Christian Jenssen

Christian Jenssen (born March 2, 1905 in Krefeld ; † August 16, 1996 in Eutin ) was a teacher and freelance writer (narrator, biographer, essayist) and editor.

Act

After studying German and pedagogy, Jenssen worked as an editor, art critic and lecturer in Cologne until 1934. Afterwards Jenssen lived in Eutin as a community college director and freelance writer. There, Jenssen joined the Nazi- dominated Eutiner poet circle and took over for this issue of the almanac Eutin, five volumes have been published by the 1936-1940 total. His writings include biographies about the shipowner Albert Ballin (1929), the president of the National Socialist Chamber of Literature Hans Friedrich Blunck (1935), about the playwright and poet Friedrich Hebbel (1950), books about masters of music (Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert ) as well as life images and life paths of German women.

After the end of the Second World War, Jenssen's writings were German Seal in the Mirror of Literary Stories (together with Hellmuth Langenbucher ; List, Leipzig 1936), German Seal of the Present ( Teubner , Leipzig 1938), Hans Friedrich Blunck (Hanseatische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg 1942) and The German Glocke (Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark, Bayreuth 1942), which he published together with Hans Reyhing , was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

In 1969 Jenssen published an essay about Fritz Reuter in the almanac of the Fritz Reuter Society ("Fritz Reuter as a master of memory poetry"). As the successor to Friedrich Griese , Jenssen was President of the Fritz Reuter Society from 1963 to 1968. Since 1949 he has been a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Awards

Jenssen was a multiple winner of the Friedrich Hebbel Prize (1954, 1955, 1957, 1958).

Works (selection)

Contemporary German poetry , Teubner, Leipzig / Berlin 1936, DNB 574103384 .
Light of love. Lives of German women , Broschek, Hamburg 1938.
This is how the heart speaks. German dialect poems , Bagel, Düsseldorf 1939.
as editor: Fairy tales from Schleswig-Holstein and the Lower Elbe area , Aschendorff, Münster 1958.
Literary journey through Schleswig-Holstein , Boyens, Heide 1974, ISBN 3-8042-0142-3 .
Ostholstein. From Lübeck to Preetz. , Stapp, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-87776-006-6 .
as editor: Fairy tales and legends of people and other wondrous beings in Northern Germany , illustrated by Ingrid M. Schmeck , Christians, Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-7672-0580-7 .
as editor: Writer in Schleswig-Holstein - today , printing and publishing company, Husum 1980, ISBN 3-88042-115-3 .

literature

Märchenspiegel, magazine for international fairy tale research and fairy tale care, Volumes 5–7, Fairy Tale Foundation Walter Kahn , Volkach 1994, p. 58, ISSN 0946-1140 .

Web links

Literature by and about Christian Jenssen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Jenssen, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German educator and freelance writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH	August 16, 1996
Place of death	Eutin

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