Julius Havemann

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Julius Havemann

Julius Havemann (born October 1, 1866 in Lübeck , † August 30, 1932 in Klempau ) was a German writer.

Life

Havemann came from a respected Lübeck merchant family. His grandfather was the businessman and senator Johann Joachim Havemann . His father Theodor Havemann (* 1817; † March 25, 1882) had studied law and was a Dr. iur. obtained his doctorate and practiced as a lawyer in Lübeck. Julius Havemann attended the Katharineum in Lübeck , which he graduated from high school at Easter 1887.

He studied at the Universities of Freiburg , Munich , Tübingen and Leipzig and then lived as a freelance writer in various places abroad (Switzerland, Austria, Italy) and in Germany. Around 1901 he worked temporarily as an assistant librarian at the Royal Library in Berlin . In 1911 he returned to his parents' house at Hüxstraße 55 in Lübeck . He took part in the First World War as a volunteer .

On his fiftieth birthday, he received a gift from the Senate and Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck in the form of the publication of his poems and an honorary prize.

On October 23, 1926, his comedy Schelmuffsky premiered in the Lübeck City Theater .

In 1927 he married Charlotte Metzger (born September 15, 1903; † January 19, 1978), the daughter of the director of the Lübeck trade school Max Metzger , at the age of 61 . In 1928 a son, Michael Havemann, was born to the couple. The last years of his life the family lived in Klempau. In 1929 he suffered a stroke from which he did not recover. In 1930 Thomas Mann , whose work Havemann had discussed in detail and praised in the conservative magazine Eckart in 1909 , stood up for him. Havemann died impoverished and was buried in the Havemann family crypt in the Burgtorfriedhof .

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Celebrated as “Lübeck's Poet” on his 60th birthday, Julius Havemann is now a forgotten and no longer read writer. Havemann was last mentioned in 1960 in the anthology “Der Turmhahn. A Lübeck poet's book ”, ed. by Paul Brockhaus , which “tells of the poetic work in the old Hanseatic city”. With five poems and a short novella a memorial was to be erected for him and his poetic work. An attempt to tear Havemann from oblivion was an article by Heinz-Rainer Metzger in the feature section of the Lübecker Nachrichten on October 1, 1976 on the occasion of his 110th birthday.

The Germanist Rudolf Majut sees Havemann as "one of the most important narrators in the field of historical novels" and he is "no less important in that of the character novella".

Works

Novels

  • The call of life. A novel from the time of the wars of freedom. 2 volumes, Leipzig: Sarasin 1913
  • Beauty. Leipzig: Sarasin 1914
  • Monsieur Francois. 1917
  • The goddess of reason. Leipzig: Grunow 1919
  • Pilgrims through the night. 1926

Novellas

  • Wig and pigtail. Berlin 1911 (3 novellas)
  • At the fountain. 1912
  • Own people. 1913 and 1920
  • Adventurer. Berlin: Grote 1915
  • Ruth Sydentop. Hamburg: Hermes 1919
  • Dolores. Leipzig: Ph. Reclam jun. 1921
  • Overbeck. Lübeck: Antäus-Verlag 1924 (via Christian Adolph Overbeck )
  • The barbarian and other short stories. Lübeck: O. Quitzow 1927

more publishments

  • German heroic youth: a wake-up call to the holy war. Leipzig: Sarasin 1915
  • Poems. Hamburg: Janssen 1917
  • Three fairy tales. 1922
  • History of beautiful literature in Lübeck. Lübeck 1926

Dramatic pieces

  • Schelmuffsky. Comedy, 1926
  • The Philosopher's Stone. Festival, 1923
  • The promise. Festival for the Eutin weavers' celebration, 1926

as well as a variety of newspaper and magazine articles from 1892 to 1929.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Father-city sheets ; Year 1926/27, No. 3, edition of October 31, 1926, category: Chronicle
  2. ↑ Thomas Mann , in: Eckart 4 (1909), pp. 239-255
  3. ↑ Manfred Eickhölter, Britta Dittmann: To please everyone - is impossible .: Thomas Mann and Lübeck, 1875 - 2000. A chronicle. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2001 ISBN 9783795012465 , p. 72
  4. ↑ NDB (lit.)
personal data
SURNAME Havemann, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1932
Place of death Plumbing at Krummesse