Karl Borromeo Heinrich

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Karl Borromäus Heinrich (born July 22, 1884 in Hangenham , Upper Bavaria , † October 25, 1938 in Einsiedeln , Switzerland ) was a German writer .

Life

Heinrich studied history, literature, philosophy, medicine and theology in Munich , Heidelberg , Geneva , Paris and Erlangen . In 1908 he received his doctorate in Erlangen with a thesis on Friedrich Nietzsche . From 1909 to 1912 he was editor of the Simplicissimus in Munich , then until 1913 lecturer at Albert Langen Verlag , which published Simplicissimus , and from 1913 to 1914 he worked for the magazine Der Brenner and worked for the reform Catholic magazine Schweizerische Rundschau .

During the First World War and in the following years he stayed abroad, made numerous trips and some suicide attempts and underwent several therapies through which he sought cures from his depressive states . Formal employment as an attaché at the German embassy in Bern can be excluded due to undetectable salary payments, but work within the scope of Harry Graf Kessler's activities there and the cultural department of the Foreign Office is possible. With his third wife, Olga Ritschard, Heinrich joined the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln on December 21, 1925 as an Oblat under the name Maria Meinradus .

In the 1920s Heinrich was an employee of the central office of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany in Mönchengladbach , for two years in the editorial office of the Volksverein Verlag and from 1928 to August 1929 its managing director. In 1933 the Volksverein was banned by the National Socialists.

After 1929 Heinrich lived in Unterseen in the Swiss canton of Bern . He wrote the open-air play The Antichrist for the Einsiedeln monastery and took part in the open-air performance of the mystery play The Great World Theater of Calderón de la Barca on the square in front of the monastery. Heinrich died there in 1938 at the age of 54 after a long illness. He is buried in the Einsiedeln cemetery. After his death, his wife moved to the Nonnberg Benedictine monastery in Salzburg .

Heinrich had been close friends with Georg Trakl since 1912 , and he was his kindred editor. Trakl dedicated two of his most important poems to him, namely Downfall and Song of the Secluded , in connection with a suicide attempt by Heinrich at the beginning of March 1913, through which Trakl "felt a sense of wild despair and horror over this chaotic existence".

Henry has written several novels, including the first fruits as the autobiographical Bildungsroman readable Karl Asenkofer. Story of a Youth (1907). As an essayist, he published statements on Karl Kraus and cultural-philosophical questions; in the Transition People of 1931, he dressed his thoughts in the form of a religious denomination. Through this work and through his renewal of the legend of saints and other forms of legendary and exemplary narration, he was considered one of the most important Catholic prose writers of his time.

Works

  • Karl Asenkofer. Story of a youth. Novel. Munich 1907.
  • Karl Asenkofer's escape and refuge. Munich 1909.
  • Nietzsche's position on history. Dissertation Erlangen 1908. Munich 1909.
  • People by God's grace. Narrative. Munich 1910.
  • Casimir. Novella. Munich 1922.
  • Florian. Munich 1924.
  • The face of German Catholicism seen by a layperson. Essays. Munich 1925.
  • Saint John of Colombini and other religious stories. Legends. Mönchengladbach 1927.
  • Mary among the people. Narrative. Mönchengladbach 1927.
  • Karl Borromeo Heinrich. A selection of his works. Introduction by Eduard Schröder. Mönchengladbach 1927.
  • Mary among the people. New episode. Mönchengladbach 1928.
  • People of transition. Munich 1931.
  • Four tower castle. Novel. Munich 1932.
  • Hermit novena in story, legend and contemplation. Schlieren-Zurich 1934.
  • Sister Gertrud tells. Munich 1936.
  • Wisdom of the ancestors. Munich (around 1936).
  • The antichrist. Einsiedeln 1937.
  • Bergwart Johannes. Sheets from a diary. Novel. Lucerne 1942.

literature

  • Maria Behre: Heinrich, Karl Borromeo. In: Wilhelm Kühlmann (Ed.): Killy Literature Lexicon . Authors and works from the German-speaking cultural area. 2., completely revised Ed. De Gruyter, Berlin 2009, vol. 5, p. 217 f.
  • Richard Detsch: The relationship between Karl Borromäus Heinrich and Georg Trakl. In: Modern Austrian Literature 16 (1983), H. 2, pp. 83-104.
  • Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographical Lexicon of KV. 1st part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 2). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1991, ISBN 3-923621-55-8 , sv
  • Günther Müller : The form of the legend and Karl Borromäus Heinrich. In: Euphorion. Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte 31 (1930), pp. 454–468.
  • Albrecht von Schirnding: Carl Borromäus Heinrich. A poet from Munich, brought out of oblivion for Dietz-Rüdiger Moser. In: Literature in Bavaria. Special issue 2004, pp. 89–91.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Brenner, March 1, 1913.
  2. ↑ Der Brenner, April 1, 1914.
  3. ↑ Quoted from: Killy Literature Lexicon. Berlin 2009, vol. 5, p. 218.
personal data
SURNAME Heinrich, Karl Borromeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meinradus, Maria (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Hangenham , Upper Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1938
Place of death Einsiedeln , Switzerland