Karl Brand (Author)

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Karl Brand (actually: Karl Müller ; born October 15, 1895 in Witkowitz , Austria-Hungary ; died March 17, 1917 in Prague , Austria-Hungary) was an expressionist Prague poet and narrator of German-Moravian origin.

Live and act

Karl Brand's short life was overshadowed by parental poverty and serious illness. Brand moved to Prague with his family as early as 1896. He lived with his parents on the Lesser Town in Prague and attended the German Commercial Academy from 1911 to 1915. He often visited the “ Café Arco ”, where Franz Werfel and Johannes Urzidil were friends. In 1913, Brands' tuberculosis escalated . However, the illness also became the driving force behind his existential writing. The “semi-autobiographical story Der Elende (1916), the death record of a starving man” deserves special attention .

Brand was an admirer of Franz Kafka , whose transformation he continued in 1916 with the reverse transformation of Gregor Samsa .

Brand himself only published in newspapers and magazines, including Der Sturm and Die Aktion . After his death, Urzidil ​​and Werfel looked after his estate . As early as 1921, Urzidil ​​published a selection from Brand's work entitled The Legacy of a Young Man , to which Werfel added an essay entitled Memory of Karl Brand as a preface.

Works

  • Johannes Urzidil ​​(ed.): The legacy of a young man . With a foreword by Franz Werfel. Strache, Vienna / Prague / Leipzig 1920 [recte 1921] (Klaus Reprint, Nendeln 1973).
  • Hartmut Vollmer (Ed.): The work . In: Hartmut Binder (Ed.): Prager Profiles. Forgotten authors in the shadow of Kafka . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1991, pp. 281–322.

literature

  • Hartmut Binder : A Forgotten Chapter of Prague Literary History. Karl Brand and his relationship with Kafka and Werfel . In: Euphorion 84 (1990), pp. 269-316.
  • Hartmut Vollmer: "We burn endlessly at the fear-ridden pole". On the life and work of the Prague expressionist poet Karl Brand . In: Hartmut Binder (Ed.): Prager Profiles. Forgotten authors in the shadow of Kafka . Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1991, pp. 257-279.
  • Karl Brand . In: Dieter Sudhoff , Michael Matthias Schardt (Ed.): Prager German stories . Reclam, Stuttgart 1992, p. 459.
  • Murray G. Hall, Gerhard Renner: Handbook of the estates and collections of Austrian authors . 2nd Edition. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1995, p. 36.
  • Bo Osdrowski, Tom Riebe (Ed.): Karl Brand. Verse spur . Booklet for lyrical charms No. 13, edition POESIE SCHMECKT GUT, Jena 2013, 100 copies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: It doesn't always have to be Kafka - Neue Anthologie presents stories by almost forgotten German-Moravian authors . In: prag-aktuell.cz , July 28, 2015
  2. ^ Peter Sprengel: History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. From the turn of the century to the end of the First World War . Volume 2. CH Beck, Munich 2004, p. 321.
  3. ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: Karl Brand and the "Reverse Transformation of Gregor Samsa" - 100 years ago the author who resurrected Kafka's beetle-figure died . In: prag aktuell, online: March 17, 2017
  4. ↑ Konstantin Kountouroyanis: From Man to Beetle and Back - The Prague writer Karl Brand wrote “The Reverse Transformation of Gregor Samsa” shortly before his death. It follows on from Franz Kafka's famous story and suggests a new interpretation . In: Prager Zeitung, Print: July 16, 2015, p. 18, Volume 24, No. 29–30, Online: July 16, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Brand, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Expressionist German-speaking Prague poet and storyteller
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Witkowitz
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1917
Place of death Prague