Friedrich Markus Huebner

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Friedrich Markus Huebner (born April 12, 1886 in Dresden ; † May 24, 1964 in Amsterdam ) was a German writer, journalist, art critic, translator and art historian who lived in the Netherlands since 1919.

Along with Theo van Doesburg and Hendrik Marsman, Huebner is an important mediator of Expressionism in the Netherlands . His work consists of volumes of poetry, plays, short stories and novels; he has published more than 60 independent titles.

life and work

Friedrich Markus Huebner, called Fritz, was the son of the Dresden businessman and linen and cotton goods dealer Otto R. Hübner and his wife Helene, née Tamme. First he attended the citizen school in Dresden, then the Kreuzgymnasium and the Drei-König-Schule, where he passed the Matura . He studied at the Universities of Lausanne, Berlin, Strasbourg and Heidelberg.

In 1910, Huebner received his doctorate in Heidelberg on Paul Bourget's psychological conceptions and then went to Munich , where he worked as a journalist and wrote, for example, reviews for the Münchner Allgemeine Zeitung , the literary magazine März and the anarchist magazine Die Revolution as well as art and theater articles for the Berliner Tageblatt wrote. During this time he married Margarethe Birkenfeld, the daughter of an Augsburg doctor. He spent the years up to the outbreak of war as a freelance writer, traveling a lot, partly in Italy and Germany.

At the age of thirty, Huebner came to Belgium in 1914 , where he was active in the military for the Foreign Office . Originally enthusiastic about the war, he distanced himself from this position after the First World War and became a staunch advocate of internationalism .

Huebner he settled in The Hague , Netherlands, immediately after the end of the war , where his writing and journalistic career began and he developed into one of the most important German-Dutch cultural mediators at the time. He is mentioned in the same breath as Albert Vigoleis Thelen and Georg Hermann as well as Nico Rost from the Dutch perspective.

From 1919 Huebner worked for het Vaderland and, together with Dirk Coster and with the collaboration of colleagues from France, Italy and Great Britain, published the work of Europe's new art and poetry on the subject of Expressionism, which appeared in 1919. In the 1920s, his “Writings on the Interpretation of Life” became known, which were devoted to helping people through “character studies” and depth psychology and which, from 1933, he subtly adapted to the ideology of National Socialism. In addition, until the end of the Second World War , he devoted himself to cultural-historical writings on Flanders and the Netherlands mainly to German literature in the Third Reich.

Huebner also wrote novels, including the trilogy "Land of Windmills". During his lifetime, his esoteric work “Access to the World” from 1930 was considered his most important work, but it is now forgotten. He has published a total of more than 60 independent titles.

During the Second World War he was the administrator of several Dutch Jewish art dealers and thus involved in the National Socialist art theft. After the end of the war, he was charged with collaboration , but never convicted.

The Dutch Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD) maintains extensive archive material on Huebner.

Works (selection)

As an author

Fiction
  • The year is short, the day is long. Epiphany . Peschko Publishing House, Darmstadt 1942.
  • North Hotel. Novel . Lehning Verlag, Hannover 1954 (Das Lehning-Buch; 39).
  • Stars over Amsterdam. Roman among the Dutch . Juncker, Berlin 1939.
  • The cloud of light. Poems . Peschko Publishing House, Darmstadt 1940.
  • The witch monkey . Steinklopfer Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1959.
Non-fiction
  • Departure into the unknown. Surrender of fate and mastery of fate . Peschko Publishing House, Darmstadt 1933.
  • The animation of nothing . Reiss, Berlin 1922 (Tribune of Art and Time; 27).
  • Holland. Modern art in Dutch private collections . Klinckhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1922.
  • Access to the world. Magical interpretations . Klinhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1929.
  • The fertile darkness. Sleep and dream in a cosmic sense . Reichl Verlag , Remagen 1962, ISBN 978-3-87667-013-3 .
  • People as medicine and poison . Nils Kampmann Verlag, Kampen / Sylt 1934. New edition Reichl Verlag, St. Goar 2007, ISBN 978-3-87667-271-7 .
  • Nobody is lonely . Nils Kampmann Verlag, Kampen / Sylt 1936. New edition Reichl Verlag, St. Goar 2007, ISBN 978-3-87667-272-4 .
  • Sign language of the soul . Nils Kampmann Verlag, Kampen / Sylt 1933. New edition Reichl Verlag, St. Goar 2007, ISBN 978-3-87667-273-1 .
  • You can learn to stay young . Verlag Richter & Co, Heidelberg 1957. New edition Reichl Verlag, St. Goar 2007, ISBN 978-3-87667-287-8 .

As translator

  • Flemish book of short stories . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1917.
  • Felix Timmermans : The saint of the smallest things and other stories . 1980.
  • Felix Timmermans: The very nice hours of Jungfer Symforosa, the Beginchen .

literature

  • Hubert Roland: Life and Work of Friedrich Markus Huebner (1886-1964). From expressionism to conformity . Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 3-8309-2046-6 .
  • Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester, Evelyne Tax: In the shadow of literary history: authors who no longer knows. Rodopi, 2005. ISBN 90-420-1915-8 . Pp. 173-191.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubert Roland: Life and Work of Friedrich Markus Huebner (1886–1964) . P. 30
  2. ^ Hubert Roland: Life and Work of Friedrich Markus Huebner (1886-1964) . P. 44
  3. ^ Hubert Roland: Life and Work of Friedrich Markus Huebner (1886-1964). P. 9
  4. ↑ Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester, Evelyne Tax: In the shadow of literary history: authors who no longer knows. P. 174.
  5. ^ Archives at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie RKD
  6. ↑ Jattie Enklaar, Hans Ester, Evelyne Tax: In the shadow of literary history: authors who no longer knows. P. 174.
personal data
SURNAME Huebner, Friedrich Markus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and art critic
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1964
Place of death Netherlands