Paul Ernst

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Carl Friedrich Paul Ernst (born March 7, 1866 in Elbingerode (Harz) , † May 13, 1933 in Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing , Styria ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Memorial stone, Am Schlachtensee, Berlin-Zehlendorf

Born as the son of the mine supervisor Johann Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst and his wife Emma Auguste Henriette Dittmann, he was baptized on March 18, 1866. Ernst spent his youth in Clausthal and from 1876 attended the local high school on Graupenstrasse. Since he could not cope with the grammar school, he switched to the grammar school in Nordhausen in 1884 , where he passed the school leaving examination a year later. He then studied theology and philosophy at the universities in Göttingen and Tübingen . Another study of literature and history in Berlin followed. In 1892 he received his doctorate in Bern. He became a member of the progressive writers association Berlin by .

He joined the labor movement early on and became a member of the SPD , which he left in 1896. In the "Berliner Volksblatt" No. 232 of October 5, 1890, Friedrich Engels identified him as a superficial and complacent opportunist.

Paul Ernst stayed in Weimar at the beginning of the 20th century . Numerous dramas and stories were written during this time . In 1905/1906 he worked as a dramaturge at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . Later he devoted himself entirely to his writing as a freelancer. In 1916 he married the writer Else von Schorn , b. Apelt.

Literary work

His literary work is very extensive and diverse. It includes novels , short stories and short stories as well as dramas, essays and epics . While his early works can still be assigned to naturalism , his later writings, especially those created in the 1920s, are part of the New Classical period , of which Paul Ernst is one of the main representatives.

In 1933, before Adolf Hitler could decide on the award, Paul Ernst received the Goethe Medal for Art and Science . He had already received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 1930.

In the course of the National Socialist "Gleichschaltung" of the Prussian Academy of the Arts and the removal of 40 Jewish academy members who were unpopular for other reasons, Ernst was appointed to one of the vacancies on May 5, 1933.

Together with Wilhelm von Scholz he published a comedy under the pseudonym P. W. Spassmöller .

Works

  • Collected Works . 21 volumes. Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1928-1942.

Political Writings

  • The labor protection legislation and its international regulation . Berlin 1890.
  • The social reproduction of capital with increased productivity of labor . Berlin 1893. (Bern, Univ., Diss., 1893)
  • The collapse of German idealism. To the youth . G. Müller, Munich 1918.
  • The collapse of Marxism . G. Müller, Munich 1919. Digitized
  • Foundations of the new society . Georg Müller, Munich 1929, DNB 573929033 . Digitized

Novels

  • The Narrow Road to Happiness (1904)
  • Green from rubble (1923)
  • The luck of Lautenthal (1933)
  • The treasure in Morgenbrotstal
  • Seeds of hope

Novellas and short stories

  • The death of Cosimo
  • Comedians and rascals (1920); 60 stories
  • The wedding
  • The blessed island and other stories from the south

Dramas

  • Lumpenbagash (1898)
  • In the Chambre Séparée (1899), one-act play
  • The quick engagement (1899), one-act play
  • When the Leaves Fall (1899), one-act play
  • Demetrios (1905)
  • Ariadne on Naxos. A play in three acts (Weimar 1912) (digitized version)
  • Canossa
  • Brunhild ; Five treatises in verse
  • Childerich
  • Chriemhild
  • Prussian Spirit (first performance January 27, 1915)

Essays

  • Henrik Ibsen (1904)
  • The Path to Form (1906)
  • The German People and the Poet of Today (1932, published 1933)
  • A creed (1935)

Poetry

  • Polymeter (1898)

diary

  • Diary of a poet (1934)

literature

  • Adolf Potthoff : Paul Ernst. Introduction to his life and work . Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1935.
  • Paul Ernst . In: The little book of poet pictures . Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1938, p. 11. (= The small library )
  • Wolfgang Heilmann:  Ernst, Karl Friedrich Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , pp. 629-631 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst, Paul . In: Meyer's handbook on literature. A lexicon of poets and writers of all literatures . Eds. Ingrid Adam and Gisela Preuß. 2. rework. Edition Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1970. ISBN 3-411-00935-7 , pp. 270-271.
  • Paul Ernst . In: literary lexicon of the 20th century . Edited by Helmut Olles. Volume 1. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 11971. ISBN 3-499-16161-3 , pp. 248–249.
  • Paul Hübscher: The influence of Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Paul Ernst on Ludwig Wittgenstein. Bern u. a .: Lang 1985. (= Europäische Hochschulschriften; Series 20, Philosophy; 185) ISBN 3-261-03536-6
  • Jutta Bucquet-Radczewski: The neo-classical tragedy with Paul Ernst (1900-1910). Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann 1993. ISBN 3-88479-823-5
  • Beate Hörr: Tragedy and Ideology. Concepts of tragedy in Spain and Germany in the first half of the 20th century. Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 1997. (= Epistemata; Series Literary Studies; 222) ISBN 3-8260-1303-4
  • Hildegard Châtellier: Rejection of the bourgeoisie. Changes in conservatism using the example of Paul Ernst. Würzburg: Königshausen u. Neumann 2002. ISBN 3-8260-2175-4
  • Paul Ernst. Outsider and contemporary , ed. v. Horst Thomé. Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 2002. ISBN 3-8260-2200-9
  • Paul Ernst today. Lechte, Emsdetten 1980. ISBN 3-7849-1113-7
  • Norbert Fuerst: Paul Ernst. The warrior of the spirit. Nymphenburger, Munich 1985. ISBN 3-485-03500-9
  • Georg Noth: Paul Ernst and the renewal of Christianity. Merseburg: Stollberg 1997.

Paul Ernst Society

The Paul Ernst Society, founded in 1933 and again in 1956, deals with the life and work of the writer.

Web links

Commons : Paul Ernst  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Paul Ernst  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schramm on the article on Paul Ernst's 150th birthday in Unser Harz, history and stories from across the Harz, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, issue 8/2016
  2. ^ Sandra Richter , A History of Poetics: German Scholarly Aesthetics and Poetics in international context, 1770-1960; Page 258
  3. ↑ Mention of P. Ernst by Hans Friedrich Blunck on polunbi.de
personal data
SURNAME Ernst, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernst, Carl Friedrich Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Elbingerode (Harz)
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1933
Place of death Sankt Georgen an der Stiefing , Styria