Ernst Schur

Ernst Schur

Ilse Schütze-Schur: Ernst Schur

Ernst Erich Walter Schur (born November 24, 1876 in Kiel , † March 6, 1912 in Groß-Lichterfelde , Berlin) was a German poet, art writer and critic.

Life

Ernst Schur was born the son of a civil servant. Soon after their son was born, the family moved to Berlin, where the father worked as an accountant in the Reichsmarineamt. He died in 1900.

Schur studied law, social and natural sciences, art history and literature in Freiburg and Berlin. At the end of 1898 he became a trainee lawyer and worked for a year at the district court in Havelberg. In 1897 his first volume of poetry, "See there are pains we suffer" , was published, which was widely ridiculed because of its typographical flourishes. Schur was one of the "punctuation lyricists" and "modernists" of that time with W. Herzog, Alfred Mombert , Max Dauthendey , Scheerbart , J. Hart , M. Bruns and others. He knows. The writer Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen filed a complaint about "obscenities" in the texts of this volume. Schur had to pay a fine of 30 marks, the book was confiscated.

Schur resigned from civil service and tried his luck as a freelance writer in Munich. In 1902 he returned to Berlin via Bonn. He wrote poetry with increasing success. As a novelist he was less successful, but as an art writer he was respected and respected.

In publications of his time, Schur published around 250 articles on photography, applied arts, painting, architecture, exhibitions, books, music, graphics, dance and stage, as well as obituaries and portraits.

Since 1905 he was married to the painter, graphic artist and teacher Ilse Schütze (1868–1923), with whom he published three picture books in the years 1910–12. From then on he lived in Groß-Lichterfelde near Berlin until his death.

Lifelong friendships existed with Ida Dehmel and Melchior Lechter . For Richard Dehmel's picture book “Buntscheck” (1904) Schur provided a poem “Mother, Fritz and Friedel” , which Ernst Kreidolf illustrated. Conrad Ansorge set poems by Schur to music, op. 22 “I now know how it was / It's a silent singing” (by Simrock / Berlin 1907). Schur was buried in the Lichterfelde park cemetery.

Works

• “See, it is pain that we suffer from”, poems, Berlin 1897
• “On the meaning and beauty of Japanese art”, Leipzig 1901
• “Paraphrases on the work of Melchior Lechter”, Leipzig 1901
• "Basic features and ideas for the equipment of the book", Leipzig 1901
• "Poems and Songs", Leipzig 1902
• "The book of thirteen stories", Leipzig 1902
• "Thoughts on Tolstoy, a fragment", Leipzig 1902
• “Reflections on contemporary German art and culture”, 1st volume. The Meier-Gräfe case, Groß-Lichterfelde, 1905
• "The stone city", poems, Berlin 1905
• "Heimat" poem, Berlin 1905
• "The life of the soul", poems, Berlin 1906
• "Weltstimme" seals, Munich 1907
• "Einsame Liebe", story, Berlin 1908
• “After work”, guide through art history, Berlin 1909
• "The modern dance", Berlin 1910
• “Tiefurter Frühling”, poems, Berlin 1910
• “Neuland”, a book of young German poetry. On behalf of the Society for Literature & Art New Life. Ed. Paul Friedrich with a foreword by Julius Hart. In it 13 poems by Ernst Schur, Berlin 1910
• "Guide through the National Gallery", Berlin 1910
• “The poet and the theater”, Berlin 1910
• "Child and Art", Steglitz 1910
• “A festival theater for Berlin”, Berlin 1911
• "Kleistbrevier", Berlin 1911
• "Heinrich von Kleist in his letters", Berlin 1911
• "Meunier". A problem in art, Berlin 1911
• "Alfred Rethel", Bielefeld / Leipzig 1911
• "The loneliness", poems, Berlin 1912
• “The Kaiser Friedrich Museum”, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1912
• "Rudolphe Töpffer", Berlin 1912
• “Stage and Art”, Berlin 1912

picture books

• Richard Dehmel, Ed .: “The Buntscheck. A collector's book of hearty art for the ears and eyes of German songs. ”Cologne 1904 (contains, among other things,“ Mother, Fritz and Friedel in the nursery ”, illustrator: Ernst Kreidolf)
• "Here and there and there in pictures and words." (With Ilse Schütze-Schur), Stuttgart 1911
• “About playing and laughing and what else we do.” (With Ilse Schütze-Schur), Stuttgart 1912
• "The funny year", (with Ilse Schütze-Schur) Stuttgart 1910

literature

• Monty Jacobs: Ernst Schur Memorial Book, with a portrait of the poet. Concordia Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt GmbH Berlin 1913
• Wolfgang Barthel: Ernst Schur's reference to Kleist 1910-1912 with a look back at the 19th century and side glances at Schur's contemporaries. A contribution to the history of Heinrich von Kleist's impact. Berlin-Friedrichshagen 2005, ISBN 3-9806805-2-5

Awards

• Prize of the Johannes Fastenraath Foundation (Cologne)
• Silver prize at the special exhibition The woman in the book trade and in graphics / book illustration

Web links

Wikisource: Ernst Schur  - Sources and full texts

• Works on ngiyaw eBooks Weltstimme, On the Erotic; also digital copies