Ewald Gerhard Seeliger

Ewald Gerhard Seeliger ( pseudonyms : Ewger Seeliger , Ewger Seeliger Menschheit , Marquardt van Vryndt ; born October 11, 1877 in Rathau ( district of Brieg / Silesia ); † June 8, 1959 in Cham / Upper Palatinate ) was a German writer .

Life

Ewald Gerhard Seeliger was the son of a teacher. After attending a teacher training college, he worked as a primary school teacher in Silesia from 1897 , at the German School in Genoa from 1899 and in Hamburg from 1900 . In 1901 he married the daughter of a Jewish businessman. His literary works, which appeared from the turn of the century, were so successful that in 1907 he gave up teaching and lived as a freelance writer in Hamburg . From 1915 on, Seeliger took part in the First World War as a sergeant in a naval aviation unit . From 1920 he lived in his own house in Walchensee, Upper Bavaria .

After the publication of his handbook on vertigo and its confiscation in 1922, Seeliger was admitted to the psychiatric clinic in Haar for observation in 1923 , but was released after a six-week stay. During the 1920s , Seeliger continued to work as a writer, some of his works, which were influenced by anarchist and pacifist ideas, were self-published . After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, Seeliger satirically attacked Nazi officials in the course of one of his so-called "hominidissimus" experiments, whereupon the authorities temporarily placed the author in so-called " protective custody " for denigrating National Socialism . Seeliger was released again, but feared another permanent detention, left Germany and lived in Switzerland . In April 1935, however, he returned to Germany and then lived in seclusion in Hamburg . In 1936 he was expelled from the Reichsschrifttumskammer because of his Jewish wife . From 1940 he lived in Cham (Upper Palatinate) . After the end of the Second World War , Seeliger's attempts to reissue his older works failed.

Ewald Gerhard Seeliger is the author of an extensive literary work, which mainly consists of novels and short stories . Seeliger tried his hand at various popular genres such as the adventure and picaresque novel , the youth book and the love story . In addition, the author, who felt obliged to the classical Enlightenment and its optimism of reason , published some polemical works with powerful language in which he defended his idiosyncratic position of nonviolent anarchism . Today, Seeliger is best known for his bestseller Peter Voss, The Thief of the Million, which appeared in 1913 and has been filmed several times , as well as for the handbook of swindles, which was rediscovered in the 1980s .

Works

• On the Riviera , Leipzig 1901
• People from the country , Leipzig 1901
• Chatting from school , Hamburg 1902
• The striker , Berlin 1904
• Chinese , Hamburg 1905
• Hamburg , Hamburg 1905
• North-Northwest , Berlin 1905
• Over the Watten , Berlin [u. a.] 1905
• To death and life , Stuttgart 1906
• The horror of the peoples , Berlin 1908
• Between the woods , Leipzig 1908
• Hans Rintfleisch , Hirschberg 1909
• Mandus Frixen's first trip , Berlin 1909
• Enemy of England , Wiesbaden 1910
• Sea trip , Munich [u. a.] 1910
• Reefs of Love , Munich [u. a.] 1910
• Top , Munich [u. a.] 1910
• Back to the Scholle , Munich [u. a.] 1910
• Silesian Histories , Munich [a. a.]
  • 1. Seventeen Silesian Schwänke , 1911
  • 2. Silesia , 1911
  • 3. Between Poland and Böheimb , 1911
• The women of Löwenberg , Munich [u. a.] 1911
• Buntes Blut , Munich [u. a.] 1913
• The five comedies by Marquardt van Vryndt , Dresden 1913
• Mrs. Lenen's divorce , Dresden 1913
• My lecture book , Munich [u. a.] 1913
• Niß Ipsen von Bombüll and others , Reutlingen 1913
• Peter Voss, the millionaire , Berlin [u. a.] 1913, made into a film
• The paradise of criminals , Munich [u. a.] 1914
• The dying village , Munich [u. a.] 1914
• The yellow sea thief , Berlin [u. a.] 1915
• Max Doberwitz, the aunt murderer , Dresden 1915
• The sea , Leipzig 1915
• The American duel , Berlin [u. a.] 1916
• The adventures of the beloved falsette , Munich 1918
• The white Indians , Berlin 1918
• Junker Schlörk's great love trip , Munich 1919
• The power , Leipzig 1919
• Uncle Tillos Millions , Lübeck 1921
• The destruction of love , Munich 1921
• The Diva and the Diamond , Berlin 1922
• Handbuch des Schwindels , Munich 1922 (under the name Ewger Seeliger Menschheit)
• The defloration of the world , Vienna 1923 (under the name Ewger Seeliger Menschheit)
• The world conscience , Leipzig 1923
• Heinz Wolframs Christmas presents , Mainz 1925
• The fourteen Kurbrandenburg emergency helpers , Berlin 1927
• Rübezahl , Berlin 1928
• The dispute over the Red Rose , Berlin 1928
• Two real people , Niedersedlitz 1931
• Faith with humor , Berlin 1940 (under the name Ewger Seeliger)
• Love with humor , Berlin 1940 (under the name Ewger Seeliger)
• Siege mit Humor , Berlin 1940 (under the name Ewger Seeliger)
• Love, between the woods , Hamburg 1942
• Messias Humor , Erlangen 2005 (under the name Ewger Seeliger)
• Diva, Voss and Weiwur , Viechtach 2006

literature

• Sophia Ihle: "What you can't say with a laugh is not truth". On the provocative work of Ewald Gerhard Seeliger . In: Sabina Becker (Hrsg.): Yearbook on the culture and literature of the Weimar Republic . tape 13/14 . Munich 2011, p. 121-149 .
• Bernd Gräfrath : Heretics, amateurs and geniuses . Junius, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-88506-227-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ewald Gerhard Seeliger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ewald Gerhard Seeliger at Open Library
• Research results on the life and work of Ewald Gerhard Seeliger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ewger Seeliger - Messiah Humor . Filos Publishing House. Retrieved July 4, 2018