George of Ompteda

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George of Ompteda

Georg von Ompteda (pseudonym Georg Egestorff , born March 29, 1863 in Hanover , † December 10, 1931 in Munich ) was a German writer .

Life

Georg was the son of Wilhelm von Ompteda, the last court marshal of King George V and the king's godchild . He was a nephew of Ludwig von Ompteda .

Ompteda grew up in Vienna and Dresden. In 1883 he embarked on a career as an officer and attended the Prussian War Academy in Berlin from 1889 to 1892 . After falling from his horse in 1892, which led to his unfit for service, he had to submit his departure and lived as a freelance writer in Berlin, Dresden, Meran and Munich. He initially published under the pseudonym Georg Egestorff . Ompteda translated the collected works of Guy de Maupassant and wrote, initially based on him, poems and erotic novels. His great role model was then the Swiss CF Meyer, to whom he dedicated a long poem To Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , in which he expressed his admiration. One of his favorite subjects was the impoverishment and decline of the nobility in Germany. He achieved greater fame with his later socially critical novels, in which he propagated a new nobility ethos, especially in the trilogy German nobility around 1900 .

Stifterhof in Obermais (1912)

Ompteda had the Stifterhof residence built by the architect Adalbert Erlebach in Obermais in 1910 . He died in Munich in 1931 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof in Dresden .

Works

  • From the street of life and other poems. Leipzig, Friedrich, Leipzig 1889. (Under the pseud. Georg Egestorff.) ( Digitized )
  • Outdoor pictures. Novellas and sketches. Fontane, Berlin 1891. (Under the pseud. Georg Egestorff.)
  • The sin. Story of an officer. Fontane, Berlin 1891. (Under the pseud. Georg Egestorff.) ( Digitized version )
  • Drones. Modern novel. Fontane, Berlin 1892. ( digitized version )
  • Between us bachelors. Free stories. Fontane, Berlin 1894. ( digitized version )
  • Our regiment. An equestrian image. Fontane, Berlin 1895. ( digitized version )
  • German nobility around 1900 . [Romantic trilogy:]
    • 1. New Year's Eve from Geyer. A human life. 2 vols. Berlin, Friedrich Fontane, 1897.
    • 2. Eysen. 2 vols. Berlin, Friedrich Fontane 1899.
    • 3. Cecilia of Sarryn. 2 vols. Berlin, Friedrich Fontane, 1902.
  • The master of ceremonies. Novel. Fontane, Berlin 1898.
  • Conjugal love. Play. Fontane, Berlin 1898.
  • From great heights. Alpine novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1903. ( digitized 3rd edition )
  • Denise de Montmidi. Novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1904. ( New edition 2018 )
  • Herzeloide. Novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1905. ( digitized version )
  • Normal people. Novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1906.
  • Droesigl. Novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1909.
  • Excelsior! A mountaineering life. Fleischel, Berlin 1909. ( digitized edition 1921 )
  • Benigna. Life of a woman. Fleischel, Berlin 1910
  • The daughter of the great Georgi. Theater novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1911
  • The round table. Purity. Two novels. Fleischel, Berlin 1913. ( digitized version )
  • Sunday child, the youth of a happy man. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1925 (autobiography)
  • Ernst III. Novel. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1925. ( New edition 2017 )
  • The virgin summit. Novel. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1927.
  • The little pinnacle. Novel from the mountains. Ullstein, Berlin 1931.
  • The beautiful Countess Cosel. Novel of a mistress of Augustus the Strong. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1932

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hugo Thielen: OMPTEDA ... (see literature)
personal data
SURNAME Ompteda, Georg von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1931
Place of death Munich