Peter Hille

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Peter Hille, painting by Lovis Corinth , 1902, Kunsthalle Bremen
Peter Hille and Erich Mühsam

Peter Hille (born September 11, 1854 in Erwitzen , † May 7, 1904 in Berlin ) was a German late romantic and naturalistic writer .

education

Peter Hille was born as the son of a rent master and teacher Friedrich Wilhelm Hille in the half-timbered school house in Erwitzen . His brother Xavier joined a Franciscan order , his brother Philip became a secular priest . From 1871 to 1874 he attended the Progymnasium in Warburg , then the Paulinum grammar school in Münster , where he became a member of the secret student association Satrebil . The group read and discussed Karl Marx , August Bebel , Charles Darwin , also Johann Georg Hamann , Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , Karl Gutzkow and Ludwig Büchner . During his time in Münster he sent congratulatory telegrams to Ernst Haeckel and Wilhelm Liebknecht . During this time he published the handwritten school magazine Herz und Geist with his school friends, the brothers Heinrich and Julius Hart . In 1874 Hille had to leave the grammar school without a qualification due to insufficient performance and worked for a short time as a recorder for the public prosecutor in Höxter and briefly as a proofreader in a Leipzig printer. In Leipzig, Hille was a guest student at the university .

First literary success

In 1877 he wrote the journal Deutsche Dichtung, Organ for Poetry and Criticism , which was founded by the brothers Heinrich and Julius Hart. It was here that his first poems appeared. He wrote literary articles for the German monthly newspaper . Hille also wrote for Michael Georg Conrads Gesellschaft , in which he published the poem Seegesicht in 1889 , and the magazine for Germany and abroad , which were the leading journals of the naturalistic movement. During this time he received a letter of praise from Victor Hugo .

Vagantism

For a while he worked in Bremen on the social democratic newspaper Bremer Tageblatt . After the failure of the socialist paper in 1880, he lived in the slums of London , got to know socialists and anarchists and the center of the labor movement and made the acquaintance of Algernon Charles Swinburne in London .

Hille lived in Holland from 1882 to 1884 . In 1884 he used the remainder of an inheritance to finance a Dutch actor troupe, which brought him into financial ruin. He lived at times as a vagabond , but still played an important role in the naturalistic movement. In 1885 he published the journal Völkermuse Kritisches Schneidemühl in Berlin . The project failed after two editions, but Hille made friends with the subscriber Detlev von Liliencron , whom he visited in Kellinghusen in 1887 . Liliencron gave Hille access to the Friedrichshagener poet circle and the printing of his novel The Socialists .

In the winter of 1888/89 he was completely impoverished and also had tuberculosis . The writer Karl Henckell saved Hille from starvation and took him to Zurich in 1889 . Hille then went on a journey through Switzerland and Italy. In Zurich he met Gottfried Keller . Hille then set out on another hike to Italy , Hungary , Tyrol and presumably to Spain .

Berlin time

Hille moved to Berlin for the first time in 1885 and was a regular guest at the artists' pub Schwarzes Ferkel . In 1891, the completely destitute Hille sought refuge with his friend Julius Hart. John Henry Mackay tried to use his lack of resources to force Hille's poetic power into the service of extreme literary political groups. In 1891 he lived briefly with his brother in Hamm . The police persecuted him as an alleged social democrat and he fled all over Germany until he returned to Berlin in 1895. He often changed homes, slept outdoors and was temporarily lost to his friends. However, from 1899 Else Lasker-Schüler found his first connection to the literary scene through his friendship with Hille.

The naturalistic writers supported Hille. The New Community made a living. Erich Mühsam became his friend in 1901 and Hille became a cult figure of Berlin bohemians . In 1902 he opened the cabaret Cabaret zum Peter Hille with Erich Mühsam, Richard Dehmel , Otto Julius Bierbaum and Else Lasker-Schüler, in which he held literary and musical evenings of high standard. In 1902 Lovis Corinth Hille painted for a model money of 37 marks. On April 27, 1904, Hille was thrown down by a hemorrhage at the Zehlendorf train station . On May 7, 1904, he died of chronic lung disease at the age of 49.

Peter Hille grave of honor
Peter Hille's grave of honor in the St. Matthias Cemetery in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

First Hille was buried in Mariendorf near Berlin. In 1938 he was reburied in an honorary grave in the St. Matthias Cemetery in Berlin-Lichterfelde.

Part of Peter Hille's estate is in the manuscript department of the Dortmund City and State Library .

Effects

Hille felt drawn to the socialist-oriented poets such as Otto Erich Hartleben , Bruno Wille and Wilhelm Bölsche .

Lasker-Schüler enthusiastically honored Hille in her first prose work Das Peter Hille-Buch, published in 1906 .

For Gerhart Hauptmann , Hille was the almost always subsistence and homeless painter Peter Hullenkamp in his novel The Fool in Christo Emanuel Quint .

Wilhelm Schäfer handed down the anecdote The Stranger Dog from Peter Hille . In the story, Shepherd Hilles dog is entrusted. The dog is run over by a car. The guilty driver hands Hille 100 marks. Hille quietly places it under the shaggy head of the dead dog and wanders on happily without possessions.

Hille influenced the poets Johannes Bobrowski and Günter Bruno Fuchs , who wrote a poem about him.

Quotes

Aphorisms by Peter Hille.

"Home is homesickness and longing for all spaces."

- From: Peter Hille: Public Memorial Grove in Erwitzen

"I have no enemy other than myself."

- From: Peter Hille: I am, so is beauty : poetry, prose, aphorisms, essays by Peter Hille. [Ed. by Rüdiger Bernhardt, with the help of Heidi Ruddigkeit]. Reclam Leipzig 1989 ISBN 978-3-379-00490-9

"I am, therefore is beauty."

- From: Peter Hille: I am, so is beauty : poetry, prose, aphorisms, essays by Peter Hille. [Ed. by Rüdiger Bernhardt, with the help of Heidi Ruddigkeit]. Reclam Leipzig 1989 ISBN 978-3-379-00490-9

Works (selection)

First editions

  • The socialists . Novel. W. Friedrich, Leipzig 1886.
  • The son of the Platonist . Educational tragedy. EF Conrad's Buchhandlung (O. Reuter), Berlin 1896.
  • Semiramis - Cleopatra . Messer & Cie., Berlin 1902.
  • The Hassenburg - novel from the Teutoburg Forest . Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1905.
  • The mystery of Jesus . First reprint in sequels in 1910 in Der Sturm , book edition in 1921 in Insel-Bücherei 330/1.

Work editions

  • Peter Hille. Collected Works . ed. v. his friends, 4 volumes, Schuster & Loeffler, Berlin and Leipzig 1904–1905
  • Peter Hille. Collected Works . ed. v. Friedrich Kienecker , 6 vols., 1984–1986
  • Peter Hille (1854-1904). Works during his lifetime after first prints and in chronological order , ed. v. Walter Gödden, 2 vols., Bielefeld 2007
  • Peter Hille. All letters. Annotated edition. Edited by Walter Gödden and Nils Rottschäfer, Publications of the Literature Commission for Westphalia Volume 43, Series Texts Volume 18, Aisthesis Verlag Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89528-781-7 .

Compilations

  • Fritz Droop (ed.): From the sanctuary of beauty. Aphorisms and poems. Reclam, Leipzig 1909.
  • Rüdiger Bernhardt (Ed.): Peter Hille: I am, so there is beauty . Publishing house Philipp Reclam, Leipzig 1975.
  • Günter Albrecht (Ed.): Peter Hille - The Bohemian von Schlachtensee (Märkischer poet garden). 1st edition. Morgenbuch Verlag, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-371-00365-5 .
  • Helmut Birkelbach, Michael Kienecker, Pierre Georges Pouthier (eds.): "It has to fall out of every pocket ..." A Peter Hille reader . Mentis, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-89785-180-6 .
  • Walter Gödden (Ed.): Peter Hille Reading Book . Cologne 2004

Audio books

  • Peter Hille - a big rascal walks through the heavens. Radio play by Walter Gödden. Edition Nyland, Cologne 2004 (2 audio CD, 59:19 min.)
  • About finding and being found. Peter Hille and Else Lasker-Schüler. A scenic collage by Walter Gödden. Edition Nyland, Cologne / Paderborn 2006 (Audio-CD, 52:45 min.)

Commemoration

Peter Hille House
  • Hille House - the Hille Society maintains the birthplace of Peter Hilles in Erwitzen; it is set up as a literary memorial and meeting place.
  • Peter Hille Literature Prize "Nieheimer Schuhu" - awarded every three years since 2007 to:

The 18-kilometer Peter-Hille-Weg hiking trail with the hiking sign U from Nieheim to Erwitzen and back to Nienheim was named after Peter Hille. A school in Nieheim bears Peters Hilles name. In 1971 a memorial stone was placed in Erwitzen with the quote I am, so beauty is on the outskirts. A street in Berlin-Friedrichshagen is named after him.

literature

in order of appearance

Biographies

  • Alois Vogedes: Peter Hille. A world and god drunk. With unpublished works from the poet's estate . Schöningh, Paderborn 1947.
  • Dietmar N. Schmidt:  Hille, Peter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 146 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Glunz: Peter Hille. The life path of a restless poet . Huxaria, Höxter 1976.
  • Friedrich Kienecker (Ed.): Peter Hille. Documents and testimonies to the life, work and impact of the poet . Schöningh, Paderborn 1986, ISBN 3-506-78455-2 .
  • Rüdiger Bernhardt: “I determine myself.” The sad life of the happy Peter Hille (1854–1904) . Bussert and Stadeler, Jena 2004, ISBN 3-932906-46-2 .
  • Nils Rottschäfer: Peter Hille (1854–1904). A chronicle of life and work. Publications of the literature commission for Westphalia Volume 44, Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-89528-791-6 .

Individual studies on person and work

  • Ernst Timmermann: Peter Hille. Personality and work . Dissertation, University of Cologne 1936.
  • Bernward Pohlmann: Spontaneity and Form. Novel structures in German Impressionism - examined using the novels "Die Sozialisten" and "Die Hassenburg" by Peter Hille . Lang, Frankfurt am Main / u. a. 1985, ISBN 3-8204-8225-3 .
  • Liselotte Folkerts: Peter Hilles Relationship with Münster and the Münsterland. Münster 2004, ISBN 3-00-014563-X .
  • Martin M. Langner (Ed.): Peter Hille (1854–1904) . Weidler, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89693-411-2 .
  • Cornelia Ilbrig (Ed.): Peter Hille in the judgment of his contemporaries and critics . 2 vol .: Part 1: 1884-1919; Part 2: 1920-2006. Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-89528-615-5 .
  • Franz Schüppen : Conflagration and Culture. Peter Hilles unfinished confrontation with Schiller , in: Walter Gödden (Hrsg.): Literatur in Westfalen. Contributions to research 10, Aisthesis, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89528-782-4 .
  • Peter Hamecher : Peter Hille , in: Peter Hamecher: Between the sexes. Literary criticism - poetry - prose. Library rosa Winkel Vol. 58, Männerschwarm Verlag 2011, ISBN 978-3-939542-58-2 .

Estate, autographs, commemorations

  • On the grave of Peter Hille. Leipzig 1904 ( digitized version of the Paderborn University Library )
  • Walther Pfannmüller: The estate of Peter Hilles . Dissertation, University of Bonn 1940.
  • Maria Kühn-Ludewig: inventory of the Hille autographs . In: Hans-Christian Müller (Ed.): “I don't have a program, the world doesn't have one either”. For the 125th birthday of the poet Peter Hille. Dortmund City and State Library, Dortmund 1979, pp. 34–85

Web links

Wikiquote: Peter Hille  - Quotes
Commons : Peter Hille  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Peter Hille  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Jakob Hessing: Peter Hille. Resurrections or Peter Hille and the consequences (digitized version)
  2. ↑ Hermann Pongs (ed.): Lexicon of world literature . Andreas & Andreas Verlagbuchhandlung, Salzburg, 1977 p. 880
  3. ↑ [1]
  4. ↑ [2]
personal data
SURNAME Hille, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES the Magnus; the Saint; Altitude Tramp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naturalistic writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 11, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Heating
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1904
Place of death Berlin