Hendrik Marsman

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H. Marsman

Hendrik Marsman (born September 30, 1899 in Zeist , † June 21, 1940 in a shipwreck in the English Channel ) was a Dutch writer. Best known was his poem Herinnering aan Holland ( Memory of Holland ), which was voted Dutch Poem of the Century.

life and work

Hendrik Marsman was the son of a bookseller. He studied law at the University of Utrecht from 1929 to 1933 and became a lawyer, but mainly dealt with literature. He made the acquaintance of Expressionism early on, during a stay in Germany in 1921 . From 1925 to 1931 he was editor of De Vrije Bladen magazine . He published in the literary magazine Forum and became a literary critic for the NRC Handelsblad .

Marsman was friends with the Dutch writers Menno ter Braak and Edgar du Perron . He lived temporarily in France and made numerous trips to Italy, Austria and Spain. Attracted by Catholicism, he also published texts in the ecclesiastical literary magazine De Gemeenschap .

Handwriting poem Invocatio

Hendrik Marsman is considered a poet of vitalism . He was influenced by Expressionism and by Friedrich Nietzsche , whose poetic and philosophical work Also sprach Zarathustra he translated into Dutch ( Aldus sprak Zarathoestra , 1941). In 1927 he received the “Prijs van Amsterdam” for Paradise regained and in 1936 the “Lucy B. en CW van der Hoogtprijs” for his poetry collection Porta Nigra .

“ [Marsman was a] author of dynamic, explosive poems of garish colors with fragmentary verses and an accumulation of associations . The focus of his poetry is the thought of death, which still prevails even after his turn towards objectivity and inwardness. [...] The autobiographical poem 'Tempel en kruis' is his last and formally best work. "

- Lexicon of world literature

Hendrik Marsman and Albert Vigoleis Thelen

Hendrik Marsman was friends with the German writer Albert Vigoleis Thelen , whom he met in Mallorca in 1934, until his death. Before publishing his major work, The Island of the Second Face, which is partly biographical, Thelen deleted the passages about his friend Marsman. Together with Thelen Marsman translated the Paulus biography of the Portuguese poet and mystic Teixeira de Pascoaes into Dutch; it appeared in 1937 under the title Paulus. De poet Gods . Together they also translated Pascoaes' work Hieronymus ( Hiëronymus. De Dichter der vriendschap , 1939) and the posthumously (1946) published collection of aphorisms Verbum Obscurum . From 1937 to 1939 Marsman and his wife Rien lived temporarily with the Thelen couple in exile in Ticino . When they found out about the German-Soviet non-aggression pact , their stay in Switzerland seemed too unsafe and they fled to Bordeaux. Thelen couldn't get Marsman to come to Portugal with him (he had an invitation from Pascoaes to his winery). Marsman fled to England. On the way the ship went down; he drowned, his wife could be saved.

Works

Poem Berlijn on a wall in Berlin
Marsman's poem Herbst on a house wall in Leiden

Dutch original editions

  • Verzen (poetry), 1923
  • Penthesileia (poetry), 1925
  • De anatomische les (essay), 1926
  • De vgende Hollander (essay), 1927
  • Paradise Regained , 1927
  • De vijf vingers (sketches), 1929
  • Voorpost (poetry), 1931
  • De dood van Angèle Degroux (novel), 1933
  • Porta Nigra (poetry), 1934
  • Heden ik, morgen gij (novel, together with Simon Vestdijk ), 1936
  • Verzameld Werk (1938–1947)
  • Menno ter Braak (essay), 1939
  • Tempel en kruis (poetry), 1940
  • Brieven over literatuur (1945)

German-language publications

  • Poems. Hendrik Marsman . With a woodcut by Ellena Olsen. Munich 2007.
  • Teresa Immaculata . From the Dutch by Albert Vigoleis Thelen. In: Clams . Volume 39, Viersen 1999, ISSN  0085-3593 .

literature

  • Ute Schürings: Productive friendship: Thelen and Marsman . In: Albert Vigoleis Thelen. Mediator between languages ​​and cultures . Netherlands studies. Volume 38.Waxmann, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8309-1492-X .
  • Marsman, Hendrik . In: Wilpert: Lexicon of world literature . DTV, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-59050-5 .
  • Arthur Lehning : H. Marsman, de vriend van mijn jeugd . (New edition by De vriend van mijn jeugd. Herinneringen aan H. Marsman . The Hague 1964). 1975.
  • GJ van Bork; PJ Verkruijsse: De Nederlandse en Vlaamse auteurs . De Haan 1985.
  • Simon Carmiggelt; Peter van Straaten: De onbekende Marsman . In: Mooi kado . 1979. ISBN 90-70066-23-8 .
  • Nop Maas: De Maatschappij en H. Marsman : In: Nieuw Letterkundig Magazijn . Jaargang 8th Leiden 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

Commons : Hendrik Marsman  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  1. ↑ Wilpert: Lexicon of world literature . Authors L – Z. DTV, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-59050-5 , p. 984.
  2. ↑ Willem Aalten van den Broek: Paulus the poet of God. The story of a translation . In: Jürgen Pütz (Ed.): In cases of doubt, the truth decides. Contributions to Albert Vigoleis Thelen . June publisher. Viersen 1988. ISBN 3-926738-01-4 .
  3. ↑ Jürgen Pütz: Doppelganger of himself. The narrator Albert Vigoleis Thelen . German university publisher. Wiesbaden 1990. ISBN 3-8244-4048-2 . Pp. 27 to 29.
personal data
SURNAME Marsman, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeist
DATE OF DEATH June 21, 1940
Place of death English Channel