Max Vogler

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Max Vogler

Max Vogler (born June 13, 1854 in Lunzenau ; † October 7, 1889 there ) was a German poet and fiction writer , as well as a prolific reviewer and literary historian .

Life

He lived and worked most of his life in Lunzenau in Saxony .

After obtaining the teacher's exam, Vogler studied philology , philosophy and history at the universities of Zurich , Jena and Berlin . With the literary dissertation Sjúrðar kvæði. He received his PhD in the Faroese songs of Sigurd in 1877 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . He may have received the inspiration for this work from his Zurich teacher, Ludwig Ettmüller , who translated Old Norse literature into German and published corresponding anthologies.

Vogler was a writer in the early years with a socially critical and anti-clerical tendency. His work was mainly printed in newspapers related to social democracy and the free-thinker movement. Above all, it was his poetry with which he castigated material thinking as a result of unstoppable industrialization. Images of nature serve as metaphors for overcoming the constraints imposed by societal developments. Free thinking and virtuous action by the individual are propagated and demanded by Vogler.

Vogler had extensive correspondence with and close contact with Wilhelm Liebknecht , who compared Vogler's poetry in the course of the naturalism debate with the verses of Ferdinand Freiligrath and Georg Herwegh . Liebknecht gave the funeral speech for Vogler.

The attempt to posthumously publish the collected works of Max Vogler failed. The renowned social democratic publisher Dietz refused. Today the estate is considered lost.

Memorial plaque on the house where he died in Karl-Marx-Straße 11 in Lunzenau
Gravestone of Max Vogler in the Lunzenau cemetery

Works

Poems

  • First flowers , 1876
  • Night Peace , 1876
  • Songs of a Prisoner , 1876
  • To nature. An ode , 1887
  • Human Value , 1889

Novels

  • Der Herr Kommerzienrat , Munich 1883
    This novel resulted in a lengthy legal process. The main charge was defamation: a manufacturer based in Lunzenau felt he had been compromised. There were jail sentences for publishers and booksellers and all printed copies were confiscated. The Reichsgericht rejected the petition for appeal, stating that it was a matter of incitement. The only copy was found in the Munich State Archives by Heinz Winkler, who was born in Lunzenau, and is presented as a facsimile to the city of Lunzenau.
  • Im Dorf der Schmied , Leipzig 1887 A
    story from Alsace as a contribution to overcoming the differences between Germany and France.

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personal data
SURNAME Vogler, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and fiction writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Lunzenau
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1889
Place of death Lunzenau