The wanderer between both worlds

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The wanderer between the two worlds: A War Experience is an autobiographical novella published by Walter Flex in 1916 that deals with the experiences of the First World War . It is considered the author's main work.

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Der Wanderer was written in 1915 and 1916. Flex dedicated the novella to his comrade- in- arms and friend Ernst Wurche, who fell at Simnen in 1915 , the "ideal of the German volunteer and front-line officer, but also of the new man and leader of the two worlds, earth and heaven, Life and death, equals close ”. Prose and poetry complement each other; the work contains, among other things, the poem wild geese rushing through the night . Due to the sudden death of the author in 1917, "the unity of literature and life seemed to exist", which helped the work to break through.

reception

In the interwar period , Der Wanderer became a bestseller (6th place in German-language literature) and a cult book of the younger generation; later it was taken over by the national socialist ideology . The work had a significant influence on the German youth movements. "In addition to Ernst Jüngers and Erich Maria Remarque's depictions, The Wanderer Between the Two Worlds is still the best known from the First World War - measured against them, the document of a questionable childish idealism." According to Kindler's Literature Lexicon , the book represents an "idealistic distortion and aestheticization of the War ”. Hans Martin Sutermeister was inspired by Flex to write his own autobiographical novella Between Two Worlds (1942), which contains medical reflections on young people from the interwar period.

expenditure

Ernst Wurche

Publishing house CH Beck , Munich

  • The wanderer between both worlds. 1916.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. 1917.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience; with an afterword. 1918. (20th edition)
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. 1921.
  • The wanderer between both worlds. 1924.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. Commemorative edition for the 20th anniversary of Walter Flex's death, 1937.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. 1941.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. 1943 (?).
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. 1960.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. 1966.

Other publishers

  • The wanderer between both worlds. Kröger, Hamburg-Blankenese 1949.
  • The wanderer between both worlds. Krögers Verlags Anstalt, Hamburg-Blankenese 1950.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. El Buen Libro, Buenos Aires ca.1950.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. Edited by Heinz Machschefes, Schöninghs German text editions, Schöningh, Paderborn 1958.
  • The wanderer between the two worlds: a war experience. Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag , Heusenstamm 1977, ISBN 3-87588-098-6 .
  • The wanderer between both worlds. A war experience. (2 editions) Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag, Heusenstamm 1978, ISBN 3-87588-098-6 .
  • The Wanderer Between Both Worlds: Novella. Anniversary edition, Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag, Kiel 1986, ISBN 3-89093-300-9 .
  • The wanderer between both worlds. New edition 1997, Orion-Heimreiter-Verlag, ISBN 3-89093-300-9 .
  • The wanderer between both worlds. New edition with explanations, photos, maps, bge-verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-945432-00-6 .

Translations

  • Le vagabond entre deux mondes. Poème, 1916.
  • Le pèlerin entre deux mondes. (Les Oies sauvages vont vers le Nord.) Le Porte-Glaive, 1996.
  • Vandraren mellan de båda världarna. [Swedish] Bemyndigad översättning från tyskan av Irma Mielck [with a foreword by Konrad Flex and an afterword by Martin Flex]. Söderström & C: o, Helsingfors 1921.
  • El peregrino entre ambos mundos. Translated into Spanish by Otto H. Helbling; reviewed by C. J. Benielli [with a foreword by the editor ("La redacción") and an epilogue by "Walter Flex" (actually by Martin Flex)]. Biblioteca del suboficial, vol. XXIV. Taller Grafico, Buenos Aires 1925.
  • Valters Flekss: Ceļinieks starp abām pasaulēm. Translator / editor [?]: Rasma Grīna, Andrejs Johansons. (Special edition for the 15th Latvian SS Volunteer Division, Division 1.) Kadiļis, Rīgā 1943.
  • Kahden maailman vaeltaja: Sotamuistelma. Translated into Finnish by Markus Lång [with a foreword by Konrad Flex and an afterword by Martin Flex and a biographical essay by Raul Salumäe]. Books on Demand, Helsinki 2013, ISBN 978-952-286-597-7 .
  • Vriend aan het front: Report uit de loopgraven. Translated into Dutch by Sjoerd Bronsgeest [text in German and Dutch, with an afterword by Martin Flex]. Walburg Pers, Zutphen 2013, ISBN 978-90-5730-911-3 .
  • The Wanderer between the Two Worlds: An Experience of War. Translated into English by Brian Murdoch. Rott Publishing, 2014. [Only available as an e-book.]

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Secondary literature

  • Jürgen Reulecke : A young generation in the trenches, "The Wanderer Between Two Worlds" by Walter Flex. In: Dirk van Laak (ed.): Literature that wrote history . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-525-30015-2 .
  • AS Brasch: Walter Flex: The wanderer between both worlds. In: AS Brasch, S. Gebhardt, N. Nethel, N. Winter: The First World War in German Literature: Explanations for the Great Catastrophe of the 20th Century (PDF; 374 kB). Project work. Roskilde Universitetscenter , 2006/2007, pp. 8-11.
  • Johannes Klein : Walter Flex, an interpreter of the world war: A contribution to the literary historical evaluation of German war poetry. NG Elwert, Johnson Reprint Corp., 1929.
  • Lars Koch: The First World War as a medium of counter-modernism : on the works of Walter Flex and Ernst Jünger . In: Epistemata, Series Literaturwissenschaft , Volume 553. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3168-7 .
  • Kurt Kretschmann , Hermann Behrens: Lies and Truth: War experiences of a German soldier. Publishing house for science and research, 2003.
  • K. Eckhard Kuhn-Osius: A conservative picture of the First World War: Walter Flex 'The wanderer between two worlds . Heinrich Mann Yearbook, 1987.
  • Raimund Neuss: Comments on Walter Flex: the "Ideas of 1914" in German literature: a case study. SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1992, ISBN 3-923621-32-9 .
  • Bernd Spiekermann: "Obedience to the divine and defenseless against the human": Religion and nation in the work of Walter Flex. Schüling, Münster 2000, ISBN 3-930962-76-4 .
  • Justus H. Ulbricht: The Myth of Hero's Death. Creation and impact of Walter Flex '"The Wanderer Between Two Worlds". In: Yearbook of the Archives of the German Youth Movement. 1986.
  • Hans Wagener : Wandering Bird and Flaming Angel - Walter Flex: The Wanderer between the Two Worlds. A War Experience (1916) . In: Thomas F. Schneider, Hans Wagener (ed.): Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies, From Richthofen to Remarque: German-language prose for World War I. 2003, pp. 17-30.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Walter Flex: The wanderer between two worlds. A war experience. In: Wolfgang von Einsiedel, Gert Woerner: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon , Volume 7, Kindler Verlag, Munich 1972.
  2. ↑ Hans Wagener : Wandervogel and Flammenengel - Walter Flex: The wanderer between two worlds. A War Experience (1916) . In: Thomas F. Schneider, Hans Wagener (ed.): Amsterdam contributions to recent German studies, From Richthofen to Remarque: German-language prose for World War I. 2003, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Hans Martin Sutermeister: Between two worlds: Novelle. Reprint of the original from 1942, published under the pseudonym Hans Moehrlen . EOD Network / Swiss National Library , 2011, ISBN 978-3-226-00030-6 .

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