Hans Leybold

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Hans Leybold (born April 2, 1892 in Frankfurt am Main , † September 8, 1914 in Garrison Itzehoe ) was a German expressionist poet . The narrow work of the fallen poet became a source of inspiration for literary Dadaism . His absurd texts and poems were an important step in the development of early expressionism .

Life

Leybold was born in Frankfurt am Main and grew up in Hamburg , where his father was director of the municipal gas works from 1899 to 1919. In 1911 he graduated from the secondary school in St. Georg. He did his military service in the field artillery regiment in Itzehoe and was most recently a sergeant and reserve officer aspirant.

In the winter semester of 1912/13 he began studying philosophy, German literature and art history in Munich , where he met the Schwabing prewar bohemians and later greats of Dadaism: Richard Huelsenbeck , Emmy Hennings , Klabund , Johannes R. Becher and, above all, Hugo Ball , who becomes a friend. Ball and Leybold wrote poems together under the abbreviation Ha Hu Baley .

Leybold's language was influenced by Karl Kraus and Alfred Kerr , philosophically by Friedrich Nietzsche . He published a great deal in the political-literary magazine Die Aktion and published his own publication and five issues of his own magazine, the Revolution , in which he also disseminated the views of his friends. After the magazine failed, Leybold went to Kiel at the beginning of 1914. Leybold was friends with Käthe Brodnitz (1884–1971).

He was drafted when the First World War broke out in the summer of 1914 and was soon seriously wounded off Namur . Three days after his return to the regiment, he shot himself on the night of September 7th to 8th. You have to rely on guesswork for reasons, but an (imaginary?) Syphilis disease could have been the trigger for the act.

Hans Leybold published about sixty articles and poems. A narrow volume of all glosses and poems, photographs and letters, as well as obituaries, that can be found according to the editor, appeared only in 1989.

expenditure

  • Against the state of affairs; Glosses, poems, letters . Postscriptum, Hanover, 1989. Editor and epilogue (pages 101 to 112) by Eckhard Paul. This collection appeared in the series: Edition Randfiguren der Moderne . Editors: Karl Riha and Franz J. Weber.
  • Poems . Potsdam: Degener 2012 ISBN 978-3-95497-008-7
  • Poems, prose, glosses: (e. Selection); Joint work with Hugo Ball . With d. "Totenrede" by Hugo Ball as a follow-up. Ed. By Karl Riha u. Franz-Josef Weber. Siegen: Univ. - Overall Hochsch. 1985

literature

  • Tim Cross: The Lost Voices of World War I . Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain: 1988. ISBN 0-7475-4276-7
  • Eckhard Faul: But there must be business; The expressionist writer Hans Leybold (1892-1914) . Reinhard Nenzel, Bonn, 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hans Leybold: Against state things . 1989.
  2. ↑ a b Johannes Kempf: Der Tod des Hans Leybold , FAZ , May 10, 2014, p. 15
  3. ↑ Tim Cross: The Lost Voices of World War I . 1988
personal data
SURNAME Leybold, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German expressionist poet
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1914
Place of death Itzehoe