Hermann Conradi

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Honorary grave in the main cemetery in Würzburg

Hermann Conradi (born July 12, 1862 in Jeßnitz (Anhalt) , † March 8, 1890 in Würzburg ) was a German writer of naturalism .

Life

Hermann Conradi was born the son of a small business owner in Jeßnitz. He was an exalted child who often suffered from illnesses and changed schools several times. In 1876 he attended high school in Dessau , in 1879 he went to high school at the monastery “Our dear women” in Magdeburg , which he left with the one-year volunteer certificate . While still at school he founded the literary association " Bund der Lebendigen ", to which Johannes Schlaf was a member, and published his first texts in the Magdebuger Tageblatt . After a short time, he broke off an apprenticeship as a bookseller that he had started.

From 1884 he studied philosophy and literature in Berlin . Here he joined the literary circle around the Hart brothers and wrote a programmatic preface (" Our Credo ") to the anthology " Modern Poets Characters " published by Wilhelm Arent in 1885 , which caused a sensation in literary circles because of its radicalism. Troubled by constant financial worries, he tried his hand at Neunkirchen as editor of the Saar and Blies newspaper , but gave up the position again after a short time.

He then moved to Leipzig , where his close friends included Adolf Bartels and Otto Erich Hartleben . Here in 1887 his volume of poetry " Songs of a Sinner " and his first novel " Phrasen " were published, in which he describes his friends in Leipzig, which many who recognized each other resented him. Also in 1887 he completed the novel " Adam Mensch ", which was published two years later due to differences with his publisher . Conradi went to Munich , his financial circumstances and health ( asthma ) deteriorated so much that he placed himself in the care of a friend's family in Lockwitz . In 1889 he stayed again in Leipzig, where his novel " Adam Mensch " was published, against which the public prosecutor immediately initiated an investigation for "immoral and blasphemous" positions. Conradi then moved to Würzburg. Here he worked on a dissertation and on a new novel (" A Modern Savior "). He suddenly developed pneumonia and died at the age of 27. His estate came to the Dessau State Library .

Birthplace in Jeßnitz

Works

literature

  • Ludwig Julius Fränkel:  Conradi, Hermann . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 47, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1903, pp. 511-515.
  • Paul Arthur Loos:  Conradi, Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 339 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Apfel: Hermann Conradi. Munich 1923, OCLC 789555985 (Dissertation, Disputats, University of Munich 1923, "1 volume").
  • Otto Hachtmann: Hermann Conradi , in: Mitteldeutsche Lebensbilder, 1. Volume Lebensbilder des 19. Jahrhundert, Magdeburg 1926, pp. 433–453.
  • Günter Helmes : Literature and censorship at the beginning of the "modern age". The Leipzig "Realist Trial" 1890 . In: Helga Andresen , Matthias Bauer (Hrsg.): Sprachkultur. Carl Böschen Verlag, Siegen 2009, pp. 171–179. ISBN 978-3-932212-75-8 .
  • Helmut Kasten: The idea of ​​poetry and the poet in the literary theories of so-called German naturalism (Karl Bleibtreu, Hermann Conradi, Arno Holz). On the history of the conflict between German idealism and Western European positivism and naturalism in German poetic theories at the end of the 19th century. K. Triltsch, Würzburg 1938; DNB 570427177 (inaugural dissertation at the University of Königsberg, Philosophical Faculty, October 21, 1938, 76 pages).
  • Manfred Stoppel: Adolf Bartels ' way to homeland art: A revisionist view (together with a volume “Adolf Bartels selection bibliography”) 3 volumes, University of Innsbruck 1989, OCLC 247445595 (diploma thesis / dissertation University Innsbruck 1991, 101 pages).
  • Karl Witt: Experience and figure in Hermann Conradi's poems. A style investigation . AF Jensen, Kiel 1932, OCLC 23644523 (Dissertation University of Kiel, Philosophical Faculty, 1932, 133 pages).
  • Bernhard Spring : Anhalt's enfant terrible. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 1, 2012, p. 13.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Spring: Anhalt's enfant terrible. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , August 1, 2012, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Conradi, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Jeßnitz (Anhalt)
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1890
Place of death Wurzburg