Richard Wenz

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Richard Wenz ( pseudonyms : RW Enzio , Richard Wenz-Enzio , born December 12, 1876 in St. Wendel , † April 19, 1953 in Cologne ) was a German educator , journalist and writer .

Life

Richard Wenz attended high schools in Koblenz and Euskirchen ; then he completed the teachers' seminar in Mettmann . From 1901 he worked as a teacher in Cologne , most recently as rector of an elementary school . In addition, he made articles for various daily newspapers and was at times editor of the literature section of the "Rheinische Rundschau" . Wenz's literary work consists of novels , short stories , poems and plays ; he also edited literary anthologies .

In 1900 he married Julie Dresbach in Eckenhagen . Wenz died of cancer in 1953 at the age of 76 in his apartment in Cologne-Rath .

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In literary history, Wenz was hardly considered by research, only through the publication of the multi-volume series Meister-Erzählungen newer storytellers , in which he brought together authors such as Paul Ernst , Clara Viebig , Wilhelm Schäfer or Stefan Zweig , he was known to a wider audience, with Julius Stinde In 1909 he was able to publish the small volume "The Bottle Brothers".

His novel Sturm und Stille (Wehnert, Leipzig 1942) was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War .

Works (selection)

  • Night and death. Kiel 1903.
  • The widow. Kiel 1903.
  • Luise. Leipzig 1904.
  • The cripple. Novel of a youth. Hillger, Berlin, Leipzig [1906]. Under the name: RW Enzio.
  • Dead track. Cologne 1907 (under the name Richard Wenz-Enzio).
  • Heinrich Mittler. Glogau [et al.] 1909.
  • Child and inheritance. Heilbronn [et al.] 1909.
  • Aunt Regina. Novel. Juncker, Berlin-Charlottenburg 1912.
  • To the clod. Cologne 1912.
  • Shards. A drama in 3 acts. [Cologne] [1913] (together with Emil Kaiser).
  • The penitent. Cologne 1914.
  • The stranger. Village novel. Hillger, Berlin, Leipzig [1914]. With illustrations by A. Lewin. ( Kürschner's treasure trove of books. No. 953).
  • The Kondbachmüller. A story. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig [1915]. ( Hesse's public library. No. 588/89).
  • Land driver blood. Hillger, Berlin, Leipzig [1918]. New cover edition 1929.
  • The mother. Drama in 3 acts. Salm-Verlag, Cologne 1919.
  • Woman world and woman longing. A novel by the artist Erdenwallen. Sternbücher-Verlag, Leipzig-Stötteritz [1920].
  • The Rhenish poetry. An overview. Gonski, Cologne 1922.
  • The secret of the Eulenhof. A farmer's novel. Stern-Bücher-Verlag, Leipzig-Stö [tteritz] [1923]. ( Stern books. [11]).
  • Rhine twilight. Novel. Ernst Oldenburg Verlag, Leipzig [1924].
  • Restlessness in the heart. Novel. Frigga-Verlag, Berlin 1934. ( Frigga-Roman. 16).
  • Pit special org. A picaresque novel. F. Mardicke, Leipzig 1935. ( Zwilling novel series. [9]).
  • Storm and silence. Novel. Rekord-Verlag, Leipzig 1937. 2nd edition, Wehnert, Leipzig 1942.
  • Where the vine blooms! Novel. Hans Müller, Hamburg 1937. ( Novels of the heart. ).
  • The clairvoyant. Novel. Gutsch, Karlsruhe 1938.
  • Children of the country road. Novel. Uhlmann, Berlin [1938].
  • The cross at Brachkamp. Novel. Hoch, Düsseldorf [1939].
  • The will-o'-the-wisp on the Eifelmaar. Novel. Pick, Cologne [1941].

Editing

  • Master novellas of recent narrators. Hesse & Becker, Leipzig. Multi-volume, 1926 ff.
  • Notebook of beautiful literature. With numerous samples. Hesse and Becker, Leipzig 1913.
  • Poet in the German schoolhouse. Considerations of their work and samples from their works. Moeser, Leipzig 1915.
    • Contemporary poet in the German schoolhouse. Langensalza 1905.
  • A thousand years of Rhenish poetry. Max Koch, Leipzig 1925. ( The Rhenish people's spiritual home. ).
  • The happy Rhine. Hoch, Düsseldorf [1939].

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 396 from April 20, 1953, registry office Cologne Deutz. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-w.html
personal data
SURNAME Wenz, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Enzio, RW (pseudonym); Wenz-Enzio, Richard (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Wendel
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1953
Place of death Cologne