Otto Anthes

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Otto Anthes (born October 7, 1867 in Michelbach an der Aar , † November 19, 1954 in Wiesbaden ) was a German educator and writer.

Life

Otto Anthes was the son of the Evangelical Lutheran pastor Eugen Anthes and the second of seven children. He spent almost his entire childhood in Kaub am Rhein. After graduating from the Fürstliches Landesgymnasium in Korbach in Waldeck in 1886 , he began to study theology , ancient languages and German at the University of Leipzig that same year and later in Halle (Saale) .

After completing his studies, Anthes went to school in 1891. As a teacher he worked first in Weidenau an der Sieg, then in Altenburg and in Sondershausen . In 1898 he was promoted to senior teacher and transferred to Gera , to the Zabelsche higher school for girls (today: Zabel-Gymnasium ). From 1903 Anthes lived as a senior teacher in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck and taught German and Protestant religion at the state Ernestinenschule zu Lübeck, a higher girls 'school, since 1919 girls' high school. He ended his career as professor (from 1909) and senior teacher (from 1924) on April 1, 1926 for health reasons; then he worked as a freelance writer.

During his time in Lübeck he worked a. a. also as a civil member of the theater authority (1918–1933), as co-founder and first chairman of the Lübeck Volksbühnenverein (1921–1933 and again in 1946 when it was re-established), as chairman of the Literary Society, as a member of the open-air theater committee and as editor of the cultural magazines The Trese and the salt store . In the tiny artists 'pub Zur Eule , named after the landlord Friedrich Eulert, he was the focus of the evening regulars' table for a good 16 years, to which the painter Karl Gatermann d. Ä. belonged, at times also to the actress Fita Benkhoff , the editor, politician and a later victim of the Hitler assassination of July 20, 1944 Julius Leber or the well-known Lübeck original Ernst Albert , who had the job titles in the address book: theater director, head taxidermist at the Museum am Dom and casual poets. Other guests at the regulars' table were occasionally the conductor Hermann Abendroth , the director Jürgen Fehling and the poet Herbert Eulenberg ; and Joachim Ringelnatz and even Thomas Mann were seen.

In 1936 Anthes moved to Wiesbaden, from where he was driven to a friend in Lower Silesia by the bombings in 1942. In 1945 he fled to Lake Constance, lived again in Lübeck from 1946 to 1948 and then finally moved back to Wiesbaden. Otto Anthes died on November 19, 1954 at the age of 87 in Wiesbaden, where he found his final resting place in the north cemetery.

A school in Lübeck's Burgfeld was named after him (Otto-Anthes-Volksschule (1960); since 1994 IGS Geschwister-Prenski-Schule).

Works

  • Shooting stars . 10 novellas, Leipzig 1896.
  • Furnished gentlemen. Wanda . 2 novellas, Leipzig 1897.
  • Convent boys , under the pseudonym O. Eugen Thossan, together with F. Countess zu Reventlow , Leipzig 1897.
  • At the police station , Leipzig 1897.
  • Single brides , Leipzig 1899.
  • The Marockche , Gera 1902.
  • Poet and schoolmaster , Leipzig 1904.
  • The paper dragon , Leipzig 1905.
  • Eroticism and education , Leipzig 1908.
  • Don Juan's last adventure . Drama. Berlin 1909. (Set to music as an opera libretto by Paul Graener .)
  • German language teaching for German children , Leipzig 1909.
  • Heinz Hauser, a schoolmaster's life , Leipzig 1912.
  • Around the world to the front. Retold to the refugee . Berlin 1917.
  • Colorful autumn . Poems. Lübeck 1917.
  • Mrs. Jutta's infidelity. The court of fools. Theophano . (Opera libretti, set to music by Paul Graener ); Berlin 1918.
  • Luebian stories . Tubingen 1922.
  • Herzklostersee . Novella. Tübingen 1923.
  • Under the seven towers. Luebian stories . Leipzig 1926.
  • Captain stories . Lübeck 1929.
  • We want to go to rich man. Historical stories . Cologne 1941.
  • The Count of Chasot , 1st edition Bleckede 1948; New edition Lübeck 1980.
  • Lübeck - you strangely beautiful city , Lübeck 1943, 4th edition Lübeck 1982. ISBN 3-7950-0078-5 .
  • The rule mill  : from German language teaching, Leipzig 1906.
  • A wreath of verses around the most beautiful city , Lübeck 1947.
  • From Uschi to Ursula , Kempen 1949.
  • Lübeck miniatures , Hamburg 1948.
  • Lübeck Abc (drawn by Carl Julius Milde , supplemented with anecdotes by Otto Anthes), Lübeck 1975. ISBN 3-87498-127-4 .

literature

  • Richard Preiser : Otto Anthes. On his 60th birthday on October 7, 1927 , in: Welt und Leben, German Feuilleton-Korrespondenz October 7, 1927, p. 21f.
  • Peter Guttkuhn: Otto Anthes in Lübeck . 1st chapter. In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, Lübeck, 30 (1979), pp. 99-101.
  • Ders .: 2nd part (conclusion). In: Vaterstädtische Blätter, 31 (1980), pp. 3–5.
  • Peter Guttkuhn: Otto Anthes - teacher at the Ernestin School . In: Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the Ernestin School. Lübeck 1979, pp. 19-32.
  • Peter Guttkuhn: Anthes, Otto Wilhelm Johannes Eugen (1867-1954), teacher, writer . In: Biographisches Lexikon für Schleswig-Holstein and Lübeck, Volume 7, pp. 21-23, Neumünster 1985. ISBN 3-5290-2647-6 .
  • Bernd Gatermann, Peter Guttkuhn: To the owl , memories of a Lübeck artist bar . In: The car. A Lübeck yearbook. Lübeck 1986, pp. 176-183. ISBN 3-87302-097-1 . ISSN 0933-484X.

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personal data
SURNAME Anthes, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Michelbach on the Aar
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1954
Place of death Wiesbaden