Richard Voss

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Richard Voss, ca.1896
Richard Voss, ca.1908

Richard Voss (different spelling: Richard Voss ; born September 2, 1851 , Gut Neugrape, Pyritz district , Pomerania ; † June 10, 1918 in Berchtesgaden ) was a German writer .

Life

Richard Voss made numerous trips at a young age, especially to Italy . As a Johanniter he took part in the war of 1870 and was wounded. He then studied in Jena and Munich. From 1874 he lived alternately in Königssee near Berchtesgaden and in Frascati near Rome . Numerous artists and aristocrats were guests in his “Bergfrieden” house in Königssee, as well as in the Villa Falconieri in Frascati, which later went to Wilhelm II. In 1884 he was appointed librarian at the Wartburg . In 1878 he married Melanie von Glenck. In addition, he maintained homosexual relationships, which his contact in the highest circles, e. B. with Ernst von Wildenbruch and Prince Georg of Prussia (1826-1902), made problematic.

At the age of 10, he had already met Mauritia Mayer during his spa stays in Sankt Zeno near Bad Reichenhall and was on friendly terms with her despite the age difference of 18 years until her death. In his bestseller novel Zwei Menschen (the first edition was published in 1911 and had 97th editions in over 1 million copies), he set her an idealized literary monument in the main character Judith Platter .

In 1916, Voss suggested that an oversized Bavarian lion be struck as a war memorial in the Falkensteinerwand on Königssee. To prevent the project, the forerunner of today's Berchtesgaden National Park was created.

Voss died on June 10, 1918 in Berchtesgaden and was buried there. His grave is in the Old Cemetery next to the Franciscan Church .

Works (selection)

  • Savonarola , 1876
  • Magda , 1879
  • The patrician , 1880
  • Mountain asylum. A Berchtesgaden story , 1882
  • San Sebastian. Collection Spemann - German Reference and House Library 48, Stuttgart 1883
  • The tsar's moor. Acting in 5 acts. After a fragment by Pushkin , 1883
  • Roman village stories , 1884
  • The son of the Volsc woman , 1885
  • Dishonest People , 1885
  • Faithful to the Lord. Play in 4 Acts , 1886?
  • Children of the south. Roman stories , 1888
  • The Sabine Woman , 1888
  • Alexandra. Drama in 4 Acts , 1888
  • Eve. Play in five acts , 1888 (1889?)
  • Woe to the vanquished , 1889
  • Dahiel the convert , 1889
  • The monk of Berchtesgaden. Story , 1891
  • Guilty , 1892
  • The blonde Kathrein. A fairy tale game based on Andersen in three parts around 1895. The music belonging to the plot is by Georg Pittrich .
  • Villa Falconieri. The story of a passion , 1896
  • Dramas by Richard Voss. The patrician. Luigia San Felice. The Mohr des Zahren , 1897
  • Under the Borgia. A story from the Roman Middle Ages , 1897;
  • The new god , 1898
  • The Avenger , 1899
  • Southern blood. Roman novellas , 1900
  • All sorts of experiences , 1902
  • The people of Valdars , 1902
  • When gods love. Story from the time of Tiberius , 1907
  • Richard's Young (The Beauty Seeker) , 1908
  • Alpine tragedy. Novel from the Engadine , 1909
  • The lost people , 1909
  • Beauty. Novel , 1910
  • Earth beauty. A travel book , 1911
  • Two humans. Novel in three parts , 1911
  • Kundry. The story of a passion , 1913
  • The girl from Anzio. The novel by a German traveler to Rome , 1913
  • Centaur love . Add. with Die Toteninsel . Two ancient novellas, 1913
  • Amata . Add. with love sacrifice . Two ancient novellas, 1913
  • The Island of Beautiful People and Other Stories , 1914
  • With vine leaves in her hair. Novel , 1915
  • Big world. A Roman moral novel , 1917
  • The house of the Grimani. Roman , 1917
  • A woman from the country. Roman , 1917
  • Redemption , 1918
  • Narcissus magic . A Roman novella. With e. Inlet by JR Haarhaus , 1919
  • From a fantastic life. Memories , 1920
  • You my italy. From my Roman life , (before 1920)
  • From my travel book. Sketches and moods , (before 1920)
  • The Polyp and Other Roman Stories , (before 1920)
  • The Sybille of Tivoli. A story from the Sabiner Mountains , (before 1920)
  • A royal drama. Novel from a German ruling house , (before 1921)

Film adaptations

Awards

Posthumous honors

  • In Schönau am Königssee a street was named after Richard Voss, which branches off from Königsseer Straße , just before the large parking lot at Königssee , to the district of Schwöb .
  • In the Berchtesgaden district of Mitterbach , a cul-de-sac to Vorderbrandtstrasse in Judith-Platter-Weg was named in honor of his fictional character in Zwei Menschen .
  • On Obersalzberg , now also belong to Berchtesgaden, which was Pension Moritz also in honor of his fictional character Judith Platter in Hotel Platterhof renamed.

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Voss  - Sources and full texts
Commons : Richard Voss  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ U. a. see catalog of the German National Library about him, is another spelling of his surname Voss .
  2. ↑ Article. In: BU Hergemöller (ed.): Man for man. Biographical lexicon . Frankfurt / M. 2001
  3. ↑ a b Wolfgang Lindner: Encounter in Reichenhall - Richard Voss and Mauritia ("Moritz") Mayer (PDF) In: Heimatblätter , supplement from Reichenhaller Tagblatt and Freilassinger Anzeiger , Easter 2009, see pp. 1–4 of 4 pages, 850- bad-reichenhall.de
  4. ↑ Irene Zanol: The reception of Richard Voss' bestseller Zwei Menschen (PDF; 29 pages) Seminar work at the end of the winter semester 2009/2010, Institute for German Studies, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck .
  5. ↑ Set design from the final scene
  6. ^ Richard Voss , short vita, online at berchtesgaden.de
  7. ^ Richard-Voss-Straße , see google.com/maps
  8. ^ Judith-Platter-Weg , see google.com/maps
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Voss, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Neugrape, Pyritz district , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1918
Place of death Berchtesgaden