Friedrich Kurt Benndorf

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Friedrich Kurt Benndorf (born May 27, 1871 in Chemnitz as Friedrich Curt Benndorf , † February 25, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German poet and writer. From 1897 to 1904 he was in charge of the music collection of the Royal Saxon Public Library in Dresden.

Life

He was the son of the businessman and co-owner of a Chemnitz machine factory Karl Benndorf († 1901) and his wife Franziska nee Oehme († 1898). After attending the community school in Chemnitz, he switched to the Royal High School there in 1881, which was located on the Kaßberg. There he passed the Abitur in 1890. One of his essays received an award in 1889 while he was still at school. After leaving school he started at the University of Heidelberg philosophy and German study, later he moved to the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and finally to the Saxon University of Leipzig , where he in 1895 to Dr. phil. PhD. The topic of his dissertation was Sethus Calvisius as a music theorist . In addition, Benndorf had also attended lectures at the University of Music in Berlin during this time. As a music enthusiast, he first embarked on a musical career and became the conductor of the Berlin Academic Quartet Association. But he was soon drawn back to Saxony, where he represented an organist in his hometown of Chemnitz. When Richard Ludwig Schneider's private music school was looking for a teacher for music history, theory and piano lessons, he moved to Dresden, the capital of Saxony, in autumn 1885. There he got a permanent job in the Royal Public Library in 1897, where he was entrusted with the management of their extensive music collection.

The monotony of day-to-day work as an administrator soon made him look for a balance, which he found in becoming a poet and writer. After initial success and a successful inheritance, he submitted his resignation from the library service in 1904 and from then on lived freelance in Dresden. At first he went on several extended educational trips. The outbreak of World War I led to his drafting into military service, which he did until 1918. He lost savings and sources of income due to inflation in the first half of the 1920s. He secured his livelihood through contracts for work, such as helping to create the city of Dresden's memorial book for the dead or auxiliary work at the Dresden City Archives. In 1932 the Free State of Saxony was in a critical condition and awarded it the Saxon State Prize, which was endowed with 400 Reichsmarks. In 1934 he became an employee of the Dresdner Neue Presse , which had to discontinue its publication in 1942 due to the war.

During the heavy bombing raids on Dresden on 13./14. In February 1945 Friedrich Kurt Benndorf was bombed out. In the same month he died in Dresden

Friedrich Kurt Benndorf lived in Dresden-Blasewitz , Kaiserallee (today Mendelssohnallee) 40.

He also gained notoriety as one of the letter partners of the poet Alfred Mombert .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sethus Calvisius as a music theorist . Leipzig 1894.
  • Hymns to Zarathustra and other poetry circles . Leipzig 1900.
  • (Ed.): Johann Kuhnau : The musical Quack Salber . Behr, Berlin 1900 (reprint of the Dresden 1700 edition).
  • Lyric symphony . Berlin 1902.
  • Poems . Munich / Leipzig 1906.
  • Bou-Saâda. A desert trip . Munich 1907.
  • In foreign land 'there. Impressionist travel sheets . Xenien, Leipzig 1908.
  • Alfred Mombert, the poet and mystic . Xenien, Leipzig 1910.
  • Samain. Essays and rephrases . Bonsels & Co, Munich 1910.
  • The Aeon Myth by Mombert . Giesecke, Dresden 1917.
  • (Ed.): Robert Spies. Memorial book . Emil Richter, Dresden 1920.
  • Praise the silence. Poem . Pandora-Verlag, Dresden 1926.
  • The seasons. Old and new seals . Horen-Verlag, Berlin-Grunewald 1930.
  • 33 youth poems . Mombert. Spirit and Work, Dresden 1932.

Roland Bocquet set six of his poems from 1910 to 1912 for voice and piano.

estate

The written estate of Friedrich Kurt Benndorf, which he was able to save from the bombing raid in 1945, has been kept in today's Saxon State and University Library since 1970/71 .

literature

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Individual proof

  1. ^ Alfred Mombert: Letters to Friedrich Kurt Benndorf from the years 1900-1940 . Schneider, Heidelberg 1975.
  2. ^ Edition Kemel, Niedernhausen 2016.
  3. ^ SLUB Dresden, Mscr. Dresden. App. 2486 special catalog for the estate of Dr. Friedrich Kurt Benndorf