Otto Franz Gensichen

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Otto Franz Gensichen

Otto Franz Gensichen (born February 4, 1847 in Driesen ; † August 24, 1933 ) was a German writer, playwright and publicist. He used the pseudonym Otto Franz.

Life

Otto Franz Gensichen was born on February 4, 1847 in Driesen in der Neumark as the fifth and last child of the pastor Hermann Gensichen and his wife Minna, née Steinke. Up to 1490 the family can be proven completely in the Mark Brandenburg. The city of Müncheberg in the district of Lebus is the home of the family whose first certified progenitor Andreas Gensichen was born that year in Müncheberg and married Anna Möller there.

He was the son of a Protestant pastor and, after taking private lessons from his father, attended the grammar school in Landsberg an der Warthe from 1859 and the Friedrich Wilhelms grammar school in Berlin from 1864 . From 1865 he studied in Berlin, first mathematics, then philosophy and classical philology and in 1869 with the work compositione De Niobidarum Dr. phil. PhD. He worked as a critic, columnist and political writer for various newspapers.

In 1874 he became artistic director and dramaturge at the Wallner Theater in Berlin . He gave up this position in 1878 and from then on lived as a freelance writer in Berlin. As editor, he oversaw the collected works of Nikolaus Lenau and Theodor Körner .

Otto Franz Gensichen died in 1933 at the age of 86 and was buried in the Dahlem Forest Cemetery in Berlin. The grave has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

  • Poems . Heimann, Berlin 1869. 3rd edition under the title Spielmannsweise , Grosser, Berlin 1876. ( digitized version )
  • The Messiah . A trilogy. Heimann, Berlin 1869. ( digitized version )
  • From the German Kaiser . Twelve songs. Grosser, Berlin 1870. Fourth edition doubled. Grosser, Berlin 1871. ( digitized version )
  • Berlin court actor. Silhouettes. Grosser, Berlin 1872. ( digitized version )
  • Study sheets. Cultur- u. literary historical sketches . Grosser, Berlin 1881.
  • Felicia: A minstrel . Grosser, Berlin 1882.
  • Women praise . Grosser, Berlin 1885.
  • Four stories . Grosser, Berlin 1886.
  • The monk from the Sanct Bernhard . A seal. Grosser, Berlin 1887.
  • Immortelles . Grosser, Berlin 1888.
  • Tamina . A seal. Grosser, Berlin 1888.
  • The Madonna! Novel. 2 volumes. Grosser, Berlin 1889.
  • Fountain of youth . Poems. Paetel, Berlin 1889.
  • The Haideröslein from Sesenheim . Paetel, Berlin 1896. ( digitized version )
  • Rectory blessing . A seal. Duncker, Berlin 1896.
  • To the stars! Novel. Paetel, Berlin 1897.
  • Under the Zollernaar . Seals. Duncker, Berlin 1899. ( digitized version )
  • Fountain of youth. Play in four acts. Reclam, Leipzig 1901.
  • Blood guilt . Novel. Janke, Berlin 1905.
  • Partnachröslein. An artist tragedy . 2 stories. Janke, Berlin 1906.
  • Backdrop air. Wallnertheater memories . Paetel, Berlin 1909.
  • To the stars! Novel. Reclam, Leipzig 1910
  • Bismarck . Kyffhäuser Verlag, Berlin 1925

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Otto Franz Gensichen" in: Heimatkalender für den Friedeberg N / M, published by the Friedeberg District Committee, 1918, pages 18–34.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 580.
personal data
SURNAME Gensichen, Otto Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franz, Otto (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, playwright and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Driesen
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1933