Fritz Droop
Fritz Droop (born March 1, 1875 as Friedrich Wilhelm Droop in Minden / Westphalia , † September 2, 1938 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German educator , journalist and writer .
Life
Fritz Droop was the son of an official working in the mining administration . He attended secondary school in Dortmund and then completed an apprenticeship at the teacher training college in Herdecke . He then worked as a primary school teacher in Schwelm and , in parallel, studied literary history and philosophy at the universities in Breslau , Heidelberg and Giessen . Later Droop was part of the editorial team of newspapers in Dortmund, Essen and Danzig . In Danzig he also taught as a lecturer in modern literature and musical aesthetics at the West Prussian Conservatory . From 1914 Droop was based in Mannheim , where he wrote for the features section of the " Mannheimer Tageblatt ". Droop took part in the First World War as a soldier ; after 1918 he held occasional lectures at a seminar for employees of the social administration in Weißenfels / Saale . In 1931 he earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Giessen with a thesis on the Jesuit drama.
In addition to educational specialist publications, Fritz Droop also wrote narrative works , poems and plays . He also worked as an editor ; u. a. In 1920 he published one of the first anthologies with texts by workers who wrote poetry.
Works
- Schiller forever! , Schwelm 1905
- Child, school, art , Neuwied [u. a.] 1906
- The sexual education of young people , Neuwied 1907
- School suicides , Dortmund 1908
- Enoch Arden , Berlin 1909
- Three important educational issues , Langensalza 1910
- Otto Julius Bierbaum , Leipzig 1912
- Die or win! , Mannheim 1914
- From the Vosges War , Strasbourg 1916
- Those who come after us , Darmstadt 1916
- Emil Gött's legacy , Constance 1917
- The victory , Munich 1917
- Alfred Bock , Marburg 1919
- Innocence , Marburg 1919
- The acquittal , Leipzig 1920
- Ernst Toller and his stage works , Berlin [a. a.] 1922
- The tramp , Berlin [u. a.] 1922
- Wilhelm Schmidtbonn and his best stage works , Berlin [a. a.] 1922
- Wilhelm von Scholz and his best stage works , Berlin [a. a.] 1922
- The commandant's wife , Berlin 1923
- Sandhas painter , Berlin 1924
- German hiking trips , Stuttgart 1925
- Augsburg, the golden city , Augsburg 1926
- As they force it , Mannheim 1926
- How the Neuberin buried the "Hanswurst" , Darmstadt 1927
- The commandant , Heidelberg 1928
- Mannheim as a stronghold of the Bayreuth idea , Mannheim 1929
- The handwritten Jesuit dramas of the Collegii Mannheimensis (Desbillon Library 1736) , Giessen 1930
- Rest on the hike , Heidelberg 1931
- Goethe and we , Göttingen 1932
- The appointment to Freischütz , Amorbach iO 1936
Editing
- Peter Hille : From the sanctuary of beauty , Leipzig 1909
- Otto Julius Bierbaum : Ripe fruits from the beer tree , Leipzig 1910
- Søren Kierkegaard : Selection from his confessions and thoughts , Munich 1914
- Mother , Munich 1918
- Workers' seal, Hamburg-Großborstel 1920
- Annette von Droste-Hülshoff : Selected Works , Berlin 1923
- Karl Friedrich Henckell : Karl Henckell Breviary , Munich 1924
- Wildenberg Castle, the Grail Castle in the Odenwald , Amorbach i. Odw. 1936
- Søren Kierkegaard : Either or , Leipzig 1939
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Droop in the catalog of the German National Library
- Fritz Droop in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Droop, Fritz |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Droop, Friedrich Wilhelm (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German educator, journalist and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1875 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Minden , Westphalia |
DATE OF DEATH | September 2, 1938 |
Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |