Hermann Schilling (Author)

Hermann Karl Rudolf Schilling (pseudonyms: Theo Freimund , Il Turdus , Hildegard Hagen ) (born February 11, 1871 in Berlin ; † July 30, 1926 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Schilling grew up on his father's estate Simonshöhe near Lagow / Neumark and attended the Louisen-Gymnasium in Berlin before studying classical philology , art history , German studies in Berlin and philosophy and history in Marburg , Berlin and Breslau . During his studies in 1894 he became a member of the Thuringia Charlottenburg / Berlin fraternity . In 1894 he founded the Asters yearbook . He was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . After completing his studies, he became a private teacher at a girls' school and worked as a tutor on estates in West Prussia and in the Oderbruch . He worked as an editor and publisher in Berlin, the Rhineland and the Harz region . In 1898 he studied Protestant theology , then medicine, and finally philology in Berlin . He passed his state examination in 1901 and became a senior teacher in Berlin in 1903 , in Rixdorf in 1910 and in Neukölln in 1912 .

Publications (selection)

• Truth and dream. Berlin 1892.
• Erich and Astrid. An epic poem from the time of Barbarossa. Leipzig 1894.
• Asters. A collection of lyrical poems as an organ for the young and the youngest. 2 volumes 1894, 1895.
• Weather lights. 2nd edition, Züllichau 1903.
• Sirocco. Drama in four acts. Berlin 1915.
• Dear fatherland, may you be quiet! A bouquet of Brandenburg-German history. Berlin 1916.
• Theo Freimund. A life in pictures. Berlin 1924.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , p. 608.