Hans von Hülsen

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Hans von Hülsen (actually Johannes Bruno von Hülsen ; born April 5, 1890 in Warlubia , West Prussia , † April 14, 1968 in Rome ) was a German editor and writer .

Life

Von Hülsen, son of a pastor, spent his childhood in Preussisch Eylau ( Bagrationowsk ) and came to Danzig in 1903 , where he passed his Abitur in 1910. He then studied philosophy, literature and history in Munich, Lausanne, Berlin and Breslau. After completing his studies, he embarked on a career as a journalist and worked as a newspaper correspondent and editor in Berlin, first for the Vossische Zeitung and, from 1918, for the international department of Wolff's telegraph office. At first he also wrote for the Stockholm daily Aftontidningen , but then for 14 years for the competing newspaper Dagens Nyheter as a Berlin correspondent and as a reporter for international conferences and trips in Europe.

Since the National Socialists stopped his journalistic activity, he retired to the artists' colony of Mittel-Schreiberhau in the Giant Mountains in the early thirties and worked as a freelance writer. In 1938 he went from there to Breitenau (Kiefersfelden) in Upper Bavaria. After the war he became a radio employee and finally moved to Rome in 1951, where he worked as a correspondent for North West German and North German Radio. He died there in 1968.

He had been friends with Gerhart Hauptmann since 1920 and became his biographer. In 1918 he published an August von Platen biography praised by Thomas Mann . Since 1915 he was married to the writer Ilse Reicke .

As a poet, he became known through a number of novels. Various play in West Prussia ( Fortuna von Danzig , 1924 and Güldenboden , 1928) and the Mark Brandenburg ( Der Schatz im Acker , 1929).

In 1930 he received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis he was with his wife to the 88 writers who in the October 1933 vow faithful allegiance signed by Adolf Hitler.

After the Second World War he published his childhood memories under the title The Children's Closet (1946). His work Zwillingsseele , published in 1947, is also autobiographical.

Works

Individual editions during lifetime (first editions)

  • The Ascending Life , 1911
  • August Graf von Platen , 1918
  • To the old gods. A Platen novel , 1918
  • Little Agnete. A middle-class idyll in eight songs , Potsdam 1920
  • Fortuna of Danzig , 1924
  • The chalice and the brothers , Leipzig 1925
  • Days with Gerhart Hauptmann , Dresden 1925
  • Nickel List - The Chronicle of a Robber , Leipzig 1925
  • Camerlingk or the way through power , Leipzig 1926
  • Gerhart Hauptmann (biography), Leipzig 1927
  • Güldenboden or Acquire it to own it , Leipzig 1928
  • The bird of the dead. Stories from four winds , Berlin 1929
  • The lost love call , Berlin / Zurich 1929
  • The treasure in the field , Berlin 1929
  • A house of demons , Berlin 1932
  • The bay of Sant'Agata , Leipzig 1932
  • Gerhart Hauptmann. Seventy years of his life , Berlin 1932
  • Free Corps Droyst. Novel from Prussia's deepest humiliation , Berlin 1934
  • Man's forge , Leipzig 1935
  • Peter Drost's third life. Roman , Leipzig 1935
  • The Empress and her Grand Admiral , Leipzig 1936
  • Fake gold. A love novel , Leipzig 1937
  • The bird hedge on Brüderstraße. Novel from the Berlin Biedermeier period , Berlin 1937
  • Love in the Brüderstraße. Novel from the Berlin Biedermeier period , Berlin 1938
  • August and Ottilie. Novel about a marriage under Goethe's roof , Munich 1941
  • The spiral staircase: Stories from my life , Danzig 1941
  • Gerhart Hauptmann. Outline of his figure , Vienna / Leipzig 1942
  • Villa Paolina, life story of a strange house , 1943 (family history of Bonaparte)
  • The three papen. Roman , Munich, 1943 (new edition of the Neuruppin novel, first published under the title Der Schatz im Acker )
  • The carpet bed. A Bundle of Stories , Danzig 1943
  • The great will-o'-the-wisps , Berlin 1944
  • The children's wardrobe , Munich 1946
  • Judgment day. Sonnets from this period , Hamburg 1947
  • Twin soul memorabilia from a life between art and politics , Munich 1947
  • Friendship with a genius: memories of Gerhart Hauptmann , Munich 1947
  • Tragedy of the Knightly Orders. Templars, German gentlemen, Maltese , Munich 1948
  • Trilussa. The converted serpent and 27 other fables. Translated from the Roman popular dialect. , Frankfurt / M. 1952
  • Rome. Guide through the Eternal City , Ölten and Freiburg i. Br. 1959
  • Roman finds , Göttingen, Berlin et al. 1959
  • Croesus of Rome: History of a Money Dynasty , Munich 1961
  • Finds in the Magna Graecia , Göttingen, Berlin and others in 1962
  • Zeus, father of gods and men , Mainz 1967

literature

  • Karl Ude :  Hülsen, Hans von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 737 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Gunnar Och: August von Platen, Hans von Hülsen, Thomas Mann. A documentation with previously unpublished letters from the archive of the Platen Society . In: Gunnar Och (ed.): “What he wishes, he never got it.” August Graf von Platen 1795–1835 . Exhibition catalog, Erlangen 1996, pp. 150–165.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The image of Italy and the voice of Italy in the German-language cultural magazines 1945–1990.
  2. ↑ Hans von Hülsen, twin soul. Memories from a life between art and politics, Volume I. Bernhard Funck Verlag, Munich 1947, p. 130.
  3. ^ Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, Corrected Reprint Mannheim 1981, Volume 19, keyword "Ilse Reicke".
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 272.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 272.
personal data
SURNAME Hülsen, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sleeves, Johannes Bruno von (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Warlubie
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1968
Place of death Rome