Hans Reinhart

This article deals with the poet Hans Reinhart. For the mayor and governor see Hans von Reinhard .

Hans Reinhart (born August 18, 1880 in Winterthur ; † June 4, 1963 there ) was a Swiss poet, translator and patron . In 1957 he established a foundation that has awarded the Hans Reinhart Ring annually ever since .

Life

Hans Reinhart came from the Reinhart trading family in Winterthur, which is still in charge of the Volkart Group and looks after the foundation of the same name. His origins as the son of the Winterthur merchant and patron Theodor Reinhart gave him the opportunity to lead a financially independent life as a poet.

During a spa stay in Karlsbad in the late summer of 1889, he read the fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen for the first time , which deeply impressed him and which he later rewrote as stage plays.

In 1899 he attained at the middle school of the city of Winterthur Matura . As a pupil he belonged to the Vitodurania secondary school association, where he was nicknamed “Müggli”. He then studied philosophy , psychology , German , art , theater and music history in Heidelberg , Berlin , Zurich , Paris , Leipzig and Munich .

After his studies, he first met Rudolf Steiner in 1905 , whom he recognized as a spiritual teacher. He later helped build the first Goetheanum and befriended other anthroposophists such as Albert Steffen and Ernst Uehli . In 1917, Reinhart together with Rudolf Hunziker the Literary Association Winterthur . After 1920 he considered his own poetic work to be complete.

Arthur Honegger's oratorio King David was premiered in Winterthur in 1923 in the presence of the composer - with the German text version by Hans Reinhart, which, despite the constraints of rhythm and rhyme, remained very close to the French original. From 1926 to 1929 he was together with Willy Storrer in publishing for free spiritual life - the co-owner he was - the quarterly individuality out.

His friend, the poet Alfred Mombert he took, and his sister Ella Gutmann in 1941 from the French Pyrenees located, on behalf of the German Nazi regime by the Vichy regime outside after the armistice of Compiègne occupied territories operated concentration camp Gurs internment camp , In 1940, as part of the Wagner-Bürckel campaign, around 6,500 Germans of Jewish descent from Baden and the Saar-Palatinate were deported to Winterthur, where he died on April 8, 1942 and was buried in the park of Villa Kareol after he was able to complete the second part of his poem Sfaira the Old and received it as a gift for his seventieth birthday in a private print organized by Reinhart.

Works

• Early red . Poems, Zurich 1902
• The day . Poetry, Zurich 1903
  • Early red. The day . United and modified edition, Stuttgart 1906
• Alfred Mombert. The Thinker. A study , Leipzig 1903
• The Garden of Paradise , Winterthur, 1909
• The rare bowl . Life tale, Munich 1912
• My picture book without pictures. The beggar . Night pieces, Constance 1917
• Collected seals . Four volumes, Erlenbach 1921–23
• Stage plays from Andersen 1898 to 1922 , Erlenbach 1923
• The story of the soldier . Read, played and danced. In two parts . Free adaptation by Hans Reinhart, Zurich-Hottingen 1924
• The shadow. A night piece from Andersen , Montagnola 1925
• Selected poems 1899–1929 , Horgen 1929
• Selected works , Horgen 1930/31
  • Volume 1: Poetry and Drama
  • Volume 2: Prose
  • Volume 3: Dramatic adaptations
• Fifty poems . For the 60th birthday of the poet, Winterthur 1940
• The quiet boy's garden . 7 selected fairy tales and legends, Winterthur 1940
• The dramatic work. Seals, re-seals, processing , St. Gallen 1953

literature

• Helmut Dworschak: Profession of poet. The founding member Hans Reinhart . In: Winterthur City Library (ed.): Informed obstinacy. The Winterthur Literary Association, 1917–2017 (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. Volume 352). Chronos Verlag , Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1378-9 , p. 19.
• Hans Reinhart in his work. On the sixtieth birthday of the poet in friendship and admiration offered by Hermann Draber, Gustav Gamper, Leo Kaplan, Felix Petyrek, Albert Steffen, Ernst Uehli and Julie Weidenmann. Fretz & Wasmuth, Zurich 1941.
• Hans Mast, the poet Hans Reinhart. Address given on the occasion of Hans Reinhart's 70th birthday party in front of the Winterthur Literary Association, Winterthur Literary Association, Winterthur undated [1950].
• Margrit Joelson-Strohbach (Ed.): Letters to Hans Reinhart. Vogel, Winterthur 1985.
• Margrit Joelson-Strohbach:  Reinhart, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 364 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Martin Kraft: The Winterthur poet Hans Reinhart (1880–1963) in his work. In: Winterthurer yearbook 1985.
• Werner Wüthrich: Hans Reinhart . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1476.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Reinhart in the catalog of the German National Library
• Councilor Luck: Reinhart, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Reinhart Hans, 1880–1963, poet in the Winterthur glossary.
• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
• Depots and personal papers in the Winterthur libraries

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rätus Luck: Reinhart, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
2. ↑ Helmut Dworschak: Profession of poet. The founding member Hans Reinhart. In: Winterthur City Library (ed.): Informed obstinacy. The Winterthur Literary Association, 1917–2017 (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. Volume 352). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1378-9 , p. 19.
3. ↑ Reinhart and Andersen
4. ^ [[Peter Hauser (author) |]]: Directory of members of the generations 1864–1990. In: Alt-Vitodurania (Hrsg.): Festchronik 125 years Vitodurania. A souvenir book of the festivities of the 125th anniversary of Vitodurania from 8 to 12 September 1988 in and around Winterthur. Ziegler Druck- und Verlags-AG , Winterthur 1988, p. 83.
5. ↑ Rätus Luck: Reinhart, Hans. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
6. ↑ Ute Kröger: From 100 Years of the Literary Association Winterthur . In: Winterthur City Library (ed.): Informed obstinacy. The Winterthur Literary Association, 1917–2017 (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. Volume 352). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1378-9 , p. 16.
7. ↑ Helmut Dworschak: Profession of poet. The founding member Hans Reinhart . In: Winterthur City Library (ed.): Informed obstinacy. The Winterthur Literary Association, 1917–2017 (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. Volume 352). Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1378-9 , p. 19.