Otto Erich Hartleben

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Angelo Jank illustration on dimples , in: Simplicissimus (1896)

Otto Erich Hartleben (born June 3, 1864 in Clausthal ; † February 11, 1905 in Salò on Lake Garda ) was a German writer . Extremely popular as a playwright during his lifetime , numerous anecdotes about his person circulated . His oeuvre , initially committed to naturalism , is manageable; it was published posthumously in three volumes. He sometimes published under the pseudonym Otto Erich .

Life

Otto Erich Hartleben was born after the death of his parents, Elwine geb. Angerstein (1838–1876) and Hermann Hartleben (1829–1879), orphaned at an early age, and then lived with his five siblings with his grandfather Senator Eduard Angerstein (1805–1893) in Hanover . From autumn 1879 to 1881 he was sent to Jever to be educated by a friend of his deceased father, the grammar school director Ernst Ramdohr , who introduced the rebellious youth to chess and beer as well as books, especially poems by August Graf von Platen . In 1885 Hartleben passed his Abitur in Celle and from 1886 studied law at the universities of Leipzig and Berlin without any particular interest .

His childhood friends in Hanover included Karl Henckell , Arthur Gutheil and the later industrialist and politician Alfred Hugenberg , with whom he published the collection of poems Quartet in 1886 . Hartleben's student acquaintances in Leipzig included Hermann Conradi and Adolf Bartels . In 1889 he was court clerk in Stolberg (Harz) and Magdeburg , gave his legal career but soon on: "Then I came to Magdeburg to the Trial Chamber and as we went no more. Then I had the pity that I would have preferred to have dinner with the people in the dock almost every day than with my colleagues - in the long run some would have resented the other ”(autobiography). From 1890 he lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. After the death of his grandfather in 1893, Hartleben inherited 80,000  marks (adjusted for inflation in today's currency: around 556,000 euros) and on December 2nd married his longtime partner, the former waitress Selma Hesse, called "Moppchen".

His officer tragedy Rose Monday in 1900 , which deals with the failure of a love between a simple girl and a lieutenant from an old officer's family, was a resounding success . With the income he bought the Villa Halkyone in Salò on Lake Garda, where he lived with his lover Ellen Birr from 1903. There he founded the "Halcyon Academy for Applied Sciences" in 1903. a. Peter Behrens , Otto Julius Bierbaum , Franz Blei , Gerhart Hauptmann , Alfred Kubin , Ferdinand Pfohl and Emil Orlik belonged and whose statutes were laid down in two paragraphs: “§ 1. Membership in the Halcyon Academy does not entail any obligations or rights. § 2. Everything else is regulated in the spirit of halcyon community. "

In literary life around the turn of the century, Hartleben acquired a legendary reputation as the founder and member of numerous artists' round tables and literary associations: while still a high school student in Celle, he called the BBBV (Bairisch-Böhmische-Bier-Vetterschaft) in Hanover around 1885 Leben, founded the People 's Club in Magdeburg around 1890 , the Karlsbader Idealist Club in Berlin around 1891 , also the Criminal Table in Berlin around 1896 , participated in the Berlin Naturalist Association Through , the Free Stage Association (Berlin), the Free Literary Society ( Berlin), was a participant in the Leipzig Augurenkolleg and took an active part in the Friedrichshagener poet circle .

In addition, from July 1897 to March 1900, he was co-editor of the weekly literary magazine Magazin für Litteratur (together with Rudolf Steiner ). Contributions from him also appeared in the youth .

One of his most famous figures was the " Serenissimus ", a goofy duodec prince of an imaginary dwarf state .

Settings

His works are almost forgotten today. Only his very free transfer of Pierrot Lunaire by Albert Giraud is mentioned repeatedly in connection with the setting by Arnold Schönberg and was re-released in 2005. The first book edition from 1893 has two poems smuggled in by the translator compared to the first print from 1892, which do not go back to the Belgian poet. Franz Blei arranged for a reprint with four pieces of music by Otto Vrieslander in 1911 , which in turn contained a poem that was neither by Hartleben nor by Giraud.

Ferdinand Pfohl set five of the “fantastic scenes” by his friend Hartleben as “moon rondels” as early as 1891, before Hartleben's translations were first printed. Further settings of the cycle of poems are by Max Marschalk (two rondels, sung at the Otto Erich Hartleben memorial service in 1905) and Max Kowalski (six poems, Opus 4, 1913). Hartleben himself always considered this series of poems to be his most successful work.

There are also poetry settings by Max Reger , Alma Mahler-Werfel and Alban Berg .

Awards and honors

Pallat family grave, Göttingen, taken around 1985 with the OEH urn, which has since disappeared

In 1902 he received the Franz Grillparzer Prize for Rose Monday .

The Otto-Erich-Straße in Berlin-Wannsee was at the initiative of Ludwig Pallat named after him. Another Otto-Erich-Straße can be found in neighboring Potsdam . In Clausthal there is a Hartleben-Weg probably named after him . In 1933 in Vienna- Donaustadt the hard life street named after him. There is also a Hartlebenstrasse in Berlin-Friedrichshagen , the place where the Friedrichshagener poets' circle worked , to which Hartleben is assigned.

Works (selection)

  • Student diary 1885–1886 , Zurich 1886
  • Two different stories , Leipzig, Berlin, 1887
  • The Frog. Family drama in one act after Henrik Ipse , parody, 1889
  • Angele , Comedy, 1891. online
  • The Serényi , Tales, 1891 (reprint of Two Different Stories )
  • Marriage Education , Comedy, 1893. online
  • Hanna Jagert , Comedy, 1893. online
  • The story of the torn button , stories, 1893; Munich 1969. online
  • A word of honor , drama, 1894
  • My verses , poems, 1895. online
  • From the hospitable pastor , stories, 1895. online
  • The moral requirement. Comedy in One Act , 1897. online
  • The Roman Painter , Novelle, 1898. online
  • A Truly Good Person , Comedy, 1899
  • The Liberated , one-act cycle, 1899
  • Carnival Monday. An Officer's Tragedy in Five Acts , 1900. online
  • From ripe fruits. My Verses, Part Two , Poems, 1902. online
  • The Halcyonian. A book of final rhymes , 1904. online
  • Dear little mom , short stories, 1904
  • Diogenes. Scenes from a comedy in verse , 1905
  • In the green tree to the nightingale , student piece, 1905
  • The marriage festival , novellas, Vienna 1906. online
  • Diary. Fragment of a life , Munich 1906. online
  • Selected works , 3 volumes (poems - prose - dramas), Berlin 1909
  • Aphorisms , Innsbruck 1920; Salò 1938

Translations

  • Albert Giraud: Pierrot Lunaire . [Rondels.] Berlin, Der Verlag Deutscher Phantasten 1893. (The "Rondels" first appeared in 1892 "autographed" in an edition of 60 copies)
  • Amalie Skram : Agnete . Drama in three acts. Edited for the German stage by Therese Krüger and OEH. Berlin 1895.
  • Maurice Maeterlinck : The Uninvited , Berlin 1898
  • Enrico Annibale Butti: Lucifer . Drama in four acts (together with Ottomar Piltz). Berlin 1904
  • Albert Giraud; Otto Erich Hartleben: Pierrot Lunaire. Ed. And vers. by Eckhard Fürlus. Bielefeld, Aisthesis Verl., 2005.

Letters

  • Letters to his wife 1887–1905 , ed. u. initiated v. Franz Ferdinand Heitmueller. Fischer, Berlin 1908. (= letters; 1)
  • Letters to Friends , ed. u. initiated v. Franz Ferdinand Heitmueller. Fischer, Berlin 1912. (= letters; 2)
  • Letters to his girlfriend , ed. u. initiated v. Fred B. Hardt. Reissner, Dresden 1910.
  • Letters to grandfather. 1879-1893. Without place and year [Berlin around 1960?]. (Private printing. Typewritten copies)
  • From the life of a satyr. Otto Erich Hartleben: Letters to Heinrich Rickert , ed. v. Wolfgang Rasch. Luttertaler handshake, Bargfeld 1997, ISBN 3-928779-17-6 .

Film adaptations

literature

  • Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Behl :  Hartleben, Otto Erich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 720 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Caesar Flaischlen: Otto Erich Hartleben. Fischer, Berlin 1896.
  • Selma Hartleben: "Mei Erich". From Otto Erich's life. Fischer, Berlin 1910.
  • Fritz Hock: The poetry of Otto Erich Hartleben. (= Germanic Studies. H. 104) Reprint d. Edition Berlin 1931. Kraus Repr., Nendeln / Liechtenstein 1967.
  • Kurt Kamlah: The education to be a poet by Otto Erich Hartleben. Schmitz et al. Olbertz, Düsseldorf 1912.
  • Alfred von Klement: The books by Otto Erich Hartleben. A bibliography with the previously unpublished 1st version of the poet's autobiography. Halcyon. Akad. For Unapplied Sciences, Salò 1951.
  • Alfred von Klement: The Directory of Members of the Halcyon Academy 1903–1950 . Salò, Halcyon Academy of Applied Science 1950.
  • Heinrich Lücke: The biography of a poet. Otto Erich Hartleben. Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1941.
  • Rolf Parr: Bavarian-Bohemian Beer Festival in Hanover. - Saló Halcyon Academy of Applied Sciences. - Carlsbad Idealist Club. - People club. - The criminals / criminal law. In: Handbook of literary-cultural associations, groups and leagues 1825–1933 , ed. v. Wulf Wülfing, Karin Bruns u. Rolf Parr. Metzler, Stuttgart a. a. 1998. (= Repertories on German literary history; 18)
  • Detlef Gerd Stechern: Otto Erich Hartleben. CV of a poet at the turn of the century. Hamburg 1986. ( Typewritten master’s thesis, one copy is available in the Philological Library of the Free University of Berlin , call number: Ph 1065/520).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto-Ericht-Straße on Berlin.kausperts.de, accessed on January 9, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hartleben, Otto Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Clausthal
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1905
Place of death Salò , Italy