Ludwig Derleth
Ludwig Derleth (born November 3, 1870 in Gerolzhofen , † January 13, 1948 in San Pietro di Stabio , Switzerland) was a German writer .
Derleth was born in 1870 in today's Ludwig-Derleth-Straße 4 in Gerolzhofen in Lower Franconia .
After studying philosophy and literature, Derleth first worked as a high school teacher for ancient languages. During his years in Munich he came into contact with the George Circle and also belonged to the Kosmikerkreis around Alfred Schuler and Ludwig Klages . He later lived as a freelance writer in Rome, Basel, Perchtoldsdorf near Vienna and from 1935 in Ticino, where he died in 1948.
From 1920 until his death he had a lively correspondence with Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn . The Ludwig-Derleth-Realschule in his hometown Gerolzhofen is named after him.
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As a poet, he first published in the Blätter für die Kunst and in the magazine Pan . His passionate endeavor aimed at a new hierarchical order of a “purified” Catholic Christianity, which he proclaimed with revolutionary pathos in his 1904 published proclamations in the stylistic succession of Nietzsche's Also sprach Zarathustra . His main work The Franconian Koran (1932) is a large-scale “world song” from the “pilgrimage of the human soul from God to God”, a book of life and faith on which he worked for almost 40 years.
Further publications: The ages , poems (1937) Seraphinische Hochzeit (1939) and The death of Thanatos (1945).
Presumably Derleth Thomas Mann served as a template for characters in his novellas Beim Propheten und Gladius Dei and in his novel Doctor Faustus from 1946 .
The street in Gerolzhofen where the house where he was born was named in his honor.
literature
- Jan Aler: Ludwig Derleth (1870-1948). A Catholic mystic who also listened to Nietzsche and Kierkegaard . In: Jan Aler (Ed.): Gestalten around Stefan George. Gundolf - Wolfskehl - Verwey - Derleth . Rodopi, Amsterdam 1984, ISBN 90-6203-616-3 , pp. 89-155.
- Christine Derleth: The carnal-spiritual. My memories of Ludwig Derleth. Bellnhausen 1973.
- Helmut Motekat: Derleth, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 606 ( digitized version ).
- Anne Ratzki: The concept of the elite in Ludwig Derleth's work and its foundations in his image of people, history and Christianity: a contribution to the interpretation of the work of Ludwig Derleth , Cologne 1968 (also Munich Univ., Diss., 1968).
- Herbert Schwarz: The Franconian poet Ludwig Derleth. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition in the district and car library Kronach from March 31 to 30. April 1984 and from May 18 to May 30 June 1984 in the Gerolzhofen City Library. With a bibliography. Hanau 1984.
- Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt 1962.
- Georg Doerr: Archetype and History or Munich-Ascona: Typological and human closeness - with some letters from Olga Froebe to Ludwig Derleth - First lecture at the conference "Eranos - Monte Verità - Ascona" from September 27th to October 1st. 2000 in Ascona. In: E. Barone / M.Riedl / A.Tischel (eds.): Pioneers, Poets, Professors - Eranos and Monte Verità in the history of civilization in the 20th century. Königshausen and Neumann: Würzburg 2004. pp. 155–170.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Derleth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ludwig Derleth in the literature portal Bavaria
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official website of the Ludwig-Derleth-Realschule Gerolzhofen , accessed on May 9, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derleth, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gerolzhofen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 1948 |
| Place of death | San Pietro de Stabio |