Eduard Reinacher

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Eduard Reinacher (born April 5, 1892 in Strasbourg ; † December 16, 1968 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt ) was an Alsatian - German poet , radio play author , narrator and playwright .

Life

Reinacher grew up in Strasbourg in Alsace . After attending high school, he first studied philosophy at the University of Strasbourg , but had to break off due to the outbreak of the First World War . After the war he worked as a journalist , first in Cologne , then Strasbourg, Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance , Aichelberg near Esslingen, Freiburg im Breisgau , and finally permanently in Stuttgart. Since 1923 he was married to the ceramicist Dorkas Reinacher-Härlin , who had met him in Stuttgart in a circle of friends who included Oskar Schlemmer , Paul Hindemith , Franz Frank and other artists of the avant-garde at the time . From 1932 Eduard Reinacher was briefly hired as a dramaturge at WERAG, the forerunner of the WDR .

Works

His literary work is diverse, including As radio plays , ballads , love poems , satires , farces , Totentanz poems , tall tales , tragedies and key novels . Many of the editions are artistically designed. His main profession, however, was poetry. Some poems were set to music by Paul Hindemith. The theme of death is represented several times. The radio poem The Fool with the Hoe is still considered one of the most important experimental achievements in the radio play of the Weimar Republic to this day , less because of its textual quality, but mainly because of the type of acoustic staging by Ernst Hardt .

  • Werewolf (Diary). 1917
  • Robinson (narration). 1920
  • The Wedding of Death (Stories and Verses). 1921
  • The Peasant Wrath (Dramatic Poetry). 1922
  • Tawas . With woodcuts by Benno Eggert . 1922
  • Death dance. A series seal . 1924
  • Alsatian idylls and elegies . 1925
  • Bohème in Kustenz. A strange novel . 1929
  • The fool with the hoe . 1930
  • The leg . 1931
  • The strong Beilstein . 1938
  • The cane: a swank for humanitarian workers . 1958
  • Towards the abyss. Fragments of life memories . 1972
  • Ash Wednesday Parade. Memories from a madhouse . 1973

Honors

literature

  • Manfred Bosch , Norbert Heukäufer (eds.): "Catch up, Europe, silver chips fly!": Eduard Reinacher (1892–1968) - a life in the mirror of work and friendships (replica; 5), Edition Isele, Eggingen 1995, ISBN 3-86142-031-7
  • Norbert Heukäufer: Reinacher, Eduard . In Bernd Ottnad (Hrsg.): Baden-Württembergische Biographien. Volume II . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies Baden-Württemberg. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-17-014117-1 , pp. 364-366
  • Gerhard Reinacher (Hrsg.): Eduard Reinacher: a bibliography of his works (bibliographies on German literature; 4). Olms Verlag, Hildesheim / Zurich / New York 1984, ISBN 3-487-07598-9
  • Heinz Schwitzke : Digression on the history of radio plays . In: Heinz Schwitzke (Ed.): Speak so that I can see you, Volume II. Early radio plays . List, Munich 1962

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personal data
SURNAME Reinacher, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alsaticus (pseudonym); Gardener, Ludwig (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian-German poet, radio play author, narrator and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH 16th December 1968
Place of death Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt