Eberhard Meckel

Eberhard Meckel (born March 22, 1907 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 7, 1969 there ) was a German writer and critic . He wrote under the pseudonym Peter Sixt.

Life

Eberhard Meckel, son of the architect Carl Anton Meckel , completed his high school time at the boarding school in Ettenheim and the Kepler high school in Freiburg im Breisgau. After graduating from high school in 1926, he began a commercial apprenticeship in Bremen, which he broke off very quickly. He graduated begun the same year studied art history and philosophy in Munich, Berlin and Freiburg in 1930 with the promotion of Dr. phil. on the writer Wolfgang Robert Griepenkerl at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg . After moving to the artists' colony on Laubenheimer Platz in Berlin in 1931, he married Dr. Annemarie Pietzker.

Afterwards, Meckel worked as a freelance writer, radio play author, critic and editor in Berlin until the end of World War II . His main areas of work were poems, short stories and novels. He worked in the literary magazine Die Kolonne , edited the literary world in succession to Willy Haas and became a PEN member in 1933 .

In 1940, Meckel was called up for military service. After he was wounded on the island of Elba in 1944 , he was taken prisoner in Algeria . From this he returned to Freiburg in 1947, to the Baden-Alemannic region, where many of his stories are also set. In the later years of his life, he was mainly concerned with the person and work of Johann Peter Hebel . In 1957, in his speech "Outline of a new lever image" for the "treasure chest", an annual event in Lörrach in honor of Hebels, Meckel pleaded for Johann Peter Hebel to be seen as a poet and at the same time as a theologian and thus the predominant separation between the two areas overcome. In 1966 he received the Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize of the state of Baden-Württemberg .

His son, the writer and graphic artist Christoph Meckel , was very critical of his father's attitude in the Third Reich .

Works (selection)

• The Descendant , Poems (1933, Rabenpresse)
• River trip , poems, Hamburg (1936, Verlag der Blätter für dieichtung)
• Through the years , poems, Leipzig (1939, Insel-Verlag)
• Reunion with the youth , stories, Stuttgart (1940, Cotta-Verlag)
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . Biography, Stuttgart (1941, Cotta-Verlag)
• The woman in the bell . Strange Tales, Strasbourg (1943, Hünenburg Verlag)
• Freiburg im Breisgau . Freiburg i. B. (1950, Alber)
• Not spared from dreams , poems & prose, Waldkirch (1987, Waldkircher Verlag).
• Outline of a new lever image . One try. Lörrach: Hebelbund, undated [1957], series of publications by the Hebelbundes Lörrach e. V. No. 6

Web links

• Literature by and about Eberhard Meckel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} hausen-im-wiesental.de: Lever Prize 1966 for Eberhard Meckel , accessed on August 18, 2012.
2. ↑ Walter Killy, Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . KG Saur, Munich, Vol. 7: May – Pleßner , 1998, p. 20.
3. ^ Manfred Bosch: The Johann-Peter-Hebelpreis 1936–1988 . Scheffelbund, Karlsruhe 1988, pp. 222-230.
4. ↑ Lever Prize 1966 for Dr. Eberhard Meckel  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
5. ↑ Christoph Meckel: Suchbild. About my father . Claassen, Düsseldorf 1980; Paperback edition: Fischer TB 5412, Frankfurt am Main 1983, ISBN 3-596-25412-4 .