Fritz Eckerle

Fritz Eckerle, around 1896

Fritz Eckerle (born May 1, 1877 in Frankweiler ; † December 31, 1925 in Bamberg ) was a German writer .

Life

Eckerle came from a family of winegrowers in the Palatinate and studied law in Würzburg , Gießen and Munich from 1895 . He was a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg and Teutonia Gießen . After graduating as Dr. jur. he settled in 1912 as a notary in Hofheim in Lower Franconia. He later moved to Bamberg. As a writer, he wrote poetry, dramas and prose works between the First World War and his untimely death in 1925, most of which were published by Bamberg's Parnaß-Verlag.

In front of the cemetery in Siebeldingen in the Palatinate is a plaque with a poem by Fritz Eckerle:

“There you are,
your back on the sun-warm earth
and five more shoes above you.
And evergreen guards their peace,
the roses cover stones and names,
deep down the river is a silver trail.
But all around the graves,
a sea of ​​green vines floods ;
it takes its course from the
plains and surges high up the blue mountain.
This is how it should be in death as in life:
what you love is about you, the wine.
Sleep well, you vine-happy fathers mine! "

Works

• The hot zone , comedy in three acts, Berlin 1918
• Schatten , play in three acts, Berlin 1921
• The high song. A Rhenish poem , Bamberg 1921 (a national epic in classic meter, based on the Hambach Festival of 1832)
• The green towers. A book of experiences , Bamberg 1924 (romantic adventure novel)
• Hans Kirch , play in five acts, Bamberg 1924
• The plowman , poems, Bamberg 1924
• Joy of life , Roman, Bamberg 1924
• The other. Novellas, satires and sketches , Bamberg 1924

literature

• Curt Thomalla: Fritz Eckerle and his works . Deutsche Corpszeitung, 42nd year, Frankfurt am Main, October 1925, No. 7, pp. 240–243.
• Hans Blinn: Fritz Eckerle 1877-1925. Does a song sound higher than fatherland? Freedom! Frankweiler / Palatinate 1997.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Eckerle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Fritz Eckerle in the German Digital Library
• Search for Fritz Eckerle in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation