Fritz Usinger

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Memorial plaque, In der Burg 28, Friedberg

Fritz Usinger (born March 5, 1895 in Friedberg , Hessen , † December 9, 1982 ibid) was a German writer , poet , essayist and translator .

Life

After graduating from high school, Fritz Usinger studied German , Romance studies and philosophy . In 1913 he lived in Munich, where he met Hans Schiebelhuth , Karl Wolfskehl , Emil Preetorius and Ernst Moritz Engert . In 1914 he continued his studies in Heidelberg and Giessen. From 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . He then worked as an editor in Metz. There he became friends with Carlo Mierendorff and Theodor Haubach , who invited him to work on the magazine Die Dachstube . His first volumes of poetry, Der ewige Kampf (1918) and Große Elegie (1920), were published by the Dachstube Verlag . In 1918 Usinger resumed his studies in Giessen and received his doctorate there. After the clerkship at the Justus-Liebig-Schule in Darmstadt he taught as a teacher at secondary schools in Bingen, Mainz, Offenbach am Main and Bad Nauheim. During this time numerous volumes of poetry and essay collections were created.

From 1949 he was a freelance writer. Usinger was one of the founding members of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in 1949 . From 1953 to 1965 he was a member of the jury and one of the vice-presidents until 1966.

After the Second World War , Usinger was very committed to his former circle of friends around Die Dachstube and published works collections by Hans Schiebelhuth and Carlo Mierendorff. On his 80th birthday in 1975 an extensive exhibition about life and work took place in the Hessian State and University Library Darmstadt (today: University and State Library Darmstadt ) in the Darmstadt Residence Palace.

Usinger lived in his hometown Friedberg until his death. He died in December 1982 at the age of 87.

Honors

Blackboard on Fritz-Usinger-Platz in Friedberg

Afterlife

  • Usinger is an important but always in the background figure in Andreas Maier's novel Der Kreis (2016).

plant

Fritz Usinger published ten volumes of poetry, most recently in 1962, Der Stern Vergeblichkeit, and also fourteen volumes of essays. His essay volume Geist und Gestalt contains ideological and cultural-critical essays, some of which are folkish in color.

  • The eternal struggle , with 4 original lithographs by Carl Gunschmann , Die Dachstube, Darmstadt 1918.
  • Great elegy , the attic room, Darmstadt 1920.
  • Earthly poem . with 4 original etchings by Carl Gunschmann , Die Dachstube, Darmstadt 1927.
  • Sonnets. Essays on pictures . Self-published, Friedberg 1927.
  • The word . Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1931 (new edition 1938).
  • The voices . Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1934.
  • The secrets . Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1937 (new edition 1938).
  • Mind and shape. Essays . Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1939. Rauch, Jena 1941.
  • Medusa. Essays on paintings by Rauch, Dessau 1940.
  • Fulfillment and limit. Words of the directive Rauch, Dessau Leipzig 1940.
  • Hermes . Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1942
  • Happiness . Darmstädter Verlag, Darmstadt 1947
  • Small biography of jazz . Liselotte-Kumm-Verlag, Offenbach 1953.
  • The meaning and the meaningless. Notes on the Twentieth Century . Bernhart, Darmstadt 1970.
  • The planet poems . Bernhart, Darmstadt 1972.
  • Two friends, Carl Zuckmayer and Fritz Usinger. An exchange of letters (1919–1976) (= sheets of the Carl-Zuckmayer-Gesellschaft , vol. 10, issue 1), Mainz 1984.
  • Works , Vol. 1–6, ed. by Siegfried Hagen. Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Waldkirch 1984–1988.

literature

  • Article Fritz Usinger , in: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt, Stuttgart 2006, p. 935.
  • Christine Rosemary Barker: Fritz Usinger. Poet, essayist and critic: an investigation of his work , Hull, Univ., Diss., 1975.
  • Fritz Usinger - Life and Work, exhibition of the Hessian State and University Library, Darmstadt 1975.
  • Hagen Siegfried: Fritz Usinger. Finiteness and Infinity , Bonn 1973.

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personal data
SURNAME Usinger, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet, essayist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Friedberg (Hesse)
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1982
Place of death Friedberg (Hesse)