Dr. Owlglass
Dr. Owlglass ( English ; "Eulenspiegel") or Dr. Owlglaß ; actually Hans Erich Blaich (born January 19, 1873 in Leutkirch im Allgäu , † October 29, 1945 in Fürstenfeldbruck ), was a German doctor, writer and poet . He used his pseudonym Ratatöskr for political poetry.
Life
Hans Erich Blaich grew up as the son of mayor Jakob Blaich in Leutkirch in the Allgäu. He studied medicine and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen , Munich and Heidelberg . In 1906 he received his doctorate under Franz Knauff in Heidelberg. After training as a pulmonologist, he practiced in Stuttgart from 1905 and near Munich from 1908 . He wrote poems, reviews and little prose for the magazines Die Gesellschaft , Derreal Jacob , Die Jugend , März and especially for Simplicissimus (from 1897 to 1944), which he later published as books. During the First World War, Blaich was in friendly correspondence with Kurt Tucholsky . From 1912 to 1924 he was an editor at Simplicissimus and later worked on bringing the magazine into line under the National Socialists. At the insistence of the illustrator Karl Arnold , he temporarily took over the editor-in-chief of the magazine (1933-1935), but remained an opponent of National Socialism both personally and literarily. Nine thick diary volumes (July 1, 1911 to October 22, 1945), which are in the Blaich estate in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar, are a source for the history of Simplicissimus that has not yet been evaluated .
Hans Erich Blaich also worked as a translator and editor. Together with Engelbert Hegaur he translated Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais . As the rediscoverer of Sebastian Sailer's work, he got the new edition of his comedies.
Works (selection)
- The sour apple. Simplicissimus poems. Langen, Munich 1904. ( digitized version )
- Owls. Sketches and rhymes. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1917. (2nd, presumably edition 1919)
- The ink pen. Bezner, Heilbronn 1924.
- Allotria. Pechstein, Munich 1927.
- Lights and lights. Müller, Munich 1931.
- Hour after hour. Poems. Laangen / Müller, Munich 1933.
- Small nightmusic. Poems. Piper, Munich 1936.
- Idylls and disasters. Cheerful stories in pictures and verse. (With drawings by Olaf Gulbransson and Jean Effel ). Piper, Munich 1941.
- To put on the bedside table. A small bed postille. (With drawings by Karl Staudinger ) Spemann, Stuttgart 1942.
- And the wheel of time rolls forever. Collected poems. With an afterword ed. by Oskar Jancke. Nymphenburger, Munich 1948.
- The physician and soul doctor Dr. Owlglass recipe book. Rhyming and narrated. Nymphenburger, Munich 1955.
- Stories. Schiller National Museum, Marbach 1957.
- Selected works by the “Simplicissimus” poet Hans Erich Blaich, Dr. Owlglass . With all letters to Kurt Tucholsky . Edited by Volker Hoffmann. Schweier, Kirchheim / Teck 1981. ISBN 3-921829-11-9
literature
- Volker Hoffmann: Dr. Owlglass (pseudonym since 1895, since 1905 also Ratatöskr, actually Hans Erich Blaich). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 731 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Angelika Mundorff: Hans Erich Blaich alias Dr. Owlglass alias Ratatöskr . In: Angelika Mundorff, Eva von Seckendorff (Hrsg.): Fürstenfeldbruck - literary . Allitera, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-86520-054-0 , pp. 88-94.
Web links
- Literature by and about Dr. Owlglass in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Herbst: Profiled. To the Marbach Tucholsky exhibition. In: Karl H. Pressler (Ed.): From the Antiquariat. Volume 8, 1990 (= Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel - Frankfurter Ausgabe. No. 70, August 31, 1990), pp. A 334 - A 340, here: p. A 335.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dr. Owlglass |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blaich, Hans Erich (real name); Ratatöskr (pseudonym) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German doctor, writer and poet |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1873 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leutkirch in the Allgäu |
DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1945 |
Place of death | Fürstenfeldbruck |