Karl Konrad Düssel

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Karl Konrad Düssel (born January 24, 1872 in Würzburg , † September 4, 1940 in Stuttgart ) was a German journalist.

Düssel was born in Würzburg in 1872. He first studied medicine in Würzburg, but his interests were in art and philosophy and so he studied philosophy in Strasbourg. There he was a member of the Germania fraternity . After completing his studies, he became a journalist, initially for the Bonner Generalanzeiger . In 1916 he went to Stuttgart , where he headed the culture department of the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt until 1935 . In 1919 he founded the New Theater in Stuttgart on Heusteigstrasse.

Düssel was a close friend of the artist Adolf Hölzel .

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 152–153.

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Individual evidence

  1. For the month in the date of death, see: Unbekant (Hrsg.): Z! Our dead , ed. around 1955, in: Archive of the Old Strasbourg Burschenschaft Germania
  2. Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 94.