Paul Warncke

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Paul Warncke (born May 13, 1866 in Lübz , † April 25, 1933 in Neubabelsberg ) was a German sculptor and writer.

Life

Paul Warncke completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and from 1893 to 1896 attended the Academic University of Fine Arts in Berlin with Gerhard Janensch . From 1892 he exhibited several times at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. The less successful work as a sculptor ended around 1909, Warncke now devoted himself exclusively to writing: essays, patriotic poems ("Bismarcklied" 1895), festivals for the Schauspielhaus Berlin a. Ä. From 1909 he was also editor of the " Kladderadatsch " and employee of the magazine f. Visual arts. In 1914 he wrote the verses for the " Hechtbrunnen " in Teterow by Wilhelm Wandschneider , with whom he was friends. Warncke was also active as a Low German writer and in 1899 published the Fritz Reuter biography "Fritz Reuter Woans hei lewt un schrewen hett". He was married to Hedwig, née Grösser.

Statuette Jochen Nuessler, 1899

Sculptural work

  • " Falstaff " (1897)
  • "Inspector Bräsig" (1898/99)
  • "Jochen Nüssler" (1898/99)
  • Bust of Heinrich Seidel (1902)
  • Bust "Frau Director H." (1906)

Literary works (selection)

  • Fritz Reuter Woans he lewt un schrewen hett (= Biographical Folk Books. Life Pictures from the 19th Century. Vol. 56/63, ZDB -ID 2142535-8 ). Voigtländer, Leipzig 1899.
  • Hans Stubenrauch : Pictures of Fritz Reuter's works. With accompanying text by Paul Warncke. Kruger, Berlin 1902.
  • Wake up people! Patriotic poems from the time after the great war. Krüger, Berlin 1920.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Warncke's handwritten book manuscript (1898, 1 title page, 469 sheets, 8 sheets of notes) is in the Fritz Reuter Literature Archive Hans-Joachim Griephan Berlin.

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personal data
SURNAME Warncke, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Luebz
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1933
Place of death Neubabelsberg