Ernst Klippel

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Ernst Klippel (with all first names Ernst August Josef Klippel , also under the pseudonym Erich Keller ; born April 19, 1872 in Liebau , Silesia , † August 28, 1953 in Berlin ) was a German architect , engineer, orientalist , ethnologist and was known as a writer .

Live and act

Church of the Redeemer around 1900

After visiting Oberreal- u. Building trade school Private lessons in the classical languages Latin and Ancient Greek and studied architecture and antiquity at the Technical University in Munich . Art and archaeological studies in Greece, Asia Minor and Italy followed in 1895.

In early 1896 he joined the team of the Berlin architect and building historian Friedrich Adler in Jerusalem to build the Protestant Church of the Redeemer . Klippel was temporarily in charge of construction there and also worked on the designs for a German colony and a hospice.

In mid-1897 he entered the Egyptian civil service. In the Department of Monument Preservation (Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l'Art Arabe) he led the extensive restoration of the historical fortifications in Old Cairo (including the mosques of Emir-al-Mardani and Sultan Hassan ) and the old Coptic cult buildings in Cairo and Upper Egypt.

During his creative period in Egypt, Klippel lived about 12 km northeast of downtown Cairo in Mataria, the ancient Heliopolis, and was known as a government building inspector and writer. His repeated study trips to the Balkans, Turkey, Syria, Tunisia and in the upper and lower Nile valley brought him deeper insights into the oriental way of thinking and emotional world and prompted him to study Arabic and Islam more seriously. Extended vacation trips made him better acquainted with the art and literature treasures of France, England, Belgium and Holland. The University of Cairo, which was founded as a private university in 1908 and initially had mainly European teachers, enabled him to study French, English and Arabic literature, Semitic philology and history. He recorded his findings in numerous ethnographic essays and sketches. The first articles appeared from 1910.

Ernst Klippel kept the historical register of architects in 1929 as a government building inspector , i.e. a state official in Berlin.

Meeting with Karl May

It is likely that Ernst Klippel, who worked in Cairo, met the writer Karl May there , who was on his journey to the Orient. In any case, Klippel reports on several meetings in April 1899 in May's Hotel Bavaria (Bayrischer Hof) and in a Wilhelm Boehr's inn over a Munich beer. He mentioned these meetings in 1932 - so only 33 years later - in a short article in the journal Die Gartenlaube , which he wrote to Karl May and Ernst Keil. A reminder by Ernst Klippel entitled.

Even Dieter Sudhoff and Hans-Dieter Steinmetz , the authors of the Karl May Chronicle indicate the memory as ausschmückend. Critics consider one detail to be unbelievable: according to Klippel, May told him about an Indian story that he had offered at the age of 16 (1858) in the first and largest illustrated magazine, Die Gartenlaube . Ernst Keil , the founder and publisher, rejected it in an extensive reply. May ironically interpreted this rejection as his first literary success. The experts found the unproven argument between May and Keil in May's work Mein Leben und Streben, published in 1910 (11 years after the Cairo meeting) . Given the enormous time differences (1858 - 1899–1910 - 1932), they consider it understandable that Klippel adopted passages from May for his description instead of letting mistakes creep in from faded memories. Regarding the Indian history itself, it has been said so far: "If not true, well invented".

Publications

  • Hashish and hashmachine . In: Egyptian sketches . OttoDreyer, Berlin 1910 (104 pages, content on website ).
  • Études sur le folklore bédouin de l'Égypte . In: Bulletin de la Société de Géographie de l'Egypte (al-Qāhira) . tape 7 , no. 10 . Impr. Nat., Le Caire 1911 (French, 48 p., Library link ).
  • The Mohammedan pilgrimage . In: Reclams Universum, Moderne Illustrierte Wochenschrift . tape 27 , no. 2 . Reclam, Leipzig 1911, p. 678-682 (5 pp.).
  • On the hyena ride . In: Modern Art (fortnightly illustrated magazine) . tape 26 . Bong, 1912, ISSN  2568-7662 , pp. 165–167 (13 pp., Library link - journal article).
  • Betitkállim bil- ' arabi? (Do you speak Arabic?) . Handbook of the Egyptian-Arabic colloquial language. In: Koch's phrasebook . tape 18 . Koch, Dresden / Leipzig 1913 (96 pages, limited preview in the Google book search - later edition by F. Dümmlers Verlagshandlung, Berlin 1930).
  • My pilgrimage to Mecca . In: Rides and Adventure . tape 3 . Verlag Die Scholle, Leipzig 1924 (63 pages, library entry ).
  • My pilgrimage to Mecca . In: Rides and Adventure . tape 3 . Verlag "Die Scholle", Leipzig 1924 (63 pages, library entry ).
  • Ancient Egypt, from prehistoric times to Alexander the great . Hermann Paetel Verlag , Neu-Finkenburg near Berlin 1924 (149 pages).
  • As a Bedouin to the devil worshipers . Verlag Deutsche Buchwerkstätten, Dresden 1925 (196 pages, later edition published by Oestergaard, Berlin-Schöneberg 1932).
  • Among Druze, Kurds and devil worshipers . In: Paths to Knowledge . tape 58 . Ullstein Verlag , Berlin 1926 (120 pages, library entry - latest edition 2017 by: German National Library, Leipzig / Frankfurt am Main).
  • Walks in the Holy Land, a book of events and experiences . Hochweg Verlag, Berlin 1927 (388 pages).
  • The pharaohs and their wives . In: Customs and morality through the millennia . tape 1 . Ethos-Verlag (Uhland's technical publishing house), Leipzig 1928 (120 pages, latest edition 2001 by: Fischer Verlag, Erlangen).
  • Mohammedan Passion Play in Persia . In: countries, peoples, travel . tape 3 . Atlantis Verlag , Berlin 1930, p. 150–153 (63 pages, library entry ).
  • With Arab Bedouins . Enßlin & Laiblin, Reutlingen 1942 (illustrated by Alfred Zacharias )
  • Karl May and Ernst Keil. A memory from Ernst Klippel . In: Communications from the Karl May Society . tape 126 . Karl May Verlag, Bamberg, Radebeul 2000, p. 61–63 (2 pp., Online version - original title: Karl May and Ernst Keil. A reminder by Ernst Klippel . 1932. First edition: Gartenlaube, In the leftmost column click on page numbers 62 and 63 for the Gartenlaube article and 61 for the Criticism by Joachim Biermann).
  • The white Bedouin, among caravan people and oasis people . Gustav Wenzel & Sohn Verlag, Braunschweig 1940 (248 pages, 3rd edition 1943).
  • Among Senûsy brothers, Druze and devil worshipers, in the saddle to oriental secret sects . Gustav Wenzel & Sohn Verlag, Braunschweig 1942 (226 pages).

Participation in companies and factories

Klippel contributed his specialist knowledge to recognized texts and images by other authors such as B.

  • Alfred Oestergaard: The distant land in the picture . In: Oestergaards Handatlas, map and picture . Illustrated book. Verlag Peter J. Oestergaard, Berlin-Schöneberg 1930 (138 p., 227 copper rotogravure photos on art paper with detailed explanations and information on the respective art pictures by Dr. Gustav Diercks , "Ernst Klippel", Dr. Kohlmann and Dr. Vierath).

as well as editing the Orientalia of the Herder Lexicon

He was a member of the Upper Lusatian Society of Sciences , the Royal Asiatic Society and the Society of Authors in London, the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale in Paris.

The Societé Khédiviale de Geographie in Cairo, of which he was a board member for several years, published his studies on the folklore bédouin de l'Égypte .

literature

  • Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th edition. tape 4 . Leipzig 1913 ( Ernst Klippel Vita until approx. 1913 online ).
  • Ernst Klippel - Cairo . In: The magazine for national and international literature . tape 157-158 , 1909, pp. 78–82 (5 p., Limited preview in the Google book search - further text parts can be reached with a little effort in the snippet view of Google books using specific search terms).

Web links

  • Ulrich Bücholdt: Historical register of architects on the building and architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries for the German-speaking area . Bochum ( mini-information on architect Ernst Klippel [accessed on September 27, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b see lit: Historical register of architects on the building and architectural history of the 19th and 20th centuries ...
  2. ↑ GND entry http://d-nb.info/gnd/117524123
  3. ↑ GND entry http://d-nb.info/gnd/117524131
  4. ↑ a b c d Franz Brümmer: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th edition. tape 4 . Leipzig 1913 ( deutschestextarchiv.de ).
  5. ↑ see article of the same name in the English language Wikipedia.
  6. ↑ a b c Ernst Klippel - Cairo . In: The magazine for national and international literature . Vol. 157-158, 1909, pp. 78-82.
  7. ↑ Responsibility, activity and duration are not listed
  8. ^ Ulrich Schmid: Das Werk Karl May 1895-1905. Narrative structures and editorial findings. Materials for Karl May Research, Volume 12. Verlag Heimat- und Volkskunde (KMG-Presse), Ubstadt 1989, ISBN 3-921983-17-7 . P. 19. ( online version )
  9. ↑ Karl May: My life and striving . 1910, p. 99 f.
personal data
SURNAME Klippel, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Klippel, Ernst August Josef; Keller, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, engineer, orientalist, ethnologist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Liebau , Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1953
Place of death Berlin