Peter Gan

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Peter Gan ( pseudonym ), born as Richard Möring, (* February 4, 1894 in Hamburg ; † March 6, 1974 there ) was a German writer , editor and translator.

Life

Richard Möring was the son of the lawyer Guido Möring (1860-1946) and the Dutch singer Wia Möring (1862-1940), b. Dikema. From 1903 to 1911 he attended the learned school of the Johanneum in Hamburg , in 1911 the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz and in 1912 passed the Abitur at the Gymnasium Donaueschingen . He studied at Oxford University in 1912/13 . From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War . From 1919 to 1924, Möring studied law at the universities of Marburg , Bonn and Hamburg . In Hamburg he was with the dissertation on legal absolutism, legal relativism and their methodical Association Dr. jur. PhD. This was followed by three semesters studying English with Emil Wolff and philosophy with Ernst Cassirer .

In 1926 the first literary publications appeared under the pseudonym Peter Gan . From 1927 to 1929 he worked as a freelance writer and as a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in Paris . From there, Peter Gan returned to Berlin , where a friendship with the art historian Paul Ortwin Rave began. In Berlin, Gan was an employee of the magazine Atlantis , which was published by Atlantis Verlag . Peter Gan has been able to publish his poems in this publishing house since 1935.

Pillow stone "Dr. Richard Möring ”at the family grave at Ohlsdorf cemetery

Immediately after the publishing house was founded by Henry Goverts and Eugen Claassen , Gan worked as a translator for the two Hamburg publishers from 1935: The first book to appear in the new publishing house was the title Frau Orpha by the Belgian writer Marie Greves (1883–1975). The translation of the French novel Madame Orpha ou la sérénade de mai into German was done by Peter Gan.

During the Nazi regime emigrated Peter Gan in 1938 to Paris. After the outbreak of the Second World War , he was interned in Albi in May 1940 . In October 1940 he was transferred to the Gurs internment camp . From this camp Gan managed to escape to Spain in November 1942 , where he was imprisoned in the Jaca military prison. After his release he found employment with the Quakers in Madrid . From 1946 to 1958 he lived again in Paris. Ernst Bertram , Emanuel Hirsch, Wilhelm Uhde and Hans Reichel belonged to his circle of friends .

In 1958 Peter Gan returned to Hamburg. In the post-war period he again worked as a translator of literary works from English and French. Peter Gan was buried in the Möring family grave , Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, grid square AA 11 (south of Norderstrasse ).

position

Peter Gan was considered an isolated case in literary history: his poems, virtuoso games with old verse forms, testify to Socratic irony, modesty and melancholy. He had started with epic poems, the richness of which was expressed in allegorical expansions, mental encircling of a configuration. His age poems were more concrete. He himself often pointed out that he was out of date and preferred to leave the present to “circles that are more robust”.

“There is no doubt that Peter Gan has written the most cheerful, funniest poems since Morgenstern, sparkling and crackling structures in which the weight of the earth appears magically suspended; close by are those others who are drawn no less artfully on a dark background, from which their delicate lines, never completely alienated from the game, stand out. "( Max Rychner )

Memberships

Awards

Publications

Poetry

  • 1935: The compass rose. Atlantis, Berlin / Zurich
  • 1936: Selected poems. Heinrich Ellermann, Hamburg
  • 1949: The elder flute. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1956: Checkmate. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1956: The price of things. Insel Verlag, Wiesbaden ( Insel-Bücherei 628/1)
  • 1961: Running out. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1965: The old game. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1970: Soliloquia. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau
  • 1974: The autumn crook. Posthumously. Atlantis, Zurich / Freiburg im Breisgau

Essays

  • 1935: Of God and the World. A hodgepodge. Atlantis, Berlin / Zurich
  • 1952: Helmut Kolle .

Translations

literature

  • Friedhelm Kemp:  Moering, Richard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 676 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • From the poet's business. Speeches on the occasion of the awarding of the Alexander Zinn Prize in 1967 to Peter Gan. Hamburg 1968
  • Werner Kayser: Peter Gan. With contributions by Max Rychner and Johannes Pfeiffer. Christians, Hamburg 1972

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedhelm Kemp (Ed.): Peter Gan Collected Works Volume 1 . Wallstein Publishing House.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Eugen Claassen. From the work of a publisher. In: Marbacher Magazin, 19/1981, p. 14 and 32.
  3. ↑ Celebrity Graves
  4. ↑ kulturkreis.eu: 1953-1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on March 30, 2015)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kulturkreis.eu  
personal data
SURNAME Gan, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moering, Richard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1974
Place of death Hamburg , Germany