Erich Sieburg

Erich Sieburg (born March 26, 1878 in Duisburg ; † June 21, 1947 ) was a German writer .

Life

Erich Sieburg was a half-brother of the journalist Friedrich Sieburg . Erich Sieburg spent his childhood in Borken and Münster , where he attended the Paulinum high school . He studied German , history and philosophy at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . In 1903 he earned his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on a drama by Otto Ludwig . After he had passed the state examination in Münster , he completed his probationary period as a teacher from 1906 to 1907 at a secondary school in Aachen . From 1908 to 1942 he worked as a teacher at the municipal high school in Herne . Sieburg was a staunch opponent of the National Socialists and reacted to their seizure of power in 1933 by withdrawing from public life.

In addition to essays on literary studies and theater from the 1920s, Erich Sieburg also wrote novels , short stories and plays .

The prehistory of the tragedy of the Forester by Otto Ludwig , Berlin 1903
Living and dying , Munich 1905
Lost games , Berlin [u. a.] 1906
Delusion and guilt , Strasbourg a.] 1908
People and Drama , Herne 1910
The modernists , Berlin 1912
Old and New Romanticism , Herne 1914
The leaves are falling , Herne 1916
Storm wind , Herne 1918
Voices from the night , Herne 1919
The apple of paradise , Buer iW 1922
The strange face , Essen 1925
On the sense of comedy and other essays on literature and the stage , Herne iW 1927
Ways home , Quakenbrück 1937
City of Childhood , Hattingen-Ruhr 1949
Walk with you , Bochum 1958
The black river , Cologne [u. a.] 1980