Emanuel of Bodman

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Johann Franz Immanuel August Heinrich Freiherr von und zu Bodman , called Emanuel von Bodman , (born January 23, 1874 in Friedrichshafen , † May 21, 1946 in Gottlieben ) was a German writer and poet.

family

Emanuel von Bodman came from the noble Baden family Bodman ; his parents were the Württemberg officer Franz Freiherr von und zu Bodman (1822-1894) and Luise (Sophie) Witz (1838-1874).

His first wife was Clara Czolbe, whom he married on December 28, 1897. After the divorce of the first marriage in 1902, he was married to Blanche von und zu Bodman, born Freiin von Fabrice , (* 1880 in Ziegelhaus near Lindau , † 1968 in Ludwigshafen on Lake Constance ) until the divorce in 1909 . From 1914 until his death he was married to Clara Herzog (* 1890 in St. Gallen; † 1982 in Gottlieben). His only child, daughter Sophie, who was born in 1904 in marriage to Blanche von Bodman, died in the same year of birth.

Life

Emanuel von Bodman lived in Kreuzlingen as a child and attended grammar school in Constance . After studying in Zurich (enrolled in the summer semester of 1894), Munich, and Berlin, he chose Gottlieben in Switzerland as his adopted home. He initially lived across from Gottlieben Castle in the Tägerwiler municipality , after marrying Clara Herzog he lived in a former trading house on Gottliebener Dorfplatz from 1920 until his death. His house was a meeting place for many artists such as Richard Dehmel , René Schickele , Wilhelm von Scholz , Rainer Maria Rilke , Ludwig Finckh , Ludwig Klages and Hermann Hesse .

Emanuel von Bodman wrote several dramas, short stories and hundreds of poems; After his death, his complete works were published in a ten-volume complete edition. He was seen as a poet, storyteller and playwright in the tradition of neo-romantic and neoclassicism . In 1940 he was honored with the Literature Prize of the City of Zurich.

The Gottliebener Haus is the seat of the Thurgauische Bodman Foundation . In 1999 the first literary house on the lake was housed with a museum.

Works

  • The stranger from Murten , Berlin 1907
  • My fatherland , Mannheim 1914
  • Destiny and Soul , Stuttgart 1918
  • The high rope , Stuttgart 1981
  • Awakening , Stuttgart 2005

Complete works (first edition)

  • Karl Preisendanz (Ed.): The entire works . Reclam, Stuttgart.
    • The wanderer and the path . 1961.
    • The deep well . 1952.
    • Heart of an artist . 1951.
    • Dramas . 1954.
    • Dramas 2. Donatello . 1957.
    • Dramas 3. Hans Waldmann . 1957.
    • Childhood book . 1952.
    • Stories and short stories . 1955.
    • Stories and short stories 2 . 1955.
    • Mixed fonts . 1961.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Württemberg officers 1809-1909" , Institute for German Aristocracy Research
  2. ↑ Bodman worldroots.com ( Memento of October 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Emanuel von Bodman: Let the courageous and good hear from you again soon , letters from and to Emanuel von Bodman, ed .: Walter Rügert and Claudia Black-Rügert, Frauenfeld: Huber-Verlag 2004, p. 21, p. 221
  4. ^ The Book of Kings: The families Quadrangle / New York Times Book Company, 1973.
  5. ↑ Emanuel von Bodman: Let the courageous and good hear from you again soon , letters from and to Emanuel von Bodman, ed .: Walter Rügert and Claudia Black-Rügert, Frauenfeld: Huber-Verlag 2004, p. 21, p. 221
  6. ^ Bodman (Freiherr) Emanuel von , Matriculation Edition of the University of Zurich
  7. ^ "To Emanuel von Bodman" , letter from Rilke to Bodman, August 17, 1901
  8. ^ "Emanuel von Bodman" , Lexicon History Baden + Württemberg
  9. ↑ http://www.bodmanhaus.ch/

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personal data
SURNAME Bodman, Emanuel of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodman, Johann Franz Immanuel August Heinrich Freiherr von und zu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedrichshafen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1946
Place of death Love God