Ernst Stadler

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Ernst Stadler

Ernst Maria Richard Stadler (born August 11, 1883 in Colmar , Alsace , † October 30, 1914 near Zandvoorde near Ypres in Belgium ) was a German poet .

Life

As the son of a public prosecutor in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine , Stadler attended high school in Strasbourg . He was friends with René Schickele and Otto Flake - both, like himself, members of the art group The Youngest Alsace . With them he published the journal Der Stürmer (not to be confused with the National Socialist weekly Der Stürmer of the same name ) for progressive poetry in 1902 , which was renamed Der Merker in 1903 . Stadler studied German, Romance studies and comparative linguistics in Strasbourg and from 1904 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . With a doctoral thesis on Parzival , he was awarded Dr. phil. PhD. 1906-1908 he stayed on a Rhodes Fellowship at Magdalen College , Oxford. He completed his habilitation at the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg with a thesis on Christoph Martin Wieland's Shakespeare translations.

From 1910 to 1914 Stadler taught German philology as a professor in Brussels . He had to turn down the offer to go to Toronto as a visiting professor because the First World War began and Stadler was drafted as a reserve officer . In the same year he was killed by a grenade during the First Battle of Flanders .

Ernst Stadler is buried in the cemetery in the Robertsau district of Strasbourg .

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Stadler was enthusiastic about theater and poetry.

1905 Stadler published his first poetry collection Preludes .What form conscious virtuoso him in his lyrical beginnings first as though very little life-world near post-poet of Art Nouveau decadence and vitalistic, foot Direction on Nietzsche life cult aesthetic features, also makes his talent: the ability to synthesize various currents of the mind circulating in the time consciousness.
Ernst Stadler is one of those authors of literary history who have penetrated posterity through a single book publication:

In 1914, his collection of poems, Der Aufbruch , culminated in his short literary publications. This made Stadler a leading figure in literary expressionism . In contrast to Georg Heym , he was not deterred by premonitions of doom. The religiously oriented Stadler appealed to his readers to set out for a better life and tried to drive away the depression. As an Alsatian, understanding between Germany and France was particularly important to him and Schickele . His translation work and his literary studies, which highlighted the interdependencies of the various literatures, were also aimed at this goal .

Ten of his poems were included in the most famous anthology of Expressionism, The Twilight of Man.

Works

Translations

  • The Balzac Book. Stories and short stories. Strasbourg 1913.
  • Francis Jammes : The Prayers of Humility. Leipzig 1913.

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: About the relationship between the manuscripts D and G by Wolframs Parzival .
  2. ^ A b Hans Rollmann: Ernst Stadler's appointment to the University of Toronto. A documentation . In: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies, Vol. 18 (1982), Issue 2, pp. 79-113
  3. ^ Ernst Stadler in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved September 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Jan Röhnert: The lyric work. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (= B.15). 3rd completely revised edition. JB Metzler, Stuttgart Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , p. 501f.
personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stadler, Ernst Maria Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Colmar
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1914
Place of death near Zandvoorde near Ypres , Belgium