Ludwig Greve

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Ludwig Greve (actually Heinz Ludwig Greve ; as an author until 1961 also Lutz Greve , Luz Greve and HL Greve ; born September 23, 1924 in Berlin ; † July 12, 1991 in front of Amrum ) was a German writer and librarian .

life and work

Youth and Emigration

Ludwig Greve grew up in an assimilated German-Jewish family in Berlin, his father Walther Greve was a textile merchant, his mother Johanna a kindergarten teacher. He attended the state primary school and from 1934 until the forced closure in 1939 the private Jewish forest school Grunewald ( Toni Lessler ), Hagenstr. 56, Berlin-Grunewald . On November 10, 1938, his father was arrested and sent to a concentration camp for a few weeks .
In May 1939 the family tried to emigrate to Havana via Hamburg and Cherbourg on the Hapag ship St. Louis . During the odyssey of the St. Louis , Cuba rejected the refugee ship. Florida did not let the 921 emigrants ashore either. The ship had to return, Antwerp took in the refugees; from there the family took a freighter to Boulogne-sur-Mer . Here the family was separated, Ludwig Greve and his 4 years younger sister Evelyn were housed in homes. In June 1940 he had to flee to Montintin near Limoges with the children in the home . In August 1942 he escaped arrest, went into hiding and began working for the Resistance under the name Louis Gabier . His attempts to obtain false passports for the family to help them escape failed: father and sister were deported to an extermination camp in 1944, but he was able to bring his mother to safety in Lucca . From there he emigrated with her to Palestine in 1945 . This is where the lifelong friendship began with the couple Margot and Max Fürst , who returned to Germany in 1950.

Back in Germany

With the help of the Quakers , Greve was also able to return to Germany in 1950, where he initially worked in a Quaker home in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . Greve's mother also returned that year.
Through friends Margot and Max Fürst, who meanwhile worked at the Odenwald School , Greve met his future wife, the musician and children's book illustrator Katharina (Katja) Maillard . In the fall of 1951 he was in Rome and worked as an interpreter. HAP Grieshaber , who was also friends with Fürsts, designed a text of Greve's poetry as a print . In the summer of 1952 Greve moved to Fürst in the Fine Arts School Bernsteinschule in Sulz am Neckar , in which artists and architects to Werner Oberle and HAP Grieshaber gathered, including Peter Härtling , Helmut Heißenbüttel , Lothar Quinte , Fritz Ruoff . Greve married Katja Maillard in autumn. In 1955 the couple moved to Stuttgart-Sillenbuch and in April 1957 he began to work as a freelancer in the library in the Marbach Literature Archive, from summer 1961 on. In the accents , the Mercury , in the NZZ and in numerous poetry anthologies since the mid-1950s poems appeared repeatedly Greve.
In 1955 he gave the opening speech for Günter Grass' first exhibition, wrote essays about the Dutch printer and typographer Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman and about HAP Grieshaber, got to know and appreciate Ludwig von Ficker on his way to Rome in 1958 on the way to the Villa Massimo scholarship and became friends with Italy with Johann Georg Geyger , Gerhard Wind and Wilhelm Killmayer . The correspondence with Werner Kraft and Wilhelm Lehmann also gave rise to friendship.

His intensive and successful work for Marbach certainly left Greve little time for his poetic work, but he did not perceive the concentration on a few as a disadvantage. In 1960 he and Paul Raabe set up the large exhibition Expressionism - Literature and Art 1910-1923 , which made the Marbach Institute internationally known in one fell swoop. And in 1961 his first volume of poems , Gedichte , was published , typographically provided by HAP Grieshaber.

In October 1968 Ludwig Greve succeeded Paul Raabe as head of the library of the German Literature Archive in Marbach . Many catalogs and Marbach magazines for the major annual and cabinet exhibitions in the Schiller National Museum now bore his signature, including Jugend in Wien-Literatur um 1900 (1974), If I had the cinema! The writers and the silent film (1976), The Twentieth Century - From Nietzsche to Group 47 (1980), Classics in Dark Times 1933-1945 (1983), Malgré tout - Grieshaber with his friends (1984), Gottfried Benn - 1886- 1956 (1986).

In 1988, after working for Marbach for over 30 years , Greve took early retirement. He received several awards and was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz in spring 1991 .
In the spring of 1991, his last volume of poetry, She laughs and other poems , appeared, his selection of earlier poems increased by a few new ones.
In July 1991, while on vacation, Greve drowned after a fit of weakness in the sea off Amrum.

Awards

Works (selection)

  • Poems. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 1961
  • By day. New poems. Marbacher Schriften, Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart 1974
  • Malgré tout - Grieshaber with his friends. Marbacher Magazin 29/1984, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, Marbach am Neckar 1984
  • Waves come and go. Poems and ballads from the sea. With watercolors by Cristiane Brinkmann. KeimVerlag, Kiel 1987
  • She laughs and other poems. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Reinhard Tgahrt (Ed.): Where did I belong? Story of a youth. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-027806-2
  • Reinhard Tgahrt (ed.): A visit to the Villa Sardi. Portraits, memorial sheets, speeches. Ulrich Keicher Publishing House, Warmbronn 2001
  • Reinhard Tgahrt and Waltraud Pfäfflin (eds.): The poems. With an afterword by Harald Hartung . Mainzer series new series (published by the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz) Volume 3. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006. ISBN 3-89244-931-7
  • Friedrich Pfäfflin and Eva Dambacher (eds.): "Autobiographical writings and letters". With an essay by Ingo Schulze . 3 vols. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013. ISBN 978-3-8353-1216-6

literature

  • Farewell to Ludwig Greve. With a supplement by Josua Reichert . Marbach am Neckar 1991
  • Wolfgang Heidenreich (Ed.): Peter Huchel Prize - A yearbook. 1992 - Ludwig Greve - texts, documents, materials. Elster Verlag, Baden-Baden and Zurich 1995. ISBN 3-89151-224-4
  • Reinhard Tgahrt and Waltraud Pfäfflin: On the working method of Ludwig Greve and the transmission of his poems and the timetable . In: Reinhard Tgahrt and Waltraud Pfäfflin (eds.): Ludwig Greve: The poems. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006
  • Uwe Pörksen: A January day in the mountains. Ludwig Greve answers Paul Celan. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006. ISBN 3-515-08833-4
  • Hannelore Schlaffer: A sun bite stains Havana with blood. in: Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 3, 2006
  • Klaus Voigt: LUDWIG GREVE. Un amico a Lucca - Ricordi d'infanzia e d'esilio Carocci editore, Studi Storici Carocci, 2006, ISBN 9788843038244 (in Italian)

credentials

  1. ↑ US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Online Exhibit "The voyage of the 'St. Louis'": link (contains list of passengers, including data and pictures of Lutz Greve and his family)

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Greve, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Greve, Luz; Greve, HL
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1991
Place of death Amrum