Leonhard Adelt

Leonhard Adelt (born June 17, 1881 in Boizenburg / Elbe ; † February 21, 1945 in Dippoldiswalde ) was a German bookseller , writer and journalist .

Life

Leonhard Adelt - son of the general agent Richard Adelt - spent his childhood and youth in Dortmund , where he attended high school from 1890 to 1898. During this time he wrote the student novella Werden (1898), which caused such a sensation when it appeared that he had to give up his apprenticeship as a bookseller in Kleve. From 1899 he worked in a Cologne bookstore. He then moved to Huckarde near Dortmund. He switched to journalism; in 1900 he edited the Generalanzeiger in Eberswalde and from 1900 to 1903 the Neue Stettiner Zeitung . In 1903/1904 he attended the University of Berlin . From 1904 to 1906 he was the features editor of the Vienna period , from 1906 to 1908 then of the Neue Hamburger Zeitung .

From 1909 Leonhard Adelt lived as a freelance writer in Überlingen on Lake Constance and from 1911 in Gauting near Munich. In 1911/1912 he was an aviator in Munich and Leipzig and met the airship captain Ernst A. Lehmann (1886–1937). With his cousin Adelt took part in the creation and the hapless test drives of a semi-rigid steel airship in Düsseldorf in 1913. During the First World War he was a reporter for the Berliner Tageblatt in Austria . From 1920 to 1926 he lived in Munich as the editorial representative of the Berliner Tageblatt and the Neue Freie Presse (Vienna). In several articles he supported Stefan Zweig , with whom he had been friends since childhood. 1921/1922 he was editor-in-chief of Germany (magazine for the construction. Munich) and in 1925 the Munich AZ in the evening . From 1926 he was a travel correspondent.

In 1935 he married the journalist Gertrud Stolte from Dresden for the second time; the marriage has a common son (* 1936). The couple Gertrud and Leonard Adelt were surviving passengers of the Hindenburg disaster : The airship exploded on landing in Lakehurst on May 6, 1937.

Since 1939 he lived in Berlin. Leonhard Adelt died on February 21, 1945 in Dippoldiswalde of injuries sustained during the air raid on Dresden .

Positions

Leonhard Adelt's scandalous novella Werden describes in "a completely naturalistic representation, among other things, events at a Dortmund high school" . Above all, Adelt is considered the founder of the German aviator novel as a genre . In his novel Der Flieger (1913), which is characterized by expressionist pathos , he thematized the “consequences and changes that result from the possibility of flight for mankind, and the question of what the ideal type of aviator must be.” The one he edited Volume Mit dem Flugzeug durch die Lüfte (1914) addressed a young audience and addressed a. a. the use of airplanes as instruments of war. The foreword is characterized by nationalistic tones. The volume Der Herr der Luft, published by him in the same year, also experienced high editions . Adelt also tried his hand at writing volumes on Ernst A. Lehmann (1937) and Count Zeppelin (1938), and as a playwright.

Publications

author

• Become. Novella. Pierson, Dresden and Leipzig 1898.
• The third. Drama in three acts. Bloch, Berlin [1899].
• The wall. Tragicomedy. Three one-act plays. 1901.
• The aviator. A book from our days. Rütten and Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1913.
• The iron heart. 5th edition. 1914.
• The ocean flight. Novella. (= The time books. Volume 8). Reuss and Itta, Konstanz [1915].
• The flying man. 1914; 1916.
• Study of six poets. (= The Time Books. Volume 61). Reuss and Itta, Konstanz 1917. (Contents: Hille; Dehmel; Liliencron; Wilhelm von Scholz; Grillparzer; Vollmöller ).
• Prince Zubrow. Drama. Meyer and Jessen, Munich [1921].
• Disasters. Four novellas. Pointed arch, Berlin 1922.
• The jackdaw. Comedy in three acts. Volksbühnen-Verlags- u. Vertriebs-GmbH, Berlin 1925 (not published).
• Wrong cards, fair game. Comedy freely based on George Farquhar. Kiesel, Salzburg [1926].
• Robinson villa. Comedy. 1929.
• Kathrin stays young. Comedy. 1929.
• Mabel's baby. Comedy. 1932.
• Zeppelin. The man and the idea. With previously unprinted letters from Count Zeppelin. (= People and masterpieces. Volume 1). Metten, Berlin 1938.
• Fall to victory. The miracle of the Ju 88. With the collaboration of Gertrud Adelt-Stolte. Schmidt and Günther, Leipzig [1943].

Contributions (selection)

• Cultural images from old Mecklenburg. In: Dear homeland. Lübenheen, No. 175.1937, pp. 1–2.
• Cultural images from old Mecklenburg. In: Dear homeland. Lübenheen, No. 176.1937, pp. 1–2.
• Monuments from Mecklenburg. In: Lower Saxony. Delmenhorst, Volume 17.1911 / 12, 11, pp. 270-272.
• Karl Hans Strobl: Lemuria. Strange stories. (Introduced by Leonhard Adelt. With 8 picture additions by Richard Teschner ). (= Gallery of Fantastics . Volume 4). G. Müller, Munich 1917.

editor

• Through the air by plane: aerial photos from war and peace. (= Young Germany. Volume 14). Engelmann, Leipzig 1914.
• The master of the air. Aviator and aviator stories. With 8 pictures by Heinrich Kley . G. Müller, Munich / Leipzig 1914. 3rd edition: ( archive.org , therein the novella Der Ozeanflug. Pp. 329–390).
• Living steel. Novellas by Leonhard Adelt, Max Eyth, Norbert Jacques, Jürgen Jürgensen, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mayer, Colin Roß, Otto Rung, Herbert George Wells. (= Volksverband der Bücherfreunde , 3rd volume of the 1st annual series 1919/20). Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1920.
• Wielands children. (= The oak wreath. Volume 11). Hamburg-Großborstel, German Poet Memorial Foundation [1920].
• Ernst August Lehmann: On air patrol and world travel. Experiences of a zeppelin leader in war and peace. (= People's Association of Book Friends, General Annual Series 17, 4). Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1935. = 1936! Excerpt: Zeppelin war voyages to England. (= Exciting stories. Issue NF 50). Bertelsmann, Gütersloh [1939].
• Ernst August Lehmann. The airship captain in war and peace. Metten, Berlin [1937].

Translations

• Rétif de la Bretonne: The Big Bird: Novel. 1914.
• Géza Herczeg: From Sarajevo to Lodz. Müller, Munich 1916.
• Charles Dickens: Two Cities. (= People's Association of Book Friends, special offer 1). Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1920.
• Charles Dickens: David Copperfield: Novel. Insel, Leipzig [1920].
• Charles Dickens: Christmas Stories. (= Volksverband der Bücherfreunde, selection offer 2). Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1921.
• Charles Dickens: The Pickwickers: From the papers left behind by the Pickwick Club. Volume 1. (= Volksverband der Bücherfreunde, special series 7, 2). Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin 1922.
• James Fenimore Cooper: Leather stockings. Translated and edited. Illustrations by Max Slevogt . People's Association of Book Friends. Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin [1928].
• James Fenimore Cooper: Leather stockings. Five stories. (= Treasure trove of fairy tales and legends for young people. Volume 8). Günther, Leipzig [1935].
• Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe's Rides and Adventure. Complete edition. Translated and edited. (= Treasure trove of fairy tales and legends for young people. Volume 9). Schmidt and Günther, Leipzig [1936].

literature

• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present. 6th edition. Reclam, Leipzig 1913. Volume 1, p. 31.
• Herrmann AL Degener : Who's it 1935. 10th edition. Degener, Berlin 1935.
• German Literature Lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical manual. Founded by Wilhelm Kosch . 3. Edition. Volume 1. Francke, Bern and Munich 1968.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar: Nekrolog 1971. de Gruyter, Berlin 1998.
• Aiga Klotz: Children's and Young People's Literature in Germany 1840–1950. Volume 1. Metzler, Stuttgart 1990.
• Wilhelm Kosch: German Theater Lexicon. Volume 1. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt, Vienna 1953.

Web links

• Literature by and about Leonhard Adelt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Leonhard Adelt in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Faces of the Hindenburg: Leonard and Gertrud Adelt (English)