Hugo Bertsch
Hugo Bertsch (born October 7, 1851 in Margrethausen ; † August 24, 1935 in Brooklyn , USA) was a German author.
Life
Bertsch was born as the son of a primary school teacher, sexton and organist in the village of Margrethausen on the Swabian Alb . He learned the furrier trade in Ulm and Wilflingen near Saulgau . After a period of traveling that took him to France and England, the Netherlands, North and South America and New Zealand , and during which he made his way in various professions, he settled in New York at the age of forty . He married an Irish woman there and not only practiced his learned furrier trade, but was also able to make himself known as a worker poet.
His first novel, Die Geschwister , was particularly successful. It is an exchange of letters between the protagonist and his sister who takes part from afar and tells the fate of the factory worker Tom Pratt in Brooklyn. The novel was published in 1903 with a foreword by Adolf von Wilbrandt at Cotta in Stuttgart and Berlin, had a total of 10 editions by 1905 and was translated into Swedish (1904), French (1906, with a foreword by François Coppée ), Czech (1906) and Danish (1917) translated.
Hugo Bertsch's handwritten estate is now in the German Literature Archive in Marbach.
Hugo-Bertsch-Strasse in Albstadt-Margrethausen is named after him today.
Novels (selection)
- The siblings . 1903
- Sheets of pictures from my life . 1906
- Bob the nerd . 1905
- The tramp . 1923
literature
- Peter Thaddäus Lang: The writer Hugo Bertsch from Margrethausen. Attempt of a literary classification . In: Reinhard Breymayer (ed.), In the mild and happy Swabia and in the New World: Contributions to the time of Goethe. Festschrift for Hartmut Fröschle , Heinz, Stuttgart 2004 (= Suevica, 9 ISSN 0179-2482 ; Stuttgart works on German studies, 423 ISBN 3-88099-428-5 ), pp. 459–466
- Jordan Sauter: A world wanderer from Margrethausen - the worker poet Hugo Bertsch . In: Hans-Peter Vosseler (draft and graphic design): 700 years of Margrethausen (from May 28 to June 2) , Conzelmann & Schöller, Tailfingen 1975, pp. 14-16.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hugo Bertsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bertsch, Hugo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German worker poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Margrethausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1935 |
| Place of death | Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States |