Emil Gött

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Emil Gött

Emil Gött (born May 13, 1864 in Jechtingen , † April 13, 1908 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German writer.

Life

Emil Gött graduated from the Lahrer Scheffel-Gymnasium in 1884 . From autumn 1884 he studied linguistics , philosophy and history in Freiburg im Breisgau and in the winter semester 1886/87 and 1887/88 in Berlin . Since 1888 he came out with literary, especially dramatic works. On February 3, 1894, his play "The Adept" was featured in the by a friend, Dr. Gustav Manz, produced the stage version under the title "Forbidden Fruits" premiered with great success in Berlin. In 1894 Gött acquired a small country estate from the proceeds of his writing, "a kingdom of 15 acres" in the Zähringer Leinhalde near Freiburg, which he managed himself until his death; This estate was probably cheap to buy, but not very profitable and repeatedly required large sums of money for maintenance, so that after two years Gött described his "economic, family and personal situation [as] horrible". Despite his lack of personal needs, he found it increasingly difficult to satisfy the demands of his creditors and workers.

His dramatic works, especially “Forbidden Fruits”, were performed many times up to the Second World War , without this fundamentally improving his economic situation. Gött's health and thus his ability to manage the small estate deteriorated more and more in the years before his death in 1908.

Gött was friends with the poet Emil Strauss . In his novel Das Riesenspielzeug ( 1935 ), he reports on hikes with Gött and on farm work together. In addition, from 1892 Gött wrote aphorisms , and continued to write poems and sayings. Emil Gött's estate is in the Freiburg University Library . In 1958 the Emil-Gött-Gesellschaft was founded in Freiburg, which is dedicated to the care of his estate and his memory.

He was a member of the Markomannia Freiburg student union (today the Markomanno-Albertia Freiburg gymnastics club in the CC ).

The Freiburg Emil-Gött-Grund- und Hauptschule in the district of Zähringen was named after Emil Gött , as was the Emil-Gött-Brunnen in his place of birth Jechtingen.

Streets have been named in numerous municipalities and cities, such as B. the Emil-Gött-Strasse in Karlsruhe and Freiburg and the Emil-Gött-Weg in Emmendingen . The surgery professor and popular medicine author Hans Killian prefers many of his dramatic experience reports with wisdom from Emil Gött. Gött and Emil Strauss were already frequent guests of Hans Killian's father Gustav Killian . At the time of his comedy Die Mauserung , Gött had lived for about a year with the Killians, whose house served as the “cultural center of Freiburg”.

Works (selection)

  • Collected works , 2nd, increased edition, Hünenburg-Verlag, Strasbourg 1943.
  • Diaries and letters , 2nd, increased edition, Hünenburg-Verlag, Strasbourg 1943.

literature

  • o. V. [Roman Woerner]: Biographical introduction , in: ders. (Ed.): Emil Götts Gesammelte Werke , Vol. 1, Beck, Munich 1921, p. V-CX.
  • Wolfgang Bühler: Emil Götts image of man and worldview . Dissertation University of Freiburg i. Br. 1951.
  • Wilhelm Zentner:  Gött, Emil Servatius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 577 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Volker Schupp : Emil Gött. Documents and representations on life, poetry and early life . Edited by the City of Freiburg Cultural Office, Freiburg 1992.
  • Wolfgang Knauft: Emil Gött - poetry and thinking, life and suffering of an extraordinary person . Echo-Verlag, Freiburg 2006.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biographical Introduction, Collected Works Volume 1, 4th edition, Munich: Beck, S. XLIII
  2. ^ Alfred Biehler: The father: sculptor Gustav Adolf Knittel in: Heinz Spath: sculptor Hugo Knittel , approx. 1956
  3. Max Mechow: Renowned CCER . In: Historia Academica Volume 8/9, pp. 70-72.
  4. for example "The bad is the sleep of the good, the devil the night of God", Hans Killian: As long as the heart beats . Kindler, Munich 1967, p. 272.
  5. Hans Killian: There is only God behind us. Sub umbra dei. A surgeon remembers. Kindler, Munich 1957; here: Licensed edition as Herder paperback (= Herder library. Volume 279). Herder, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1975, ISBN 3-451-01779-2 , p. 13 f.