Georg Engel

Georg Engel. Photo from 1899.

Angel's tombstone in Elisenhain

Georg Julius Leopold Engel (born October 29, 1866 in Greifswald , † October 19, 1931 in Berlin ) was a successful German writer. His novels appeared in large editions. At times he used the pseudonym Johannes Jörgensen .

Life

Georg Engel spent his youth in Breslau . After studying philosophy and history in Berlin (1887 to 1890), he worked as an art and theater critic for the Berliner Tageblatt .

From 1891 he worked as a freelance writer in Berlin. In his novel Hann Klüth (1905) and in his collection of novels The People of Moorluke (1910), the story of which is set in Greifswald and the surrounding area, he drew lively and life-affirming North German characters.

Engel's dramas are forgotten, as is his play Über den Wassern , which was performed in the Greifswald Theater in October 1916. Engel was president of the Reich Association of German Literature . This organization should contribute to the social security of freelance authors. Here he earned recognition and merits.

During the time of National Socialism , his work was considered undesirable because Engel was considered “non-Aryan” in the sense of the Nazi state. The memorial plaque on the house where he was born in Greifswald was removed, and his tombstone in Elisenhain , under which the poet's ashes lay according to his wishes, was overturned. Engel's books were removed from the libraries and burned (see 1933 book burning in Germany ). His grave was restored after 1945 and has been cared for ever since.

Works (selection)

Stories and short stories

• The people of Moorluke , 1910
• Experienced and dreamed of , 1923

Novels

• Sorceress Circe , 1894
• The burden , 1898
• Fear of Woman , 1899
• Hann Klüth, the philosopher , 1905
• The Forbidden Intoxication , 1909
• The rider on the rainbow , 1909
• The lost maid , 1911
• The four kings , 1913
• The standard bearer , 1914
• The mistress and her servant , 1916
• Kathrin , 1919
• Claus Störtebecker , 1921
• The Princess and the Saint , 1922
• The Wall , 1923
• Love through the Air , 1925
• The neighbor's wife 1925
• Eulenspiegel , 1928
• Aether and the waves of love , 1929
• The court , 1931

Plays

• The cauldron , play, 1894
• Hadasa , dramatic poem, 1895
• Stormbells , play in one act, premiered December 31, 1899
• The excursion into morality , comedy, 1900
• Over the waters , 1902
• Jim Harbor , drama, 1906
• The Wedding of Poël , comedy, 1906
• The Laughing Miracle , Romantic Play, 1906
• The cheerful residence , comedy, 1913
• The invisible , play, 1920
• The diplomats , comedy, 1925

literature

• Lutz Mohr : Greifswald-Eldena and the Hilda monastery. A foray and guide through the Greifswald districts of Eldena and Friedrichshagen in the past and present. Neue Greifswalder Museumhefte, issue 1/1977, 2nd ext. Edition Greifswald 1979
• Lutz Mohr: An ostracized gravestone and memorial stone in Greifswald (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). In: Stone Cross Research (SKF). Studies on German and international land monument research. Edited by Rainer H. Schmeissner. Series B (anthologies), anthology No. 25 (NF 10), Regensburg 1998, pp. 83f
• Angel, Georg. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 6: Dore – Fein. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-598-22686-1 , pp. 371-381.

Web links

Wikisource: Georg Engel  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Georg Engel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Georg Engel in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Georg Engel in Project Gutenberg ( currently usually not available for users from Germany )
• Works by Georg Engel in the Gutenberg-DE project