René Schwachhofer
René Max Adolf Schwachhofer (born May 28, 1904 in Stuttgart ; † July 10, 1970 in Falkensee ) was a German poet , essayist , translator and critic .
Life
Schwachhofer was from 1925 to 1927 a pupil of the reform pedagogical Free School Community Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest . He was banned from writing in 1933 and was able to publish again in 1937 at the latest. After 1945 he lived in Leipzig as a teacher at the adult education center and later in Falkensee near Berlin.
Kurt Schwaen and Ruth Zechlin each set one of his poems to music. Another of his poems was used by Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau in his concert cycle "From the black earth of this world":
“I carry the stigma of poverty / drifting through my dreams / the persecuted and the poor. / I am touched by the leprosy of the earth / My voice is filled with hate. "
Works
- Over ashes and fire. Poems 1932 - 1963. Union Verlag, Berlin 1964
- The figures . Volk und Welt publishing house , Berlin 1957
- Mirror of our becoming . Verlag der Nation , Berlin 1969
- View from three windows . Verlag der Nation, 1969, as editor
- Freed from silence. Poems and songs from the past three decades. Rupert, Leipzig 1947
- Begging bag and freedom . Life and work of Alexander Petöfis. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag , Weimar 1954
- From the shadows to the light . Poet in the upheaval of times. Selection and introduction of RS woodcuts: Friedrich Stein . Nation's Publishing House, 1955
Web links
- Literature by and about René Schwachhofer in the catalog of the German National Library
- René Schwachhofer Archive in the Archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin
- Setting to music by Schmidt-Mechau
Individual evidence
- ↑ Student directory of the Free School Community Wickersdorf. In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.
- ↑ twilight. Poems. Hartung, Leipzig 1937
- ↑ cf. RS: Bohemia. Poem, in: Encounter and Homecoming. Adalbert Stifterpreis-Buch 1942. Volk und Reich publishing house, Prague Amsterdam Berlin Vienna undated (1943), p. 105. A book without ed., Foreword p. 5f. from NN, with a short autobiography of the RS in the appendix. RS had received the 2nd poetry award
- ↑ online
- ↑ online
- ↑ see web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schwachhofer, René |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schwachhofer, René Max Adolf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, essayist, translator and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1970 |
| Place of death | Falkensee |