Gerhard Ouckama Knoop

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Gerhard Ouckama Knoop (born June 9, 1861 in Bremen ; died September 7, 1913 in Innsbruck ) was a German writer and chemist.

Life

Knoop came from a long-established Bremen family. His father Hermann August Knoop (1831–1877) was a businessman, his mother Angelika, b. Ouckama, came from Holland. After secondary school and high school, Knoop began to study law in Freiburg , but switched to chemistry after one semester. After attending polytechnics in Hanover and Munich and completing practical training in Mulhouse , from 1885 he worked as a chemist in the Danilov calico factory in Moscow . He began to write from 1893, and in 1897 his first novel Die Karburg was published . From 1911 onwards, Knoop lived relatively secluded as a freelance writer in Munich-Neuhausen . He was an occasional guest in Baron Alexander von Gleichen-Rußwurm's salon and on Karl Wolfskehl's Thursdays . He was also in contact with Eduard von Keyserling , Rainer Maria Rilke , Ricarda Huch , Thomas Mann and Frank Wedekind .

In 1895 Knoop had married Gertrud Roth (1869–1967). Two daughters came from the marriage, Lilinka and the dancer Wera Knoop (1900-1919), who died young, to whom Rilke dedicated the sonnets to Orpheus as a “grave mark”. The poet Eugen Roth , nephew of Knoop's wife, wrote a short portrait of Wera in 1969. Knoop himself died at the age of 52 as a result of an arsenic cure that he had hoped would cure a heart condition. His grave is in the Munich forest cemetery .

In his work, Knoop shows himself at an ironic distance from a present to which his protagonists remain alien. Linguistically referring to the great models of the 19th century, he tends to romantic informality, which is already evident in the debut Die Karburg with the dissolution in the diary and continues in the other works: in Prince Hamlet's letters in the dissolution of letters or in the two volumes of The Limits in Disintegration in Notes and Aphorisms.

Works

literature

  • Ingeborg Repis: Gerhard Ouckama Knoop. Attempt a monograph. Dissertation Munich 1950.
  • Monika Großpietsch, Fernanda Silva-Brummel: ›Die Dekadenten‹ (1898) by Gerhard Ouckama Knoop. In: Decadence in Germany. Edited by Dieter Kafitz. Frankfurt a. M. 1987, pp. 143-157.
  • Franz Menges :  Knoop, Gerhard Ouckama. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 211 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Bernadette Ott: Knoop, Gerhard Ouckama. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 6, p. 527.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eugen Roth: Like a flower: Wera Ouckama Knoop. In: The beautiful woman from Munich. Edited by Hanns Arens . Desch, Munich 1969, pp. 120-133.
  2. ^ Image by Wera Knoop
  3. ↑ Erich Schreibmayr: Last home. Personalities in Munich cemeteries 1784–1984. Self-published, Munich 1985, p. 131.
personal data
SURNAME Knoop, Gerhard Ouckama
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ouckama, Gerhard; Knoop, Gerhard Julius (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1913
Place of death innsbruck