Kurt Kamlah

Kurt Kamlah ( pseudonym : Kurti , born December 4, 1866 in Hanover , † June 15, 1928 in Düsseldorf ) was a German writer .

Life

Kurt Kamlah was the son of an officer . He studied law at the universities of Strasbourg , Leipzig and Göttingen until 1891 . He then entered the Prussian administrative service and did his legal clerkship in Neustadt am Rübenberge and in Stade . He then worked as a government assessor in Aachen , Danzig , Berlin and Kempen / Niederrhein . From 1899 he lived in Düsseldorf ; In 1904 he was appointed government councilor . In Düsseldorf Kamlah, who had already started to publish literary texts earlier, was a member of the Free Litterary Association until 1904 . He was then co-founder and chairman of the Literary Society . Kamlah took part in the First World War as an officer in the cavalry . In 1919 he was one of the founders of the Düsseldorfer Immermannbund .

Kurt Kamlah was a writer of narrative works and poems . His sandpit friend from Hanover, Otto Erich Hartleben , created a literary monument for him in the story "Die Novelle des guten Kurt" (In Der Römische Maler. 1898; p. 117ff).

Works

• The songs of poor Kurti , Berlin 1896
• The Amber Question , Berlin 1898
• Last verses from Armen Kurti , Leipzig 1903
• Mumuksha , Leipzig [a. a.] 1905
• Spring days in Spain , Düsseldorf 1906
• Verse , Düsseldorf 1909
• The education to become a poet by Otto Erich Hartleben , Düsseldorf 1912
• The love of Vinzenz Leuther and other stories , Düsseldorf 1912
• Verses from the field , Düsseldorf 1915
• Sayings , Düsseldorf 1916
• Amusing stories , Düsseldorf 1918
• Poems , Düsseldorf 1919
• The secret of precious stones , Düsseldorf 1922
• Hilde, Tilde and Annemarie , Düsseldorf 1924
• Small in large , Düsseldorf 1926
• From the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus , Düsseldorf 1926

Web links

• Entry in the Düsseldorf "eMuseum"