Herbert Lewandowski

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Herbert Lewandowski (born March 23, 1896 in Cassel , † March 4, 1996 in Geneva ; pseudonyms: CMH Léwan-Dovski , Herbert CM Lewandowski , Lee Van Dovski , Lee van Dowski , Kaspar Hauser , Emmy Grant ) was a German writer and pioneer of sexology .

life and work

Lewandowski was the son of a textile manufacturer. With the secondary school diploma he was drafted into the First World War. Returning from the war, he studied German in Berlin, but also worked for early film magazines as a critic and at times as editor-in-chief and as a dramaturge for a film company. He got to know important directors of the time and worked with Fritz Lang , for example . In the early 1920s he published his first literary works (short stories), as well as reviews. In 1923 he was in Bonn with the work The collection of Formeigentümlichkeiten the lyrical Seal doctorate . In the same year he moved to Utrecht in the Netherlands , where he opened a publishing bookstore together with a Dutch partner and got married. In 1926 his study The Sexual Problem in Modern Literature and Art caused quite a stir and brought him into contact with early representatives of the sexual sciences, in particular with Theodoor van de Velde , the author of Het volkomen huwelijk ( The Perfect Marriage ), with whom he became friends , and with Magnus Hirschfeld. In 1937 the Jew Lewandowski emigrated with his wife and children to the south of France, where he was interned by the French at the beginning of the war. After the German occupation he was interned again and escaped to Switzerland in 1942, initially without a family. He spent the years 1942 to 1945 in Swiss internment camps, in Les Avants sur Montreux and Vicosoprano . He then stayed in Switzerland, in Geneva, as his adopted home, which accepted him as a citizen in 1966.

His diverse work includes journalistic, cultural-historical, literary works, translations and editing. He is also the author of a science fiction novel A Journey into the Year 3000 . The Neue Zürcher Zeitung dedicated an obituary to him on March 21, 1996 under the title Der Haltlose. On the death of the writer Herbert Lewandowski .

Works

  • The fairy tale of the moon. C. Vietor, Kassel 1920
  • The immoral novels by Georg Silmen. Franz Zimmermann, Chemnitz 1920
  • The nights of Monastir. Publisher Deutsche Volksbuchhandlung, Berlin 1921
  • with Sjoerd Broersma: De wonderen der filmwereld (Wonder of the Film World ), Verlag Dr. Lewandowski, Utrecht 1926.
  • Kaspar Hauser's diary. A gift for lonely people. Pfeil-Verlag, Berlin-Leipzig-Utrecht 1927
  • The Sexual Problem in Modern Literature and Art. Attempt to analyze and psychopathology of artistic creation and cultural development since 1800. Paul Aretz Verlag, Dresden 1927
  • with PJ van Dranen: Beschavings - en Zedengeschiedenis van Nederland (Cultural and Moral History of Holland), Amsterdam 1933
  • Swiss diary of an internee. 1946
  • Genius and Eros. First episode. Delphi-Verlag, Olten and Bern 1947
  • Admiral Byrd and the Exploration of the South Pole 1928–1947. Delphi-Verlag, Olten and Bern 1947
  • Paul Gauguin, the Master of Tahiti. Amerbach-Verlag, Basel 1947
  • Paul Gauguin or The Flight from Civilization. Limes-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1948
  • Genius and Eros. New episode. Delphi-Verlag, Olten and Bern 1949
  • From the memoir of an impostor. The federal government, Bern 1950
  • A trip to the year 3000. Report of a fantastic adventure. Delphi-Verlag, Zurich 1951
  • A life for Africa. The adventurous fate of Werner Munzinger Pascha. Thomas-Verlag, Zurich 1954
  • Far countries - foreign customs. An introduction to comparative sex ethnology. Hans E. Günther Verlag, Stuttgart 1958
  • Morale history of the Parisian. Hans E. Günther Verlag, Stuttgart 1962
  • Roman moral history. Hans E. Günther Verlag, Stuttgart 1964
  • Personal memories of Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. With unpublished letters from both poets. JG Bläschke Verlag, Darmstadt 1970
  • Eleonora Duse. A ballads and picture book . With drawings by Hans Eltzbacher, JG Bläschke Verlag, Darmstadt 1973
  • The truth about Gauguin. JG Bläschke Verlag, Darmstadt 1973
  • Lean harvest. Self-published, Geneva 1976 (poems)
  • Venetian poems: as a greeting to some friends. Self-published, Geneva 1979
  • Farewell greeting. Stories. JG Bläschke, St. Michael 1983

literature

  • Werner Schramm-Itzehoe, Christine Brückner: In the maelstrom of time. A representation of the poetic life work of Lee van Dovski, the author of "Genie und Eros"; also with a curriculum vitae and a detailed bibliography of all printed and unpublished works as well as photos from the life of the poet. With the survival story "Lewan, watch!" by Christine Brückner, Bläschke, Darmstadt 1967
  • Gunther Tietz: Voilà un auteur en exile! For the 85th birthday of the writer Lee van Dovski. In: The man of letters. Trade journal for literature and art. Volume 23, 1981, pp. 87-88
  • Peter Adamski (eds.): Herbert Lewandowski, Lee van Dovski, Festschrift for 92nd birthday. History workshop Kassel, 1988
  • Lewandowski, Herbert. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 15: Kura – Lewa. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-22695-3 , pp. 411-424.

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personal data
SURNAME Lewandowski, Herbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Léwan-Dovski, CMH (pseudonym); Lewandowski, Herbert CM (pseudonym); Dovski, Lee van (pseudonym); Dowski, Lee van (pseudonym); Hauser, Kaspar (pseudonym); Grant, Emmy (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1996
Place of death Geneva