Ernst Muellenbach

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Leo Ernst Achilles Muellenbach (pseudonym Ernst Lenbach ; born March 3, 1862 in Cologne , † July 24, 1901 in Poppelsdorf ) was a German novelist , novelist and poet .

life and work

Muellenbach grew up in Cologne. After attending the Friedrich Wilhelm High School there , he studied philology and history in Bonn . The high school teacher Oskar Jäger and the professors Franz Bücheler and Arnold Dietrich Schaefer had a formative influence . After completing his doctorate , he first became editor of the Bonner Zeitung , but then devoted himself full-time to writing . He married Josephine Gaßmann and settled in Poppelsdorf near Bonn. In 1901 Muellenbach, only 39 years old, succumbed to cancer .

Several of his novels are autobiographical . He processed his student and journalistic years in The Hanseatic Brothers and his illness in his last novel Maria . Other works depict cultural and historical motifs from the Rhineland , such as the old Cologne novel Die Siebolds von Lyskirchen . Muellenbach emerged primarily as the creator of humorous novels and poems , not a few of which were published in the popular family magazine Die Gartenlaube .

Works (selection)

  • Comoediae elegiacae . Fasciculus primus. Vitalis Aulularia. Eduard Weber, Bonn 1885
  • Poems . Stuttgart, Cotta, 1894
  • Whimsical People: Stories & Tales Sketches . Dresden, Reissner, 1895
  • Offside . Stuttgart, Cotta, 1896
  • From the bucket . Novel. JG Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Stuttgart 1897
  • The Hanseatic Brothers . Dresden, Reissner, 1898
  • The Siebolds of Lyskirchen . Stuttgart, Dt. Verl.-Anst., 1899
  • Old Rhenish stories . Dresden, Reissner, 1899
  • Guardian Angel . Stuttgart, Dt. Verl.-Anst., 1900
  • Maria . Berlin, Felber, 1901
  • Aphrodite and other short stories . Stuttgart, Cotta, 1902
  • Johannis blessing. The silver thistle . 2nd Edition. 16th to 35th thousand. Volksbildungsverein zu Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 1904 (= Wiesbaden Folk Books No. 29)
  • Franz Friedrich Ferdinand . Interleaves from the chronicle of a small state. 1st edition. (1st to 20th thousand.) Volksbildungsverein zu Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden 1904 (= Wiesbadener Volksbücher No. 44)
  • Waldmann and Zampa and other short stories . Leipzig: Reclam, 1908
  • Rhenish stories . Cologne: Gilde-Verl., 1931

literature

  • Carl Enders: Muellenbach (pseudon. To 1897: Lenbach), Leo Ernst Achilles, in: Anton Bettelheim : Biographisches Jahrbuch und Deutscher Nekrolog , 6th volume, 1901 (1904), pp. 192–193 archive.org
  • Rainer Hillenbrand: Cultural history narration with Ernst Muellenbach, in: Archive for cultural history , 102nd year, 2020, no. 1, pp. 143–166.

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personal data
SURNAME Muellenbach, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muellenbach, Leo Ernst Achilles (full name); Lenbach, Ernst (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German novelist, novelist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1901
Place of death Poppelsdorf