Otto Doderer

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Otto Doderer (born May 24, 1892 in Biebrich , † April 14, 1962 in Niedernhausen ) was a German writer , journalist , editor and literary critic who also published under the pseudonym "Bernhard Wyß".

Life

Otto Doderer ( pseudonym : Bernhard Wyss) was born as the son of a teacher and graduated from the upper secondary school during the First World War . Initially active in the commercial field, he turned to journalism and in 1919 became editor of the “Archives for Journalistic Work”. In addition, Doderer began to make a name for himself as a literary critic. From 1920 he worked in Düsseldorf as editor of the magazine Die Rheinlande of the writer Wilhelm Schäfer and from 1925 to 1930 in Berlin as literary director of the publishing house of the Reichszentrale für Heimatdienst . From 1933 to 1945 Doderer was again editor of the “Archives for Journalistic Work”. After he was temporarily banned from working as a so-called “art editor” in 1938, he only worked as a writer and editor. After 1945 he worked in setting up the Frankfurter Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels and from 1948 to 1955 at the Hessischer Rundfunk . In 1948 he published a collection of short stories from Gottfried Keller's Das Sinngedicht with its own epilogue and a translation entitled Glück in der Ehe from Leo N. Tolstoy's novel published in 1859.

family

Otto Doderer was the son of the elementary school teacher Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Otto Doderer (1862-1910) and his wife Elisabethe Louise Hassenbach (1866-1927). In 1924 he married Elsa Maria Gertrud Mathes (1897–?). His son is the literary scholar Klaus Doderer . The actress and cabaret artist Beatrix Doderer (* 1966) is a granddaughter of Otto Doderer.

Publications (selection)

  • with Ludwig Munzinger : History, Poems and Schwänke. Franckh , Stuttgart 1917.
  • The shore. A book of Rhenish poetry. Walter Gericke Verlag, Siegburg 1928.
  • The Landserbuch. Cheerful and contemplative things from the field newspapers of the world war; The soldiers at the front from 1914–1918 their comrades from 1939–1940. Verlag Gerhard Stalling , Oldenburg 1940.
  • Poor Mr. Nink and other stories. Field post issue . Richard Malzkorn Verlag, Cologne 1940.
  • The ship swing and other short stories. Richard Malzkorn Verlag, Cologne 1940.
  • Winemaker. Small book on wine. Richard Malzkorn Verlag, Cologne 1941.
  • Brentanos in the Rheingau. At the source of the romantic Rhine. Aloys Henn Verlag, Ratingen 1942.
  • Mood music. A landscape in short stories. Richard Malzkorn Verlag, Cologne 1942.
  • Introduction to Wilhelm Raabe : The last right . Publishing house German folk books, Stuttgart 1943.
  • Grünewald and the nobleman and other stories. Noebe & Co. publishing house, Prague 1944.
  • The intransigent: Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky in their marriages. Butzon & Bercker , Kevelaer 1950.
  • Homecoming. Novella. Staufen-Verlag, Cologne 1950.
  • Happy world. A selection from the humor of world literature. Gutenberg Book Guild , Frankfurt am Main 1950.
  • Biedermeier. Bibliographical Institute , Mannheim 1958.
  • The little book from the Rheingau. Magic and fate of a landscape. Drei Lilien Verlag, Wiesbaden 1958.

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personal data
SURNAME Doderer, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wyß, Bernhard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, journalist, editor and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Biebrich
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 1962
Place of death Niedernhausen