Hans Harbeck

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Hans Harbeck (born December 15, 1887 in Eckernförde ; died May 18, 1968 in Hamburg ) was a German poet , essayist and cabaret artist .

Life

From 1906 Harbeck studied philosophy and art history in Göttingen , where he founded the student association German Academic Freischar together with Knud Ahlborn , a friend from the Hamburg hiking club , in 1907 , then in Munich and in Kiel , where he worked on the painter Melchior Lorichs in 1910 PhD.

From 1917 Harbeck began to write expressionist poetry. In 1918 he became a dramaturge and actor at the Hamburger Kammerspiele . In 1919 his first volume of poetry ( Revolution ) was published and from 1922 he worked as a freelance writer. He also appeared as a cabaret artist and emcee, including in the literary cabaret The Seven Sticklebacks in the Curiohaus .

In 1934 the National Socialists banned him from working , in 1944 he was arrested and was held in " protective custody " until 1945 . He reflected on the time in captivity in the volume of poems Verse aus dem prison in 1946 . In the same year, together with Carl Bay and Dirks Paulun , he founded the still existing literary cabaret Die Wendeltreppe in Hamburg , in which he also appeared regularly, and which was soon joined by the little-known Heinz Erhardt .

Cushion stone Hans Harbeck , Ohlsdorf cemetery

Harbeck was a prolific author of numerous volumes of poetry, mostly cheerful content, often with echoes of Christian Morgenstern and Joachim Ringelnatz , with whom he was friends. In addition to his lyrical works, he also wrote rhyming lexicons, travel guides and practical literature such as company and club chronicles and he was editor of the Almanac of the Hamburg Artists Festival for many years . He also translated Dickens and Maupassant and was editor of the writings of Carl Wolff and Gustav Sack .

Harbeck died in Hamburg in 1968 at the age of 81. His estate is in the Hamburg State and University Library .

Hans Harbeck was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg, grid square Q 10 (south of Chapel 1 ).

Works

  • Melchior Lorichs. A contribution to the German art history of the 16th century. Hamburg 1911.
  • Revolution. Poems. Dresden 1919.
  • The curtain. Sonnets. Hamburg 1920.
  • All about the dog. Colorful verses. Hamburg 1921.
  • The Virgin. New sonnets. Hamburg 1923.
  • Sonnets to Sonja. Hamburg 1924.
  • The Empress of Newfoundland. Three acts based on Wedekind 's pantomime of the same name. Frankfurt am Main 1926.
  • The Book of Hamburg. With original drawings by Eugen Denzel , Hans Leip , Kurt Löwengard and Gabriele von Lüpwitz. Row What is not in the "Baedeker" . Vol. 8. Munich 1930. Reprint Leipzig 1997.
  • Turmoil in the inkwell. Hamburg 1930.
  • An author drives a car. Hamburg 1933.
  • The Kayser printing company. 1833-1933. Attempt a chronicle. Hamburg 1933.
  • The Hamburg Arts and Crafts Association. 1886-1936. A report. Hamburg 1936.
  • Blissful flute playing. Poems. Leipzig 1938.
  • Verses from prison. Hamburg 1946.
  • Happiness of freedom. Poems. Hamburg 1947.
  • Light luggage. Anecdotes, rascals and curiosities. Hamburg 1947.
  • William Wilberforce, the liberator of the slaves. Hamburg 1948.
  • Hamburger Lockbuch. 50 years of tourism in Hamburg. Hamburg 1949.
  • Baldwin, the sportsman. Poems. Drawn by Wolfgang Hicks. Vienna & Munich 1953.
  • Dart bow and flute. Cheerful verses. Hamburg 1953.
  • Rhyme you or I'll eat you. New German rhyming dictionary. At the suggestion and with the cooperation of Georg Roos. Munich 1953.
  • Well rhyming is half the battle. New German rhyming dictionary. Heidenheim 1956.
  • Heart in shell limestone. In memoriam Joachim Ringelnatz. Hamburg 1961.
  • Hamburg as it was. Hamburg 1966.
  • Actors, disheveled and drawn. With drawings by Adolf Oehlen . Memories. Düsseldorf 1966.

as translator:

as editor:

  • Carl Wolff : Precipitations. Verses of clouds, wax beans and vain wishes. From the estate, ed. by Hans Harbeck. Leipzig 1938.
  • Gustav Sack : Gustav Sack. An introduction to his work and a selection. Series of lost and forgotten. Wiesbaden 1958.

literature

  • Erich Lüth : In memory of Hans Harbeck. In: Yearbook Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. Hamburg 1968, pp. 355-357.
  • Walter Pape : Harbeck, Hans. 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. 5, p. 1.
  • Paul Raabe : The authors and books of literary expressionism. Stuttgart 1985, pp. 185-187. With bibliography.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Royal Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , dissertation June 11, 1910.
  2. ^ Website of the cabaret Die Wendeltreppe
  3. ↑ Celebrity Graves
personal data
SURNAME Harbeck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Eckernförde
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1968
Place of death Hamburg