Ludwig Lessen

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Ludwig Lessen (born September 17, 1873 in Lessen , West Prussia ; † February 11, 1943 in Müllrose ), born Louis Salomon, was a German journalist and writer .

Lessen left school early and came to Berlin to complete an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer . Through an internship he got in touch with the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He only worked very briefly in his profession, then began to study history , philosophy and literature . During this time he began to write.

The support of August Bebel enabled the publication of his first poems in " Die Neue Welt " , of which he was a collaborator. In the years 1896 and 1897 he was editor of the "Volksblattes Halle" and the "Chemnitzer Volksstimme" . From 1900 to 1919 Lessen rose to head of the social democratically oriented magazine "Die Neue Welt" . After the paper was discontinued, he published regular reviews in the weekly "Die Neue Zeit" as an editor at Vorwärts-Verlag .

As a poet and journalist, Lessen also worked for the “Wahren Jakob” , and from 1921 he was employed as the editor of the illustrated weekly “Volk und Zeit” in Müllrose. Persecuted by the National Socialists as a Jew and Social Democrat , he was banned from publishing in 1933 . In 1943 he committed suicide and was buried in the Müllrose cemetery.

Works

  • Vignettes: poems. Pierson Publishing House, 1895
  • Cosmic wreaths. Pierson Publishing House, 1896
  • Torches of time. Poems. Verlag Vorwärts, Berlin 1904
  • Attention, bomb !: Schwank in one act, Bookshop Expedition, 1905
  • The pearl string of the Adriatic: a wreath of songs. Pierson Publishing House, 1906
  • Afternoon: poems. Sassenbach Publishing House, 1910
  • From day and depth. Poems. Verlag Vorwärts, Berlin 1911
  • Rotkoller or the failed demonstration thwarting, socialist plays. Forward publishing house, 1913
  • Criss-cross through the Balkans: travel pictures. Pen drawings by Ilse Schütze-Schur. Publishing house P.Singer, 1914
  • The Austrian Adriatic coast and its hinterland: A lecture with 82 photographs. Publishing House Central Education Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1915
  • The Danube from the source to the mouth: a lecture with 91 photographs. Publishing House Central Education Committee of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, 1916
  • A hiking book: On German lakes, rivers and bays. Verlag Vorwärts, Berlin 1920
  • If there were peace ...: Poems, 1918
  • We want to advertise, we want to awaken: poems for working youth. Verlag Arbeiterjugendverlag, 1924
  • The outwitted police: wavering in rhymes. R. Lipinski Publishing House, 1927

swell

  1. ^ Adalbert Wichert:  Lessen, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 335 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ literary port

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Schneider: About the life and work of Ludwig Lessens , in: Heimatkalender für den Stadt- und Landkreis Eisenhüttenstadt 6 (1988), pp. 47–53
  • Peter Walther: Muses and Graces in the Mark. 750 years of literature in Brandenburg. A historical dictionary of writers . Lukas Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X , p. 170
  • Adalbert Wichert:  Lessen, Ludwig. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 335 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Lessen, Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salomon, Louis (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Lessen , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1943
Place of death Garbage rose