8th General German Gymnastics Festival. Maruschke & Behrend, Breslau 1894
  • That. A festival. Dedicated to the German gymnastics community. A. Graun, Zittau 1895
  • Pictures from the history of the theater in Wroclaw. 1899
  • Two poems for the hundredth anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death. Prologue for the commemoration of the Schiller and Humboldt Association in Breslau. “Honor the women.” A unifying seal on Schiller's female figures. Occasionally depicted with living pictures of the festivities on May 8th and 9th, 1905. Bial, Freund & Co, Breslau 1905
  • A hundred years ago. A dramatic poem from the time of the siege of Wroclaw. GE Bürkner, 1906.
  • The new conductor. Comic opera in three acts by Ludwig Heidingsfeld. Text by Carl Biberfeld and the composer. Seals to the seals to the closed chants by Karl Lentz and by the composer. H. Lau, Danzig 1908
  • Old lad glory. Student operetta in three acts. Music by Ludwig Heidingsfeldt. Text by Carl Biberfeld and the composer. (Textbook.) Ahn, Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig, Paris 1910
  • Text of the chants from "Alte Burschenherrlichkeit." Student operetta in three acts. Music by Ludwig Heidingsfeld. Ahn, Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig, Paris 1910 (Ahn's text library, vol. 143)
    • in it: Swabian dance (women's studies) , Schnittermarsch (elevator of the reapers) - song to the Rhine - serenade (O come quickly, time flies by) - boy waltz - carnival waltz - minuet - expectation (song of Gertrud)
  • (with Fritz Ernst Bettauer ): Seven against one. Festival. Wroclaw 1913
  • Eichendorff's farewell to Vienna. Wroclaw 1913
  • War glosses. Breslau: L. Freund, 1915 (special print from the Breslauer Morgen-Zeitung )
  • Kaiserlied. Published in the Breslauer Morgen-Zeitung . Music by Benno Pulvermacher, Breslau 1915

Essays (selection)

  • Karl Jaenicke. In: The East. Literary monthly volume 29, N.F. 3 (1903), pp. 162-165.
  • Gustav Freytag. In: The East. Literary monthly volume 33, N. F. 7 (1907), H. 7/8, P. 107-114.
  • From the growing city. In: The Breslauer Revue v. June 18, 1920
  • The first performance of the "Weber" in Breslau. In: Breslauer Theater-Woche vol. 2 (1922), No. 28, p. 35 f.

Editorial activity

  • Autumn leaves. Sketches and celebratory poems for Max Heinzel's 60th birthday. Collected on behalf of the Wroclaw Poetry School. Commissions-Verlag v. J. Max & Co., Breslau 1893
  • Karl Renschild: Colorful butterflies. Fairy tale. With a prologue. G. Wattenbach, Berlin / Leipzig 1894
  • Samuel Meyer: Postponed Poems. Collected and sighted on behalf of his friends. Wroclaw 1897
  • Karl Jaenicke: Poems from the estate. Preuss & Jünger, Breslau 1904
  • Margarete Matthes: Poems. Ed. With foreword, Preuß & Jünger, Breslau 1905.
  • In memory of Johann Christian Günther. Drei Osten -hefte with Günther articles. Hellmann, Glogau 1908 ( Der Osten. Literary monthly of the "Breslauer Dichterschule" vol. 34, no. 1–3)
  • The East. A Silesian anniversary almanac. Hellmann, Jauer 1909 (Appendix 1 to Der Osten. Literary monthly of the "Breslauer Dichterschule")
  • Paul Barsch booklet. Hellmann, Jauer 1909 (special issue Der Osten. Literary monthly of the "Breslauer Dichterschule", vol. 36, no. 4)
  • (with Paul Barsch :) Brause you freedom song! A commemorative book for the centenary of the wars of freedom. Edited by the city of Breslau. Heege, Schweidnitz 1913

literature

  • Margarete Kiefer-Steffe: Carl Biberfeld. For his 60th birthday. In: The East. Literary monthly of the “Breslauer Dichterschule” vol. 42 (1916), February / March, p. 3 ff.
  • The memory of Carl Biberfeld. Freund, Breslau 1924
  • Marie Muthreich: friend among friends. Written to Paul Barsch. Self-published, Neuenrade 1955 Partly digitized as pdf
  • Till van Rahden: Jews and other Breslauers. The relations between Jews, Protestants and Catholics in a major German city from 1860 to 1925. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 111, ISBN 3-525-35732-X (web resource)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Till van Rahden: Jews and other Breslauers. The relations between Jews, Protestants and Catholics in a major German city from 1860 to 1925. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2000, p. 111 (web resource) .
  2. ↑ Cf. Marie Muthreich-Barsch: Friend among friends. Written to Paul Barsch. Self-published, Neuenrade 1955 Partly digitized as pdf .
personal data
SURNAME Biberfeld, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lyric poet, essayist and editor
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH September 18, 1924
Place of death Zuckmantel