Ludwig Ewers
Ludwig Ewers (born October 29, 1870 in Lübeck , † January 24, 1946 in Hamburg ) was a German writer .
Life
Ludwig Ewers visited the Katharineum , but was withdrawn from the school in 1890 by his father, the factory owner Friedrich Ewers . He began an apprenticeship in Lübeck's most famous bookstore at the time, but broke it off before graduation, similar to his friend Heinrich Mann, who was almost the same age .
In Berlin he attended lectures on the history of literature , aesthetics , history and economics .
On the advice of Ida Boy-Ed , he now worked as a journalist . First, in 1896/97, as an editor at the Anhaltische Zeitung in Dessau , then until 1901 as the second editor at the Bonner Zeitung . Here he met the woman he married on July 21, 1900. In 1902 he worked for the Frankfurter Oderzeitung and from 1904 for the Königsberger Allgemeine , before he started working for the Hamburger Nachrichten in 1914 , which retired him in 1937 as editor .
In the first post-war winter he died in Hamburg-Wandsbek in early 1946 . There was hunger, the press landscape was as devastated as the city itself. No notice of Ewers' death was published. Ida Boy-Ed had written a review two decades earlier that could have served as an obituary: He never got tired of conjuring up the lights and shadows of days gone by.
Roman The Grandfather City
There is a dispute about the preservation of the Holsten Gate and the Lübeck interpretation of the letters `` SPQL '' on the gate. The reader experiences the construction of the first train station from the first reaction of the Katharineum principal to the Danish approval for its construction up to the first run of the train.
Significant people from the city once act like portraits, B. as Fritz Normann, one of the two protagonists Friedrich Ewers , Daniel Heinrich Carstens (DH Asmuß) - the father of the first canning factory, Georg Goßmann (Gustav Griepenkerl), Heinrich Schunck (Jürgen Kruth) as the other protagonist. Wilhelm Jensen (Axel Feddersen), who was supported by Schunck and Goßmann, takes his first poetic steps.
The 1848 revolution in Lübeck, during which the Lübeck military preferred not to intervene when the Senate fled the masses. Senator Buddenbrook took on the role of a member of the Senate while Fritz took part in the uprising. As a result of that event, the Mecklenburg military temporarily occupied the city.
The commercial training is described: The five-year, six-day, often up to seventeen hours of hardship of training. One assortment is changed, one branch of business is founded, another goes bankrupt , warehouse management , bookkeeping (e.g. private withdrawals ), illegal employee enrichment , the arrival of steamship shipping in Lübeck, tugboat shipping , burnout .
The city is explained to the Lübeck residents by strangers by leading them through the Fredenhagen room or the Marienkirche . The bottleneck of the old Holsten or Mühlentores appear, for news in the city - until the end of the First World War - the stock exchange was responsible, the dam rush , which was demolished in 1904, is a meeting place for the Hanseatic townspeople next to the Tivoli , the description of the Christmas market or of Brockmöllers ( Sootmöllers) Weinstube , the v. Großheimsche (v. Hohensteinsche) and the Assmussche Haus are frequent locations in the book.
Recurring themes are matchmaking and marriage initiation. So, before he knows it, Kruth is married. After his wife died during the plague, an attempt was made to link him up with an actress - but her consummation failed at the last second because he refused to go to the theater . The Mecklenburg officer formerly in command of the city takes his place. Normann is supposed to marry a teacher, which does not succeed until the end.
Ida Boy-Ed called the book in her book review in the Lübeckische Blätter "a work of cultural and historical value for Lübeck". With artistic conscientiousness, Ewers always brought everything that happened in the Hanseatic city into an organic context with the background of world events.
Influences
Ewers class and German teacher in the quinta and sub-tertia at the Katharineum , Dr. Herrmann Genzken (1856–1932) brought him close to language and literature. Thomas Mann , also a student at the Katharineum, did not, however, leave the pedagogue as a model for Dr. Golden served in Buddenbrooks .
Heinrich Mann is also mentioned . From 1889 to 1913 a close friendship developed between him and Ewers, which cooled down over time. They sent each other numerous letters. Heinrich Mann's have been preserved and were published by Ernst Hauswedell in the Aufbau-Verlag in 1980 ; Ulrich Dietzel's epilogue focuses primarily on Heinrich Mann. When Ewers' first novels came out, Heinrich Mann was one of the sharpest critics. In 1904 Heinrich Mann advised him for his literary work: “Stay by the water's edge! You know them so well and better than those who are famous and rich today with Heimatkunst. Take advantage of the economic situation: bring the Berliners in as bathers at most, and for the rest stick to Travemünde and the surrounding area. "
Works
- At the mill pond (poem); Conrad's famous newspaper Die Gesellschaft , Munich 1890
- Children's eyes (sketches by Ludwig Ewers); Lübeckische Blätter , vol. 39, issue No. 1 of February 3, 1897
- Frau Ingeborgs Liebesgarten - A Rhenish novel ; Hugo Schmidt publishing house, Munich, 722 pages, 1912
- Stories from the crown ; Collection of short stories for the novel published the previous year, 1913
- From Belgium to the Western Front ; Collection of Wehrmacht reports, 1915
- The grandfather city ; Hugo Schmidt, Munich 1926
literature
- Jürgen Schwalm: Almanac of German-speaking writers. 23rd year, Manstedt, Marquartstein 2000.
Web links
- Literature by and about Ludwig Ewers in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Information from the Office for Central Reporting Matters of December 29, 1998
- ↑ Ludwig Ewers shadow images of Katharineischer memory in: Festschrift for the four hundredth anniversary of Katharineun in Lübeck 1531-1931
- ↑ Lübeck City Archives, Ewers estate
- ↑ Lübeckische Blätter: Edition of December 19, 1926, volume 68, No. 52
- ^ Heinrich Mann: Letters to Ludwig Ewers. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin, 1980
- ↑ Heinrich Mann probably wrote these lines after reading Seetang (sketches and short stories)
- ↑ When asked for criticism, Thomas Mann rated the novel favorably in a letter dated January 29, 1913.
- ↑ 3rd edition 1980. ISBN 978-3-925402-09-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ewers, Ludwig |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1946 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |