Carlo Philips

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Karl "Carlo" Philips (born February 5, 1868 in Offenbach am Main , † February 13, 1936 in Verscio ) was a German poet , writer and translator.

Life

Carlo Philips came from a wealthy Dutch merchant family who ran the August Philips & Sons cigar factory in Offenbach. Its founder, grandfather of Carlo Philips, was an uncle of Karl Marx. His father, Max Philips, b. on May 31, 1838 in Aachen, moved to Cologne in 1899 after the company in Offenbach had ceased to exist. His brother Eugen Philips went to Hanau and was president of the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry for several years.

Carlo Philips, baptized Protestant, worked for a while in the family business after graduating from school and moved to Mainz in 1889. His marriage to Maria Anna Steinius divided him with his father, who from then on only paid him a small student change, which was basically only enough for one person. The daughter Ellinor, born in 1893, was married to Hans Henny Jahnn ; her sister Sibylle with his friend Gottlieb Harms. Carlo Philips was married to Elsa Schick for the third time.

From 1893 to 1896 he studied law, cameralistics and political science in Munich and obtained a leaving certificate from the university there. He was responsible as editor and editor of the Südwestdeutsche Rundschau , which was only published in two years ; he gives his place of residence either as Kronberg or Bad Soden. Registered as Studiosus philosophus at the University of Heidelberg since 1903 and based in Heidelberg, he was married to Wilhelmine Sohr for the second time. According to a letter to the Academic Directorate, he had health problems (1903, severe neurasthenia ) and asked for a dispensation.

In a review in the Heidelberger Neue Nachrichten on November 30, 1910, the later publisher Hermann Meister criticized the weak voice - "his organ did not give him the necessary help" - on the occasion of a recitation of the verses by Stefan George . The writer Karl Willy Straub in turn mentions in a review of May 12, 1911 in the Heidelberger Zeitung about another poetry reading by Carlo Philips, that he had translated a Russian novel “not into the worst German”.

Carlo Philips belonged to the circle of friends of Alexander von Bernus , Karl Wolfskehl , Wolfgang Frommel , Oscar AH Schmitz and Max Weber . His relationship with Hans Ehrenberg, in turn, was the decisive factor in Franz Rosenzweig's estrangement from him. In his wedding photo he is standing with his wife behind the bride and groom; the picture is one of the few surviving portraits.

His first works were published by Richard Weissbach's first publishing house , the AO (Alpha to Omega) publishing house in Heidelberg. Richard Weissbach had presented Kurt Hiller with a list of proposals for participation in the Condor , which also includes Carlo Philips' name. Not only Hiller, but also Georg Heym had spoken out vehemently against him as a contributor (as well as against Max Brod, Franz Werfel and Kurt Hiller himself). Attempts at transferring Agamemnon by Aeschylus appeared in the fourth issue of the magazine Die Argonauten , edited by Ernst Blass .

In 1919 Carlo Philips proposed a leading role at the university, which was closed at short notice, but the plan turned out to be a pipe dream. Smaller publications can be found in the 1920s; In 1933, his son-in-law Hans Henny Jahnn arranged the translation of the fifth song of the Odyssey to Fischer-Verlag.

Philips was later based in Verscio near Locarno in Ticino. Throughout his life he wrote his letters in a script that was trained on Stefan George.

Works

  • Poems. AO Verlag, Heidelberg 1911.
  • The five stations of suffering. AO Verlag, Heidelberg, 1911.

Translations

  • Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin : The crypt. Georg Müller, Munich 1910. (The first part of the three-volume moral novel about prostitution).
  • Aeschylus: Prometheus bound. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1913.
  • Aeschylus: The dead sacrifice: the Choephores of Aeschylus. The revolutionary, Mannheim 1919.

literature

  • Wolfgang Frommel: Letters to the parents. Wallstein, Göttingen 1997.
  • Nahum N. Glatzer: Franz Rosenzweig. Hackett, Indianapolis, 1998.
  • Max Weber: Letters , Volume 8.Mohr, Tübingen 2003.
  • Oscar A. Schmitz: Diaries , Volume 1. Structure, Berlin 2006.
  • Hans Henny Jahnn: Love is nonsense. Letters to Ellinor. Hoffmann & Campe, Hamburg 2014.
  • Thomas Hatry: The publishing house Richard Weissbach. Heidelberg, 2016.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ control register 1880-89 of the city archive Offenbach
  2. ↑ HH Jahn, Letters 1st Part No. 538 to Walter Muschg from February 14, 1936
  3. ↑ Memories from OAH Schmitz: Demon World. Georg Müller, Munich 1926. pp. 108f.
  4. ↑ File: Ehrenberg-Hochzeit1913F.jpg
personal data
SURNAME Philips, Carlo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Philips, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1936
Place of death Verscio