Georg von der Vring

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Georg von der Vring, around 1929

Georg von der Vring (born December 30, 1889 in Brake ( Oldenburg ), † March 1, 1968 in Munich ) was a German writer and painter .

Life

Origin and career

Birthplace of the poet on Schulstrasse in Brake (Unterweser)

Georg von der Vring comes from a family of sailors. From 1904 to 1910 he attended the Oldenburg Evangelical Teachers' College in Oldenburg , where he met the somewhat younger Peter Suhrkamp (1891–1959). Even as a seminarian he published poems in the Sunday entertainment supplement of the Nachrichten für Stadt und Land , whose editor-in-chief Wilhelm von Busch encouraged him to continue working. From 1910 he was a teacher in Horumersiel .

After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer , Georg von der Vring graduated from the Royal Art School in Berlin from 1912 to 1914 . In 1913 he published under the title shells self-published a first book of poems, whose title vignette Heinrich Vogeler created. After a brief activity as a drawing teacher, he took part in World War I from 1916 and fought as a reserve lieutenant in a land storm unit in Russia and France. He was wounded several times and was taken prisoner by the Americans in 1918, which he spent in a camp in southwest France.

Writing career

From 1919 to 1928 Georg von der Vring worked as a drawing teacher in Jever , where the Südergast volume of poems was published in 1925 . Hein Bredendiek was one of his students in Jever . He then lived as a freelance writer and painter in Ticino , Vienna and, from 1930, in Stuttgart ( Weißenhofsiedlung ).

It was not until the late 1920s that writing became the artist's main profession. His war novel Soldat Suhren (1927), which is considered to be one of the first literary creations of the First World War in German literature, in which the senselessness of the war is shown with all drastic attention, was very successful and made him famous practically overnight. In 1929, the similarly anti-militaristic novel Camp Lafayette followed , which addresses the captivity of war and can be understood as an appeal for the reconciliation of the former war opponents.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , von der Vring participated in the boom of so-called war literature, which was strongly propagandistically colored. Together with Ernst Georg Erich Lorenz, he published the six-volume book series Tell Comrades! Experiences from soldiers at the front (Stuttgart, 1933–1935) and interpreted ten pictures “of courage, pride and chivalry” for the Leipzig Seemann-Verlag under the title Der Ewige Soldat . He joined the National Socialist group of poets from Eutin, which was founded in 1936 by the Eutin National Socialist District President and SA group leader Johann Heinrich Böhmcker . Von der Vring, who, as a left-wing liberal humanist, had no sympathy for National Socialism, himself recognized that he was counteracting the message of his two anti-war novels with his works that glorified war. In 1938 he published another novel, Der Goldhelm, which took a clear political position against the war and the mutual respect of those who took part in the war and former enemies who met in the novel in 1918 in a Swiss prisoner-of-war camp formed the basis for a “life in peace and for the peace ”declared.

Because von der Vring always attached his hopes for a better future to the icon of the soldier at the front, his literature remained misleading and easy to use for National Socialist propaganda. The radio play version of the novel Der Goldhelm , created at the end of 1938, was reworked in such a way that the elements that unite people no longer appear and instead the focus is on the “fight as an obligation for the present”. Vring did not contradict these reinterpretations and remained wavering in his attitude: on the one hand he wrote soldiers' songs denouncing the war ( Dumpfe drum, hit on!, Hamburg 1939), on the other hand he wrote uncritical reports on experiences as a Wehrmacht officer from the front.

In 1940 Georg von der Vring was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a first lieutenant and took part in the Second World War. In 1938, 1940 and 1942 he took part in the Weimar poets' meeting of national socialist literary celebrities and gave a speech there in 1942 on the simple in poetry . Interpreters see this as evidence of von der Vring's ambivalent attitude, as on the one hand he served as an officer in the Nazi regime, on the other hand he tried to maintain his independence as a poet and to remain true to his basic humanistic attitude. Joseph Goebbels sometimes had those writers invited to the meetings who were rather remote from the regime. In any case, Georg von der Vring remained successful as a writer and in 1942 published the autobiographical tale Der ferne Sohn . In 1943 he was discharged from the army because of "lack of possible uses". Von der Vring withdrew to Schorndorf im Remstal . Since 1951 he lived with his family in Munich.

Georg von der Vring signs one of his books after reading a poetry.

After 1945, the focus of his work shifted to classical poetry with notable contributions, especially in the field of natural poetry . Von der Vring also made a name for himself as an editor and translator of French and English-language poetry. In the 1950s and 1960s he was considered a well-known contemporary poet in West Germany. His poems can be found in numerous anthologies and school reading books. On the other hand, his books did not reach high editions, and after his death he was soon forgotten.

At the beginning of March 1968 Georg von der Vring was found dead in the Isar . Whether he died in an accident or whether the longer time under depression sufferer Author suicide committed, remained unclear. His grave is in the cemetery in Brake-Kirchhammelwarden.

Georg von der Vring was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany , the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt.

In the Soviet occupation zone , Die Junge Front (1943) and in the GDR The Caucasian Flute (1944) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

family

Georg von der Vring was married three times. In 1917 he married Therese (Resi) Oberlindober (* October 22, 1894 - † May 4, 1927). From this marriage come the sons Peter (* July 15, 1920; † October 8, 1994) and Lorenz von der Vring (* 1923). After Therese's death, at the end of 1927, he married the artisan Marianne Kayser from Wardenburg (* 1902, † 1996); the marriage was divorced in 1944. The sons Clemens von der Vring (* March 16, 1936 - December 29, 2012) and Thomas von der Vring (* May 27, 1937), later founding rector of the University of Bremen, came from this marriage . In 1946 he married Wilma Musper, his third marriage.

Honors and aftermath

  • Georg von der Vring received the Lower Saxony Literature Prize in 1954 .
  • In 1954 he was awarded the honorary gift of the Kulturkreis des Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie .
  • In 1958 he received the Literature Prize of the City of Munich.
  • In 1959 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.
  • Georg von der Vring has been the only honorary citizen of the city of Brake (Unterweser) - until today - since 1960.
  • In 2001, Georg von der Vring-Gesellschaft was founded in Brake, the town of his birth .
  • The cities of Brake, Jever, Oldenburg ( Eversten- West development area / January 2007) and Schorndorf have named a street after Georg von der Vring.

Works

  • Mussels , Berlin 1913
  • Südergast , Jever in Oldenburg [u. a.] 1925
  • Soldier Suhren , Berlin 1927
  • The witness , Piesteritz 1927
  • Adrian Dehls , Berlin 1928
  • Camp Lafayette , Bremen 1929
  • Verse , Bremen 1930
  • Marotta Station , Berlin 1931
  • Argonnerwald , Berlin 1932
  • The race with the rose , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1932
  • The flower book , Dresden 1933
  • Simple people , Oldenburg 1933
  • The step over the threshold , Leipzig 1933
  • Black hunter Johanna , Berlin 1934
  • The Genius Shell , Breslau 1935
  • The track in the harbor , Berlin 1936
  • The tulip garden , Hamburg 1936
  • The Duke's rifle clamp , Oldenburg 1937
  • Childhood Garden , Hamburg 1937
  • The shipyards of Rodewarden , Oldenburg [u. a.] 1937
  • Picture book for a young mother , Berlin 1938
  • The gold helmet or the legacy of Grandcoeur , Oldenburg [u. a.] 1938
  • Children in the south , Hamburg 1938
  • The Spanish wedding , Berlin 1938
  • Dull drum, strike! , Hamburg 1939
  • The Caucasian Flute , Stuttgart 1939
  • The songs of Georg von der Vring , Oldenburg 1939
  • Early wind , Bohemian Leipa 1940
  • The distant son , Munich 1942
  • Young love , Gütersloh 1942
  • Oktoberrose , Munich 1942
  • The courted , Munich 1944
  • Verses for Minette , Munich 1947
  • The brooch Greece , Bad Wörishofen 1948
  • Magda Gött , Munich 1948
  • Frank and Juliane , Stuttgart-O. 1949
  • The master ship , Gütersloh 1949
  • And if you want, forget Munich 1950
  • Abendfalter , Munich 1952
  • The theft of Piantacon , Munich 1952
  • Small thread blue , Hamburg 1954
  • The ways one thousand and one , Hamburg 1955, new edition. Oldenburg 2001
  • The songs , Munich 1956
  • The juggler , Munich 1958
  • Stories from a Nut , Munich 1959
  • The swan , Munich 1961
  • The shell , Dülmen / Westf. 1963
  • The man at the window , Munich [u. a.] 1964
  • Poems , Frankfurt am Main 1965
  • King Harlequin , Hamburg 1966
  • Singing in the snow , Munich [a. a.] 1967
  • Poems and songs , Munich [a. a.] 1979
  • The poems , Ebenhausen near Munich 1989
  • Postponed poems , Ebenhausen near Munich 1991
  • From letters and poems by Georg von der Vring, 1889-1968 and Therese von der Vring, 1894-1927 . Jaderberg 1996

Editing

  • Tell me, comrade! , Stuttgart (together with EG Erich Lorenz)
    • Vol. 1. Mines on the Dead Man and other stories , 1933
    • Vol. 2. The Dead Village , 1933
    • Vol. 3 (1934)
    • Vol. 4 (1934)
    • Vol. 5 (1935)
    • Vol. 6 (1935)
  • Assault stride of the army . Stuttgart 1941 (together with Georg Remme)
  • The young front . Munich 1943
  • You keep me your heart . Munich 1953
  • English horn . Cologne 1953
  • Thousand mouths . Ebenhausen near Munich 1954
  • Immortal beautiful sisters . Ebenhausen near Munich 1956
  • Soft strings, musician . Munich 1957
  • Anglo-Saxon poetry from six centuries . Cologne [u. a.] 1962

Translations

literature

  • Karl Dachs (Ed.): Georg von der Vring, 1889 - 1968 . Bavarian State Library , Munich 1971.
  • Uwe Meiners (Ed.): Georg von der Vring, 1889 - 1968 . Publisher CL Mettcker, Jever 1989.
  • Thomas Milz (edit.), Uwe Jens Wandel (ed.): In the veil of rainy gardens? On the 100th birthday of Georg von der Vrings. City archive Schorndorf, Schorndorf 1990, ISBN 978-3-924431-09-9 .
  • Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , p. 774 ff. ( Digitized, letters U-Z (PDF) ).
  • Jens Aden: The poetry of Georg von der Vrings. Peter Lang Publishing Group , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 1993, ISBN 9783631456965 .
  • Jörg Michael Henneberg: Georg von der Vring: "I went the way into the distance"; A biography. Verlag Littmann, Oldenburg 1993, ISBN 978-3-926296-04-7 .
  • Dirk Dasenbrock (ed.): Georg von der Vring: 1889 - 1968; four lives in Germany . Eiswasser-Verlag, Vechta 1997, ISBN 3-9241-4328-5
  • Hartmut Peters: Georg von der Vring and Jever. In: Mariengymnasium Jever (Ed.): 425 years Mariengymnasium Jever 1573 - 1998; Contributions to the past and present of the school. Verlag Mettcker & Söhne, Jever 1998, p. 113 ff.
  • Werner Menke: Thoughts on a poem by Georg von der Vrings - Moorland Strauss . In: Mariengymnasium Jever (ed.): 425 years Mariengymnasium Jever , Jever 1998, p. 127 ff.
  • Jörg Michael Henneberg: Georg von der Vring: an expressionist in Jever. Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg 1998, ISBN 3-89598-571-6 .
  • Lawrence D. Stokes : The Eutin Poet Circle and National Socialism 1936-1945: A Documentation . Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster 2001. (Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein; Bd. 111.) ISBN 3-529-02211-X
  • Hans Sarkowicz , Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon. Extended new edition. Europa-Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-203-82030-7 , pp. 390–393.
  • Georg-von-der-Vring-Gesellschaft (Ed.): "Today is the happy time of my life!" Photographs to poems by Georg von der Vring , fotogr. and zsgest. by Peter Hoeltzenbein. Igel Verlag , Oldenburg 2005, ISBN 3-89621-217-6 .
  • Falko Weerts (Ed.): Special issue Georg von der Vring 1889–1968 , Volume II / 2008 of the magazine for German literature and culture "Tiefland" , Weerts-Verlag, Kirchweyhe 2008.
  • Henner Funk: Transformation of the blue. Georg von der Vring on the 50th anniversary of his death. In: "Kulturland Oldenburg", magazine of the Oldenburg landscape , issue 1.2018, no. 175, p. 30 f.
  • Hans Begerow: A writer falls out of his time. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt of January 16, 2018, p. 14.
  • Werner Menke: Poetic creativity rooted in Jever. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt of March 1, 2018, p. 12.
  • Martin Stolzenau: A longing for peace distinguishes works . In: Heimat am Meer , supplement to Wilhelmshavener Zeitung , No. 6/2018, from March 17, 2018, p. 23 f.
  • Werner Menke: robbers and gendarmes and all kinds of mischief. Hiking day of a sixth at the Mariengymnasium almost 100 years ago - described by Georg von der Vring. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt of April 5, 2018, p. 10.
  • Werner Menke: First admired as an author, then marginalized. In: Jeversches Wochenblatt of November 30, 2019, p. 15.
  • Werner Menke: The path from painter-poet to poet. In: Nordwest-Zeitung - Jeverland-Bote from January 22nd, 2020, p. 30.
  • Thomas Diecks:  Vring, Georg Wilhelm von der. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-428-11208-1 , pp. 144-146 (not yet available online).

Web links

Commons : Georg von der Vring  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Sarkowicz , Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon. Extended new edition. Europa-Verlag, Hamburg / Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-203-82030-7 , p. 21 f.
  2. ↑ List of literature to be discarded, serial no. 4357 , accessed on January 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ List of literature to be discarded, serial no. 5300 , accessed on January 19, 2018.
  4. ^ Promotion Prize for Literature of the City of Munich , accessed on March 1, 2018.
  5. ↑ Georg-von-der-Vring-Strasse in Germany , accessed on January 18, 2018.
  6. ^ Catalog for an exhibition in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, from January 21 to March 13, 1971.
  7. ↑ Accompanying volume to an exhibition on the 100th birthday of the poet and painter (Jever Castle Museum December 3 to 26, 1989, Brake Maritime Museum December 30, 1989 to January 28, 1990).
  8. ^ Catalog for an exhibition by the Kulturforum and the Schorndorf City Archives in Schorndorf Town Hall from February 4 to 25, 1990.
  9. ^ Accompanying volume to the exhibition in the Jever Castle Museum from November 13, 1998 to January 15, 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Vring, Georg von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Brake ( Oldenburg )
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1968
Place of death Munich