Ernst Wilhelm Lotz
Ernst Wilhelm Lotz (* 6. February 1890 Culm on the Vistula River , West Prussia ; † 26. September 1914 in Bouconville , France ) was a German poet of expressionism .
Life
Ernst Wilhelm Lotz, son of a Romanist and cadet house professor, spent his childhood in several places: Köslin (Pomerania), Karlsruhe (Baden), Wahlstatt (Silesia) and Plön (Holstein). 1906 began his training as an officer at the cadet institute in Berlin-Lichterfelde . In 1907 he was promoted to ensign in Infantry Regiment No. 143 in Strasbourg , and a short time later to lieutenant . After a year and a half as an officer, he said goodbye in 1911 and tried his hand at short-term as a bookseller, then as a businessman for a Hamburg import-export company.
As a freelance writer, he translated poems by Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine . In 1914 he married Henny Romeycke. He spent the spring of 1914 in Dresden with Ludwig Meidner and moved into a studio with him. When war broke out in August 1914, he volunteered for the army, was reinstated in Strasbourg (in his former regiment) and deployed on the Western Front. On September 7, 1914, he received the Iron Cross . A short time later, at the age of 24, he was killed as a company commander during an attack in a French trench.
He is represented in anthologies and educational works primarily with his poem Aufbruch der Jugend .
Works
- And beautiful predator spots ("Lyrisches Flyer"). Alfred Richard Meyer Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1913.
- Flags over the clouds ( The Judgment Day , Volume 36). Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig 1916, cover , librivox .
- Kurt Pinthus (ed.): Human twilight. Symphony of Recent Poetry. Berlin 1920, online .
- Attempts at prose and letters from the field post from the previously unpublished estate. (Ed. By Hellmut Draws-Tychsen), 1955
- Versensporn - Booklet for Lyrical Charms No. 39, ed. by Tom Riebe, Jena: Edition POESIE SCHMECKT GUT, 2020. [100 copies]
literature
- Adalbert Wichert: Lotz, Ernst Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 251 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ernst Wilhelm Lotz (Ed. By Jürgen von Esenwein): Poems, prose, letters. edition text and criticism, Munich 1994.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller : Man for man. Pp. 502, 503.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Wilhelm Lotz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Ernst Wilhelm Lotz in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Lotz, Ernst Wilhelm . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
- Ernst Wilhelm Lotz: Poems flying over clouds at ngiyaw books
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lotz, Ernst Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lyric poet of Expressionism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Culm , West Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1914 |
| Place of death | near Bouconville , France |