Karl Oppermann (engineer, 1881)

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Karl Oppermann (also: Karl FW Oppermann ; born January 4, 1881 in Hanover ; died September 3, 1946 there ) was a German civil engineer , government building officer and writer .

Life

Karl Oppermann attended the Leibniz School in Hanover , where he passed his Abitur in 1900. He then studied philosophy, literature and civil engineering at the technical university there . In 1902 he passed the state examination and graduated with the title of Dipl.-Ing.

After completing his studies, Oppermann reoriented himself as a freelance writer and mainly wrote plays, poems and epic works. Nevertheless, he worked temporarily as a graduate engineer and government construction manager in Leipzig before he returned to Hanover in 1908, where he was promoted to government master builder in 1910 .

Later Oppermann worked as a government building officer in Waldenburg in Silesia .

Works (selection)

Plays:

  • The Sicilian Vespers. Tragedy in five acts , Dresden [u. a.]: Pierson, 1902
  • Festival for the Schiller Celebration , 1905

Poems:

  • World and Soul , Stuttgart: Strecker & Schröder, 1905

Epic Works:

  • From the life of Eide Sielken. A coastal story , Breslau: Bergstadtverlag Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, 1924
  • Die Gottesmühlen , novel, cover design by Max Odon for the 1st to 4th edition, Breslau: Bergstadtverlag, 1925
  • The Land of the Fathers , Roman, Breslau: Bergstadtverlag, 1927

as editor:

  • Karl Oppermann, Carlo Gerdes (ed.): Hannoverscher Musenalmanach for the year 1905 , with a cover drawing by Oswald Koch, published on behalf of the literary-philosophical association of the Royal Technical University, Hanover: Otto Tobies, 1904

literature

Archival material

Archival material from and about Karl Oppermann can be found, for example

  • as a handwritten letter from Oppermann from Leipzig dated July 23, 1908 to Georg Friedrich Konrich  , dedicated to "his dear GF Konrich for edification"; partly "destroyed on October 9, 1943"; Hannover City Library , archive signature Kps 7085

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Person data set in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ n.v . : Oppermann, Karl in the database of Niedersächsische Personen ( new entry required ) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek [undated], last accessed on July 27, 2020
  3. ^ A b Franz Brümmer : Oppermann, Karl FW , in ders .: Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . Vol. 5th, 6th edition Leipzig, 1913, pp. 188f .; Digitized via the German text archive
  4. ^ A b c Hugo Thielen : Oppermann, (1) Karl , in: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 275
  5. ↑ Information about the Kalliope network
personal data
SURNAME Oppermann, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oppermann, Karl FW
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil engineer, government building officer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1946
Place of death Hanover