Hermann Kesser

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Hermann Kesser (born August 4, 1880 in Munich , † April 5, 1952 in Basel ; actually Hermann Kaeser-Kesser ) was a German writer and journalist .

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After studying and doing his doctorate (1903) at the Conservatory in Zurich , he first worked as a journalist in Berlin , Rome and Wiesbaden and then worked as a freelance writer. He worked as a radio play author for Funk-Hour Berlin .

After 1933 Hermann Kesser emigrated to Switzerland and in 1939 to the USA. After the end of the war he settled in Basel.

As a politically committed “left thinker”, Kesser was one of the most famous writers in Germany at the height of his work during the Weimar Republic . His son Armin Kesser also became a writer, but was not inclined to Expressionism, but to New Objectivity .

Works (selection)

stories
  • Sister . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / M. 1926.
  • The whip. Narrative poetry . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / M. 1926.
  • The crime of Elise Geitler . Walter Verlag, Olten 1988, ISBN 3-530-44590-8
  • Lukas Langkofler. Two stories . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / M. 1912.
  • The street man. Novellas . Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt / M. 1926.
Poems
  • From two continents .
Radio plays
  • Goethe's last love .
  • Sister Henriette . In: Franz Hammer (Ed.): Early radio plays . Henschelverlag, Berlin 1982, pp. 33-64.
  • The fall .
  • Rotation .
  • Street man . Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich 1973.
Novels
  • Chronicle of day and night .
Plays
  • The brothers. A drama in five acts . Rowohlt, Berlin 1921.
  • Rotation. Acting in scenes . Zsolnay, Berlin 1931.
  • Talleyrand and Napoleon. Dramatic chronicle in scenes . Oprecht, Zurich 1938.
  • Theory of love. Comedy in three acts . 1942.
  • Cinnabar tip. Comedy with music in three acts . Berlin 1930 (former title: The Travelers ).

literature

  • Reto Caluori: Hermann Kesser . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 988 f.
  • Karl Blanck: The narrator Hermann Kesser . In: Reclam's universe. Moderne illustrated Wochenschrift , vol. 42 (1926), booklet 2, pp. 989–990 (with a portrait of Kesser).
  • Johannes F. Evelein: Hermann Kesser . In: Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur since 1933 , Vol. 3 (2000), Issue 1, pp. 300-312.
  • Walter Behrend: A poet of the time. A literary-cultural-political essay on Hermann Kesser . Meister-Verlag, Heidelberg 1921.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contents: The crime of Elise Geitler. - Sister. - Street man.
  2. ↑ Content: Lukas Langkofler. - The crime of Elise Geitler.
personal data
SURNAME Kesser, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kaeser-Kesser, Hermann (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1952
Place of death Basel