Richard Skowronnek

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Richard Skowronnek

Richard Skowronnek (* July 12 or August 12, 1862 in the forester's lodge Schuiken near Goldap , East Prussia ; † October 16 or 17 or February 17, 1932 at the Hoeckenberg manor, Regenwalde district , Pomerania ) was a German journalist , dramaturge and writer .

Life

Skowronnek's father Adam (1822-1916) was King. Ranger. The younger brother of the writer Fritz Skowronnek - they grew up in Sybba ( Polish: Szyba ) from 1864 and attended the Royal Lyck High School - studied geography at the Albertus University of Königsberg and the Friedrich Wilhelms University . In 1883 he became a member of the Corps Baltia Königsberg .

From 1887 he was the features editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung . There he was in the mainly from 1891 Jews visited Masonic Lodge to rising Dawn added. In 1892 he followed the advice of Kaiser Wilhelm II and went to Berlin as an accredited journalist; he was parliamentary reporter at the Reichstag (German Empire) . In 1897/98 Skowronnek worked as a dramaturge at the Königliches Schauspielhaus Berlin . Towards the end of the First World War he moved to the Höckenberg estate, which belonged to his son-in-law.

Act

Set design for the comedy Waterkant , from a performance by the Berlin Theater in spring 1904. Photo by Zander & Labisch .

Skowronnek wrote comedies and entertainment novels. He took the material for his narrative and dramatic works from life on East Prussian estates, in officers' messes and on student mess floors. The conflicts are usually resolved through duels, hunting accidents or suicide.

Unlike his brother, he was a purely fiction writer who tried to build bridges through emotional moments. He shows his Masurian origins and Prussian sentiments everywhere in his works. His novel The White Eagle , in particular , is about the love between a Masurian and a Polish woman . In the novel Brother Leichtfuß und Stein am Bein he becomes the lawyer for a young Jew who wins the friendship of an East Prussian landowner's son.

His novels Sturmzeichen and Das große Feuer were extremely successful and brought East Prussia and its problems to the attention of the Germans. The Bruchhof appeared in three editions. Long after his death, some of Skowronnek's books continued to be reprinted.

Works

Richard Skowronnek as a hunter with his dog , 1912
photograph by Rudolf Dührkoop
  • In the forester's house , play, 1895
  • My cousin Josua , Roman, 1895, is based on a real model of a fencing game between student associations
  • A palace revolution , performed at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna on October 14, 1893
  • Hans the Victor , 1899
  • The Polish refugee. A novel from the east , 1901
  • Your boy , novel, 1902
  • The Bruchhof. A novel from Masuria , 1903
  • The red house. A village novel , 1903
  • The Lemcke siblings , folk play in four acts, with Walther Stein , premiered at the Lessing Theater (Berlin) in August 1903
  • The Tugendhof , performed at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna on October 3, 1903
  • Summer Love and Other Stories , 1904
  • Water edge. A play from the German Navy , performed at the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna on October 16, 1904.
  • The gray house , comedy in four acts, premiered on November 23, 1905 at the Hamburg Thalia Theater
  • The two wild pigeons , novel, 1906 (filmed in 1938 as Stronger than Love )
  • The red kersien , novel, 1908
  • Poor Henner , Roman, 1908
  • Silence in the forest. Humorous novel , 1910
  • Brother Light Foot and Stone on the Leg , Roman, 1911
  • The engagement ship. Humorous novel , 1912
  • That Bit of Earth , 1913
  • The good information , comedy, 1914
  • Storm sign , novel. Ullstein & Co., Berlin and Vienna 1914
  • The Sporck Battalion , Roman. Ullstein & Co., Berlin and Vienna 1914
  • The great fire , novel, 1915
  • Dawn , novel. Ullstein & Co., Berlin 1916
  • The hardship , Roman. Ullstein & Co., Berlin and Vienna 1916
  • The white eagle , novel, 1919
  • Pommerland , Roman, 1926
  • The Sporck hunters. Poacher novel from Masuria , 1927
  • Home, home! A novel from the frontier , 1927
  • The wolves of Weesenberg , novel, 1931

Film adaptations

literature

  • John Koch : Richard Skowronnek Baltiae-Königsberg in memory . In: Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 49 (1932/33), p. 261

Individual evidence

  1. Höckenberg
  2. Friedenauer Lokal-Anzeiger, Vol. 23, No. 19, January 23, 1916, p. 2.
  3. ^ Prominent residents of Elk
  4. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 86 , 183
  5. ^ Border guard in the east. - Storm signs. The great fire. Novel from Germany's hardest time. Berlin 1935
  6. The Spork's hunters. Novel from Masuria . Munich 1966.
  7. That little bit of earth . Berlin undated (1935?)
  8. The Bruchhof. Novel from Masuria . Munich 1957
  9. Pommerland. Novel. Munich 1975
  10. ↑ Mother Earth. The grave need - dawn . Berlin 1940

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Skowronnek  - Sources and full texts