Oskar Jerschke

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Oskar Jerschke (born July 17, 1861 in Lähn , Lower Silesia , † August 24, 1928 in Bozen ) was a German lawyer and playwright.

Life

Jerschke was the son of a fortress builder. In the care of his uncle Paul Dihm , superintendent in Spiller, Löwenberg i. Schles. , Jerschke attended high school in Hirschberg . He moved to Strasbourg with his father. After graduating from high school there in the fall of 1880, he began to study law at the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Universität . In the summer semester of 1881 he was one of the first active members of the Free Association Vogesina . He moved to the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . There he edited the Kyffhäuser newspaper, founded in 1881 by the Association of German Students' Associations .

Strasbourg

In August 1884 he passed the First State Examination at the Colmar Higher Regional Court . On October 1, 1884, he was a one-year volunteer with the infantry regiment “King Ludwig III. von Bayern ”(2nd Lower Silesian) No. 47 . Because of his services to the reconstitution of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia , he received its corps ribbon on May 28, 1886 . In the autumn of 1886 he came as a lieutenant to the infantry regiment "Margrave Karl" (7th Brandenburg) No. 60 in Weißenburg (Alsace) . After he had passed the assessor exam in early 1888, he settled as a lawyer in Strasbourg. As a "brilliant speaker and excellent defense attorney", he came to a high reputation. He lived and worked in his parents' house, a 22-room villa on Tivolistraße in Strasbourg. He had offered his corps brother Willibald Baacke to work in his law firm before he graduated. Baacke married a “half-Jewish” niece of Jerschke's wife Marie, nee. Cat . From August 1914 to November 1918 Jerschke took part in the First World War. As a first lieutenant and captain of the Landwehr he was adjutant at the port command in Strasbourg. In 1917 he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

Berlin

When the Jerschke family was expelled from Alsace, Baacke helped them. Jerschke stayed first in the Rockenau sanatorium, then in Eberbach and Darmstadt. In 1920 he opened a new law firm in Berlin with Baacke . From autumn 1921 he worked in the assessment committee for war damage and from April 1922 to autumn 1923 in the Reichsentschädigungsamt. In Berlin Jerschke resumed his stage writing work; but after the expulsion from the former Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine and his parents' house he was a broken man. He died at the age of 67 in the Gries-Quirein district of Bolzano .

playwright

Jerschke became famous through the poetic study group with his childhood friend Arno Holz . At that time an unknown young man, Holz belonged to the group of writers “Consistent Naturalist”. He made no headway with his elaborations. "He preferred to live in his attic and suffer from hunger than to give up even a foot's breadth of his art." Jerschke helped him out of dire straits by writing pieces with him that deviated from Holz's strict demands and that met the public. The most famous piece of this co-production was Traumulus . The first performance of this tragic comedy was on April 29, 1904 at the Lessing Theater (Berlin) . Albert Bassermann , the greatest actor at the time, had a shocking effect. Traumulus, similar to Professor Unrat , was played on many stages and filmed at least twice in the 1920s and 1930s, including with Emil Jannings (1935).

“It is the tragic comedy of a world-blind German high school professor who is driving the most benevolent of his restless students to his death. The play contains some features characteristic of the youthful opposition to the Wilhelmine Empire; but its weakness lies in the unresolved coexistence and opposition of protest and consent. The Bible, Homer and the German Kommersbuch remain the pillars of society as well as those of the authors' view of the world, so that instead of tragedy melodrama emerges. "

- Killy Literature Lexicon , Vol. 6. 1988-1992

Works

  • Gaudeamus , acting
  • with Arno Holz : Free! Male comedy in 4 acts. Munich 1907
  • with Arno Holz: Büxl , Komödie. Dresden 1911 (in the 1920s train piece on the New Vienna Stage )
  • with Arno Holz: Deutsche Weisen , 1884
  • My German fatherland . Munich 1916.
  • with Arno Holz: German stage plays (Traumulus and Büxl). Dresden 1922.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Matriculation of the Corps Palaio-Alsatia from 1880–2015, undated, undated, pp. 47-49
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 31/23.
  3. ↑ Kindlers Literatur Lexikon , Vol. 22, p. 9425
  4. ^ Frankfurter Zeitung of August 26, 1928
personal data
SURNAME Jerschke, Oskar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Lähn , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1928
Place of death Bolzano