Paul Bertololy

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Paul Bertololy as Heidelberger Rhenane
Bertololy (center) on the day the Upper Rhine Culture Prize was awarded, October 18, 1969
Grave monument for Paul Bertololy in the cemetery in Souffelweyersheim

Paul Bertololy (born February 12, 1892 in Frankenthal , Pfalz; † November 28, 1972 in Lembach , Alsace ) was a German doctor and writer.

Life

Born as the son of the doctor Karl Bertololy from Coswig (Saxony) , Paul Bertololy spent his childhood in the Palatinate. After attending school in Lambrecht, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Grünstadt , Munich, Aalen and Gmünd, he studied medicine in Heidelberg, Strasbourg and Freiburg. In Heidelberg he belonged to the Corps Rhenania , whose story inspired him to write the cultural-historical novel Alt-Heidelberg, Eternal Student's Dream.

In 1919 he received his doctorate in medicine and later settled down as a country doctor in Lembach in Alsace. Bertololy wrote novels, novellas, short stories and radio plays that were published by Paul List Verlag Munich, the Palatinate Publishing House in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Hohenstaufen Verlag (Bodmann) and Verlag Alsatia in Freiburg. He was the recipient of several literary prizes, including the Upper Rhine Culture Prize of the JW von Goethe Foundation in Basel in 1969 and the René Schickele Media Prize in 1973. The Alsatian community of Lembach made him an honorary citizen .

Berololy found his final resting place in the cemetery in Souffelweyersheim .

Works

  • A woman walks past (novel, 1931)
  • Dora Holdenrieth (novel, 1933)
  • Vision of the Gothic (novel, 1936)
  • Love (novel, 1942)
  • The Ostracized (novellas, 1947)
  • Passion (novellas, 1947)
  • Aphorisms (1948)
  • The deed of Emil Thoman (novel, 1949)
  • The rascals (novels, 1952)
  • In the face of man (novel, 1956)
  • The Duchess (novellas, 1958)
  • Homecoming (novellas, 1960)
  • Old Heidelberg - Eternal Student Dream (Novelle, 1962)
  • The Cruise of the Knight from Wasigenstein (novel, 1973)
  • The Venus chariot of Dr. Raley (novel 1984)
  • The cat, the woman and the murderer (radio play, 1978)
  • Maiana or the laughing damnation (1963/64, satire)
  • The scream from the night (crime novels)

literature

  • O. Bischoff: Paul Bertololy . In: World on the Upper Rhine 5 (1956)
  • Dr. med. Paul Bertololy. A life as a doctor and writer .... In: Der Convent 1970/9, p. 223
  • Paul Bertololy . In: Charles Schlosser: Lembach. Au fil du temps . [Lembach 2014], pp. 185f.
  • Ernestine Fuhrmann-Stone: poet and country doctor in Lower Alsace . In: Deutsches Ärzteblatt 1970/7, p. 553
  • Robert Paschke : Paul Bertololy ... corps student, poet and doctor . In: then and now. Jahrbuch für Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung 16 (1971), pp. 160–176
  • Kosch-Hohl: German Literature Lexicon Volume 1, p. 458
  • Gero von Wilpert : German poet lexicon. Biographical-bibliographical dictionary on German literary history (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 288). 3rd, expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-520-28803-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 200th anniversary of the Progymnasium Grünstadt , list of still living students, Riedel Verlag, Grünstadt, 1929, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Bertololy, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal (Palatinate)
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 1972
Place of death Lembach (Bas-Rhin)