Reinhold von Walter

This article deals with the writer Reinhold von Walter , for the chemist Reinhold von Walther see there.

Moses by Ernst Barlach , detail

Reinhold von Walter (born August 5, 1882 in St. Petersburg , † September 17, 1965 in Ravensburg ) was a Baltic German writer and translator .

Life

Walter's father, Reinhold Wilhelm von Walter (1840-1909), was a pastor at St. Catherine's Church in St. Petersburg from 1875 to 1901. Walter began studying theology and philosophy, which he completed in 1909 with the state examination. He worked as a teacher until he was hired as a civil servant by the Russian government. After the fall of the Russian government during the world war, Walter emigrated to the German Reich in 1917. There he lived in Berlin for the first few years until he moved to Cologne in 1926.

Reinhold von Walter worked a. a. with the sculptor Ernst Barlach , who gave one of his works ( Moses ) Walter's features. In addition, Barlach created a series of woodcuts for a poem written by Walter.

Reinhold von Walter translated a large number of Russian works into German.

literature

• Gunnar Anger:  WALTER, Reinhold von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 33, Bautz, Nordhausen 2012, ISBN 978-3-88309-690-2 , Sp. 1467-1477.
• Stefan G. Reichelt: Reinhold von Walter . In: Nikolaj A. Berdjaev in Germany 1920-1950. A historical reception study . Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, pp. 63–69. ISBN 3-933240-88-3
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 1391-1394 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Reinhold von Walter in the catalog of the German National Library
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Reinhold von Walter. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Ernst Barlach, portrait of Reinhold von Walter