Hermann bet

Hermann Wette (born May 16, 1857 in Herbern , today part of Ascheberg ; † August 10, 1919 in Wiesloch ) was a German doctor and writer.

Life

Hermann Wette, son of a businessman, studied medicine at the Universities of Bonn , Munich , Halle and Vienna after attending grammar school in Münster and the Collegium Augustinianum Gaesdonck , and received his doctorate in Munich in 1880. From 1881 he worked as a doctor in Cologne , where he married the writer Adelheid Humperdinck , sister of the composer Engelbert Humperdinck, in the same year . Together with his wife Adelheid , Wette wrote the libretto for Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel .

Other stations in Wettes life were Eisenach and Darmstadt .

Hermann Wette died in 1919 at the age of 62 in a sanatorium in Wiesloch.

Wette is largely forgotten today and is seen in research as a typical national-conservative and epigonal author from the time of Wilhelminism .

What the wind tells. Poetry in Low German dialect. Cologne: Ahn 1884
Elsi, the strange maid. Swiss folk piece in two acts. Music by A. Mendelssohn. Cologne, Berlin, Leipzig: Ahn [approx. 1892]
Widukind. Drama in five acts. Cologne: Rimbach and Licht 1894
Westphalian poems . Cologne: Rimbach and Licht 1896
The bearskin. Devil's tale. Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig: Ahn 1897
Fridolin, the beggar king. A Maienmär. Cologne: Hübscher and Teufel 1899
Krauskopf. A development novel. 3 vols. Leipzig: Grunow 1903–1909
Samson. Tragedy in five acts in the words of the Old Testament. Leipzig: Grunow 1904
De Spökenkiker. The story of a lost soul. Hamburg: Hermes undated
Jost Knost, the Hercules of Latop. A story. Leipzig: Grunow 1908
New Westphalian poems. Leipzig: Grunow 1909
Penguin. Latest Westphalian poems. Leipzig: Grunow 1910
Peter Schlemihl. Modern devil's tale in five acts. Leipzig: Grunow 1910
Whimsical saints. Three novels. Dresden: Reissner 1912
Westphalian war poems. Jena: Diederichs 1914
Ostara. War mystery 1914/15. Eisenach: Kayser 1915
Heroes and Traders. A poem in alliteration. Hamburg: German National Buchhdlg. 1915
Hermann bet. Mauderspraok. Small selection from his poems. Bes. by H. Luhmann. Münster: Aschendorff and Bielefeld-Bethel: Gieseking 1965. (= Kleine westf. Row 6. 27)

Bet Hermann . In: German Literature Lexicon . Vol. 31: Werenberg-Wiedling. De Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023571-5 , Sp. 381 ff .. ( limited preview in the Google book search)
Hermann Wette in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

Literature by and about Hermann Wette in the catalog of the German National Library
Peter Bürger: Low German war poetry from Westphalia 1914–1918. Karl Prümer - Hermann Wette - Karl Wagenfeld - Augustin Wibbelt. Eslohe 2012, see: [1]
Hermann Wette in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors

↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of August 28, 2013, Drensteinfurt edition, local page "Herbern", The "Frollein" with the knot Christel Homann is reminiscent of the birthplace of the poet Hermann Wette .