Nikolaus Schwarzkopf

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Bust of Nikolaus Schwarzkopf in the Urberach Pottery Museum

Nikolaus Schwarzkopf (born March 27, 1884 in Urberach , † October 17, 1962 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer .

Life

Nikolaus Schwarzkopf was born in 1884 as the son of a seamstress and a paver. His youth and student years fell during the reign of the last German emperor. He became a teacher in Mainz , Neckarsteinach and Ockenheim . He refused to punish students with the stick (as was customary at the time and was expected by teachers). He believed in the good in his students and that education could lead people to more dignified lives. Then he started writing short stories and became a writer. Therefore, he took early retirement in 1924 and moved to Darmstadt . It was there - near his home village - that his most important works were created during the Weimar Republic . These became so successful that he could give up his teaching profession and devote himself entirely to his literary work. It was created u. a. his most important work, "Matthias Grünewald", for which he received the Georg Büchner Prize in 1930 .

Many of his other books were reprinted over and over again during this time. Nikolaus Schwarzkopf, shaped by the rural Catholicism of his birthplace Urberach, which is now a district of Rödermark , demanded social justice from the church and political parties alike, but especially educational opportunities for everyone.

After Hitler came to power , the limits to which his ideals had been reached soon became apparent to him. Although Nikolaus Schwarzkopf was a positive person who looked to the future, the early death of his first wife, the war death of a son, the loss of a hand through fighting and the short-term change of residence to Berlin, which he moved to during the Third Reich on the advice of was drawn to well-meaning friends in order to immerse himself in anonymity and to escape the attention of the National Socialist rulers.

After the Second World War, he moved to Darmstadt again, where he spent the rest of his life. There he tried to give his life's work "Matthias Grünewald" a more mature form, wrote short stories and revised old texts.

Nikolaus Schwarzkopf was buried in Darmstadt's Alter Friedhof (Darmstadt) (grave site: III K 139e).

Awards

  • 1930 Georg Büchner Prize
  • 1954 honorary citizen of the municipality of Urberach (today part of Rödermark)

Works

  • Greta Kunkel, 1913, Stuttgart
  • Little luck, 1915, Stuttgart
  • Maria vom Rhein, 1919, Munich
  • Matthias Grünewald, 1920, Munich
  • The Waltz Village, 1920, Essen
  • Riesele, 1920, Munich
  • The Häfner from Erbseneck, 1923, Cologne
  • In front of the Isenheim Altarpiece, 1923, Berlin
  • The Cathedral Child, 1925, Mönchen-Gladbach
  • My first story book, 1925 Leipzig
  • Judas Iscariot, 1925 Cologne
  • Black Nicholas, 1925 Leipzig
  • Dürer: Engraving Passion, 1927 Berlin
  • Amorsbronn, 1928 Munich
  • Flickdich or the Rhenish Sparrows, 1929 Frankfurt
  • The barbarian, 1930 Munich
  • The silver trumpets, 1935 Berlin
  • My life, 1935 Berlin
  • The stork, 1938 Munich
  • The wine-blissful village, 1940 Leipzig
  • Grünewald, 1941 Prague (in Czech)
  • Der Feldhäfner, 1941 Munich
  • The Urberacher, 1943 Cologne
  • Musik am Sonntag, 1948 Munich
  • Matthis the painter, 1953 Augsburg and Darmstadt
  • The storks from Urberach, 1954 Rothenburg / Tauber

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nikolaus Schwarzkopf in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ^ [ Büchner Prize honored literary work. In: Offenbach-Post. March 27, 2009, accessed February 27, 2011 . ]
personal data
SURNAME Schwarzkopf, Nikolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Urberach
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1962
Place of death Darmstadt