Otto zur Linde

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Otto zur Linde

Otto zur Linde (born April 26, 1873 in Essen , † February 16, 1938 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Otto zur Linde was the son of a grocer and innkeeper . He grew up in Gelsenkirchen from 1878 . His childhood was marked by severe rachitic and scrofulous diseases that led to corneal opacity at an early age . After graduating from high school , zur Linde studied philosophy , English and German at the universities in Berlin , Halle / Saale and Freiburg im Breisgau from 1893 . 1899 doctorate he attended the University of Freiburg with a dissertation on Heinrich Heine to the doctor of philosophy. He then stayed without a permanent job in London , where he studied in the library of the British Museum ; occasionally he also worked as a correspondent for German newspapers. After his return to Germany, in 1902 he went to Berlin, where he led a secluded life in poor conditions. From 1904 to 1914 he published the Charon magazine, founded with Rudolf Pannwitz . In 1925 he stopped his writing. The last years of his life were marked by the onset of blindness , pathological melancholy and depression .

Otto zur Linde's work consists mainly of poems and essays . With his poetry and poetry-theoretical writings, which were based on Arno Holz 's formal model , he took an anti- naturalistic standpoint in a combative manner . Based on his philosophical studies, he tried to create a new Nordic- primeval myth , which should form the basis of a general ethical renewal; stylistically his poems are partly close to early expressionism .

Works

  • Heinrich Heine and German Romanticism , Freiburg im Breisgau 1899
  • Poems, fairy tales and sketches , Dresden [a. a.] 1901
  • Fantoccini , Dresden [a. a.] 1902
  • Karl Philipp Moritz , Otto zur Linde (ed.): A German's travels in England in 1782 , Berlin 1903
  • The ball , Gr. Lichterfelde 1909
  • Collected works , Groß-Lichterfelde
    • 1. Thule Dreamland , 1910
    • 2nd album and songs of love and marriage , 1910
    • 3. City, suburb, park, landscape, sea , 1911
    • 4. Charontic Myth , 1913
    • 5. Paths, People and Goals , 1913
    • 6. The book "Abendrot" , 1920
    • 7/8. Songs of Sorrow , 1924
    • 9/10. Thinking, Time and Future , 1925
  • Arno Holz and the Charon , Großlichterfelde 1911
  • Hell . Charonverlag, Gross-Lichterfelde 1921–22.
  • Charon . Piper, Munich 1952.
  • Prose and poetry . Aschendorff, Münster 1974, ISBN 3-402-06311-5 .
  • Prose, poems, letters . Steiner, Wiesbaden 1974, ISBN 3-515-01960-X .
  • Reading book Otto zur Linde . Compiled and with an afterword by Rolf Stolz , Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1171-6 .

literature

  • Rudolf Paulsen : Otto zur Linde , Groß-Lichterfelde 1912
  • Theodor Däubler (Ed.): Otto zur Linde , Halle-S 1933
  • Rudolf Paulsen: Sheets and letters from Otto zur Linde's grave , Querfurt 1938
  • Werner Kugel: Worldview and Poetry Otto zur Linde , Cologne 1959
  • Helmut Friedbert Roettger: Otto zur Linde , Wuppertal [u. a.] 1970
  • Carola von Edlinger: Cosmogonic and mythical world designs from an interdiscursive perspective , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2002
  • Walter Schmitz:  to the linden tree, Otto. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 581-583 ( digitized version ).
  • Rolf Stolz: Reading book Otto zur Linde , Aisthesis Verlag Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8498-1171-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Zur Linde, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 1938
Place of death Berlin