Konrad Falke

Konrad Falke (born March 19, 1880 in Aarau , † April 28, 1942 in Eustis , Florida ; real name Karl Frey ) was a Swiss writer .

Life

Konrad Falke was the son of a bank director. He began a study of the jurisprudence at the University of Neuchatel , then switched to the subjects of philosophy and literature , which he in Heidelberg studied and Zurich. In 1903 he earned his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Zurich with a thesis on Wilhelm Waiblinger .

From 1906 he taught German literary history as a private lecturer at the ETH Zurich and from 1911 to 1912 German literature at the University of Zurich.

From 1912 he lived as a freelance writer and private scholar in Zurich and Italy . During the First World War he expressed his rejection of German imperialism ; after 1933 he was also a staunch opponent of National Socialist ideology and dictatorship .

From 1937 to 1940 he edited the exile magazine Maß und Wert together with Thomas Mann . Falke spent the last years of his life in the United States from 1939 . He died of typhoid fever .

Konrad Falke was the author of novels ( The Children's Crusade and Jesus of Nazareth are now considered to be his most important works), short stories , essays , poems and an extensive dramatic work influenced by classicism ; he also translated from Greek , Latin and Italian .

Works

• From the mountains of the Sernftal , Zurich 1904 (under the name Karl Frey)
• Seals , Aarau 1904 (under the name Karl Frey)
• Wilhelm Waiblinger , Aarau 1904 (under the name Karl Frey)
• Mrs. Minne , Aarau 1905
• Scientific treatment and artistic consideration , Zurich 1906 (under the name Karl Frey)
• Heimatvolk , Aarau 1907 (under the name Karl Frey)
• When we dead awaken! , Zurich 1908
• The Eternal Tragedy , Zurich 1909
• Under the spell of the Jungfrau , Zurich 1909
• Carmina Romana , Zurich 1910
• Caesar Imperator , Zurich [a. a.] 1911
• Kainz as Hamlet , Zurich [a. a.] 1911
• Astrorre , Zurich [u. a.] 1912
• Das Gewitterkind and other short stories , Zurich 1913 (under the name Karl Frey)
• The Swiss , Berlin 1913
• Wengen , Zurich [u. a.] 1913
• The Swiss will for culture , Zurich 1914
• The democratic ideal and our national upbringing , Zurich 1915
• San Salvatore , Zurich [u. a.] 1916
• From old and new violins , Zurich [a. a.] 1916
• The Marienmaler , Zurich 1917
• The dangers of Switzerland , Zurich 1918
• World neutrality , Zurich 1919
• Dante , Munich 1922
• The Children's Crusade , Zurich
  • 1. Book 1 and 2 , 1924
  • 2. Book 3 and 4 , 1924
• Mary's legends , Zurich 1926
• The will to power and human dignity , Zurich 1927
• Dramatic works , Zurich [a. a.]
  • 1. Symbols 1 , 1933
  • 2. Symbols 2 , 1930
  • 3. Modern Social Dramas 1 , 1931
  • 4. Modern Social Drama 2 , 1932
  • 5. The Eternal Comedy , 1933
• Alpine dance of death and two stories from Lauterbrunnen Valley , Interlaken 1930
• Paul's wedding , Zurich [a. a.] 1932
• Turning point , Zurich [u. a.] 1932
• What's going on in the world , Zurich [u. a.] 1938
• Jesus of Nazareth , Zurich
  • 1 (1950)
  • 2 (1950)

Translations

• Dante Alighieri : Divina Commedia in German , Zurich 1921
• Euripides : The Bakchantes , Zurich 1919
• Berthe Kollbrunner : Taumel , Zurich 1925 (translated together with Rudolf Wilhelm Huber and Hans Jelmoli)
• Pius II .: Euryalus and Lucretia , Leipzig 1907
• The vision of the Irish knight Tundalus , Zurich 1921

literature

• Thomas Baltensweiler: "Measure and Value" - Thomas Mann and Konrad Falke's exile magazine. Bern [u. a.] 1996
• Tobias Hoffmann-Allenspach: Konrad Falke . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 1, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 555 f.
• Zeno Inderbitzin: Konrad Falke (Karl Frey). Lucerne 1958.
• Konrad Falke: «The Basel Saturday» Nekrolog. In: Knowledge and Life. Vol. 8, 1911, pp. 367–372 ( digitized version )

Web links

Wikisource: Konrad Falke  - Sources and full texts

• Literature by and about Konrad Falke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Charles Linsmayer : Falke, Konrad