Hans Leip

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Hans Leip
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Hans Leip ( pseudonym : Li-Shan Pe ; born September 22, 1893 in Hamburg ; † June 6, 1983 in Fruthwilen ( Canton Thurgau )) was a German writer .

Life

Hans-Leip-Ufer in Klein Flottbek on the European long-distance hiking trail E1

Hans Leip was the son of a former seaman and port worker in the port of Hamburg. Leip grew up in Hamburg. From 1900 he attended an elementary school , from 1905 to a seminar school and from 1909 to 1914 a preparatory school, where he obtained the license to teach sports and religion in 1914. From Easter 1914 he was a teacher in Hamburg-Rothenburgsort .

In 1915 Leip was drafted into the military; his training as a guard fusilier took place in the cockchafer barracks in Berlin . Operations on the Eastern Front and in the Carpathian Mountains followed . After being wounded in 1917, he was declared unfit for duty.

Leip returned to his teaching profession, at the same time he began to publish short stories in Hamburg newspapers. From October 1917 to December 1919 he wrote art reviews for the Neue Hamburger Zeitung and tried his hand at graphic design. In 1919 the first exhibition of Leips graphic work took place, who at that time led the life of a bohemian. In 1920 Leip's first book appeared, which, like many of his works, was graphically designed by the author himself. That year he also joined the Hamburg Art Association .

In the 1920s, Leip made extensive trips, which he a. a. led to Paris , London , Algiers and New York . He achieved his literary breakthrough in 1925 with the pirate novel Godekes Knecht , which was awarded a prize donated by the Kölnische Zeitung . Parallel to the work on his literary works, which achieved high editions in the 1930s and 1940s, Leip continued to work as a painter, draftsman and sculptor. During the Second World War , he initially lived in Hamburg and northern Germany, from 1940 then mainly on Lake Constance and in Tyrol .

More than 50 texts by Hans Leip appeared in the NS-Kampfblatt Krakauer Zeitung . Leip co-wrote the scripts for the UFA films Gasparone (1937), Nordlicht (1938) and The Last Appeal (1940). Leip was won over by the Nazi propaganda leadership as the biographer of the boxing star Max Schmeling , who was stylized as an Aryan fighter , and took part in the so-called Weimar poets' meetings in 1940 and 1941 , which Joseph Goebbels organized as a show for the National Socialist literary elite. On September 1, 1942, Leip was awarded the War Merit Cross, Second Class Without Swords, by Adolf Hitler (along with around 50 other writers and screenwriters) .

Burial site in Horn

Until 1943 Leip worked for the archives of Cotta-Verlag in Überlingen . In 1944 Leip withdrew to the Wurmegg Alm in Tyrol. In 1945 he returned to Hamburg for a short time, but then settled in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. There he devoted himself again increasingly to the visual arts, especially painting, since the 1960s. Hans Leip had a friendly relationship with the gray rider scouts , to which he also dedicated the poem And somewhere die steppe in 1957 , which has since become the alliance of scouts , set to music by Erik Martin . Numerous poems by Leip were set to music, among others by Norbert Schultze , Oss Kröher and Rudolf Zink .

Leip died in 1983 in Fruthwilen in Thurgau . His grave is in the cemetery of the Catholic parish church of St. Johann in Horn on the north-western edge of the cemetery above the Untersee.

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Hans Leip's literary work consists of novels , short stories , poems , plays , radio plays and film scripts . The predominant themes are the sea and seafaring. Leip's early works were influenced by Expressionism and often struck ecstatic tones. Later on, Leip achieved great public success with entertaining narrative works that were fabulous. His fame is mainly based on the poem Lili Marleen , which Leip wrote in 1915 and included in the volume of poems Die kleine Hafenorgel in 1937 ; In the setting by Norbert Schultze , interpreted by the singer Lale Andersen and distributed by the soldier broadcaster Belgrade , the song became extremely popular during the Second World War, not only among members of the German Wehrmacht .

Hans Leip was a member of the PEN Center of the Federal Republic of Germany , from which he later left. From 1950 he belonged to the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt and from 1951 to the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg . In 1961 he was awarded the Medal for Art and Science of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg from the Hamburg Senate, which awarded him an honorary professorship in 1973 and the Biermann-Ratjen Medal in 1978 .

Works

  • Lanterns that are mirrored , Altona u. a. 1920.
  • The sailing ferry , Altona u. a. 1920.
  • The Tuledu Bridge , 1920.
  • The drunken goblet of life , Altona 1921.
  • Der Pfuhl , Munich 1923.
  • Godekes Knecht , Leipzig 1925.
  • Tinser , Leipzig 1926.
  • The Sinsebal Night Notes , Hamburg 1927.
  • The nigger on Scharhörn , Hamburg 1927.
  • Altona, the city of parks on the Elbe , Altona 1928.
  • Breviary at five , Hamburg 1928.
  • Miss Lind and the sailor , Munich 1928.
  • The Blondjäger , Berlin 1929.
  • The juggler and the bell game , Hamburg 1929 (under the name Li-Shan Pe)
  • The faithful bride of the wind , Bremen 1929.
  • Herod and the Shepherds , Berlin 1929.
  • Sinking of the Juno , Hamburg 1930.
  • About the big city, Hanseatic spirit, green belt, school and good apartments in Hamburg , Hamburg 1931.
  • Harmless and questionable remarks and anecdotes regarding the course of one hundred years of the Hamburg Artists' Association in Hundred Years of Hamburg Art , Hamburg 1932 ( digitized version )
  • Colony , Berlin 1932.
  • The Klabauterflagge or Atje Pott's first and most remarkable long journey , Leipzig 1933 ( Insel-Bücherei 448)
  • The Lady and the Admiral , Hamburg 1933.
  • Sailing instructions for a friend , Hamburg 1933.
  • Beach whispers , Altona 1933.
  • Hamburg , Bielefeld u. a. 1934.
  • Heart in the Wind , Jena 1934.
  • Jan Himp and the little breeze , Hamburg 1934.
  • Max and Anny , Hamburg 1935.
  • Water, ships, sand and wind , Kassel 1936 (together with Fritz Lometsch)
  • Ferry VII , Hamburg 1937.
  • The small port organ , Christian Wegner Verlag Hamburg 1937
  • Night encounter , Stuttgart 1938.
  • Liliencron , Stuttgart 1938.
  • The ship to Paradeis , Hamburg 1938.
  • The salvage , Stuttgart 1939.
  • Surf behind Tahiti , Hamburg 1939.
  • A Hamburg Christmas carol , Hamburg 1939.
  • The shell horn , Stuttgart 1940.
  • Idothea or The Honorable Deception , Stuttgart 1941.
  • Eulenspiegel. Modifications of an old theme , Stuttgart 1941 (with etchings by Roswitha Bitterlich )
  • Cadenzas , Stuttgart 1942.
  • The lantern , Stuttgart 1942.
  • The guest , Stuttgart 1943.
  • The drunken silence , Hamburg 1944.
  • The reflection , Stuttgart 1944.
  • A new life , Stuttgart 1946.
  • The magic ship , Hamburg 1946.
  • Barabbas , Hamburg 1947.
  • The Buxtehuder nativity play , Berlin a. a. 1947.
  • Homecoming , Hamburg 1947.
  • The midnight dance , Hamburg 1947.
  • Save joy , Flensburg u. a. 1947.
  • Early songs , Hamburg 1948.
  • Farewell in Trieste , Hamburg 1949.
  • Dragon calves sing , Hamburg 1949.
  • Lady Hamilton's journey home , Munich 1950.
  • The sun flute , Braunschweig 1952.
  • The big talks of the Admiral von und zu Rabums , Munich 1953.
  • The incessant garden pleasure , Hamburg 1953.
  • The great river in the sea , Munich 1954.
  • The emperor's shipowner , Munich 1956.
  • Störtebeker , Weinheim / Bergstr. 1957.
  • And somewhere the steppe , Hohenkrähen Castle 1957.
  • Satan's logbook , Munich 1959.
  • Luck and spray , Hanover 1960.
  • Hol über, Cherub , Bremen 1960.
  • Hamburg , Zurich 1962.
  • Hamburg July 1943 , Hamburg 1963.
  • Pentamen , Olten 1963.
  • The tavern for the musical haddock , Munich 1963.
  • Some cadences. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 39, 1964, pp. 31–34. ( e-periodica.ch )
  • The dead sailor , Lübeck u. a. 1964.
  • Half a century Hamburg , Sprendlingen b. Frankfurt a. M. 1965.
  • Sukiya or the great love for tea , Düsseldorf u. a. 1965.
  • At the edge of the sea , Hamburg 1967.
  • Garden over the sea , Hamburg 1968.
  • Hans Leip , Hamburg 1968.
  • But love , Hamburg 1969.
  • This is Konstanz , Konstanz 1976 (together with Heinz Finke )
  • Hans Leip: Synchronization in the PEN Club in Hamburg . In: Rolf Italiaander (Ed.): We experienced the end of the Weimar Republic: contemporaries report . Droste, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0609-7 , p. 179.
  • The dance bike or the pleasure and effort of an existence , Frankfurt / M. u. a. 1979.
  • The Hans Leip Book , Hamburg 1983.
  • Trischen , Hamburg 1989.
  • The sun is still awake , Hamburg 1990.
  • On the art of storytelling and other lectures , Hamburg 1991.
  • Short poems , Hamburg 1992.
  • Heaven over Pellworm , Hamburg 1993.
  • Seven Hilgesill songs , Hamburg 1994.
  • Window over the river , Hamburg 1995.
  • Diary and nightly book of the Hamburg Puppet Games , Kiel 2005.

Radio plays

Exhibition catalogs

  • Hans Leip as a draftsman and painter , Hamburg 1969.

Editing

  • The idol almanac , Hamburg 1921.
  • The silver-green junk , Hamburg 1927.
  • Course-free logbook , Hamburg 1929.
  • The juggler swing , Hamburg 1930.
  • The Hapag book of seafaring , Munich 1936.
  • The floating virgin and other games , Stuttgart 1942.
  • Detlev von Liliencron : Poems , Stuttgart 1945
  • The sea , Munich 1957.

literature

  • Rolf Italiaander (Ed.): Hans Leip . Hamburg 1958
  • Ernst Nägeli : Hans Leip - the Hamburg poet from Hub. In: Thurgauer Jahrbuch , Vol. 59, 1984, pp. 123–125. ( e-periodica.ch )
  • Helmut Glagla: Hans Leip . Hamburg 1983.
  • Hans Leip ahoy . Hamburg 1988.
  • Hans Leip and the Hamburg artist festivals . Catalog of the exhibition in the Hamburg State and University Library Carl von Ossietzky. Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-042-5 .
  • Helmut Glagla: Impressions from the "Himmelsecke" . Hamburg 1997.
  • Ortwin Pelc : Drafts for the "Harbor Organ". Hamburg 1998.
  • Ortwin Pelc: Hans Leip in America . Hamburg 1999.
  • Olaf Matthes: The posters Hans Leips, Hans Leip in the poster . Hamburg 2000.
  • Rüdiger Schütt: There are poets only in heaven . Hamburg u. a. 2001.
  • Roland Füssel: juggler, junk, bell game . Hamburg 2002.
  • Ortwin Pelc: Hans Leip and the 1918 revolution in Hamburg . Hamburg 2003.
  • Manfred Bosch: Hans Leip on Lake Constance . Marbach am Neckar 2004.
  • Liel Leibovitz: Lili Marlene: the soldiers' song of World War II . New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-393-06584-8 .
  • Reinhart Meyer:  Leip, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 148-150 ( digitized version ).
  • Jörg Deuter: Not just Lili Marleen. Hans Leip and the Esperantologist Richard Schulz in their letters from 1943 to 1983. Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-794-7 .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Hans Leip  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , pp. 326-327.
  2. ↑ Kai-Uwe Scholz: "Lili Marleen" and critical poetry. In: taz , December 28, 2001.
  3. ↑ Bogusław Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945: an overview . Droste, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-7700-0731-X , p. 176 (990 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Rainer Kurtz: Hans Leip . Maulbronn 2007.
  5. ^ Hans Leip, author and artist; Wrote Lyrics of 'Lili Marlene'. The New York Times, June 8, 1983, accessed May 18, 2017 .
  6. ^ Grave of Hans Leip in Horn, district of Gaienhofen on www.gaienhofen.de
personal data
SURNAME Leip, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 1983
Place of death Fruthwilen