Konrad Weichberger

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Konrad Weichberger (born February 10, 1877 in Weimar , † July 15, 1948 in Weimar) was a German educator and author .

biography

Weichberger was the eldest son of four children of the landscape painter Eduard Weichberger (1843–1913) and Elise Choinanus. After high school he studied at the University of Jena and in Paris and a doctorate Dr. phil. During this time he wrote poems that later attracted attention.

In 1903 he received the post of teacher at the high school on Dechanatstrasse in Bremen . In 1905 he married and had six children. In 1908 his collection of literary texts about Bremen appeared as a guest bed in Bremen . From 1910 to 1912 he was co-editor of the Bremen literary magazine Die Güldenkammer . He continued to write articles on Bremen and its civil society in various places and translated other works. Since 1917 he speculated in the field of astronomy . He wanted Bremen to become an art city . From 1928 to 1929 he published the cultural magazine Die Welle . His teaching methods were also unusual. He endeavored to point out the plight of the working class children, if necessary by appearing barefoot and teaching. In 1930 he was given early retirement. Until 1934 he lived near Bremen in Ottersberg and ran a small publishing house in the Amtshof.

He then moved to Berlin and later to his hometown Weimar. Here he lived in very modest circumstances.

Works

A large part of his writings were published by Der Stint in Bremen and reissued in 1990.

  • The Bremen guest bed old and new. Leuwer, Bremen 1908 and STINT literature, Bremen 1990
  • How could indigenous peoples measure distances in the sky without astronomical tools, and why do we divide the circle into 360 degrees? . Vlg. D. Treptow Observatory, Berlin 1917
  • My dog ​​and Mara Miroh . Lyric leaflets. AR Meyer, Berlin 1920
  • The wave . A Bremen literature and art magazine. STINT literature. Bremen 1990

literature

  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
  • Jan Osmers: Konrad Weichberger - on his own way . Schünemann, Bremen 2001.
  • Bo Osdrowski, Tom Riebe (Eds.): Konrad Weichberger. Verse spur ; Booklet for lyrical charms No. 18, Edition Poesie schmeckt gut , Jena 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ online at the SuUB Bremen: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:46:1-16
personal data
SURNAME Weichberger, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and author
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1948
Place of death Weimar