Carl FW Behl

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Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Behl (mostly abbreviated as Carl FW Behl or CFW Behl ; born March 3, 1889 in Berlin ; died February 26, 1968 in Munich ) was a German theater critic , literary historian , editor and biographer of Gerhart Hauptmanns , poet , playwright and Lawyer .

Life

After completing his legal training, Behl worked as a public prosecutor in Berlin from 1917 to 1923, then switched to the service of the Foreign Office and until 1929 was a department head of the German-English Mixed Court of Arbitration in Berlin and London , one with the legal processing of compensation obligations in accordance with the Versailles Treaty concerned international arbitration board . After his return to Berlin, Behl took over the management of the test center for garbage and dirty writing in addition to his work as a judge . In 1930 he, who had been enthusiastic about the theater from childhood, joined the department for theater and art matters at the Berlin police headquarters . In 1932 he was transferred because of his liberal outlook and in 1935 he was forced to retire.

From then on, Behl devoted himself to his literary interests. He was co-editor of the Berlin magazine "Der Kritiker" and translated English-language literature. A first study on Gerhart Hauptmann had already appeared in 1913, and in 1941 Peter Suhrkamp entrusted him with the editing of Hauptmann's last-minute works. In 1945 he arranged for the captain's archive to be moved from Agnetendorf in Lower Silesia to Kaibitz Castle in Upper Palatinate .

After the war he returned to the civil service. As early as autumn 1945, the politically unaffected lawyer was appointed head of the Kemnath district court by the Americans and from 1946 to 1954 he was president of the Schweinfurt district court . After 1955 he worked as a theater, art and literary critic in Munich.

The estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach , where Behl is also buried.

Works

  • Gerhart Hauptmann. Borngräber, Berlin 1913.
  • The night of the caliph. Drama. Berlin 1914.
  • The new day. Poems. Berlin 1919.
  • Gerhart Hauptmann bibliography. 2 vols. Berlin 1936 a. 1937.
  • Between morning and evening. A small selection from 3 decades. Poems. Stomps, Berlin 1939.
  • Gerhart Hauptmann's life. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 1942.
  • The small town. A cycle of the year in Sicily. Written in Kemnath (Upper Palatinate) 1945/46. Poems. Franconian Bibliophile Society, Lichtenfels 1949.
  • Whither the way ... poems from 4 decades. Private print, Schweinfurt 1954.
  • Drive through the confusion. A German experience in 1946. Viernheim publishing house, Viernheim 1956.
  • Mainland, wine country. A circle of poems. Illustrations by Wini Kluge. Holzner, Kitzingen 1957.
  • Chronicle of Gerhart Hauptmann's life and work. Complete new version of the chronicle from 1942 continued until Gerhart Hauptmann's death. Bergstadtverlag Korn, Munich 1957; New edition Würzburg 1993.
  • Under the evening star. Poems 1920-1958. Herbert Post Press, Munich 1961.
  • Adonis and Aphrodite. Verses. With 10 woodcuts by Wolfgang Behl. Publishing house Viernheim, Viernheim & Zurich 1961.
  • God salute art! Poems and prose. Leonhardt, Würzburg 1963.
  • Articles, letters, diary notes. Autobiographical and biographical information about Gerhart Hauptmann. Edited by Klaus Hildebrandt. Delp, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-7689-0188-2 .

Editor:

  • Gerhart Hauptmann: The collected work. Dept. 1. Vol. 1–17, S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1942.
  • Ways to Gerhart Hauptmann. Collection of articles. Goslar 1948.
  • Dialogue with Gerhart Hauptmann. Collection of articles. Munich 1949.

literature

  • Elisabeth Willnat: Behl, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm. In: Walther Killy (Ed.): Literaturlexikon . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh & Munich 1988, Vol. 1, p. 401.
  • Jan Bürger: The end of the German power struggle. In: Die Zeit from April 14, 2005, online (Behl's diary from the end of the war in 1945).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Critic. Weekly for politics, art and science. Feith, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1919-1928, ZDB -ID 542575-x .
  2. ^ Behl: Jurist without brown spots , article by Stefan Sauer in Mainpost from May 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Entry in the central database of bequests
personal data
SURNAME Behl, Carl FW
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Behl, Carl Friedrich Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, publicist and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1968
Place of death Munich