Karl Widmaier

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Karl Widmaier (with full name Karl Johann Widmaier , born December 9, 1886 in Haigerloch , † November 2, 1931 in Hechingen ) was a writer , alongside a visual artist and composer .

Life

The youngest son of the accountant Sebastian Widmaier and his wife Katharina Widmaier geb. Wild visited the well-known educational institutions of the Cistercians in Mehrerau on Lake Constance and the Benedictines in Metten (Lower Bavaria). The family lived in Wiesbaden for a long time ; Widmaier passed the final examination at the humanistic grammar school there. He then studied philology with the subjects German, French and Latin at the Universities of Strasbourg , Geneva , Paris , Berlin and Bonn . Private studies took him to Rome in the summer of 1911 ; In 1912 he passed the gymnastics teacher examination in Spandau , and in the spring of 1914 the state examination at the University of Bonn.

When the war broke out in 1914, he was drafted as a reserve reservist and served in the Champagne , Moselle and Maas regions . In 1917 he was withdrawn from the front and had to undergo a serious stomach operation in Tübingen .

Widmaier was dismissed from military service and entered higher education, first in Barmen , then in Elberfeld ; after a short illness he was tutor on the manor Heiligenrode in the Rhön; from 1918 until his death he was a member of the teaching staff of the state real reform high school in Hechingen.

In 1923 he earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Tübingen with the text The aesthetic views of Herder in his critical grove and their origins . In 1927 he was appointed a teacher. A trip to Italy in the summer of 1928 provided artistic inspiration. A second gastric operation took place in Heidelberg , but his suffering continued to worsen; At the age of forty-four he died of gastric nerve paralysis.

Since 1921 Karl Widmaier was with Elisabeth Widmaier geb. Married Buchholz; three sons resulted from the marriage.

Artistic creation

Widmaier maintained close contact with the private scholar Hans Kayser and the writers Anton Gabele and Johannes Schmid. The four wrote quarterly reports, which are in the Kayser estate. The Kaysersche Druckerei published Widmaier's drama The Dictator . For the series Der Dom - books of German mysticism , edited by Kayser and published by Insel-Verlag, Widmaier devoted himself to the writings of Johann Georg Hamann .

His artistic legacy consists of plays, novels, novellas and poems, woodcuts and linocuts, drawings and paintings, vocal and instrumental music. In 1930 he began the three-volume novel Peter Baumann , which remained a fragment, and which went well beyond his first novel, Erzberger ; The plan was to portray a decade of democratic development in Germany.

The published works

Dramas

  • The dictator . Berlin 1923.
  • The three Marys . Berlin 1930.

Home games

  • The city of Hechingen's game of fools . Hechingen 1927.
  • The Oettinger . Hechingen 1927.
  • The Ulrich jump . Munich 1928.
  • Mechtild from Hohenberg . Haigerloch 1929.

Novels

  • Erzberger. A contemporary cultural novel . Dillingen / Munich 1922.
  • The bronze god. Roman from communist Hungary . Dillingen / Munich 1922.
  • The heir of Herrenroda. Novel from the collapse of the old empire . Dillingen / Munich 1922.

Short stories and writings

  • Lord von Balsac's To Love and Die . Hechingen 1925.
  • Johann Georg Weckenmann's work in Hohenzollern . Esslingen 1930.
  • Vera . Koblenz 1930.
  • Reviews of theater, music and visual arts (signed with KW or Dr. KW). Hechingen 1922-1931.

Poems

  • Mitka (published under the name painter Haide). Berlin / Leipzig 1913.

Introduction and selection

  • Johann Georg Hamann: Writings . Leipzig 1921. Facsimile edition Frankfurt am Main 1980.

Vocal music

  • The lost hunter for voice with piano accompaniment, poem by Eichendorff . Leipzig 1910.
  • Loreley for voice with piano accompaniment, poem by Eichendorff. Leipzig undated
  • Zollerlied for three equal voices, text by the composer. Wroclaw 1929.
  • Zollerlied for mixed choir, text by the composer. Wroclaw 1929.

Woodcuts

  • Mother and child . Luke . John . Sunrise . Ship in a storm . Regensburg 1932.

swell

  1. ↑ Zollerheimat. Supplement to the Hohenzollern sheets for local history and folklore. 1st year. Hechingen 1932 (pp. 57-60).
  2. ^ Rudolf Haase: Hans Kayser. A life for the harmony of the world . Basel / Stuttgart 1968 (pp. 37/41/44).
  3. ↑ Zollerheimat. Supplement to the Hohenzollern sheets for local history and folklore. 1st year. Hechingen 1932 (pp. 66-68).
  4. ↑ Ibid. (Pp. 71/72).

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personal data
SURNAME Widmaier, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Haigerloch
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1931
Place of death Hechingen