Karl Theodor Bluth

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Karl Theodor Bluth (born May 5, 1892 in Berlin , † March 5, 1964 in London ) was a German psychiatrist and writer.

Life

He first studied literature and philosophy in Bonn , Berlin and Jena and completed his studies in 1914. In May 1918 he enrolled at the University of Rostock to study medicine. At a young age he wrote poetry and plays and in 1918 was able to publish his first, expressionist volume of poetry. From 1923 to 1924 he worked in psychiatry in Bavaria, but then returned to Berlin to continue his medical studies. He successfully completed this with a dissertation on medical history at Novalis .

In 1930 his play, written in 1924 and directed against totalitarian forms of rule, The Indignation of Lucius was banned in Berlin. In 1934 he emigrated, who was now one of the "burned poets", to Latin America and two years later to England, first to Nottingham , where he worked at the Central Hospital, and then to London, where he opened a successful practice in the Kensington district . As a doctor with unorthodox psychopharmacological methods, as a lifelong creative person who z. B. wrote English poetry, he was able to show many artists ways out of the disease without having to give up being creative. The German actor Conrad Veidt , the poet David Gascoigne , the writer George Barker , the painter Julian Trevelyan , the writer and editor Cyril Connolly , the art collector and patron Peter Watson and Arthur Koestler - all British - and the likewise British writer, painter and interior designer Anna Kavan , who became not only his patient but also his closest friend, are among his famous patients.

Works

  • Lyric collections and individual poems
  • Spectacles
  • Essays; Essays and lectures on Johannes R. Becher, Heinrich Mann, Alfred Wolfenstein a. a.
  • Letters, Johannes R. Becher, Ludwig Binswanger, Richard Friedenthal, Ludwig Meidner, Friedrich Michael, Hans J. Rehfisch, Wilhelm Sternfeld and others. a.
  • Work notes etc. a.
  • CVs and a.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the entry of Carl Theodor Bluth's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ^ Michael Scammell: Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic. Random House, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-588-36901-7 , pp. 240 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).

literature

  • Marbach literature archive. Bluth estate
  • Jeremy Reed: A Stranger on Earth. The Life and Work of Anna Kavan. Owen, London 2006.
  • Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

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personal data
SURNAME Bluth, Karl Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German psychiatrist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1964
Place of death London