Erich Jansen
Erich Jansen (born October 31, 1897 in Stadtlohn ; † August 28, 1968 there ) was a German pharmacist and writer .
Life
Erich Jansen attended elementary school and rectorate school in his hometown. He took part in the First World War as a soldier . In 1918 he took over his father's pharmacy in Stadtlohn . From the outside, Jansen's further life was largely uneventful. In addition to his professional activity as a pharmacist , he wrote poems and short prose , which only found some recognition in poetry circles (especially through Johannes Bobrowski ) in the 1960s ; however, Jansen's breakthrough as an author was denied during his lifetime.
Erich Jansen's late work (the author himself rejected most of his earlier texts as epigonal ) consists of narrative poems that depict scenes in a language based on romantic models in which fantasy and realism mix in an idiosyncratic way. - In 1965 he received an honorary gift from the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts .
Works
- The green hour. Plants and landscapes . Berlin, Deutscher Apotheker-Verlag 1937.
- Bizarre. Narratives . Hamburg, Govi 1950.
- The gallery . Oberhausen, Storck 1956.
- Michael Orsenev. A legend . Oberhausen, Storck 1956.
- The tortoise shell crest. Pictures from an old diary . Afterword by Fritz Usinger . Oberhausen, Storck 1959.
- From the letters of a king. Poems . Cologne, Kiepenheuer & Witsch 1963.
- The rooms never shown . Hamburg u. Düsseldorf, Claassen 1968. New edition: Aachen, Rimbaud 1987. ISBN 3-89086-904-1 .
- From the letters of a king. Selected poems . Aachen, Rimbaud 2001. ISBN 3-89086-780-4 . ( Not text-identical to the volume of the same name from 1963. )
- Erich Jansen reading book. Edited by Hartmut Vollmer. Cologne, Nyland Foundation books published by Aisthesis Verlag 2008, ISBN 978-3-89528-674-2 .
Translations of Jansen's poems
- Ville oubliée . Translated by Pierre Garnier . Paris, André Silvaire 1974. ( Translations of poems from "From the letters of a king". )
literature
- Osiris. Journal of Literature and Art. 3/4. 1997: "The world knows no poetry." "Erich Jansen" special issue . Edited by Dieter Breuer , compiled by Bernhard Albers , Aachen, Rimbaud 1997. ISBN 3-89086-824-X .
Web links
- Literature by and about Erich Jansen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Erich Jansen in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jansen, Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pharmacist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 31, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | City wages |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1968 |
| Place of death | City wages |