Karl Henckell

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Karl Friedrich Henckell, around 1900

Karl Friedrich Henckell (born April 17, 1864 in Hanover , † July 30, 1929 in Lindau in Lake Constance ) was a German poet and writer.

Life

Henckell studied philosophy , philology and economics in Berlin , Heidelberg , Leipzig , Munich and Zurich . He was in contact with Michael Georg Conrad , Martin Greif , Hermann Conradi , Otto Erich Hartleben , John Henry Mackay , Hermann Sendelbach , Adolf Bartels , Peter Hille and others. a. and was co-editor of Modern Poet Characters (1885). In June 1888, Henckell called for the establishment of an "Ulrich Huttenbund" with a notice on the notice board of the University of Zurich; the program of the social democratically oriented association, which also called itself “young Germany”, included the struggle for modern humanity and truth. Zurich was also the place of publication of Henckell's socially critical volumes of poetry, which appeared from 1885 to 1890, until Henckell was able to bring out the next Trutznachtigall collection with the second place of publication Leipzig. At times he lived for a long time in Milan , then in Vienna , Brussels and from 1890 back in Zurich . In 1889 he acquired citizenship of the Zurich municipality of Stallikon and thus Swiss citizenship. In 1895 he became a publisher and bookseller in Zurich. In 1896 he published the volume of poems Passifloren by Gertrud Pfander in his publishing house . In 1897 he married Anny Haaf-Haller, whose sister Anna Bertha Haaf had been the wife of the Swiss historian Gustav Tobler since 1883. In 1902 Henckell moved to Berlin-Charlottenburg , in 1908 to Munich . Most recently he lived in Muri near Bern .

At the memorial service in Constance, at the request of the late poet, the Mannheim writer Fritz Droop held the memorial speech.

The newspaper Volksrecht devoted a lengthy obituary to him. In it it was stated that he, who had carried the honorary name of worker poet for 40 years, had come from the bourgeoisie "as a fighter and broadcaster to proletaria" ":" For him it was about the whole thing, not just about the literary revolution. "Also outside the working class one understood "that Henckell is a poet who contributes to the glory of the German spirit".

His brother Gustav Henckell was the co-founder of the Hero canning factory in Lenzburg.

In 1930 Henckellgasse in Vienna- Penzing (14th district) was named after him.

Works

  • For free. A social night piece , 1884
  • The New Poetry , 1885
  • Poetic sketchbook , 1885; Preface by Heinrich Hart
  • Stanzas , 1887
  • Blackbird calls , 1888
  • Diorama , 1890
  • Green Germany. A literary pamphlet in verse , 1890
  • Trutznachtingall , 1891
  • From my songbook , 1892
  • Interlude , 1894
  • Ada Negri , 1896
  • Poems , 1898
  • New life , 1900
  • Summit and Reasons , 1904
  • Vibrations , 1906
  • My song , 1906
  • German poets since Heinrich Heine. A journey through fifty years of poetry , 1906 digitized
  • World poetry. A circle of life in post-poetry , 1910
  • A song of life. Seals , 1911
  • In moving on. New poems , 1911
  • World music. New poems , 1918
  • Collected works in 5 volumes , 1921–1923

Editorial activity

  • Sunflowers , 1895/96 - 1898/99 (magazine)

literature

  • Karl Henckell in the mirror of his environment. Essays, letters, poems as commemorative writings , ed. v. Karl Friedrich Schmid. Hirschfeld, Leipzig 1931.
  • Karl Henckell . In: Franz Osterroth and Dieter Schuster : Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 1: Until the end of the First World War. JHW Dietz Verlag Nachf., Bonn and Berlin 1960, p. 127.
  • Henckell, Karl . In: Lexicon of socialist German literature. From the beginning until 1945. Monographic-biographical accounts . Verlag Sprache und Literatur, Halle (Saale) 1963, pp. 212–214.
  • Fritz Hüser:  Henckell, Karl Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 519 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Magda Janssen: Karl Henckell, a poet picture. The harvest, Munich 1911.
  • Karl Henckell . In: Franz Osterroth and Dieter Schuster: Chronicle of the German Social Democracy. Volume 1: Until the end of the First World War. JHW Dietz Verlag Nachf., Bonn and Berlin 1960, p. 127.
  • Regula Schenkel and Edi Goetschel (eds.), Karl Henckell - Literary and Social Revolutionary , Zurich 2017, Monsalvat-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-9523855-1-7 .

swell

  • Author's Lexicon: Digital Library Volume 13
  • Wilpert: Lexicon of world literature. Authors, Alfred Kröner Verlag, p. 646

Web links

Commons : Karl Henckell  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Karl Henckell  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ricarda Huch : You my demon, my snake .. Letters to Richard Hugo 1887–1897 , Hg: Anne Gabrisch, Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag 1998, p. 657
  2. ^ Peter Sprengel : History of German-language literature 1870-1900 , Beck Verlag: Munich 1998, p. 625
  3. ^ Martin Müller: Adler to Wesendonck, Germans and other foreigners in Zurich 1830–1914. 157 biographical portraits . Zurich 2012 (Chronos Verlag), p. 150.
  4. ^ Christian Baertschi: Tobler, Gustav. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  5. ↑ Konstanzer Zeitung , Saturday, August 3, 1929
  6. ↑ Popular law : Karl Henckell died. Zurich, August 3, 1929.
personal data
SURNAME Henckell, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henckell, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1929
Place of death Lindau in Lake Constance