Karl Jacobs

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Karl Jacobs (born June 1, 1906 in Essen ; † August 23, 1997 there ) was a German writer .

Life

Karl Jacobs graduated after visiting the Essen Castle High School , a study at the universities in Bonn , Lausanne , Munich and Cologne . In 1929 he earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the playwright Adolf von Wilbrandt . From 1937 to 1971 Jacobs worked as a high school teacher in Essen, and from 1946 at the Luisenschule there .

Karl Jacobs wrote numerous plays since the 1920s ; He also published a reader for grammar schools and translated works of fiction and non-fiction from Flemish and Dutch into German . In 1972 he was awarded the French order " Palmes Académiques ".

Works

  • Rescuer Till , Frankfurt a. M. 1924
  • Three Spanish Schwänke , Munich 1926
  • The white knight , Berlin 1926
  • Village fight , Munich 1927
  • The Mummenschanz , Berlin 1927
  • Adolf Wilbrandt's dramatic poem in contemporary history and critical representation , Cologne 1929
  • Jeppe vom Berge , Munich 1930
  • Ulysses of Ithaka , Munich 1930
  • Hans Pathelin , Berlin 1931
  • The rowdy comedy from “Midsummer Night's Dream” , Munich 1931
  • Puss in Boots , Munich 1932
  • The next morning , Munich 1932
  • The hero Knapkese , Munich 1933
  • The baby Jesus in Flanders , Hamburg 1933
  • A small nativity play , Munich 1934
  • Meier Helmbrecht , Munich 1934
  • Pietje Booms , Munich 1935
  • The gentle throat , Munich 1937 (together with Felix Timmermans )
  • Lille , Lille 1942
  • Schneider Siebenstreich , Leipzig 1942
  • Pieter Brueghel , Brussels 1943 (with Felix Timmermans )
  • Five move to Bremen , Munich 1947
  • The baby Jesus in Flanders , Munich 1947
  • Felix Timmermans , Düsseldorf 1949

Editing

  • The most beautiful stories of the heart , Salzburg [u. a.] 1940
  • Flanders told , Munich 1943
  • Guide to Northern France, Flanders and Artois , Brussels 1943
  • Laughing Flanders , Brussels 1943
  • Fairy tales and folk stories , Vienna 1946
  • Franz Grillparzer : The monastery at Sendomir. The poor minstrel, Münster in 1947
  • Jonathan Swift : Gulliver's Travels , Essen 1950
  • Der Strom , Düsseldorf (edited together with Anton Gail)
    • 1. Sexta , 1951
    • 2nd Quinta , 1951
    • 3rd quarta , 1951
    • 4th lower period , 1951
    • 5. Obertertia, Untersekunda , 1951
    • 6. From the early days to Leibniz , 1950
    • 7. From the Enlightenment to the Present , 1950
    • 8. German poems from the baroque to today , 1950
  • Grandparents and grandchildren , Bremen 1972
  • Donated years , Bremen 1974

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