John Höxter
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John Höxter (born January 2, 1884 in Hanover ; died November 15, 1938 in Potsdam ) was a painter and writer of Expressionism and Dadaism .
Life
The merchant's son learned from 1905 a. a. with the painter Leo von König at the Berlin School of Applied Arts. He worked for the Aktion from 1911 and started the satirical magazine Der bloutige Ernst in November 1919 , which was taken over by Carl Einstein and George Grosz from the third issue . Höxter also became a literary portraitist of Berlin bohemians at the beginning of the 20th century. The artists of the scene first met in the Café des Westens , later in the Romanisches Café . The morphine-dependent Höxter became known through his survival skills as "Berlin's most popular Schnorrer".
Friedrich Hollaender wrote this couplet about him (from the revue With us around the Memorial Church ):
- I slowly commute between all the tables.
- From eight o'clock I will rule this realm.
- I want to fish for a noble patron.
- Before me, races and parties are the same.
- Psychiatrists, comedians,
- Young boxers, old aunts
- Everyone has their turn
- Everyone gets consecration from me:
- Can you lend me fifty pfennigs?
- Only until tomorrow?
- Word of honor!
After the November pogroms in 1938 , Höxter took his own life in a forest south of Potsdam. On 29 October 2013, in the Hardenbergstraße 28a from Jena club POETRY TASTES GOOD e. V. initiated stumbling block for him, but not at the address of the historic Romanesque café, but in front of the hotel café of the same name, which opened in 2012.
Since September 2014, thanks to a fundraising campaign by the Jena association POESIE SCHMECKT GUT e. V. the previously undetectable grave of John Hoexter a gravestone. The grave is located in the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee, on the corner of grave field E 1 (row 21, grave number 99475), directly at the intersection with fields B1, C1 and F1.
In 2016, Quintus Verlag published a biographical essay entitled John Höxter. Poet, painter and Schnorrer of the Berlin bohemian . The author is the writer and director Jörg Aufenanger .
Works
- Apropoésies Bohémiennes , undated, undated (probably Berlin 1930/33).
- That's how we lived! 25 years of bohemian Berlin . Biko, Berlin 1929.
- Poems and prose , ed. by Franz-Josef Weber and Karl Riha, Siegen 1984 (Forgotten Authors of Modernism 3).
- I am still an untrained suicide. Autobiography, poetry, prose, graphics . With an afterword ed. by Karl Riha . Postscript publisher, Hanover 1988.
literature
- Alfred Bergmann: John Höxter. Ein Denkstein , Detmold 1971.
- Hans J. Schütz: "I was once a German poet". Forgotten and misunderstood authors of the 20th century , CH Beck, Munich 1988, pp. 124–128.
- Bo Osdrowski / Tom Riebe (eds.): John Hoexter , Jena 2012 (Versensporn 8, Edition Poetry tastes good).
- Jörg Aufenanger: John Höxter. Poet, painter and scrover of the Berlin bohemian , Quintus 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-75-6 ( online )
- Dieter Sudhoff: Hoxter, John. In: Andreas B. Kilcher (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon of German-Jewish Literature. Jewish authors in the German language from the Enlightenment to the present. 2nd, updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02457-2 , pp. 235f. (Anniversary of death there November 16).
Web links
- Literature by and about John Höxter in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Zivier : The Romanesque Café. Apparitions and marginal phenomena around the Memorial Church , Berlin 1965, p. 16 f.
- ↑ Stolpersteine in Berlin: John Hoexter In: stolpersteine-berlin.de , accessed on August 14, 2019.
- ↑ Jörg Aufenanger: John Höxter. Poet, painter and Schnorrer of the Berlin bohemian . Quintus-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945256-75-6 .
- ^ Short review Die Zeit, February 17, 1989.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Höxter, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 15, 1938 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |