Ottfried Count of Finckenstein

Ottfried Graf von Finckenstein (born April 18, 1901 in Schönberg Castle (East Prussia) , † November 23, 1987 in Ottawa , Canada ) was a German writer and translator.

Life

Ottfried Graf von Finckenstein came from the Prussian aristocratic family Finck von Finckenstein . His parents were the parliamentarian Konrad Finck von Finckenstein (born September 22, 1860, † October 4, 1916) and his wife Irene von Meerscheidt-Hüllessem (born June 29, 1866). His brother Konrad Otto Siegfried (1889–1932) was also a parliamentarian.

From 1917 he took part in the First World War as a war volunteer . After the war he studied at the Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg Economics . In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . He graduated in 1923 at the University of Jena with the promotion of Dr. rer. pole. from. He then worked in banking until 1931 in Berlin, Switzerland, Holland and the United States . In 1931 he moved to a fishing farm in Buchfelde, Rosenberg district in West Prussia . Since then he has worked as a freelance writer. For his novel The mother , he received the National Socialist reinterpreted and by the year 1938 NSDAP awarded Wilhelm Raabe Prize . He took part in the Second World War as an officer. After the war he settled in Geschendorf . From 1950 to 1954 he was head of the Schleswig-Holstein regional cultural association , then a journalist in Bonn and Valparaíso . Most recently, Graf Finckenstein was a German teacher and professor at the University of Ottawa in Canada .

In 1934 he married the later politician Eva Schubring (1903-1994). The couple had several children.

Honors

• 1936 New Line Narrator Award
• 1938 Wilhelm Raabe Prize Braunschweig
• 1942 Johann Gottfried von Herder Prize
• 1942 Max Halbe Prize

Works

• 1933 Möven am Bruch (series novel in "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung")
• 1936 five churches
• 1937 The crane scream
• 1937 The hard spring
• 1938 The mother
• 1938 From the sources of life
• 1942 twilight
• 1949 lovers (novella)
• 1950 Schwanengesang , a novel of a sunken home
• 1959 C. Moraze, The 19th Century Face. The emergence of the modern world (translation)
• 1994 Only the storks remained

See also

• Finck von Finckenstein

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• Literature by and about Ottfried Graf von Finckenstein in the catalog of the German National Library
• [1] Author portrait on westpreussen-online.de
• German Literature Lexicon, founded by Wilhelm Kosch, Volume 5, Column 15, published by Francke Verlag Bern and Munich, 1978
• German Literature Lexicon "The 20th Century", founded by Wilhelm Kosch, Volume 8, Column 568, published by KG Saur Verlag Zurich and Munich, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 140 , 1332
2. ↑ Dissertation: The economy of the Memel region Natural foundations, historical development, possibilities .
3. ↑ On the classification of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize and its award winners in National Socialist cultural policy, cf. Horst Denkler : The Wilhelm Raabe Prize - A German Story. Radio essay. In: Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Rainald Goetz meets Wilhelm Raabe: the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, its history and topicality. Wallstein Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-89244-489-7 , pp. 20-46 (Oberkofler is mentioned as the winner of the year 1939 on p. 34 in the Google book search).