Friedrich Burschell

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Friedrich Burschell ( pseudonym Karl Lange ; born August 9, 1889 Ludwigshafen , † April 19, 1970 Munich ) was a German writer and translator.

Life

Burschell grew up in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, where he graduated from the humanistic grammar school . In 1908 he began studying acting at the Düsseldorf Theater Academy, and in 1909 in Munich a "broad-based humanities degree" with a focus on philosophy, literature and art history. In 1909/10 he stayed in Berlin, where his lifelong friendship with Ernst Bloch began.

In 1911 he stayed in Heidelberg, where he made the acquaintance of Kurt Wildhagen , Richard Weissbach , Friedrich Sieburg and Benno Elkan , whom he visited with Ernst Blass in Alsbach-Hähnlein . From 1912 he worked as a freelance writer and employee of various daily newspapers and in 1913 also lived for a short time with Blass and his friend Arthur Kronfeld in the house he described on Brückenstrasse number 1 .

In 1914 he went as a volunteer to the 3rd Bavarian Chevaulegers Regiment . In 1918 he became Kurt Eisner's military adjutant in Munich and married Käthe Schiffer, b. Lippmann. During the Weimar Republic he lived in Munich and Berlin. In 1925 he became a member of the Protection Association of German Writers and in 1926 of the PEN

During the Nazi era he had to emigrate and was initially in France and Spain before trying to gain a foothold in Czechoslovakia in 1934. There he founded and directed the Thomas Mann Society, which supported emigrated writers. He wrote for the Neue Weltbühne , the Prager Tagblatt as well as émigré newspapers and magazines. In 1938 he had to move on to Great Britain, where he a. a. worked for the BBC. He did not return to the Federal Republic of Germany until 1954 and last lived in Munich.

Burschell received the Palatinate Literature Prize in 1968.

Works

  • From the character and the soul. A conversation. Munich: Dreiländerverlag, 1919
  • The simplicity of the heart. Roland-Verlag Dr. Alber Mundt, Munich, 1919
  • Jean Paul. The development of a poet. German publishing house Stuttgart, 1925
  • Roland Krischke (Hg): FB Memories 1889–1919 Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen, Weinheim 1997 (Series: Publications of the Stadtarchiv Ludwigshafen / Rh., 23) ISBN 3924667276
  • Schiller , Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg, 1968

literature

  • Friedrich Burschell. In: Richard Drews, Alfred Kantorowicz (ed.), Banned and burned. German literature - suppressed for 12 years , Berlin and Munich: Heinz Ullstein - Helmut Kindler Verlag, 1947, p. 31 f.
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio-bibliography , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 , Vol II, 1 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , pp. 172.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miroslav Beck: Exil und Asyl , 1981, p. 325; Hans Albert Walter. Deutsche Exilliteratur, 1978, p. 824. Under the pseudonym Karl Lange, Burschell et al. a. after 1933 in the New World Stage .
personal data
SURNAME Burschell, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lange, Karl (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1970
Place of death Munich