Kurt Meyer-Rotermund

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Kurt Meyer-Rotermund (born March 16, 1884 in Wolfenbüttel , † May 19, 1977 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German writer , poet and essayist .

life and work

Kurt Meyer-Rotermund grew up in a family of doctors. In Wolfenbüttel he attended the Great School , where he was influenced by its director Wilhelm Brandes , ballad poet and friend Wilhelm Raabes . He studied literature and art history at the universities of Göttingen , Munich , Marburg and Heidelberg . In Göttingen, following his father, he joined the Gottinga Landsmannschaft . After completing his studies, he first worked as a newspaper editor in Braunschweig , whereupon he returned to Wolfenbüttel in 1912 at the age of 28 after stints in Velbert and Leer . He became editor of the Wolfenbütteler Zeitung and also edited anthologies with the Osnabrück poet Ludwig Bäte , which dealt with the small German town, the German parsonage and the German night watchman. In 1938 he was relieved of his position at the Wolfenbütteler Zeitung by the National Socialists. Five years later he temporarily settled in Stadenhausen / Lippe. From 1950 until his death he lived in a small house near the spa gardens in Bad Salzuflen. His extensive private library was acquired in 1978 by the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel along with his written estate. It comprises around 4,000 volumes, primarily of contemporary literature, including writings and dedicatory copies by Johannes Schlaf , as well as numerous writings on the local history of Wolfenbüttel, which led to the award of honorary citizenship on March 16, 1959. He was one of the three pillars of the Freemason Lodge Wilhelm in Wolfenbüttel . The first writings up to 1907 appeared under the name Rotermund, the maiden name of the mother, an adopted Rotermund, the following from 1910 under the double name.

literature

  • Catja Croneberg: Meyer-Rotermund, Kurt . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 417 .
  • Heinz Mollenhauer : The jubilee Kurt Meyer-Rotermund . In: Braunschweigische Heimat 40 (1), 1954, pp. 21-22.
  • Paul Raabe , Bernhard Fabian, Alwin Müller-Jarina: Handbook of the historical book inventory of Germany. Georg Olms Publishing House.
  • Westphalian Author Lexicon 1750-1950, Volume 3
  • Wolfenbüttel and his writers by Kurt Meyer-Rotermund, Ernst Fischer Verlag Wolfenbüttel

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Catja Croneberg: Meyer-Rotermund, Kurt . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 417 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Rotermund, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH May 19, 1977
Place of death Bad Salzuflen