Hugo Wolfgang Philipp

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Hugo Wolfgang Philipp ( pseudonym : Walter Wolfgang Vidal , born February 2, 1883 in Dortmund , † March 17, 1969 in Zurich ) was a German writer .

Life

Hugo Wolfgang Philipp was the son of a Jewish furniture manufacturer. After his mother's death in 1897, he was raised by his brother Julius Philipp-Heergesell . As a student at a grammar school in Dortmund, he wrote his first book reviews . In 1900 he followed his brother Julius to Berlin , where he completed a commercial apprenticeship; at the same time he attended lectures at the Humboldt University and took singing and violin lessons at a conservatory . From 1908 to 1914 he worked as a reviewer , opera singer and actor on stages in the province. At theFirst World War he took part as a volunteer and fought u. a. on the Somme . In 1915 he converted to Protestantism , and in 1916 he married the singer Elisabeth Liebrich.

After the end of the war, he continued the literary career that had begun in 1902 with the first volume of poetry with stories and plays , initially without success. His breakthrough came in 1921 with the grotesque tragedy "Der Clown Gottes", which subsequently developed into one of the most successful plays of the 1920s on German stages. From 1923 Philipp was senior director at the Albert Theater in Dresden , which he directed together with Hermine Körner from 1927 .

After the National Socialist seizure of power , Philipp was dismissed in 1933. In 1936 he emigrated ; after stops in Italy and Yugoslavia , he finally settled in Switzerland in 1938 . At first he worked in a printing company, later he ran an acting school and worked as a singing teacher.

Philipp wrote novels, short stories, poems and plays. Philipp deliberately kept his distance from the literary trends of his time early on and was later always considered an outsider. While many of his early works tend to be grotesque and fantastic , in his Swiss years he mainly worked on a large, eight-volume cycle of novels about the lower classes of Berlin , of which only the two volumes "Auf den Hintertreppen des Lebens" and "Apoll Lehmann" as well as posthumously the fragment "Lehmann's Flea Circus" appeared.

Philipp was awarded a Hebbel Prize in 1923 and the Federal Cross of Merit in 1967. His estate, which the Zurich-based " Philipp Literature Foundation " endeavors to maintain, rests in the Zurich Central Library .

Works

  • Ver sacrum , Berlin 1902
  • ... with him his state of Tyrol , Berlin 1918
  • The gentleman in green , Berlin 1919
  • The Clown of God , Berlin [u. a.] 1921
  • The world in focus , Berlin [u. a.] 1921
  • Der Sonnenmotor , Berlin [u. a.] 1922
  • Goat jumps , Berlin 1923
  • The glowing multiplication table , Berlin 1924
  • The Bacchantes , Berlin 1925
  • Battle of the Birkenbaum , Berlin 1931
  • Melodie der Fremde , Zurich 1945
  • On the back stairs of life , Zurich 1946
  • Melody of Homecoming , Zurich 1947
  • Cherub of Doom , Wiesbaden 1948
  • Grammar of Drama , Wiesbaden
    • 1. A theory of the function of language , 1948
    • 2 (1951)
  • The original form of the Magic Flute , Wiesbaden 1949
  • Apoll Lehmann , Wiesbaden 1960
  • Gagarin or Tristan and the Spy of the Hereafter , Munich 1963
  • The Golem or Napoleon and Bonaparte , Emsdetten 1967
  • Lehmann's Flea Circus , Darmstadt 1973
  • Zurich Testament , Darmstadt 1975
  • I just want to get away from here , Göttingen 2005
  • Reader , Bielefeld 2018
  • Fantastic stories , Bielefeld 2018

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SURNAME Philipp, Hugo Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vidal, Walter Wolfgang (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright, writer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 17th March 1969
Place of death Zurich