Hans Schmidt-Kestner

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Hans Schmidt-Kestner (born October 24, 1882 in Berlin ; † February 5, 1915 at Döberitz airfield near Berlin) was a German poet and writer .

family

Hans Schmidt-Kestner was the youngest son of the Berlin high school professor Johannes ES Schmidt , a brother of the sculptor Erich Schmidt-Kestner , a grandson of the pedagogue and head of the French Cathedral School at Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin Eusebius Schmidt and in the fourth generation a descendant of Charlotte Buff , married Kestner , who set a monument to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in The Sorrows of Young Werther . Hans Schmidt-Kestner married Liesa Haack in Hanover in 1914.

Life

Hans Schmidt-Kestner worked as an editor at the Hannoversche Anzeiger and as a freelance writer and poet. He and his wife were cordially friends with the composer Max Reger , who visited the couple in their apartment in Hanover at every opportunity and later dedicated one of his last concerts to his deceased friend, and with the Germanist and literary historian Wolfgang Stammler , who also wrote the foreword wrote to his posthumously published volume of poetry.

As a reserve officer, Schmidt-Kestner volunteered at his old regiment at the beginning of the First World War and was given command as an observation officer for the air force. But his first flight from the Döberitz airfield was immediately his last; his plane crashed near Potsdam.

Works

  • The Yellow Peril: The Flying Death [the Japanese]. West German Verlagsges., Wiesbaden 1912
  • Lutz Löwenhaupt : drama in four acts. E. Bloch theater publisher, Berlin 1912
  • Um Sonnenland : Drama in three acts. Oesterheld & Co., Berlin 1915
  • Poems . L. Ey, Hanover 1915
  • With Wilhelm Jacoby: Budenzauber. Comedy in four acts. Bloch Verlag, Berlin 1912
  • Prayer of the German military man

literature

  • Rüdiger RE Fock: The Kestner. A German-French-Swiss family makes history (s) . Warendorf: Schnell Buch und Druck 2009. ISBN 978-3877167069
  • Wolfgang Stammler, foreword in: Hans Schmidt-Kestner, poems. L. Ey, Hanover 1915
  • IF Clarke, Forecasts of Warfare in Fiction 1803-1914. In: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 10, No. 1 (Oct. 1967), pp. 1-25
  • Johannes ES Schmidt, The French Cathedral School and the French Gymnasium in Berlin. Edited and commented by Rüdiger RE Fock. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-3478-0

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German literature lexicon: Biographical-bibliographical manual. 3. Edition. Vol. 15. Saur, Bern 1993, ISBN 3-907820-15-0 , Sp. 440 f.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Kestner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1915
Place of death Döberitz airfield near Berlin