Hans Hoffmann (writer)
Hans Hoffmann (born July 27, 1848 in Stettin , † July 11, 1909 in Weimar ) was a German writer . In his short stories and novels he also dealt with his homeland Pomerania . From 1902 he was general secretary of the German Schiller Foundation in Weimar.
Life
Hans Hoffmann was born in Stettin in 1848 as the son of a pastor at the St. Peter and Paul Church . He attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium in his hometown and then studied at the University of Bonn , the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Halle , where he in 1871 to Dr. phil. received his doctorate. In 1872 he took up the profession of high school teacher, which he gave little pleasure and which he interrupted by frequent trips to Turkey and Norway . He taught at the Marienstiftsgymnasium in Stettin as well as in Stolp and in Danzig .
In 1879 he left the teaching profession and lived as a freelance writer . From 1884 to 1886 he was director of the Deutsche Illustrirten Zeitung in Berlin . From 1894 to 1902 he lived in Wernigerode .
Hoffmann wrote short stories , historical novels , humoresques and poems . His homeland Pomerania plays an important role in his work. In the collection of novels, Stories from Western Pomerania (1891), he deals with the character of his Pomeranian compatriots. His novel Against the Elector (1894) deals with the siege of Szczecin by Friedrich Wilhelm , the Great Elector, from 1676 to 1678.
In 1902 Hoffmann became general secretary of the German Schiller Foundation in Weimar. Hans Hoffmann died in Weimar in 1909 at the age of 60. He was married and had three sons and a daughter.
Works (selection)
- Under a blue sky. Novellas. Paetel, Berlin 1881. ( digitized version )
- Ivan the Terrible and his dog . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1888. ( digitized version )
- From spring to spring . Pictures and sketches. Paetel, Berlin 1889. ( digitized version )
- The Iron Rittmeister . Novel. 3 volumes. Paetel, Berlin 1890.
- Stories from Western Pomerania . Four novellas. Paetel, Berlin 1891. ( digitized version )
- The high school in Stolpenburg. Novellas. Paetel, Berlin 1891. ( digitized version )
- From the path of life . Poems. Liebeskind, Leipzig 1893.
- Against the Elector . Novel. Paetel, Berlin 1894. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 ), ( volume 3 )
Commemoration
At the preacher's house of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Stettin there was a memorial plaque until 1945: “ The Pomeranian poet Hans Hoffmann was born on July 27, 1848 here. "
In Wernigerode there is a memorial stone erected by the Harz Club for Hans Hoffmann.
Most of his literary estate came to the Vienna City and State Library , while part of the estate is in the Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald .
literature
- Special issue Hans Hoffmann . Our Pommerland . Volume 3, 1926.
- Wolfgang Dahle: On the 100th anniversary of the death of the Szczecin poet Hans Hoffmann. In: The Pommersche Zeitung. No. 26/2009, p. 4.
- Conrad Höfer (Ed.): Correspondence between Hans Hoffmann and Heinrich Seidel . Berlin 1925.
- Otto Ladendorf : Hans Hoffmann - His life and his works . Berlin 1908.
- Eckhard Schulz: Hoffmann, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 419 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 245–247.
- Bartosz Wójcik: “At the very back in the very rear of the Pomerania region…” - Pomerania in historical novellas by Hans Hoffmann (= writings on the history of literature, volume 25). Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-339-10952-1 (print), ISBN 978-3-339-10953-8 (eBook).
- Ernst Zahnow : Hans Hoffmann. The memory of the poet on the 50th anniversary of his death. In: Pomeranian Saat. Issue 3/1959. Reprint 1985, pp. 679-683.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Hoffmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Hans Hoffmann in the German Digital Library
- Works by Hans Hoffmann in the Gutenberg-DE project
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoffmann, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 27, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Szczecin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1909 |
| Place of death | Weimar |