Ernst Dronke (writer)

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Ernst Dronke

Ernst Andreas Dominicus Dronke (born August 17, 1822 in Koblenz , † November 2, 1891 in Liverpool ) was a writer and publicist . He was a companion of Karl Marx .

Life

Dronke, son of the educator Ernst Friedrich Johann Dronke (1797–1849), received his Abitur at the royal high school in Coblenz and he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Bonn (1839–42), Philipps-Universität in Marburg (1842– 43) and at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin (1843–44). In Bonn he was a member of the Corps Palatia .

After completing his doctorate as a journalist in Berlin, from where he was expelled in 1845 because of the communist tendencies of his work (he had a similar experience in Leipzig). Dronke addressed this type of persecution in several of his police stories . In 1846 he published his most important book, Berlin , which is a social inventory of the big city in the course of early industrialization. The critical view of this book is trained on Bettine von Arnim and Georg Büchner ; it is also directed against the rampant fashion of the mystery novels, in which the "night pages of society" were processed into picturesque feature pages entertainment.

For the publication of Berlin Dronke was sentenced to two years imprisonment for insulting majesty, insulting the Berlin police chief and criticizing the state laws. In the turmoil of the revolution , he fled the Wesel fortress to Brussels. There he made the acquaintance of Friedrich Engels and later Karl Marx. In April 1848 he accompanied him from Paris to Cologne with Friedrich Engels, where he became a member of the editorial team of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung , for which Georg Weerth also worked. He was a member of the Communist League . In 1849 he emigrated to Switzerland and later to England, where he withdrew from politics in 1852. Marx and Engels accused him of petty-bourgeois attitudes, and in exile there was further alienation. Dronke went into business for himself and established himself as an agent for a copper mining company. He never returned to Germany.

Works

  • Poor sinners voices . 12 songs. Altenburg 1846.
  • Police stories . Leipzig 1846. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
  • From the people . Frankfurt a. M. 1846. [1]
  • The May Queen. A folk life on the Rhine . Leipzig 1846.
  • Berlin . 2 vols. Frankfurt a. M. 1846. [2]
  • The trial negotiations against Ernst Dronke before the Zuchtpolizeigericht in Koblenz on April 10th and May 6th, 1847. On the characteristics of the new appearance of a tendency trial and the subjection of a foreigner because of unpunished acts abroad to the penal terms of the Prussian. Laws. Jurany, Leipzig 1847 digitized
  • Police stories . New, ill. Output. Leipzig et al. 1850.
  • The May Queen. A folk life on the Rhine . Leipzig and Meißen 1850 [3]

New editions, which also contain biographical information on Dronke:

  • Berlin , illustrated with 85 contemporary works of art - Ernst Dronke; with a foreword by Hans Christoph Buch, Berlin: AB - Die Andere Bibliothek, 2019, ISBN 978-3-8477-0021-0
  • Berlin . Ed. And with an afterword by Irina Hundt. Berlin 1987.
  • Berlin . Reprint of the first edition. With an afterword by Rainer Nitsche. Darmstadt et al. 1974.
  • Police stories . With an afterword by Erich Edler. Facial pressure. Goettingen 1968.
  • Police stories and the trial against the same before the breed police court in Koblenz (1847) . Ed. And with an afterword by Detlev Wagner. Berlin undated (approx. 1974). ISBN 3-87628-156-3
  • From the people & police stories , edited by Bodo Rollka, Cologne 1981
  • The May Queen , edited by Hartmut Kircher, Cologne 1981

literature

  • W. Kurenbach: Study on Ernst Dronke. In: Archives for the History of Socialism and the Labor Movement ed. by Carl Grünberg Vol. 15, Frankfurt a-M. 1930, pp. 220-237
  • Dronke, Ernst In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginnings to 1945. Monographic and bibliographic descriptions. Leipzig 1964, pp. 151–152
  • Karl Obermann : Dronke, Ernst. In: History of the German labor movement. Biographical Lexicon . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 98-99
  • Hans-Jürgen Singer: Ernst Dronke - Insights into his life and work. Görres, Koblenz 1986
  • Irina Hundt: Ernst Dronke. Writer and communist. In: Men of the Revolution of 1848. Volume II. Ed. By Helmuth Bleiber, Walter Schmidt and Rolf Weber. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987, pp. 85-114
  • Alphonso Frost jr .: Ernst Dronke - His Life and His Works. Peter Lang, Bern / New York / Frankfurt / Paris 1989
  • Hans-Jürgen Singer: Ernst Dronke - pre-March literary writer, early socialist, businessman. In: Yearbook for West German State History. 33rd year, p. 439 ff., Koblenz 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Irena Hundt, p. 86.
  2. ↑ Palatia. 150 years Corps Palatia Bonn 1838-1988 , Bonn 1988, pp. 27 and 70.
personal data
SURNAME Dronke, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dronke, Ernst Andreas Dominicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1891
Place of death Liverpool