Heinrich Lilienfein

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Heinrich Lilienfein. Photo from 1908 .

Heinrich Lilienfein (born November 20, 1879 in Stuttgart , † December 20, 1952 in Weimar ) was a German writer .

Life

Heinrich Lilienfein was the son of a lawyer . He attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart , where he passed the matriculation examination in 1898 . Then studied it history , philosophy and art history at the universities in Tübingen and Heidelberg . In 1902 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis in the field of Carolingian history as a doctor of philosophy. Lilienfein settled as a freelance writer in Wilmersdorf . In 1905 he married the painter Hanna Erdmannsdörffer; she was the daughter of one of his academic teachers, the historian Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer . The Lilienfein couple lived in Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) and from 1907 in Wilmersdorf . After the death of his first wife in 1910, Lilienfein married her sister Sophie Erdmannsdörffer. Lilienfein took part in the First World War as a soldier from 1915 . From 1920 he lived in Weimar as Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation .

Heinrich Lilienfein was the author of numerous theater plays that were successful at the time , mostly on historical subjects; he also wrote novels and short stories . His works are an expression of the author's conservative attitude, influenced philosophically by German idealism and formally by the Weimar Classicism . The most important narrative work of Lilienfein is the novel “In Fesseln - frei” about the author Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , published in 1938 , in which later critics believed they could make out a subliminal criticism of the Third Reich . Heinrich Lilienfein had, however, in October 1933, the parties to a to Hitler directed loyalty address faithful pledge allegiance heard he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Goebbels Foundation for cultural workers and stood in 1944 on the of Hitler and Goebbels called created gottbegnadeten list . Nevertheless, from 1947 Lilienfein was again able to exercise his office as General Secretary of the Schiller Foundation in the Soviet zone and in the early GDR . - Heinrich Lilienfein was awarded the Goethe Medal in 1932 and the Swabian Poet Prize and the title of professor in 1939 . From 1949 he was an honorary citizen of Weimar , and in 1952 he was given an honorary pension by the GDR government. Lilienfein was buried in a grave of honor in the historical cemetery in Weimar. His estate is in the Weimar Goethe and Schiller Archive and in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works

  • The views of state and church in the Carolingian empire , Heidelberg 1902
  • Crucifixion , Heidelberg 1902
  • Twilight of People , Heidelberg 1902
  • The Savior's Bride , Heidelberg 1903
  • Modernus , Heidelberg 1904
  • Heinrich Vierordt , Heidelberg 1905
  • Maria Friedhammer , Heidelberg 1905
  • Mountain of annoyance , Heidelberg 1906
  • The Herrgottswarter , Berlin 1906
  • The fight with the shadow , Berlin 1906
  • The big day , Berlin 1907
  • Ideals of the devil , Berlin 1908
  • The black cavalier. Olympias , Berlin 1908
  • The bull from Olivera , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1910; Filmed in 1912. Director: Erich Schönfelder
  • From the women and one woman , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1911
  • The great silence , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1912
  • The tyrant , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1913
  • The Duchess of Palliano , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1914
  • The sunken star , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1914
  • In the silent garden , Heilbronn 1915
  • A game in the wind , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1916
  • Hildebrand , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1917
  • The court of shadows , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1919
  • The fiery cloud , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1919
  • And the sun lost its shine ... , Heilbronn 1919
  • The survivors , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1920
  • The treasure in the field , Stuttgart 1921
  • How the Uz found the promised land ... , Stuttgart 1921
  • Cagliostro , Stuttgart [a. a.] 1922
  • The drunken year , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1923
  • From Weimar and Swabia , Heilbronn 1925
  • The redemption of Johannes Parricida , Stuttgart 1925
  • Between dark and day and other stories , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1926
  • Theater , Stuttgart 1927
  • World without a soul , Stuttgart 1927
  • The ghost town , Stuttgart 1929
  • Night in Poland 1812 , Stuttgart 1929
  • Walther Klemm , Eger 1930
  • Bernhard Besserer , Ulm 1931
  • Carnival without end , Berlin 1931
  • The eating fire , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1932
  • The great Karaman , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1933
  • Wieland , Berlin 1933
  • Annemarie wins the outdoors! , Berlin 1934
  • Schiller and the German Schiller Foundation , Weimar 1934
  • Tile Kolup , Stuttgart 1935
  • The hour of Charles the Twelfth , Berlin 1936
  • In fetters - free , Stuttgart 1938
  • Visit from Holland , Berlin 1942
  • Lukas Cranach and his time , Bielefeld [u. a.] 1942
  • Transfiguration and other stories , Gotha 1942
  • Light and Irrlicht , Gotha 1943
  • Bettina , Munich 1949
  • The last two from Laufach , Laufach 1981

Editing

  • Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer : Smaller historical writings , Berlin
    • 1. The Great Elector , 1911
    • 2 (1911)
  • Three years on the Western Front , Stuttgart 1920

literature

  • Bruno Frank ; Ludwig Finckh ; Heinrich Lilienfein: Memories of Tübingen. In: 450 Years of the University of Tübingen 1477–1927, publication of the Württemberger Zeitung. In: Württemberger Zeitung , Volume 21, Number 169, July 23, 1927, Pages 24-25.
  • Rudolf Germann: Heinrich Lilienfein , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1929
  • Adolf Armin Kochmann: Heinrich Lilienfein , Berlin 1929
  • Josef Huber: Heinrich Lilienfein , Vienna 1939
  • Marlene Clewing: The playwright Heinrich Lilienfein as a representative of educational poetry after 1900 , Erlangen 1954
  • Thomas Lilienfein: Heinrich Lilienfein , Stuttgart 1979
  • Fritz Martini:  Lilienfein, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 556 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 368
personal data
SURNAME Lilienfein, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author and Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation (1920–1952)
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1952
Place of death Weimar