Hans Leifhelm
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Hans Leifhelm (born February 2, 1891 in Mönchengladbach , † March 1, 1947 in Riva del Garda ) was an Austrian poet . He also published under the pseudonyms Hermann Brinckmeyer and Konrad Overstolz .
Life
Hans Leifhelm attended the Stiftsche Humanist Gymnasium and passed his Abitur in 1911. He broke off studying medicine in Strasbourg for financial reasons. His studies in political science at the University of Innsbruck , Vienna and Berlin also initially remained without a degree. During the First World War , Leifhelm served in an office. In 1917 he married Sophie Hennicke (1890–1945) from Graz and became the father of his daughter Elfriede (1917–1997). In 1918, with material support from Carl Sonnenschein , Leifhelm continued his studies in Bonn and Heidelberg; he received his doctorate in Heidelberg on the subject of wage workers on the Prussian-Hessian state railways, their location and organization . In 1919 he worked as an editor at the Munich art magazine “Wieland”, in 1923 he became a career advisor and soon head of the Graz employment office, and in 1930 a career advisor at the Dortmund employment office. In 1933 he returned to Graz and worked from 1934 to 1938 as a freelance writer and editor of the "Deutsche Bergbücherei". Leifhelm's poetry is characterized by a deeply felt feeling for nature and strict form. In 1933 he became a member of the Association of Socialist Writers .
Leifhelm was critical of his friend Heinrich Lersch's enthusiasm for NS, and his wife Sophie, who was divorced from him in 1933, died in 1945 as a communist in a concentration camp . In 1936 he married Fernande Prissée from Graz. 1939–1942 Leifhelm taught as the successor to his friend Felix Braun at the University of Padua. In the last years of his life, the poet lived in great poverty, he died of encephalitis after being cared for by the teacher Beppina Mazzi and Paula Sack after a long period of illness .
In 1954 the Leifhelmgasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him, in Mönchengladbach in 1963 a new building area was named Leifhelmstrasse .
literature
- Hans Heinz Hahnl : Forgotten writers - fifty Austrian life stories . Österreichischer Bundesverlag, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-215-05461-2 , p. 167 ff.
- Hanus: Leifhelm Hans. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1972, p. 107 f. (Direct links on p. 107 , p. 108 ).
- Walter Schmitz: Leifhelm, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 139 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Leifhelm in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by Hans Leifhelm in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Hans Leifhelm in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
- CV according to the University of Graz
- Entry on Hans Leifhelm in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry in the Herbert Exenberger archive of the Theodor Kramer Society .
Individual evidence
- ^ Leifhelmgasse in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leifhelm, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brinckmeyer, Hermann (pseudonym); Overstolz, Konrad (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Austrian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchengladbach |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 1, 1947 |
| Place of death | Riva del Garda |