Leo Sternberg

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Leo Sternberg (born October 7, 1876 in Limburg an der Lahn , † October 26, 1937 in Hvar ) was a German writer and poet .

Life

Sternberg was a son of the Limburg timber wholesaler Bernhard Sternberg and his wife Marie, nee. Belmont. The father came from the high Westerwald, the mother from Alzey . He completed most of his schooling in his hometown, but obtained his Abitur in Wiesbaden.

Sternberg studied law and art history in Munich , Marburg and Berlin . In 1903 he became a court trainee in Rüdesheim am Rhein . He then worked as an assessor at the district courts of Hadamar , Rüdesheim , Hechingen , Sigmaringen and, from 1906, in Hachenburg . In 1910 he was appointed magistrate . In this position he worked in Wallmerod for three years . In 1913 he became a magistrate in Rüdesheim. During his first job in Rüdesheim he met Else Mönch, whom he married in 1908.

As the son of a Jewish merchant family, he left the Jewish community in 1906 and joined the Catholic Church in 1933. A slow turn to Christianity can be traced from his work. As a “non-Aryan” he was suspended from his service as a magistrate in 1934, retired early and from then on had difficulties to publish his works. That is why his few publications during the Nazi era are often given the pseudonym LMS (= Leo Maria Sternberg).

In 1937 Sternberg traveled with his wife to Yugoslavia to research a novel project about the Emperor Diocletian . His daughter had previously emigrated to Yugoslavia. A few days after his arrival he died on the island of Hvar in Dalmatia and was buried there. His brother Hugo Max Sternberg, his wife Lola and their daughter Lili were murdered in Auschwitz in 1943.

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Sternberg created a number of cultural-historical works that mainly deal with his homeland Limburg, the Nassauer Land and the Rhineland . He always incorporated elements of historical fiction. Between 1910 and 1933 he was one of the most popular writers of the Middle Rhine with poems and stories. His lyrical and fictional works also dealt primarily with motifs from his homeland. The volume of poetry "Der deutsche Krieg und die Dichtung" published in 1915 contains three poems glorifying war with ethnic echoes by Leo Sternberg. The experience of nature, history and art always played a role. Most of his works are now only available as antiquarian, while the volume "Limburg als Kunststätte" was reissued in 1984.

His first publication is the volume of poetry "Leyer, Wanderstab und Sterne" from 1900.

He was also an employee of the Frankfurter Zeitung . His poetry appeared in the magazines Die Aktion , Hochland , Der Brenner , Jugend and Der Feuerreiter , among others .

Awards

A Limburg elementary, secondary and secondary school is named after Leo Sternberg.

Works

  • Leyer, walking stick and stars. Poems. Wiesbaden 1900 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • New poems . Stuttgart 1908 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Limburg as a place of art . 2nd edition (3rd impression). - Düsseldorf: A. Bagel, 1911, 56 p. 1984 reissued by Engelhard Verlag, Limburg.
  • The Westerwald . - Düsseldorf: A. Bagel, 1911. 2nd presumed edition ibid, 1924. Reissued in 1997 by the Westerwaldverein Montabaur.
  • The Nassai literature. a presentation of their current status on the basis of older literature - Wiesbaden, 1913. 93 pp.
  • The Venusberg. Rhenish stories. Berlin 1916 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • Women are called by joy. Novellas. Berlin 1919 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • O be people! Scenes and seals. Berlin 1921 ( online  - Internet Archive )
  • The eternal stream. Rhenish stories. Dortmund 1922
  • Country Nassau. A home book. Brandstetter's Home Books of German Landscapes, 26 - Leipzig: Brandstetter 1928, 478 pp.
  • Limburg Cathedral in the history of the development of Rhenish art . With a preface by Gilbert Wellstein. - Limburg: Gebr. Steffen, 1935, 168 pp.
  • 1937. Last poems of the persecuted . Mainz: Grab, 1990, 30 pages, ISBN 3-926080-15-9 (Regional series; Volume 2)
  • The rescued. Three stories. Wiesbaden: Volksbildungsverein Wiesbaden, 1928, 59 pp.
  • The separatists. Acting . Koblenz: Rheinische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1928. Digitized

literature

  • Leo Sternberg. A poet of the Rhine and the Westerwald . Langensalza: J. Beltz, 1925, 55 pp. (German culture on the Rhine and Ruhr; Volume 4).
  • Titus Grab: "Man is there for the sake of his dreams". Life and work of Leo Sternberg . Edited by the city of Rüdesheim am Rhein. Mainz: Grab, about 1991, 189 pages, ISBN 3-926080-16-7 (Regional series; Volume 3).
  • Sternberg, Leo. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 19: Sand – Stri. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. De Gruyter, Berlin a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-598-22699-1 , pp. 541-553.
  • Heinz Maibach: Leo Sternberg . In: Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research (Hrsg.): Nassauische Annalen . tape 101 . Publishing house of the Association for Nassau Antiquities and Historical Research, Wiesbaden 1990, p. 173-184 .

Web links

Wikisource: Leo Sternberg  - Sources and full texts

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  1. ↑ The German War and Poetry. Edited by Walter Eggert Windegg (1915)
personal data
SURNAME Sternberg, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Limburg on the Lahn
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1937
Place of death Hvar