Otto Weddigen (Author)

Otto Weddigen

Otto Weddigen (born February 9, 1851 in Minden , † January 29, 1940 in Berlin ; full name: Friedrich Heinrich Otto Weddigen ) was a German literary scholar and writer .

Life

Otto Weddigen was the son of a farmer and a great-grandson of Peter Florens Weddigen . He attended grammar school in Minden and took part in the Franco-German War as a senior prime minister in 1870/1871 , in which he contracted a severe typhoid with symptoms of paralysis. Weddigen studied modern languages, history, literature and aesthetics at the universities in Halle (Saale) , Strasbourg and Bonn . From 1874 he worked as a high school teacher in Schwerin; In the same year he received his doctorate at the University of Rostock with a dissertation on the Roland song to the doctor of philosophy (Dr. phil.). In 1876 he passed the 2nd state examination, and from 1878 to 1888 he taught at a grammar school in Hamm (Westphalia). In 1883 he obtained his habilitation at the Technical University of Hanover . After he did not succeed in being appointed to a university chair, Weddigen continued to work as a high school teacher from 1888 to 1893, now in Wiesbaden . In 1893 he was retired and from then on worked as a freelance writer. In 1897 he moved to (Berlin-) Charlottenburg .

Otto Weddigen's work includes works on literary history, novels, short stories, poems - many of which were set to music - and plays. From 1903 to 1907 he was editor of the monthly magazine "For our little ones". Always extremely patriotic from the start, Weddigen was one of those authors during the First World War who glorified German participation in the war not only with literary texts, but also with non-fiction books on the use of new war weapons such as submarines and airplanes. It is unclear whether there was occasional confusion with the submarine commander of the same name and war hero Otto Weddigen .

Fonts

As an author

History of German Folk Poetry, Munich 1884

• Étude sur la composition de la Chanson de Roland (d'après l'édition critique de Boehmer) , Rostock 1874
• Lessing's theory of tragedy with regard to the controversy about the "Katharsis tōn pathēmatōn" , Berlin 1876
• The national reform of our higher education institutions , Essen [u. a.] 1880
• The patriotic poetry of 1870/71 , Essen [u. a.] 1880
• Sword songs by a volunteer from the campaign of 1870 - 1871 , Essen [u. a.] 1880
• About the need for a professorship for newer literature at the German universities , Essen [u. a.] 1880
• In honor of the Sedan celebration and the past decade , Essen [u. a.] 1880
• Studies and memories , food [u. a.] 1881
• History of the influences of German literature on the literature of other European civilized peoples of modern times , Leipzig 1882
• From the literary world and for it , Hanover 1883
• The book of the Saxon Duke Wittekind , Minden i. Westf. 1883 (together with Hermann Gottlieb Friedrich Hartmann )
• The Hohenzollern and German Literature , Düsseldorf 1883
• Collected seals , Minden iW
  • 1 (1884)
  • 2 (1884)
• History of German Folk Poetry , Munich 1884
• Lord Byron's influence on modern European literature , Hanover 1884
• The saga treasure of Westphalia , Minden i. Westf. 1884 (together with Hermann Hartmann)
• New poems , Kassel 1885
• New fairy tales and fables , Munich 1885
• Poems from home and from Italy , north [u. a.] 1886
• From the red earth , Erfurt 1887
• Westphalia, land of the red earth , Minden 1887
• Helgamor and Godalind , Wiesbaden 1889
• Last sheaves , Leipzig 1890
• Collected works , Wiesbaden
  • 1. Poems , 1891
  • 2. Fables and Parables , 1891
  • 3rd fairy tale , 1892
  • 4. Epic and Dramatic Poems , 1889
  • 5. Epic Seals , 1896
  • 6. Dramatic Poems , 1896
• On the history of German master singing , Wiesbaden 1891
• Fairy tale , Wiesbaden 1892
• One Christianity and one Christian-German Church , Berlin 1893
• The essence and theory of the fable and its main representatives in Germany , Leipzig 1893
• Pictures from the Teutoburg Forest and Weser Mountains , Bielefeld 1894
• Pictures from Westphalian history , Bielefeld 1894
• The German Youth Treasure Chest , Berlin 1894
• History of the Royal Theater in Wiesbaden , Wiesbaden 1894
• What is the bible Honor the truth! , Berlin 1894
• "The Battle of the Spirit" and "Ideal and Demon" , Leipzig 1896
• Short stories and stories , Leipzig
  • 1 (1896)
  • 2 (1896)
• Westphalia , Paderborn 1896
• Blacksmith Mimer , Essen (Ruhr) 1897
• German youth book , Berlin 1898
• Schein und Sein , Leipzig 1898
• Schwänzelpeter and Schlumpelliese , Langensalza 1898 (together with August H. Plinke)
• From the red earth , Bochum [u. a.] 1898
• History of the Berlin Theater , Berlin 1899
• Literature and criticism , Leipzig 1899
• The robbery of the Odalisque , Leipzig 1901
• Essays and speeches , Wald, Rheinland [u. a.] 1902
• Memories from my life , Gotha 1902
• The resting places and monuments of our German poets , Halle 1903
• To the heart of the youth! , Elberfeld 1904
• The German legend and the German folk tale , Stuttgart 1904
• History of Germany's theaters , Berlin
  • 1 (1904)
  • 2 (1906)
• At the marriage office , Bonn 1905
• On the wrong track , Essen-Ruhr 1905
• Jung-Siegfried , Oldenburg [a. a.] 1905
• Den Manen Schiller , Halle 1905
• The Beggaress of San Marco and other short stories , Heilbronn 1907
• The cultural and historical development of the Greek and Roman theater and the Shakespeare theater , Leipzig 1907
• Hans Tunichtgut , Altenburg S.-A. 1907 (together with Friedrich Wolfgang Weddigen)
• Emperor Karl V , Leipzig 1907
• War and catastrophes , Leipzig 1907
• The King of Sion , Leipzig 1908
• New and old from the "Red Earth" , Duisburg [u. a.] 1908
• Doctor Eisenbart , Kempten [a. a.] 1909
• Dramatic images from Westphalian history , Bielefeld 1909
• Carelessness and honor , Leipzig 1909
• Nausikaa , Leipzig 1909
• Thomas Pfefferling, the Africa driver , Altenburg 1909 (together with Friedrich Wolfgang Weddigen)
• Under paternal guilt , Jena 1910
• 1812 - 1813 , Bonn 1912
• Westphalia's share in the Wars of Liberation , Leipzig 1912
• War poems 1914 , Berlin 1914
• New war poems 1914/15 , Dresden-A. 1915
• Unser Seeheld Weddigen , Berlin 1915. The new edition Our Seeheld Weddigen. His life and his deeds; Completed and corrected on the basis of detailed research and precise documents from the Reichsmarineamt : (Drei Türme-Verlag, Berlin 1933) was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .
• The first commercial submarine "Deutschland" and its captain Paul König , Leipzig 1916
• Our seagull! , Leipzig 1916
• Our submarine war and our submarine heroes , Leipzig 1917
• Germany's aerial warfare and hero pilots 1914-1917 , Regensburg 1918
• How can we achieve a recovery and blooming of our German literature? , Liebenwerda 1918
• Selected fairy tales , Charlottenburg 1922
• From the German Empire and Republic , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1924
• From Storm's days , Vlotho ad Weser 1929
• Some things about my work , Charlottenburg 1931
• Poetic works , Berlin
  • 1. Songs and poems, ballads and romances, fables and parables, sayings and aphorisms , 1932
  • 2. Fairy tales, village stories, short stories and short stories , 1932
  • 3rd dramas , 1932

As editor

• Selection of English poems , Paderborn 1877
• Selection of French poems , Paderborn 1879
• Peter Florens Weddigen : Spiritual odes and songs , Leipzig 1879
• Our Fatherland in Songs of German Poets of Older and Modern Times , Kassel 1880
• Westphalia, the land of the "red earth" in the seal , Minden 1881 ( UB Paderborn )
• François Ponsard : Charlotte Corday , Leipzig [u. a.] 1898
• Festschrift for the centenary of the wars of liberation of 1813, 1814, 1815 and for the inauguration of the Monument to the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig , Leipzig in 1912

literature

• Max Schmidt: Otto Weddigen. Bielefeld et al. 1895.

Web links

Commons : Friedrich Otto Weddigen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Friedrich Otto Weddigen in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors
• Literature by and about Otto Weddigen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-w.html