Frank Thiess

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Frank Thiess (1960)

Frank Theodor Thiess (born March 1 . Jul / 13. March  1890 greg. In Eluisenstein at Uexküll , Governorate of Livonia , Russian Empire , today Latvia ; † 22. December 1977 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer .

Life

The son of the civil engineer Franz Thieß from Riga and the landowner Sophie von Eschenbach came to Berlin at the age of three because his family temporarily left home because of the Russification measures of the tsarist authorities. After graduating from high school Stephaneum in Aschersleben , Thiess studied German and philosophy at the University of Berlin and the University of Tübingen and received his doctorate in 1914 with a thesis on the position of the Swabians on Goethe . During World War I - after a short time as a drama student at the Lessing Theater in Berlin - he was drafted into military service and fell seriously ill on the Eastern Front. From 1915 to 1919 he worked as an editor for foreign policy at the Berliner Tageblatt under Theodor Wolff . Afterwards he was dramaturge at the Volksbühne Stuttgart in 1920/21 and from 1921 a theater critic in Hanover for the Hannoversche Anzeiger . Then from 1923 worked as a freelance writer in Berlin and at Steinhuder Meer .

Frank Thiess was buried in the Waldfriedhof Darmstadt (grave site: L 3d 3).

Work and action

The novel Die Verdammten (July 1922), which describes the breakup of a Baltic family, brought him early success as a writer . In addition to the four-part novel cycle Jugend (1924–1931), which was dedicated to the identity crises of young people in the years after 1918, it is above all his factual novel about the naval battle at Tsushima 1905 Tsushima: Novel of a Sea War (1936), published in several hundred thousand copies Thiess announced.

In 1933 Thiess provided his novel Der Leibhaftige with a new foreword, which recommended him to the National Socialists . Thiess described himself as a representative of internal emigration , an attitude that he affirmed above all in dealing with the emigrant Thomas Mann . Two of his novels ( The Damned and Women Robbing ) were also put to the stake in the book burnings in 1933, a fact that he referred to several times after 1945. Another ban received in 1941 his novel The Realm of Demons . During and shortly after the war, two novels about Caruso , Neapolitan Legend (1942) and Caruso in Sorrento (1946) were published, which met with a great response from the public. Thiess wrote numerous essayistic works and was Vice President of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt in post-war Germany , where he spent the last years of his life.

After the war in the 1950s, Frank Thiess published the magazine Das literäre Deutschland . This magazine appeared biweekly in the format of a daily newspaper and in a way was supposed to revive the magazine Die literarian Welt , which Willy Haas from Prague had previously published in Berlin. The last issues of this magazine were also titled "The literary world".

The Lexicon of Fantastic Literature judges Thiess' reputation in the present: "Today his work is largely, and partly wrongly, forgotten."

Political activity after 1945

After 1945 he made himself the spokesman for “ Inner Emigration ”; his attacks on Thomas Mann , who actually emigrated before the Nazis, reinforced the reservations against “Inner Emigration” at home and abroad. Thiess reviewed the book by the historical revisionist historian David Leslie Hoggan : The forced war, the causes and authors of World War II positively as "an achievement that was accomplished by an American for Germany with scientific care, rare nobility and exemplary justice" ; the right-wing extremist Grabert Verlag used this review as a blurb.

In 1965 he published in the German national and weekly newspaper , his articles were reprinted in the Reichsruf , the organ of the German Reich Party . He supported student , was an author in the German Student Gazette , Conservative Today and German Monthly Issues . Thiess belonged to the Witikobund . In 1967 he campaigned for Rudolf Hess to be released .

Awards and honors

Fonts (selection)

  • Caesar Flaischlen. An essay , 1914
  • The attitude of the Swabians to Goethe , 1915
  • The dance as a work of art. Studies on the aesthetics of dance art , 1920 Delphin-Verlag
  • Lucie Höflich , 1920 E. Reiss Verlag
  • The death of Falern. Novel of a dying city. Roman, 1921 Stuttgart, J. Engelhorn's descendants
  • Die Verdammten , Roman, 1922 J. Engelhorn's descendants
  • Nikolaus W. Gogol and his stage works. An introduction , 1922 Berlin, Schneider's stage leader
  • The face of the century. Letters to contemporaries , 1923 Stuttgart, Engelhorn
  • Angelika ten Swaart , novel, 1923
  • Youth (tetralogy)
    • The Incarnate , Roman, 1924
    • The gateway to the world , novel, 1926
    • Farewell to paradise. A novel among children , 1927
    • The Centaur , novel, 1931
  • Fool. Five short stories , 1926
  • Woman robbery , Roman, 1927 (reworked by Katharina Winter , 1949)
  • The fight with the angel , 1928
  • Education for freedom. Treatises and disputes , 1929
  • A Strange Marriage , novella, 1929
  • The Story of a Troubled Summer and Other Tales , 1932
  • It's time. Speeches and lectures , 1932
  • Johanna and Esther. A Chronicle of Rural Events , novel, 1933
  • The way to Isabelle , novel, 1934
  • The eternal good-for-nothing. Romantic game in 3 acts (after Eichendorff ) , 1935
  • Tsushima . The novel of a naval war , 1936
  • Stormy spring. A novel among young people , 1937
  • The Duchess of Langeais , tragedy, 1938
  • The she-wolf , story, 1939
  • The realm of demons. The novel of a millennium , 1941
  • Neapolitan legend , novel, 1942
  • The Tenor of Trapani , novella, 1942
  • Caruso , lecture, 1943
  • Caruso in Sorrento , novel, 1946
  • Puccini. An attempt at a psychology of his music , 1947
  • Despotism of the Intellect , 1947
  • Goethe as a symbol , lecture, 1947
  • Shakespeare and the Idea of ​​Immortality , lecture, 1947
  • Turning point. 3 lectures , 1947
  • Ideas on the natural history and suffering of peoples , 1949
  • We'll never know , 1949
  • Volcanic time. Lectures, speeches, essays , 1949
  • The flowers wither, but the tree grows. A breviary for day and night , 1950
  • Goethe the man , speech, 1950
  • Don Juan's Last Days , 1950
  • Tropical twilight , 1951
  • The streets of the labyrinth , novel, 1951
  • The reality of the unreal. Investigations into the reality of poetry , 1954 Paul Zsolnay Verlag
  • In Memoriam Wilhelm Furtwängler. 2 memorial speeches , 1955 Paul Zsolnay Verlag
  • Ghosts don't cast a shadow , novel, 1955 Paul Zsolnay Verlag
  • The image of man in Knut Hamsun , 1956 August Langen
  • Theater without a ramp. Pieces for room theaters and studio stages , 1956 Hamburg, Wegner Verlag
  • Gäa , Roman, 1957 European Book Club
  • About the ability to love , 1958 Hermann Klemm Publishing House
  • Origin and meaning of the East-West contrast , lecture, 1958
  • The Greek emperors. The Birth of Europe , 1959 Paul Zsolnay Verlag
  • Aphorisms , 1961
  • Fall up. Novel on the theme of a fairy tale , 1961 Zsolnay Verlag
  • Scorched Earth [autobiography], 1963 Zsolnay Verlag.
  • A plea for Beijing. An eyewitness report , 1966 Seewald Verlag
  • The black angel , novellas, 1966 Zsolnay Verlag
  • Magic and horror. The world of children , 1969 Paul Zsolnay Verlag
  • Dostoevsky. Realism on the verge of transcendence , 1971 Seewald Verlag
  • Years of calamity. Fragments of experienced history , 1972 Paul Zsolnay Verlag
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice , Roman, 1975 List Verlag

Scripts

Opera

O you beautiful rose garden (or: the case of Dr. Mann); based on the novel 'The Way to Isabelle'; Music by Carlos Ehrensperger

literature

Web links

Wikiquote: Frank Thiess  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in the baptismal register of the municipality of Uexküll (Latvian: Ikšķile)
  2. ↑ Own information from Thiess in: Glenzdorfs Internationales Filmlexikon , Vol. III (1961), p. 1728.
  3. ^ In addition: Roy L. Ackermann: The role of the trial in the school prose of the Weimar Republic . Lang, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-261-04980-4 , in it the chapter Frank Thiess's "The Gate to the World" .
  4. ↑ a b Ernst Loewy : Literature under the swastika . Fischer Verlag 1969, p. 331.
  5. ^ Both books in the "List of harmful and undesirable literature", as of December 31, 1938, p. 148 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Rein A. Zondergeld, Holger E. Wiedenstried: Lexicon of fantastic literature . Weibrecht Verlag, Stuttgart a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-522-72175-6 , p. 342.
  7. ↑ David Hoggan's blurb: The forced war . Tubingen 1990.
  8. ↑ Wolf Rüdiger Hess: Neither law nor humanity . Druffel, Leoni am Starnberger See 1974, p. 35.
personal data
SURNAME Thiess, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiess, Frank Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Eluisenstein near Uexküll , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 22nd December 1977
Place of death Darmstadt