Gottfried Kölwel
Gottfried Kölwel (born October 16, 1889 in Beratzhausen , † March 21, 1958 in Graefelfing ) was a German poet , playwright and storyteller .
Life
Kölwel studied in Amberg and Munich. In 1914, with special support from Martin Buber , his first book of poems, "Gesänge gegen den Tod", was published by the renowned Kurt Wolff publishing house in Leipzig . Kölwel was in contact with Hermann Hesse and attracted attention in literary circles. In 1916 he met Franz Kafka when he was reading In der Strafkolonie in the bookstore of Hans Goltz .
Gottfried Kölwel is one of the authors of late literary expressionism . Kölwel's culture-critical approach and his criticism of modernity go back to the youth movement of the twenties. He fights less against an antagonism between town and country than rather egoism and poor social attitudes. His criticism of capitalism is criticism of the exploitation of humans and the destruction of nature. The destruction of supposedly unworthy life under National Socialism is also criticized.
Works
Poems
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Stories and novels
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Dramas
Radio plays
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Reviews
- “They are consoling poems, all of them consoling songs; You literally hold yourself in the dark with only one hand, perhaps so as not to be broken completely free from the earth, everything else is brightness, good and true. Precisely because you are destined to do so, I sometimes get bothered by a cool change of feeling, which is so clearly as if it were being performed on the trapeze, even if it was the highest, and not in the heart; it is impeccable, but that is certainly least of all sufficient for you. So z. B. the turn in the song of consolation, which fills the poem, which is based on the highest truth, as if with two huge support beams. Or partly also in the crucified one, in whose individual verses one sinks, however. A strong counterexample in my mind is the Herbstgesang, for example, which hovers in its entirety and can therefore carry it. « Franz Kafka , letter to Gottfried Kölwel, 1917
- "The volume contains so much that is fresh, natural, lovingly and clearly seen and spoken that I definitely belong to his lovers" Thomas Mann (1950)
- »Gottfried Kölwels 'poems' reverently praise the miracles of creation. The bright and cheerful tone of the early poems changes under the impact of the war's destruction later in the complaints of the elegist (›Münchner Elegien‹), who is nevertheless unable to give up his belief in something immortal even in the gloomy memento mori of his core poem ›Wir Wehen‹ . Kölwel is a lyricist by blood. What shines with him is pure gold. ” Oskar Jancke
Honors
The primary school in his birthplace and a square in Beratzhausen were named after him. There is also a Gottfried-Kölwel-Strasse in Neutraubling . Since 1949 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry . In 1956 he was awarded the Nordgau Culture Prize of the city of Amberg in the " Poetry " category.
literature
- Board of Trustees for the Care of Gottfried Kölwel's Poetry (Ed.): Gottfried Kölwel on his 70th birthday on October 16, 1959. Kösel, Munich 1959.
- Otto Heuschele : Kölwel, Gottfried. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-428-00193-1 , p. 327 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ingrid Girlinger: Gottfried Kölwel. Studies on his narrative and dramatic work (= Regensburg contributions to German linguistics and literary studies. Series B: Investigations. Volume 50). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1991, ISBN 3-631-43164-3 (At the same time: Regensburg, University, dissertation, 1990).
- Hartmut Binder (Ed.): Prague Profiles: Forgotten Authors in the Shadow of Kafka . Berlin: Mann 1991
- Jan Neidhardt, Christine Riedl-Valder: Gottfried Kölwel and Beratzhausen - a market town honors its poet. In: Christine Riedl-Valder, Sigmund Bonk , Benhard Lübbers (eds.): Georg Britting and Gottfried Kölwel - New facets on their literary work. Regensburg 2012, pp. 119–142.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gottfried Kölwel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Eberhard Dünninger : Kölwel, Gottfried (1981). Entry in the database of the Oberpfälzer Kulturbund (currently not available)
- Gottfried Kölwel in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Kelber: Gottfried Kölwel - poet as a philanthropist. In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . March 19, 2008.
- ^ Franz Kafka - Letters and Diaries
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| SURNAME | Kölwel, Gottfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, playwright and storyteller |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beratzhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1958 |
| Place of death | Graefelfing |