John Trojan

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Johannes Trojan (born August 14, 1837 in Danzig ; † November 21, 1915 in Rostock ) was a German writer .

Johannes Trojan, portrayed by Hermann Scherenberg (1879)
John Trojan
Berlin pictures, cover illustration

Life

Johannes Trojan was born in Danzig as the son of a merchant who was head of the city council for a time and from 1849 deputy of the second chamber in Berlin . In his spare time, the father often wrote poetry that was carried over to his son. The mother died in 1841 and the father soon married again. Johannes Trojan attended high school in Gdansk , where he passed his school leaving examination in 1856 .

First he studied medicine for five semesters at the University of Göttingen , then German studies in Berlin and Bonn . At the beginning of his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1856 , in Bonn he designed the beer newspaper as a pub guest for two years and in 1859 became an honorary member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . From 1859 he lived in Berlin and in 1862 he became the assistant editor of the Berliner Montags-Zeitung . He was an admirer of Otto von Bismarck , from 1866 editor of the political-satirical weekly newspaper Kladderadatsch and from 1886 to 1909 its editor-in-chief . In 1898 he had to serve a two-month imprisonment in the fortress of Weichselmünde for insulting majesty . He reports about it in satirical form in his book Two Month Fortress . After leaving the Kladderadatsch , he lived in a secluded life in Warnemünde from 1909 .

Johannes Trojan has published 31 children's books since 1863, for which well-known contemporary artists provided the illustrations ( Wilhelm Claudius , Rudolf Geißler , Paul Friedrich Meyerheim and Carl Reinhardt ). His stories for young people appeared in Julius Lohmeyer's German Youth and in Franz Hoffmann's New German Youth Friend . Stories , chats, travelogues and articles on the German flora appeared in newspapers and magazines. Since 1879 he wrote numerous articles for the National-Zeitung , only a few of which were included in his later books. Contributions that he made to Kladderadatsch , including political poetry, prose articles and joke poems, could not yet be recognized as Trojan products, because until 1910 no author names were mentioned in the magazine. In a bibliography published in 2019 (see literature), around 50 volumes of the journal are evaluated that come from Trojan's possession, in which he marked more than 6,000 of his own contributions.

His brother-in-law was the silhouette artist Paul Konewka , from whose estate Trojan published many silhouettes . His circle of friends included Wilhelm Polstorff as well as Heinrich Seidel and Julius Stinde , with whom he worked in the Allgemeine Deutsche Reimverein under the poet's name "Theodor Janzen".

Johannes Trojan died at the age of 78 and was buried in the New Cemetery in Rostock.

Awards and honors

Children's books

  • Through fields and forests, through houses and farms . Hofmann, Berlin 1863. ( online )
  • Uncle Schwalbe's fun balloon rides. A strange children's font. Hofmann, Berlin 1865. Digitized version of the Umea University Library, Sweden.
  • The buck and other silhouettes by P. Konewka . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1869
  • From children's life . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1870
  • With uncle in the country. Gustav Meyer, Berlin 1870. ( online )
  • Contemplative words and pictures . Hofmann, Berlin 1870
  • The story of the little deer . Kröner, Stuttgart 1870
  • Silhouettes . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1871. ( online )
  • All kinds of animal stories . Schauenburg, Strasbourg 1872
  • Childhood. A youth album . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1873 (3rd edition 1881)
  • Our pets . Risch, Stuttgart 1874
  • The first ball . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1874. ( online )
  • ABC . Twenty-seven original drawings by Paul Meyerheim in watercolors . Stilke, Berlin 1880. ( digitized version )
  • The joys and sorrows of childhood . Hofmann & Hohl, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1880
  • From A to Z. A cheerful picture book . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1880
  • Colorful company. 12 pictures in color print based on watercolors by Theodor Hosemann . Weise, Stuttgart 1881. ( online )
  • The good child at home and at school. A youth album . Hoffmann, Stuttgart 1882
  • Princess Wunderhold. 12 monthly pictures from children's life . Weise, Stuttgart 1883
  • Game and life. Picture book for children . Meinhold, Dresden 1883
  • The child and his little world. 32 original drawings by Wilhelm Claudius . Meinhold, Dresden 1884
  • Gold years . Amersdorffer, Nuremberg 1885
  • Nursery rhymes . Barth, Stuttgart 1889. ( online )
  • Sociable joys . Krause, Berlin 1890
  • The world from the window . Wiskott, Breslau 1891.
  • Struwwelpeter the Younger . (illustrated by Fedor Flinzer 1891. ( online ) (An English edition was published under the title Struwwelpeter junior )
  • The Book of Status. Richter, Hamburg 1892. ( digitized version )
  • One hundred children's songs , 1899. Digitized )
  • Look out into the world! Poems and stories for the little ones . Schreiber, Munich 1903
  • The twelve craftsmen. According to old folk rhymes . Neufeld & Henius, Berlin 1910
  • The adventure in the forest . Kafemann, Danzig 1923. ( online )

Works (in selection)

  • Joke poems , Liebeskind, Leipzig 1883. ( digitized version ), ( digitized version of the 5th edition )
  • Poems . Liebeskind, Leipzig 1883. ( online )
  • Serious and joking for the eyes and heart . Weise, Stuttgart 1884
  • Small pictures . Bruns, Minden 1886
  • Inside and Outside , 1887. ( online )
  • From the beach and the heather . Bruns, Minden 1888
  • From one to the other ( short stories), 1893. ( online )
  • For common people . Freund & Jeckel, Berlin 1893
  • The Wustrower Königsschießen (Humoresken), 1894 ( digitized 2nd and 3rd ed. 1907 )
  • Two month fortress , 1899. ( online )
  • The Trarbach Singers' War . Balmer, Trarbach 1899
  • (Ed.) Almanach des Kladderadatsch , 1900
  • Berlin Pictures , 1903. ( online )
  • On the other hand . Grote, Berlin 1902
  • New joke poems , Stuttgart-Berlin 1903; 3rd edition 1916 ( online )
  • Naughty . Berliner Verlag, Berlin 1904
  • From life . Grote, Berlin 1905
  • Selection from his writings . Greiner & Pfeifer 1907
  • From forest and heather , 1909
  • From nature and home , 1910
  • From the realm of flora , 1910
  • Our German forests . Vita, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1911. ( online )
  • Memories . Association of Book Friends, Berlin 1912. ( online )
  • Rides and walks . Book Friends Association, Berlin 1913
  • Ode to oxygen . Stapp, Berlin 1979 ISBN 3-87776-425-8
  • Berlin pictures . One hundred and thirty-three unknown snapshots. Luttertaler handshake, Bargfeld 2013 ISBN 978-3-928779-32-6

Letters

  • 38 letters and cards from Johannes Trojans to various recipients March 5, 1884 to August 19, 1915

literature

  • Ulrich Goerdten : Bibliography Johannes Trojan . ( Bibliothemata , Vol. 30) Verlag Traugott Bautz GmbH, Nordhausen 2019. ISBN 978-3-95948-435-0
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 692-694.
  • Friedrich Mülder: Johannes Trojan, 1837-1915. A mocker and poet between chancellor and emperor. Frankfurt am Main et al: Lang 2003. (= Bremen contributions to the history of literature and ideas; 41) ISBN 3-631-51495-6
  • Willi Passig: Johannes Trojan - From Danzig via Berlin to Rostock. A biographical kaleidoscope. Elmenhorst / Vorpommern: Edition Pommern 2015. ISBN 978-3-939680-27-7

Web links

Wikisource: Johannes Trojan  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As confirmed by the Rostock registry office, November 23rd and 25th are wrong; see. also his tombstone.
  2. ↑ No copy can be found
  3. ^ Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Berlin
personal data
SURNAME Trojan, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1837
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH November 21, 1915
Place of death Rostock