Horst Wolfram Geissler

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Horst Wolfram Geißler (born June 30, 1893 in Wachwitz , † April 20, 1983 in Munich ) was a German writer .

biography

Statue "Dear Augustin" in Wasserburg on Lake Constance

Geissler was born as the son of the narrator Max Geissler . After high school he studied in Kiel and Munich and received his doctorate with a thesis on Grillparzer and Schopenhauer to Dr. phil. Horst Wolfram Geißler became famous in 1921 with his novel Der liebe Augustin . He lived in Munich from 1912 and from 1947 in Hechendorf am Pilsensee (Upper Bavaria).

He published his first novel in 1916. In the following years he produced other narrative works. These either had a historical and cultural-historical background, or were related to the present and mostly showed life from its cheerful side.

He let his most famous fictional character, the "dear Augustin", grow up in the rectory of Wasserburg on Lake Constance . It was Geissler's express wish to find his final resting place in the cemetery in Wasserburg am See next to St. George's Church. His grave, designed in the Biedermeier style, can be found immediately to the left of the entrance, under the southern branches of the large peace oak from 1871, which stands in front of the cemetery.

Horst Wolfram Geißler is represented with his Der liebe Augustin in the Kindlers Literature Lexicon . Quotation from it: “The great success of the work (the German edition is now approaching one million) is due not least to the apt illustration of German peculiarities and to Geissler's transparent, relaxed diction : The novel has therefore been read in German at American universities for three decades used. ”(Richard Mellein in the KLL).

Geissler's work also became known abroad through numerous translations . Well over two million copies of his novels and stories are circulated.

His book Der liebe Augustin was successfully filmed in 1959 .

Grave of Horst Wolfram Geißler (cemetery at the Sankt-Georgs-Kirche in Wasserburg on Lake Constance)

Honors

Works (in selection)

Novels

  • The first Biedermeier , 1915
  • The last Biedermeier , 1916
  • The Song of the Wind , 1916
  • The Eternal Wedding , 1917
  • Happiness , 1919
  • Who is the grail , 1920
  • Dear Augustine. The Story of an Easy Life , 1921; Sanssouci, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7254-1020-8
  • Either - or , 1926
  • The seven odd ones , 1926
  • The puppeteer , 1929
  • Do you know where to go? (later title: The Blue Dream ), 1930
  • The Lady with the Velvet Visor , 1931
  • Sankt Neverlein's Island , 1931
  • Lilian causes a mess , 1932
  • Georgine all alone , 1933
  • Little Miss in Winter Paradise , 1934
  • The Path to Wonder , 1934
  • The prince and his shadow , 1935
  • The glass harmonica , 1936
  • The unholy Florian , 1938
  • The wishing hat , 1939
  • Minuet in the Park , 1940
  • Mrs. Mette , 1940
  • What you dream of , 1942
  • Nymphenburg , 1947
  • Odysseus and the Women , 1947
  • You don't know Aphrodite , 1948
  • Barbecue concert , 1949
  • The Mahayana Ship , 1951 (later title: The Woman You Love , 1959)
  • The eternal wedding. A Spitzweg novel , 1952
  • Everything comes in its time , 1953
  • One long night. Detective novel , 1954; Sanssouci, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7254-1124-7
  • Don't ask too much , 1955
  • The girl in the snow , 1957
  • The silk thread , 1957
  • Lady Margaret's House , 1959
  • Little Sleep , 1959
  • Leonardo's smile , 1960
  • Queens are so rare , 1960
  • The star sapphire , 1961
  • Where does Cleopatra sleep? , 1965; Sanssouci, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7254-1114-X
  • One black and one white , 1968
  • Odysseus and Penelope , 1970
  • Across the Earth , 1971
  • The birthday , 1973
  • From the purple velvet bag , 1975

Novellas, stories

  • The roses of Gismonda , 1917
  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice , 1918
  • Jungfer Your Highness , 1925
  • Dream in the Fall and Anacreon's Tomb , 1927
  • Venice Carnival , 1942
  • The astrologer , 1948
  • Meeting in Venice , 1949
  • The Change of Antonio , 1953
  • Gondola ride , 1974
  • The Marquise of Manzera , 1976
  • Melodies of the Country Road , 1979

Comedy

  • The leap over the shadow , 1935

Diaries

  • The Oracle , 1977
  • My magic carpet , 1978

Non-fiction

  • Review of German literary history. A chronological floor plan , 1917
  • Tanks in the east. From the fight. Division in Soviet Russia , 1943
  • The Eternal Temple. Studies on the history, development and basic ideas of astrology , 1949
    • Relaunched as: Astrology. History - development - meaning. Basic idea . Sanssouci, Zurich 1982

As editor

  • The designs of the Faust. The most important works of Faust poetry since 1587 , Munich 1927; Reprint Olms, Hildesheim 1974, ISBN 3-487-05255-5
  • The beauty of the German language , 1929

literature

  • Werner Dobras: Geissler and dear Augustin. In: Bodensee-Hefte , Wil, 1993, 6, pp. 30-33
  • Peter Kramer: Where dear Augustin lived. A fictional character by Horst Wolfram Geißler, who embodies the essence of the landscape by the lake. In: Approaches to Lindau. Famous authors in the island city and the surrounding area, Montaigne , Strindberg , Hesse , Geissler, Walser and others , ed. v. Manfred Hagel. Signature, Lindau 1996, pp. 50-65, ISBN 3-9804163-1-3
  • Manfred Bosch : "With a wonderful luminosity backwards ..." Horst Wolfram Geißler and the most successful Lake Constance novel of the 20th century. In: Bohème on Lake Constance. Literary life on the lake from 1900 to 1950. Libelle, Lengwil am Bodensee 1997, pp. 233–235, ISBN 3-909081-75-4

Web links

Commons : Horst Wolfram Geißler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Wolfram Geißler on www.lesekost.de
  2. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 26, No. 66, April 4, 1974.
  3. ^ Literature portal bayern: Horst Wolfram Weissler , accessed on October 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Geissler, Horst Wolfram
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Wachwitz
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1983
Place of death Munich