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.

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

personal data
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