Friedrich Huch

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Friedrich Huch (born June 19, 1873 in Braunschweig , † May 12, 1913 in Munich ) was a German poet and writer .

Friedrich Huch

Life

Friedrich Huch was born in 1873 as the eldest child of the lawyer William Huch and his second wife Marie Huch , a daughter of the adventure and travel writer Friedrich Gerstäcker , and was a cousin of Ricarda Huch and her brother Rudolf Huch . His father killed himself in 1888 itself .

After graduating in Dresden , Huch studied philology at the University of Munich , the University of Paris and the University of Erlangen and received his doctorate with a thesis “ On the drama 'The Valiant Scot', by JW Gent ”. He then worked as a private tutor in Hamburg and Lubochin in Poland . He was friends with Ludwig Klages and was in contact with Thomas Mann and Rainer Maria Rilke .

In 1904 he became a freelance writer and lived in Munich. Huch died unexpectedly at the age of 39 as a result of a middle ear operation. Thomas Mann gave the funeral speech on May 15, 1913.

Services

Friedrich Huch wrote fine psychological novels and is usually assigned to the German decadence poetry around the turn of the century. His main work is “ Pitt and Fox . The Love Paths of the Sintrup Brothers ”(1909), a kind of mixture between Thomas Mann's“ Felix Krull ”and Robert Musil's “ Man without Qualities ”. In his "musical novel" " Enzio " (1911) Wilhelm Furtwängler is his literary role model. Most famous, however, is still his sensitive school novel " Mao " (1907) with its magical symbolism.

Works

  • Peter Michel , Hamburg, Janssen, 1901.
  • Siblings , Berlin, Fischer, 1903.
  • Dreams , Berlin, Fischer, 1904.
  • Changes , Berlin, Fischer, 1905.
  • Mao , Berlin, Fischer, 1907.
  • Pitt and Fox. The love paths of the Sintrup brothers , Ebenhausen near Munich, Langewiesche-Brand, 1909.
  • Enzio , Munich, Mörike, 1911.
  • Tristan and Isolde. Lohengrin. The Flying Dutchman. Three grotesque comedies , Munich, Mörike, 1911.
  • Stories , Munich, Georg Müller, 1914.
  • New dreams , Munich, Georg Müller, 1914. Edition from 1920 with 20 illustrations by Alfred Kubin.
  • Novels of Youth , Berlin, Fischer, 1934.

literature

  • Rolf Denecke: Friedrich Huch and the problems of the bourgeois world in the time of its decline. Braunschweig: Univ. Diss. 1937.
  • Hugo Hartung: Friedrich Huch's epic style. Munich: Univ. Diss. 1929.
  • Helene Huller: The writer Friedrich Huch. Studies on literature and society around the turn of the century. Munich: Univ. Diss. 1975.
  • Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon. 19th and 20th centuries , Hannover 1996, p. 292f.
  • Nadia Jollos: The work of Friedrich Huch. Strasbourg 1930.
  • Wenchao Li: The motif of childhood and the figure of the child in German literature at the turn of the century. Studies of Thomas Mann's “Buddenbrooks”, Friedrich Huch's “Mao” and Emil Strauss' “Freund Hein”. Berlin: Univ. Diss. 1989.
  • Renate Möhrmann: The lonely person. Studies on the change in the motif of loneliness in the novel from Raabe to Musil. 2nd edition Bonn u. a .: Bouvier 1976. (= Treatises on art, music and literary studies; 149) ISBN 3-416-01278-X .
  • Adalbert Schmidt:  Huch, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 704 ( digitized version ).
  • Wolf Wucherpfennig: Childhood cult and irrationalism in literature around 1900. Friedrich Huch and his time. Munich: Fink 1980. ISBN 3-7705-1793-8 .

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personal data
SURNAME Oops, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1913
Place of death Munich