Herbert Günther (writer, 1906)

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Herbert Günther (born March 26, 1906 in Berlin , † March 19, 1978 in Munich ) was a German writer , poet and editor .

Life

Herbert Günther was Joachim Ringelnatz's biographer , whom he knew personally. Since 1961 Günther lived in Munich , where he long for a time also president of the society of bibliophiles was. Günther caused a sensation in 1929 with Here Writes Berlin . An anthology of today that mainly represented the literary modern. He was able to unite fifty famous authors such as Alfred Döblin , Lion Feuchtwanger , Paul Gurk , Heinrich Eduard Jacob , Erich Kästner , Alfred Kerr , Ernst Lissauer , Heinrich Mann , Joachim Ringelnatz, Kurt Tucholsky , Carl Zuckmayer and Arnold Zweig . In 1933 the anthology was banned and burned.

His wife Elena Günther was a well-known pianist , whose stepfather, Alexander Glasunow (1865-1936), was in turn a Russian composer and director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory .

Work with Max Dessoir

In his memoirs, Walther Amelung describes Günther's work with Max Dessoir after he had settled in Königstein im Taunus and mentions that Günther had given a captivating picture of the "old Dessoir" in his "Screenplay of the Time". After the death of Gerhart Hauptmann, "Dessoir, with the help of H. Günther, who read from Hanneles Himmelfahrt, designed an impressive memorial service in our house for the great poet from his decades of personal acquaintance with him."

Honors

Works

  • Berlin writes here. An anthology of today . Berlin: International Library, 1929. New editions: Munich: Paul List Verlag, 1963; Berlin: Fannei & Walz Verlag, 1989, ISBN 3-927574-01-5 ; Berlin: Ullstein Buchverlag, 1998, ISBN 3-548-24513-7 .
  • Revolving stage of the time. Friendships, encounters, fates (autobiography). Hamburg: Christian Wegner Verlag, 1957.
  • Happy Travel. Cheerful knowledge of the travel delights . Munich: Paul List Verlag, undated [1964].
  • Biographical fragment in Alexander Glasunow His life in pictures and documents by Detlef Gojowy, Munich: Paul List Verlag, 1986, ISBN 3-471-77644-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Amelung: "Be it as it may - it was so beautiful - life memories as contemporary history", Königstein, Frankfurt 1984, pp. 348–349

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personal data
SURNAME Günther, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, lyric poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1978
Place of death Munich