Paul Scheerbart

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Photo of Paul Scheerbarts by Wilhelm Fechner , 1897

Paul Carl Wilhelm Scheerbart (born January 8, 1863 in Danzig , † October 15, 1915 in Berlin ), also known by his pseudonyms Kuno Küfer and Bruno Küfer , was a German writer of fantastic literature and illustrator .

Life

Bruno Taut dedicated the glass house built in 1914 for the Cologne Werkbund exhibition to Paul Scheerbart

Paul Scheerbart began studying philosophy and art history in 1885 . From 1887 he lived as a poet in Berlin and tried to invent the perpetual motion machine . In 1892 he founded the "Verlag deutscher Phantasten". All his life he was in financial difficulties. After various publications, including in the magazine Kampf , his novel The Great Revolution , which was published by Insel Verlag in 1902 , earned him recognition in literary circles, albeit without achieving significant sales figures. The young Ernst Rowohlt published Scheerbart's bizarre collection of poems Katerpoesie in 1909 as one of the first books by Rowohlt Verlag . The closing verse of the poem Be Gentle and Mocking reads: “Character is only obstinacy. Long live the gypsy! ”Rowohlt often quoted this verse.

Scheerbart's imaginative essays on glass architecture influenced the young architects of the time such as Bruno Taut , but also Walter Benjamin's Passagenwerk. As early as 1917, Benjamin wrote an admiring essay on the book Lesabéndio , which, like some of Scheerbart's works, is set on distant planets. Erich Mühsam also belonged to the Berlin circle of friends and drinkers , to whom Scheerbart devoted a chapter in his Apolitical Memoirs . Scheerbart was also close friends with Richard Dehmel . Alfred Jarry's ideas about theater influenced him .

Scheerbart was married to Anna Scheerbart, née Sommer, widowed Scherler, of whom three shorter texts can be found in his Gesammelte Werken (Volume 10.2).

Paul Scheerbart died on October 15, 1915 as a result of a stroke. By Walter Mehring , the unsubstantiated allegation comes, Scheerbart died of exhaustion: He had a convinced pacifist protest against the First World War refused any food intake. Paul Scheerbart was buried in the Park-Friedhof Berlin-Lichterfelde (3 C No. 391). Hellmut Draws-Tychsen became the administrator of the estate.

bibliography

Drawing by Paul Scheerbart
Cover of the first edition of Hangover Poetry , 1909
Lesabéndio , first edition, Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1913

Work editions

  • Collected Works. Thomas Bürk u. a. (Ed.). Linkenheim (Vol. 1-7); Bellheim (Vol. 8-10.2), Edition Phantasia Vol. 1.1986 - Vol. 10.2.1996. (10 in 11 volumes) ISBN 978-3-924959-43-2
  • Major poetic works. (..., edited and annotated by Else Harke). Goverts, Stuttgart 1962. ( New library of world literature ).
  • Beyond Gallery. Collected drawings. Edited by Mechthild Rausch. Renner, Munich 1981 ISBN 3-921499-20-8
  • My ink is my ink. Prose from magazines. Eulenspiegel-Verlag, Berlin 1986. Licensed edition: Müller u. Kiepenheuer, Hanau, Main [1988?] ISBN 3-7833-6708-5
  • The emperor of Utopia and the gray cloth and ten percent white. 2 utopian novels. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt / Main 1988 ( Fantastic Library Vol. 218). ISBN 3-518-38065-6

Individual works (selection)

  • The paradise. The home of art. Commissions-Verlag by George u. Fiedler, Berlin 1889. Title edition: Verlag deutscher Phantasten, Berlin 1893.
  • Yes ... what ... we don't want everything! A wonderful book of fables. Issue 1. Verlag deutscher Phantasten, Berlin 1893 (Issue 2-7 never published).
  • Tarub. Baghdad's famous cook. Arabic cultural novel. Association for German Literature, Berlin [1897]. The same edition: Hugo Storm, Berlin [1897]. 2nd edition: JCC Bruns' Verlag, Minden in Westf. [1900].
  • I love you! A railway novel with 66 interludes. Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin 1897.
  • The death of the Barmekids. Arabic harem novel. Publishing house Circular Rings (Max Spohr), Leipzig 1897.
  • Well cheers! Fantastic royal novel. Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1898.
  • Rakkóx the billionaire. A showy novel. The wild hunt. A development novel in eight other stories. Inselverlag, Leipzig 1901. (In the template: Christmas MDCCCCI; p. 119: printed in September 1900).
  • The sea serpent. A lake novel. JCC Bruns's Verlag, Minden in Westf. [1901].
  • Liwûna and Kaidôh. A soul novel. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1902.
  • The great revolution. A lunar novel. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1902.
  • Always brave! A fantastic hippopotamus novel with eighty-three strange stories. 2 volumes. JCC Bruns, Minden in Westphalia 1902.
  • The rising of the sun . House fairy tale. JCC Bruns, Minden i. W. [1903].
  • Comet dance. Astral pantomime in two acts. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1903.
  • Power jokes. Arabic short stories. E. Eisselt, Groß-Lichterfelde-Berlin 1904.
  • Revolutionary theater library. 6 volumes. E. Eisselt, Groß-Lichterfelde-Berlin 1904.
  • The emperor of Utopia. A folk novel. Eduard Eisselt, Gr.-Lichterfelde 1904.
  • Cervantes. Schuster u. Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig (1904) ( The seal. 8).
  • Münchhausen and Clarissa. A Berlin novel. Oesterheld, Berlin 1906.
  • Beyond Gallery. Oesterheld, Berlin 1907. (Portfolio with 10 sheets of drawings).
  • Hangover poetry. Rowohlt, Paris / Leipzig 1909. 2. – 4. Edition: Hangover Poetry. Rowohlt, Berlin [1920].
  • The development of air militarism and the dissolution of the European land armies, fortresses and naval fleets. A pamphlet. Oesterheld, Berlin 1909.
  • The perpetual motion machine. The story of an invention. Rowohlt, Leipzig 1910. (Contains: folding plan with 26 technical drawings).
  • The new upper world. Venus Novellette, from: Die Aktion , born 1911, No. 2, Col. 53–57.
  • Astral Novellettes. Dreililien-Verlag, Karlsruhe / Leipzig 1912. (2nd edition of the title appeared with additional information: Georg Müller, Munich / Leipzig 1912).
  • The great light. A Munchausen Breviary. Rabinowitz, Leipzig 1912.
  • Lesabéndio. An asteroid novel. (With 14 drawings by Alfred Kubin ). Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1913.
  • The gray cloth and ten percent white. A ladies' novel. Georg Müller, Munich and Leipzig 1914.
  • Glass architecture. Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin 1914.
  • The Mopsiade. Alfred Richard Meyer, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1920.
  • Laughing is forbidden ... See-Igel-Verlag Fritz Nuernberger, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1929.

Letters

  • From room to room. 70 pout and love letters from the poet to his wife. Alfred Richard Meyer, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1921.
  • Correspondence with Max Bruns 1898-1903 and other documents. Leo Ikelaar (ed.). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 1990, ISBN 3-631-41727-6 ( European university publications . Series 1, Bd. 1124).
  • 70 trillion world greetings. A biography in letters 1889 - 1915. Edited by Mechthild Rausch. Argon, Berlin [1991], ISBN 3-87024-802-5 .
  • Paul Scheerbart, Bruno Taut: On the story of an acquaintance. Scheerbart's letters from 1913 to 1914 to Gottfried Heinersdorff , Bruno Taut and Herwarth Walden. Leo Ikelaar (Ed.) Igel-Verlag, Paderborn 1996, ISBN 3-89621-037-8 .

Bibliophile publications

Musical theater

  • Gerhard Lampersberg : Cleopatra and the crocodile . Opera in one act, 1984. Libretto: Paul Scheerbart. (World premiere at the Berliner Festwochen, 1984.)

Sound carrier

literature

  • Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , pp. 360-362.
  • Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 864 f.
  • Hubert Bär: Nature and society at Scheerbart. Genesis and implications of a cultural utopia . Heidelberg 1977
  • Clemens Brunn: The way out into the unreal. Fiction and world model with Paul Scheerbart and Alfred Kubin . Igel, Hamburg, 2nd update. Edition 2010, ISBN 978-3-86815-518-1 .
  • Müzeyyen Ege: The fantastic in the field of tension between literature and natural science in the 20th century. The plurality of worlds with Paul Scheerbart, Carlos Castaneda and Robert Anton Wilson (dissertation FU Berlin), Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin 2004, Berlin, ISBN 3-86573-008-6 .
  • Hubertus von Gemmingen : Paul Scheerbart's astral literature . Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1976.
  • Rosemarie Haag-Bletter: Paul Scheerbart.'s architectural fantasies. In: Journal of the Society of architectural historians. Vol. 34, May 1975, pp. 83-97.
  • Rosemarie Haag-Bletter:: The interpretation of the Glass Dream. Expressionist architecture and the history of the Crystal Metaphor. In: Journal of the Society of architectural historians. Vol. 40, March 1981, pp. 20-43.
  • Robert Hodonyi: Paul Scheerbart and Herwarth Walden's “Association for Art”. On the constellation of literature and architecture in Berlin Modernism around 1900. In: Sciences in Dialog. Studies in the field of German studies. Ed. Noémi Kordics with the collaboration of v. Eszter Szabó, Volume 2, Klausenburg, Großwardein 2008, pp. 143–161.
  • Christoph Jeanjour: Social phenomenology of literature. Investigations using the example and on the occasion of Paul Scheerbart's literary work. 2 volumes. Heidelberg 1981.
  • Paul Kaltefleiter, Berni Lörwald, Michael M. Schardt (eds.): About Paul Scheerbart. 100 years of Scheerbart reception. 3 volumes. Igel, Paderborn 1998, ISBN 3-927104-23-X (Volume 1), ISBN 3-927104-88-4 (Volume 2), ISBN 3-89621-055-6 (Volume 3).
  • Uli Kohnle: Paul Scheerbart. A bibliography . Edition Phantasia, Bellheim 1994, ISBN 3-924959-92-7 .
  • Anne Krauter: Paul Scheerbart's writings and Albert Speer's light dome . Dissertation, University of Heidelberg 1997 ( full text ).
  • Kurt Lubasch, Alfred Richard Meyer (Ed.): Paul Scheerbart Bibliography. Berlin 1930. (Contains: Bibliophile descriptions of the original works from 1889 to 1929).
  • Klaus Martens : Literature mediator around the turn of the century: JCC Bruns' Verlag his authors and translators. Röhrig University Press, St. Ingbert 1996.
  • Michael Nagula : The Emperor of Utopia and the gray cloth and ten percent white. In: The Science Fiction Year 1990 (Vol. 5), edited by Wolfgang Jeschke , Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1990, pp. 653-658. ISBN 3-453-03905-X .
  • Mechthild Rausch: From Danzig into space. Paul Scheerbart's early years 1863 - 1895 . With a selection from Paul Scheerbart's local reports for the Danziger Courier. Edition text + kritik , Munich 1997, ISBN 3-88377-549-5 .
  • Mechthild Rausch:  Scheerbart, Paul Carl Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 608 ( digitized version ).
  • Franz Rottensteiner : The poet of the "other": Paul Scheerbart as a science fiction author. In the S. (Ed.): Polaris 5. A Science-Fiction-Almanach, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1982, pp. 226-241.
  • Beatrice Rolli: Paul Scheerbart's 'world-shaping imagination' between utopia and phantasmagoria. An interpretation of 'Münchhausen and Clarissa. A Berlin novel 'as an introduction to the complete works . Zurich 1983.
  • Christian Ruosch: The fantastic, surreal world in Paul Scheerbart's work . Bern 1970.

Web links

Commons : Paul Scheerbart  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Paul Scheerbart  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Video lecture on Paul Scheerbart, life and work
  2. ↑ From: Katerpoesie, Be gentle and scornful! Final verse
  3. ↑ zeit.de: 100 years of Rowohlt
  4. ↑ Poem "Be gentle and scornful!"
  5. ^ Walter Benjamin: Paul Scheerbart: Lesabéndio ; in: the same: Collected Writings , Volume II / 2, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 618–620
  6. ^ The new upper world (transcription) at Wikisource .
personal data
SURNAME Scheerbart, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheerbart, Paul Carl Wilhelm (full name); Küfer, Bruno (pseudonym); Küfer, Kuno (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer of fantastic literature and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1915
Place of death Berlin