Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford , actually Ford Hermann Hueffer (born December 17, 1873 in Merton , Surrey, England, † June 26, 1939 in Deauville , Calvados , France) was an English writer.
Life
Ford was the son of the German music critic Francis Hueffer , his paternal grandfather was the publisher Johann Hermann Hüffer from Münster in Westphalia. On his mother's side he was a grandson of the painter Ford Madox Brown , and his nephew was the future British Home Secretary Frank Soskice . His real name is Ford Hermann Hueffer (Hüffer), he was also called Ford Hueffer. However, due to the strongly anti-German sentiment in England during the First World War and in honor of his grandfather, he changed his name in 1919.
Ford studied in London and converted to Catholicism in 1891. During his studies he was strongly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites . Around 1912 he joined the Imagists . 1915–1917 he took part in the First World War for the British Army.
He had a deep friendship with Joseph Conrad . Ford's Romance was created in collaboration with Conrad.
In 1908, Ford founded the English Review in London , whose staff included Henry James and John Galsworthy . In Paris in 1924, Ford founded the Transatlantic Review magazine . Through this publishing work he made the acquaintance of Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway, among others . He also wrote for the vorizist magazine Blast .
Since 1894 he was married to Elsie Martindale. He had affairs with the writer Violet Hunt , whom he had allegedly married in a bigamistic marriage in Germany, with Jean Rhys (1924), which she dealt with in the novel Quartet , with Janice Biali and with the Australian painter Stella Bowen , whom he met in 1918 and with whom he had a daughter (Esther Julia Madox, 1920–1985).
Ford Madox Ford died on June 26, 1939 in Deauville, France at the age of 65.
Works
Ford had more success as a publisher and critic than with his literary work. His 1915 published novel The Good Soldier (German translation in 1962. The saddest story ) but notes the opinion of many of today's critics one of the most important works of English literature of the early modern shows, especially by the impressive use of the narrator type of unreliable narrator in the Figure of John Dowell. One of his last publications was his autobiography It Was the Nightingale in 1933 .
Works (selection)
- Romance (1903), with Joseph Conrad
- The Spirit of the People (1907)
- A Critical Attitude (1911)
- Collected Poems (1914)
- The Good Soldier (1915)
- Parade's End (1924-28)
- When the Wicked Man (1932)
- It Was the Nightingale (1933)
New editions:
- The very saddest story: Roman , Frankfurt am Main: Eichborn 2000, series Die Other Bibliothek , ISBN 978-3-8218-4495-4 .
- Some don't , Eichborn, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-8218-0710-5
- No more parades , Eichborn, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8218-0711-3
- The man who stayed upright , Eichborn, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8218-0712-1
- Zapfenstreich , Eichborn, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8218-0713-3 .
TV movie
In 2012, Parade's End was broadcast by the British television company BBC in a multi-part mini-series that was shown from August 24, 2012. The script was by Tom Stoppard . The main actor was Benedict Cumberbatch as Christopher Tietjens, a scion of a northern English landowning family of Dutch descent.
Radio play editing
In 2018, Bayerischer Rundfunk produced a seven-part radio play version of The End of the Parades . With Jens Harzer , Felix Goeser , Bibiana Beglau , Stefan Merki , Wiebke Puls , Stefan Wilkening , Manfred Zapatka , Anna Drexler , Caroline Ebner , Jeanette Spassova , Wolfram Koch , Wowo Habdank , Oliver Nägele , Franz Pätzold , Steven Scharf , Wowo Habdank. Editing, composition and direction: Klaus Buhlert . As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.
literature
- Sara Haslam: Fragmenting Modernism: Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War . Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York 2008, ISBN 9780719060557 .
- Jörg W. Rademacher (ed.): Father and son: Franz Hüffer and Ford Madox Ford (Hüffer). An anthology (= Edition Kulturregion Münsterland 2). Lit, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-8258-4652-0 .
- Max Saunders: Ford Madox Ford. A Dual Life. 2 volumes. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1996 (English);
- Vol. 1: The World before the War. ISBN 0-19-211789-0 ;
- Vol. 2: The after War World. ISBN 0-19-212608-3 .
- Teresa Newman, Ray Watkinson: Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelite Circle. Chatto & Windus, London 1991, ISBN 0-7011-3186-1 (English).
- Frank MacShane: The life and work of Ford Madox Ford. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1965 (English).
- Julian Barnes : At the window - 17 essays on literature
Web links
- Literature by and about Ford Madox Ford in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Ford Madox Ford in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ultimo: Ultimos keyhole - the other day in the mail basket (XXXVII) , warm up, program from February 11, 2019 to February 24, 2019, No. 4/19, p. 4.
- ↑ The Last Gentleman in Diezeitliteratur, December 2007.
- ↑ A whole world lies in ruins in FAZ of August 24, 2012, page 33.
- ^ BR radio play Pool - Ford, The End of the Parades , 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ford, Ford Madox |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hueffer, Ford Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Merton , Surrey, England |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 26, 1939 |
| Place of death | Deauville , France |