Hans Parlow

Parlow during his time in the Merchant Navy

Johann "Hans" Parlow (born March 7, 1856 in Pillau , † December 18, 1928 in Granada , Andalusia ) was a German writer.

Life

The parents Johannes Heinrich Parlow (* July 22, 1823 - November 4, 1905) and Caroline Marie Parlow (née Claassen; * August 16, 1831 - November 7, 1905) came from long-established seafaring families. Parlow had two younger siblings: Alice Marie Therese Herrmann (née Parlow; 1868–1938) and Wilhelm “James” Parlow (1857–1941), who did the same as his father and two grandfathers and went to sea as a captain. Parlow, who was born in Pillau in East Prussia , studied at the Albertus University in Königsberg , which also gave him his doctorate. During his studies he was a member of the Germania Königsberg fraternity from 1876 to 1878 . He later processed this time in his student novel dark red-white-rose-red . While still a student, Parlow got engaged to Lisbeth Hahn , who also came from Pillau, but who died before the marriage. After completing his studies, he first went to sea for several years in the merchant navy before becoming a writer. From the late 1880s he wrote several non-fiction books about Spain and wrote reviews for the literary magazine Revista nueva . After 1900 he wrote mainly novels , the seafaring have on the subject.

Works (excerpt)

Hans Parlow and his fiancée Lisbeth Hahn, who died early, in September 1877

• Culture and Society in Spain Today - Observations (1888), Cultural History .
• Pictures and dreams from Spain - travel memories (1889), travel description .
• Princess Eboli (1891), historical novel .
• The Kattegat (1896), sea novel.
• To Danebrog and Black-White-Red (1905), Seeroman.
• On the life of Miguel De Cervantes (1906), biography and experience report.
• The high seas (1907), sea novel.
• Dark red-white-rose-red (1907), a novel from student life .
• The Queen in Thule (1912), sea novel.
• Eva (1912), sea novel.
• The Cape Dove (1914), sea novel.
• At midnight (1914), novella.
• The Blackheads of Riga (1922), sea and merchant novel.

The Daily Rundschau , one of the Königsberg newspapers , published the novel dark red-white-rose-red in 1911 - presumably in several parts. The work remained the only Königsberg student novel. In 1925 Parlow also wrote the Pillauer Lied , a poem about his hometown.

Reviews

Criticism of Parlow's student novel dark red-white-rose-red

Many of his works, such as the student novel Dunkelrot-Weiß-Rosenrot , received exceptionally good reviews from the press.

"I am pleased to have found the third good book out of the tub of the Couleur novels within a short period of time, now even the best and most mature of the three."

- Breslauer Zeitung, No. 354 of June 30, 1907

Others

The writer Elisabeth Herrmann was a niece of Parlows. She used the surname Claasen or Claassen , his mother's maiden name, as a pseudonym .

The Daily Rundschau published an editorial footnote in its No. 141 of 1907, in which the keen interest of the German Emperor in Parlow's works is described.

“It may be a pleasure for readers who have grown fond of Parlow's writing to learn that Kaiser Wilhelm II has recently gained lively interest in Parlow's novels. [...] An artist who, like Hans Parlow, has lived for decades in the remote solitude of a Spanish village, certainly has no reason to use such a fact to advertise himself. "

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 535-536.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Parlow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carmen Fernández Etreros: El teatro español en 'Revista nueva' ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 46 f.  
2. ↑ Das Pillauer Lied, Text [1]
3. ^ Press comments on Hans Parlow [2]