Hans Joachim Leidel

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Hans Joachim Leidel, 1950s

Hans Joachim Leidel (born October 28, 1915 in Angermünde in the Uckermark district ; † February 7, 1962 in Gießen ) was a German doctor and writer .

Life

Leidel was born the youngest of four children. The father Georg Gustav August Leidel was also a general practitioner. Because of unpatriotic and anti-majestic statements, he had to give up his practice and worked as a ship's doctor mainly on the China Sea until his death in 1917. The mother Susanne Marie Pauline Leidel geb. Schimkönig supported her children as a district welfare officer after her husband's death. She later married a second marriage to a businessman.

After primary school, Hans Joachim Leidel attended the Hans Richert School in Berlin-Lichterfelde , where he graduated from high school in 1936. He then studied medicine, first in Berlin , then in Heidelberg and Giessen . In Heidelberg he met the qualified doctor Hilde Adolph, whom he married in Gießen in 1943. The son Jan was born in 1944 . In the same year Leidel submitted his dissertation on the subject of circulatory disorders of the brain caused by cramp-inducing substances at the medical faculty of Ludwig University . State exams and doctorate followed. In the last year of the war, Leidel was used as a medical doctor for the 20th Panzer Division in France and on the Eastern Front. After the war , he continued to work at the University Dermatology Clinic in Giessen, where he trained as a specialist in skin diseases. In addition, he became a social democratic member of the Giessen city parliament. In 1947 the daughter Simone was born. At the same time, Leidel made friends with the writer Hans Thyriot, who also lived in Giessen.

After a scandal among clinicians in the spring of 1950, Leidel ended his work as a doctor and initially worked for a pharmaceutical factory in Biberach an der Riss . He then spent some time in Hamburg as an editor and freelancer for daily newspapers. The end of his medical career also marked the birth of the writer Leidel. From 1950 on, his poems and treatises appeared regularly in the Frankfurter Hefte , in Du und die Welt or in the magazines Sinn und Form and Texte undzeichen , which were edited by Alfred Andersch . Leidel's best-known poem, The Three Wasps of Sir James Jeans , refers to James Hopwood Jeans , who was a well-known English astronomer in the 1930s . The poem appeared for the first time in 1954 in the Frankfurter Hefte and later in Wolfgang Weyrauch's poetry collection Expeditions . In 1952, Leidel inherited a house in Gießen and finally moved to the city. At the beginning of the sixties he made friends there with the bookseller and publisher Gideon Schüler . Leidel's growing publicity, which led to an invitation from Group 47 , put an end to early death at the age of forty-six.

In 1986, Gideon Schüler's Edition Literarischer Salon published a compilation of Leidel's poems from 1945 to 1962.

Poems by Hans Joachim Leidel

  • Saint Johanna von Orléans , published in Sinn und Form , German student newspaper and in French translation
  • The chromosome is a church , 1950
  • Farewell by the sea , early 1950 in Hamburg
  • Under Gaugin's pictures , ibid
  • The louse in the violinist's fiddle , final version from February 6, 1952
  • The White in the Opponent's Eye , published in 1952 in the Frankfurter Hefte
  • Moonlight at the front , date of origin unknown
  • Small parable from Asylum , published in 1953 in the Frankfurter Hefte and in 1954 in the German student newspaper
  • The three wasps of Sir James Jeans , 1954 published in the Frankfurter Hefte and in: Expeditions, ed. by Wolfgang Weyrauch , Munich 1959
  • If the pen scurries into the nets , 1955 appeared in Texts and Characters
  • Rondel , 1955, published in Hessen Journal 4/1960 and in: Gideon Schüler : Obituary. On the death of Hans Joachim Leidel, in: Gießener Anzeiger , February 1962
  • Schlenderhannes , 1955
  • Quiet, like in a cage under a cloth , 1955
  • The forehead The hand The heart , mid-fifties
  • Negro bride with high school diploma , 1955/1956
  • On the Nebelweg , date of origin unknown
  • Mein Fernwehheim , 1955, published in Texts and Characters , 5/1956
  • Wait, Remember, Be Happy , 1955, published in Texts and Characters , 5/1956
  • My peacock screamed so tenderly , 1957, published in Rhinozeros , 1962
  • O end now , 1956/57
  • Beloved face , 1957/58
  • Guardian angels are in town in the mid to late 1950s
  • Hybrid precipitate 1-2-3 , mid to late 1950s
  • Silhouettes of secluded hours , 1961
  • Area of ​​Mourning , 1961/62

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Hans Joachim Leidel: Sometimes a verse, a formula ... Poems from the years 1945-1962, Edition Literarischer Salon, Giessen 1986
  2. ↑ See: Hans Joachim Leidel: Sometimes a verse, a formula ... Poems from the years 1945-1962, Edition Literarischer Salon, Giessen 1986
  3. ↑ Article by Marie-Luise Bott from December 13, 1991 about Hans Joachim Leidel and the Edition Literarischer Salon in the archive of the taz , accessed on July 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Leidel, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Angermünde
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1962
Place of death to water