Günther Herzfeld-Wüsthoff
Günther Herzfeld-Wüsthoff (born April 8, 1893 in Berlin , † September 17, 1969 in Unterreitnau ) was a German antiquarian, private scholar and writer.
Life
Günther Herzfeld was born in 1893 as the son of the secret government councilor and professor of chemistry Alexander Herzfeld in Berlin-Grunewald. He attended the humanistic grammar school and studied literary history, philosophy, history and theater studies at the universities of Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg and Cologne. In 1922 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil.
During the First World War he stood on the infantry front for four years as a reserve officer of the Queen Elisabeth Guard Grenadier Regiment No. 3 .
He gained his theater practice since 1912 at the Reinhardt-Bühnen Berlin.
In 1920 he married the daughter of the Kommerzienrat Georg Heise (General Director of the Excelsiorwerke Hannover). Günther Herzfeld has lived in Munich as an antiquarian and private scholar since the 1920s. There he gathered a circle of artists, poets and painters around him, which also included Georg Britting , Max Unold , Josef Achmann and Hans Lasser .
In the time of National Socialism he took the name of his grandmother, "Wüsthoff", and now had the double name Herzfeld-Wüsthoff.
On Lake Constance , he bought a plot of land in Unterreitnau in the Lindau hinterland, right next to the old plague cemetery from the 17th century, where he had a house built in 1935 and founded the publishing house “Trösteinsamkeit”, named after the place.
Herzfeld-Wüsthoff died in 1969 at the age of 76 and was buried in the old plague cemetery in Unterreitnau.
Today the author Herzfeld-Wüsthoff is largely unknown. During his lifetime he was in contact with great writers such as Thomas Mann - Herzfeld-Wüsthoff was the godfather of Thomas Mann's youngest daughter Elisabeth - and Alfred Andersch , who memorialized his former mentor in the novel "Cherries of Freedom".
Works (selection)
- Ningal and the Cat Sun. A legend. 1968
- In the Aeolian Islands , around 1970
- Dramas. Volume I and Volume II.
- 1976/77. With a drawn portrait as the frontispiece in Volume I and a photo portrait in Volume II (Unterreitnau, Trösteinsamkeit, 1977)
- The divine bird. Fairy tales for everyone. Published posthumously in 1974
Web links
- A friendship with Fractions Georg Britting and Günther Herzfeld-Wüsthoff (PDF file; 176 kB)
- Denazification files Günther Herzfeld-Wüsthoff as a digital reproduction in the online offer of the Sigmaringen State Archives
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Herzfeld-Wüsthoff, Günther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German antiquarian, private scholar and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th September 1969 |
| Place of death | Unterreitnau |