Kurt Martens

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Kurt Martens (born July 21, 1870 in Leipzig , † February 16, 1945 in Dresden ) was a German writer . He has mainly written novels and short stories .

Life

Martens was the cousin of the publisher Hans von Weber . He studied law, political science and history in Heidelberg , Leipzig and Berlin and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. In 1892 his first publication appeared, the volume of short stories Sinkende Schwimmer . From 1895 he was a freelance writer. In 1898 he moved to Munich and was on friendly terms with Thomas Mann , with whom he also exchanged a lot of letters. In the summer of 1903 Martens told his friend, husband, a "casino story" that he had witnessed during his military service in a hussar regiment. He noted down some key words and used them in November 1903 when writing his story Ein Glück . Martens became famous in 1898 through the novel from Décadence .

After the air raids on Dresden , Martens committed suicide and was buried in the Loschwitz cemetery . One of the two trombone angels created by the Gmund sculptor Quirin Roth on the organ of the Dresden Frauenkirche is dedicated to Kurt Martens, the other to Victor Klemperer .

Works

  • Novel from Décadence , 1898, online
  • From the diary of a Baroness von Treuth and other short stories . Grethlein, Leipzig 1899
  • The completion . Roman, 1902
  • Kaspar Hauser . Drama in four acts . Fontane, Berlin 1903
  • Cycle of love. A story of the better person . Fleischel, Berlin 1906
  • The Master of Joy. Comedy in four acts . Fleischel, Berlin 1907
  • Germany marches. An 1813 novel . Fleischel, Berlin 1913
  • Pia. The novel of their two worlds . Fleischel, Berlin 1913
  • Taste and education. Little essays . Fleischel, Berlin 1914
  • Verses . Bachmair, Munich 1914
  • Here and over there . Novel. Fleischel, Berlin 1915
  • Jan Friedrich . A statesman's novel . Grethlein, Leipzig 1916
  • The big and the small ailments . Novellas. Grethlein, Leipzig 1917
  • The emigrant . Novella. Steegemann, Hanover 1919
  • The alp of Zerled . Novel. Grethlein, Leipzig 1920
  • Shura . Hillger, Berlin 1920
  • The German literature of our time. In characteristics and samples . Rösl, Munich 1921, online ; Franke, Berlin 1933
  • Relentless chronicle of life . 2 volumes. Rikola, Vienna 1921/24
  • The powder conspiracy . Hachmeister & Thal, Leipzig 1922
  • Between swamp and firmament . Novellas. Rösl, Munich 1922
  • The lover's double form . Novel. Echerl, Berlin 1923
  • Adventure of the soul. Novellettes . Reclam ( UB 6400), Leipzig 1923
  • Hydrocyanic acid / A shot in the Vienna Woods. Crime novels . Seven rods, Berlin 1929
  • Gabriele Bach. A German novel in Paris . Neff, Berlin 1935
  • The dancer and the blind man . Narrative. Moewig & Höffner, Berlin 1935
  • General in foreign service. Fate of Count Matthias von der Schulenburg . Historical narrative. Möhring, Leipzig 1936
  • Forsthaus Ellermoor . Novel. Seyfert, Dresden 1937
  • The young Cosima . Novel. Janke, Leipzig 1937
  • Renunciation and consummation . Novel. Steuben, Berlin 1941

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thomas spokesman (ed.): Vom Zauberberg zum Doktor Faustus . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-465-03070-2
personal data
SURNAME Martens, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1945
Place of death Dresden