Johannes Nohl

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Johannes Nohl (born August 8, 1882 in Berlin , † January 22, 1963 in Jena ) was a German writer and anarchist .

Life

Johannes Nohl's parents were the grammar school teacher Hermann Nohl and his wife Gabriele, geb. Doepke. He grew up with two older siblings and from 1892 attended the Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster , where u. a. Eduard Spranger was his classmate. In 1903 he passed his Abitur under the direction of Ludwig Bellermann . Nohl studied theology first in Berlin and later in Munich, but then switched to the Philosophical Faculty to devote himself to literature, philosophy and art history. A falling out with his father ended his studies.

Johannes Nohl moved in the bohemian circles for a long time , temporarily living in the vicinity of the artists' colony of Monte Verità in Ascona . After 1918 he settled down as a freelance writer in Berlin , mostly living on the edge of the subsistence level . In 1945 he decided to move to the Eastern Zone , became a member of the SED and lived in Weimar until his death .

Johannes Nohl was deeply impressed by the work and character of Stefan George and belonged to his group for many years, although his attitude became more critical over the years. He regularly exchanged views with his brother Herman Nohl about Stefan George and influenced his socio-educational ideas in many ways.

He was friends - for a while as a life partner - with Erich Mühsam , known to Otto Gross , Kurt Münzer and the Basel sculptor August Suter . As a student of Sigmund Freud and Otto Gross, he worked as a freelance psychotherapist and counted among others. a. Hermann Hesse to his analysands.

From his brother, the well-known educator Herman Nohl, he felt treated as "an embarrassing matter about which it is best to remain silent" ; however, he had supported him financially throughout his life.

Johannes Nohl married the doctor Iza-Gustava Gabriele Prussak (* 1886) from Łódź in Ascona in 1918 , with whom he had two children; the son Friedrich August Nohl (born January 31, 1918) and the daughter Ursula Nohl, married Berkel (born May 12, 1919). The marriage ended in divorce in 1927. In 1950 he married the writer Dora Wentscher for the second time . Johannes Nohl is the grandfather of the German actor Christian Berkel .

Own works

  • The black death . A chronicle of the plague from 1348 to 1720. Using contemporary sources . Kiepenheuer, Potsdam 1924.
  • Goethe as the painter Möller in Rome . Kiepenheuer, Weimar 1955.

Editing

literature

  • Peter Dudek: A life in the shadows. Johannes and Herman Nohl - Two German Careers in Contrast. Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2004, ISBN 3-7815-1374-2 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Hermann Hesse: dream gift. Reflections, diaries, stories and poems about dreaming. Edited by Volker Michels. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt / Main 1996.
  • Christian Berkel: The Apple Tree , Ullstein, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-08196-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Dudek: A life in the shadow. Johannes and Herman Nohl - Two German Careers in Contrast. Bad Heilbrunn 2004. pp. 26-30.
  2. ↑ See this: Peter Dudek: A life in the shadow. Johannes and Herman Nohl - Two German Careers in Contrast. 2004.
  3. ↑ Peter Dudek: A life in the shadow: Johannes and Herman Nohl - two German careers in contrast. Bad Heilbrunn 2004, p. 86.
  4. ↑ Peter Dudek: A life in the shadow: Johannes and Herman Nohl - two German careers in contrast. Bad Heilbrunn 2004, p. 88.
  5. ↑ Peter Dudek: A life in the shadow: Johannes and Herman Nohl - two German careers in contrast. Bad Heilbrunn 2004, p. 11, 47.
  6. ↑ Erich Mühsam: Diaries in individual issues. Issue 7: 1911–1912, Verbrecher Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-9573-2043-8 , p. 420 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Nohl, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and anarchist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1963
Place of death Jena