Gerdt von Bassewitz
Gerdt Bernhard von Bassewitz (born January 4, 1878 in Allewind , Kingdom of Württemberg , † February 6, 1923 in Berlin ) was a German writer and actor .
Life
He came from the Hohenluckow branch of the Mecklenburg line of the Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility, the von Bassewitz family . His father Eberhard von Bassewitz, an active officer in the Dragoons, had leased the Allewind estate near Hermaringen. The mother was born Thedens from Husum ; her father met her during a visit from Johann Christoph Blumhardt to Bad Boll . Soon after the marriage, the father took over the Liebenow family estate in Neumark , which he sold two years later. To ensure the maintenance of the family, the father took a job as a forestry cash Rendant in neighboring Hohenwalde on. In addition to Gerdt, the couple had four daughters.
From the age of nine, Gerdt von Bassewitz attended the alumnate of the Moravian Brethren in Niesky near Görlitz . Two years later he went to Putbus on Rügen , where he had received a vacancy at the Princely Pedagogy and stayed there until 1898. He then joined the Prussian Army as an avant-garde in Cottbus . After attending the war school in Metz, he was promoted to officer on October 17, 1899. Because of a heart disease, he was transferred to the prison guard in Sonnenburg (Neumark) as a commander in 1901 , and then in 1902 to District Command II in Berlin. Finally, due to his health, he was given leave of absence until 1903 and then retired.
He later became an actor , then came from 1908–1911 at the call of Max Martersteig as assistant director at the Cologne City Theater and most recently worked as a freelance writer in Berlin.
His best-known work is Peterchens Mondfahrt , which premiered on December 7, 1912 in the Leipzig City Theater with great success. On a February day in 1923 he read from this work in the Villa Siemens on Wannsee , then left the event in a hurry and killed himself. His work includes several dramas ; however, he remained largely unknown during his lifetime.
Oral traditions from second or third hand claim that Peter's journey to the moon was made in 1911 during a cure in Königstein im Taunus and that Bassewitz used the children of the local sanatorium operator Oskar Kohnstamm as models for the protagonists of the fairy tale. The fairy tale was also filmed twice, see Peterchens Mondfahrt (1959) and Peterchens Mondfahrt (1990) . In April 2012, the picture story Pips the mushroom - A forest and Christmas fairy tale with illustrations by Hans Baluschek came out again.
In a biography of the composer and conductor Otto Klemperer , who referred to the later author of the children's book in 1911 in the sanatorium Dr. Kohnstamm, it says:
“He […] gets to know a strange Mecklenburg nobleman, Gerdt von Bessewitz-Hohenluckow, who was once a lieutenant in the Prussian Landwehr, but to the horror of his clan turned to literature. In Königstein he writes a fairy tale for two of the four Kohnstamm children, Peter and Anneliese, three and eleven years old, to whom he gives the title of Peterchen's journey to the moon . "
He was buried in the Nikolassee cemetery in Berlin. The grave was leveled in 1957.
Contemporary witnesses
Peter Kohnstamm described the poet as follows: “... he was in uniform, a handsome handsome man who reminded me of the singer (Mr. Brinkmann) who sang Count Almaviva during my school days at the Frankfurt Opera. That is everything I know …"
Franz Kafka describes von Bassewitz on June 29, 1912 in Leipzig as “… the author of Judas , tall, nervous, dry face, play in the waist, well-treated strong body. [...] All three [Note: Gerdt von Bassewitz, Walter Hasenclever and Ernst Rowohlt ] wave sticks and arms. "
Works
List of works given by the author himself:
- Words to you. Essays on natural philosophy, published by Eugen Diederichs, Jena, 1907.
- Schahrazade. Play in three acts, published by Ernst Rowohlt, Kurt Wolff, Leipzig 1911.
- Schahrazade. Opera in three acts, poetry by Gerdt von Bassewitz, music by Bernhard Sekles , text book, Drei Masken Verlag GmbH Berlin / Munich 1917
- Judas. A tragedy in four acts, published by Ernst Rowohlt, Kurt Wolff, Leipzig 1911.
- Peterchen's trip to the moon. A fairy tale game in four pictures, published by Ernst Rowohlt, Kurt Wolff, Leipzig 1912.
- Little Peter's journey to the moon. A picture book of fairy tales, published in the publishing house for literature and art, Hermann Klemm, Berlin-Grunewald 1916
- Pips the mushroom. A fairy tale game in five pictures for big and small people, Kurt Wolff Verlag, Leipzig 1916
- The Sunamitin. A drama in a prelude and three acts, published by Ernst Rowohlt, Kurt Wolff, Leipzig 1912.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerdt von Bassewitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature about Gerdt von Bassewitz in the state bibliography MV
- Works by Gerdt von Bassewitz in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Works by and about Gerdt von Bassewitz at Open Library
- Bassewitz, Gerdt von: Brief (autobiographical), Neubabelsberg, March 10, 1917 in the digital edition " Franz Brümmer estate "
Individual evidence
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↑ a b Bassewitz, Gerdt von. Autobiographical information, pages 1r – 2r. In: Franz Brümmer estate. Berlin State Library, accessed on October 7, 2013 . A place Allewind in Mecklenburg, as in Carl Ludwig Lang (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th Century - Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook. 1 volume: Aab-Bauer . De Gruyter, Berlin 1999, ISBN 978-390-82550-1-7 , Col. 681. given, does not exist.
- ^ Homepage Nikolassee cemetery
- ^ Bassewitz, Gerdt von. Autobiographical information, pp. 3r – 4r. In: Franz Brümmer estate. Berlin State Library, accessed on October 7, 2013 .
- ↑ http://bruemmer.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/nlbruemmer/autorenregister/transkription.php?id=11&page=3
- ↑ Magistrate of the city of Königstein im Taunus (ed.): 150 years of cure in Königstein: from the beginnings to the present; 1851-2001. Königstein 2001; The former sanatorium of Dr. Oskar Felix Kohnstamm in Koenigstein. In: Jüdische Gemeindezeitung Frankfurt 4/2008, p. 39.
- ↑ Barbara Hillen (Ed.): Pips the mushroom. ISBN 978-3981471816
- ↑ In the explanations on page 77, it is also reported in Pips der Pilz that Peterchen's journey to the moon was created in the Kohnstamm sanatorium: “Gerdt von Bassewitz (1878–1923) came from a noble family in which it was welcomed when someone was a soldier. So Gerdt von Bassewitz also became a soldier. But then he didn't feel like doing it anymore because he would much rather be an actor and work in the theater. His family wasn't particularly happy about it, but he got his way and worked at the Cologne City Theater. Unfortunately, he was always sick and so sad that he had to live in a hospital for a while - at that time it was called a 'sanatorium'. The director of this house, Dr. Kohnstamm, had four children. For two of them, Peter and Anneliese, Gerdt von Bassewitz wrote the book Peterchens Mondfahrt in 1911 . The story was presented as a play a year later and many people loved it. "
- ^ Eva Weissweiler : Otto Klemperer - A German-Jewish artist's life . Cologne 2010, p. 85 f .
- ^ Homepage Nikolassee cemetery
- ↑ http://edocs.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/result.php?suchart=teil&Lines_Displayed=10&sort=o.date_year+DESC%2C+o.title&suchfeld1=freitext&suchwert1=&opt1=AND&opt2=AND&suchfeld3=date_year&suchwert3=&page&page&suchwert3= = 0 & dir = 2 & search = & searchfeld2 = oa.person & suchwert2 = Brinkmann% 2C% 20Rudolf% 20% 5BS% E4nger% 5D% 20% 231873-1927% 23 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ letter Peter Konstams Gertrud Koch of 21 May 1991, Municipal Archives Koenigstein (the Municipal Archives also has a portrait photograph of Gerdt von Bassewitz).
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Franz Kafka: Diaries 1910–1923. Edited by Max Brod, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-436-01637-3 , p. 407, chapter: “Reise Weimar – Jungborn from June 28 to July 29, 1912”, note: the passage mentions “Graf Bassewitz” - There is a register in the book - but there is no entry for “Bassewitz” or “Graf Bassewitz”.
- ↑ Ernst Rowohlt published the works of Gerdt von Bassewitz. In 1912, both Peterchens Mondfahrt and Judas premiered in Leipzig .
- ↑ http://bruemmer.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/nlbruemmer/autorenregister/transkription.php?id=11&page=10
- ↑ Schahrazade in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ The opera corresponds almost exactly to the story of Scheherazade
- ↑ The work was created during a cure in Bad Nauheim and its world premiere took place at Christmas 1916 in Leipzig.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bassewitz, Gerdt von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bassewitz, Gerdt Bernhard von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 4, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allewind , Kingdom of Württemberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 6, 1923 |
| Place of death | Berlin |