Kurd Adler

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Kurd Adler (* 1892 , † 6. July 1916 ) was a poet of German Expressionism , the poems about the First World War, written from the perspective of the soldier.

life and work

Little is known about Kurd Adler's life. He fought as a soldier in World War I and described in his poems the world of the trenches and the brief moments of happiness that soldiers experienced when they were on vacation at the front. The poems were written by Franz Pfemfert in his anthology Die Aktion-Lyrik. Published 1914-1916 ; they had appeared in Pfemfert's magazine “ Die Aktion ” from 1915 (including Das Geschütz , rest at the front and viewing ). In 1918 a collection of the poems was published.

Kurd Adler was killed on July 6, 1916 in combat operations on the Western Front . Erwin Piscator's obituary for Adler appeared as a poem in Pfemfert's magazine “Die Aktion” ( Kurd Adler killed! ); however, Piscator had not known Adler personally.

Poem example

Consider
We stand in wait on a high mountain
and see Germany on the left and France on the right;
and there is great quiet land everywhere
with soft forests and blinkered villages.
We are buried deep like animals
to recover the booty. The guns
blue-black mouths stare dully and bull.
All things appear to be so ignorant
that only the round, dull sound from over there
Makes us think bitterly that we are destroyers.
A feeling rises high
of that love for the silent song
Sunday morning and Sebastian Bach.
An instant! And everything is gray.
Five men run wild around a gun
I think with a smile of enthusiasm
the morning papers that we no longer read.

Works

  • Return. Poems. The action, Berlin, 1918
  • Poems. Edition cricket catcher, Potsdam 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurd Adler In: Lutz Hagestedt (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon . The 20th Century Volume 1: Aab - Bauer. Verlag Walter de Gruyter , 2000, page 56.
  2. ↑ Reprinted in: Die Aktion-Lyrik. 1914-1916. An anthology . Edited by Franz Pfemfert. Berlin: The Action 1916. p. 91.
  3. ^ Letter from Erwin Piscator to Paul Raabe , June 30, 1961, in: Erwin Piscator: Briefe. Volume 3.3: Federal Republic of Germany, 1960–1966 . Edited by Peter Diezel. B&S Siebenhaar, Berlin 2011. p. 83.
  4. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: jokers.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.jokers.de
personal data
SURNAME Adler, Kurd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Expressionist poet
DATE OF BIRTH 1892
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1916