Carl Mandelartz

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Carl Mandelartz ( pseudonym : Carl Schanze , born November 5, 1908 in Duisburg , † June 28, 1982 in Kleinenberg , Westphalia ) was a German writer .

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Carl Mandelartz completed music and singing training after attending grammar school ; At times he appeared as a singer and reciter . He studied literature and theater studies , philosophy and art history . From 1932 he worked as a freelance writer and from 1935 as a writer of art reviews for a newspaper in Gotha . Because of "political unreliability" he was released without notice by the National Socialists after just three months. In the years following his release, he published a number of narrative works.

In 1945 Carl Mandelartz was an inmate of a French prisoner of war camp , from which he managed to escape in 1946. He stayed in Lützelbach in the Odenwald for two years before returning to Duisburg in 1948 . There he was part of the staff of the cultural department head. From 1949 he worked as a lecturer in literature and theater studies at the Folkwang School in Essen , and from 1950 he was dramaturge at the Duisburg City Theater . From 1956 to 1970 Mandelartz was cultural advisor at the Duisburger Kupferhütte . In 1972 he taught as a guest lecturer at Saarbrücken University . He spent the last years of his life in the Westphalian town of Kleinenberg .

Carl Mandelartz's literary work includes novels , short stories and plays . He also emerged as a poet , essayist and aphorist .

Hans Peter Keller about Carl Mandelartz: “In all of his productions we see the author in search of the 'Inner Face', sometimes it seems, as in the comedy 'The Supper', that he is looking for the lost face of humanity… And it is precisely the humorous parts - often with ironic, sometimes frivolous overlays - that are dialectical arabesques for an inventory not far from Pascal's realization: 'How hollow is the human heart and full of stench!' however, this insight does not give rise to pessimism, does not lead ... to negation and despair; Carl Mandelartz confirms our experience: The light is measured by the shadow. "

Honors

Publications (selection)

Works

  • Ruhrort . Duisburg 1937
  • The swamp of knowledge . Duisburg 1937
  • Diocletian . Essen 1939
  • Dream vagabond . Berlin 1940
  • The inner face . Berlin 1942
  • Little jester's nest . Gütersloh 1943
  • Cordifer . Düsseldorf 1948
  • Till Eulenspiegel . Ratingen 1950
  • Centaury weed . Basel [u. a.] 1953
  • The supper . Dortmund 1958
  • The west street . Duisburg 1970
  • The sacrifice of Melos . Dortmund 1972
  • Puritans . Duisburg 1975
  • The other Alexius . Duisburg 1977
  • The darkroom . Duisburg 1977
  • 100 years of the Duisburg Symphony Orchestra . Duisburg 1977 (together with Wilm Falcke)
  • Face and mask . Duisburg 1978
  • Faust Variations . Duisburg 1981
  • The pseudo-death dress and other stories . Duisburg 1983

Editing

Translations

  • Robert Bolt : The little fat knight . Düsseldorf 1963 (under the name Carl Schanze)

literature

  • Hugo Ernst Buyer and Horst Wolff (eds.): You write between Moers and Hamm. 43 authors in the Ruhr area . Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal 1974. Pages 120–125.
  • Carl Mandelartz in Seventeen Portraits > Honors
  • Lexicon of Westphalian authors 1750 to 1950 > Weblinks

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Mandelartz in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
  2. ↑ You are writing between Moers and Hamm . P. 121
personal data
SURNAME Mandelartz, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schanze, Carl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1982
Place of death Kleinenberg , Westphalia