Siegfried von Vegesack

Siegfried von Vegesack (* March 8th ^July / March 20,  1888 ^greg. At Gut Blumbergshof near Wolmar , Livonia ; † January 26, 1974 at Castle Weißenstein , Regen ) was a German writer and translator .

The Eating House

Life

Siegfried von Vegesack grew up in the Baltic States as the ninth child of the judge Otto Gotthard von Vegesack and his wife Janet Constance Clementine von Campenhausen . From 1901 to 1907 he attended the city high school in Riga . As a member of Corporation Livonia , he studied history in Dorpat from 1907 to 1912 , and in Heidelberg , Berlin and Munich from 1912 to 1914 , and worked as a journalist . Later he worked as a writer and translator. He made a name for himself as a poet with The Baltic Tragedy .

In Munich he met Clara Nordström , whom he married in Stockholm in 1915 . In 1916 he got a job in the press office of the Foreign Office in Berlin, but moved to Bavaria with his family in 1917 for health reasons . In 1918 the Vegesack family found a new home in an abandoned farm building in the Weißenstein castle ruins . He later named this tower "Eating House" because of the financial means necessary for the renovation and also published a book with the same name. In 1929 the family leased the residential tower and moved to Ticino .

In 1933, Vegesack was taken into protective custody for removing a swastika flag from the castle ruins. Vegesack then emigrated to Sweden , spent the years 1936 to 1938 in South America , but also traveled to Yugoslavia and the Baltic States and then returned to Germany. In 1935 the marriage with Clara Nordström was divorced, whereupon he married Gabriele Ebermayer (1903-1972) in 1940, with whom he had a son (Christoph). In the war years from 1941 to 1944, he worked as an interpreter for the Wehrmacht in the war against the Soviet Union .

Death board over the grave

Since 1956 he was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

At his own request, Siegfried von Vegesack was buried with his dogs in a wooded area near the "Eating House". His grave and death board can still be found here today .

estate

Siegfried von Vegesack's estate is in the Bavarian State Library .

Awards and honors

• 1961 Literature Prize from the Foundation for the Promotion of Literature
• 1963 Andreas Gryphius Prize from the Esslingen Artists' Guild
• 1973 Honorary gift from the Foundation for the Promotion of Literature
• 1999 was Regener Siegfried von Vegesack-Realschule named after the writer.

Works

Novels, short stories, travel descriptions, autobiographical (selection)

• The little world seen from the tower. Verses. Alfred Richard Meyer Verlag, Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1925, OCLC 721124114 .
• Love non-stop. Novel. 1929.
• The eating house. Novel. 1932.
• Blumbergshof. Story of a childhood. 1933 (Part 1 of the Baltic Tragedy ).
• Gentlemen without an army. Novel. 1934 (Part 2 of the Baltic Tragedy ).
• Dance of Death in Livonia. Novel. 1935 (Part 3 of the Baltic Tragedy ).
• The Baltic tragedy. Novel trilogy. 1935.
• Sea fire. A summer on Rönnö. Novel. 1936.
• Spitz poodle badger. Animal stories from the Bavarian Forest. 1936.
• Under strange stars. A trip to South America. 1938.
• The scribble book. Stories and poems. 1939.
• Riots in the Quebrada. A story from Argentina. 1940.
• A dark story. A story from Paraguay. 1941.
• The stolen soul. A story from Chile. 1942.
• The village on the stake. A story from the Bavarian Forest. 1942.
• The stream of life. Poems. 1943.
• Soldiers behind the plow. An experience report from the east. 1944.
• The little medicine cabinet. Stories and poems. 1944.
• The eternal judgment. A seal. 1947.
• The pastor in the jungle. A story from Brazil. 1947.
• The Last Judgment of Pisa. A legend of the power of evil, the weakness and guilt of man and the merciful love of the Lord. 1947.
• Between dust and stars. Stories from South America. 1947.
• Mr. Bo drives around the world. A children's book. 1948.
• In the land of the pygmies. 1953.
• The last act. 1957 (continuation of the Baltic tragedy ).
• The pastor's rabbit. Old Livonian idylls. 1957.
• Ancestors and descendants. Notes from an Old Livonian letter drawer 1689–1887. Salzer, Heilbronn 1960, DNB 455211965 .
• South American mosaic. Travel notes from Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile and Peru. A. Langen / Müller, Munich 1962, DNB 455211760 (photos by Helmut Schilling and by the author); German Book Association, Berlin / Darmstadt / Vienna 1964, DNB 455211779 .
• My confession. Salzer, Heilbronn 1963, DNB 455211612 (an annual report for the years 1933–1945).
• As an interpreter in the east. An experience report from the years 1942–1943. v. Hirschheydt, Hannover-Döhren 1965, DNB 455211582 .
• Jaschka and Janne. Stories. 1965 (contains: The wedding on Zarnikau. Jaschka and Janne. The child in the retirement home. ).
• The forest prophet. Stories from the Bavarian Forest. 1967.
• The passage. Novel. Langen / Müller, Munich / Vienna 1967, DNB 458502782 .

Translations

• Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol : The nose and other stories. 1921.
• Aurora von Königsmarck : A Chronicle of Count Birger Mörner. 1922 (together with Clara Nordström).
• Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow : The man in the sentry house . 1922.
• Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev : Three stories. 1925.
• Fedor Bogdanovitsch Isjagin: The gentleman without pants. Stories from ancient Russia. 1926.
• Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev: First love. 1927.
• Vladimir Nabokov : King, Queen, Jack. A game with fate. 1928.
• Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskov: The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk . 1942.
• Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol: The Njewskij Prospect. 1948.
• Nikolaj Narokov: When the salt goes flat . 1956.

literature

• Festschrift for the 80th birthday of our author Siegfried von Vegesack. Langen Müller, Heilbronn 1968, OCLC 6162104 .
• Franz Baumer: Siegfried von Vegesack. Home in boundless. A biography. Salzer, Heilbronn 1974, ISBN 3-9736-0191-9 (bibliography p. Von Vegesacks p. 158–161).
• Marianne Hagengruber, Friends of Weißensteiner Burgkasten "Save the Eating House" (Ed.): As a guest in the tower. Siegfried von Vegesack on his 100th birthday. Morsak, Grafenau 1988, ISBN 3-87553-306-2 .
• Michael Garleff : Lost World and Spiritual Legacy. Interpretation of history by German Baltic writers. Siegfried von Vegesack and Gertrud von den Brincken . In: Carola L. Gottzmann (Ed.): Unrecognized and (un) known. German literature in Central and Eastern Europe . Francke, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-7720-1905-6 , pp. 299-322.
• Armin von Ungern-Sternberg : Arrival in the Federal Republic. Archeology and deconstruction of cultural heritage: Siegfried von Vegesack. In: Gert von Pistohlkors , Matthias Weber (Hrsg.): State unity and national diversity in the Baltic States. Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Michael Garleff on his 65th birthday (= writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe . Vol. 26). Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57819-7 , pp. 115-151.
• Klaus Wenzel: Siegfried von Vegesack's novel trilogy The Baltic Tragedy. A literary study. Create Space Independent Publishing (Amazon) 2013, ISBN 978-1-5117-4967-1 .
• Alfred Kubin and Siegfried von Vegesack. Correspondence (= Weißenstein miniatures. Volume 1). Edited by Rolf Rieß. Edition Lichtung, Viechtach 2017, ISBN 978-3-941306-72-1 (collection of letters, 1922–1957).
• Rolf Füllmann: A transcultural love story in post-colonial Estonia between the Tsarist Empire and Stalinism: the Estonian-German relationship between “Jaschka and Janne” (Siegfried von Vegesack). In: German as a Foreign Language. Teaching and Learning German in an Intercultural Context. Vol. 3 (2018), ISSN  1470-9570 , pp. 132-145 ( PDF; 272 kB ).
• 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. 1358-1369 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Siegfried von Vegesack in the catalog of the German National Library
• Siegfried von Vegesack in the Bavarian literature portal (project of the Bavarian State Library )
• Vegesack, Siegfried von . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)
• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Siegfried von Vegesack. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Notes and bibliography on Siegfried von Vegesack. In: lesekost.de. July 27, 2005
• Franz Baumer: A strange bird with a sharp mind and poetry. The poet Siegfried von Vegesack died thirty years ago. In: kmz.de. Features from January 26, 2004
• Anton S. Reyntjes: Notes on and texts by Siegfried von Vegesack. In: reyntjes.de. [1999]
• Horst Sauer: Siegfried von Vegesack on his 100th birthday ( memento from July 10, 2003 in the Internet Archive ). In: bayerischer-wald-verein.de, accessed on October 26, 2016
• Markus Gail: Famous (and Notorious) Corporates. List of writers. In: frankfurter-verbindungen.de. December 31, 2007

Footnotes

1. ^ Entry by Siegfried von Vegesack. In: Astaf von Transehe-Roseneck : Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods. Part 1: Livonia. Publishing house for family research and heraldry. C. A. Starke, Görlitz 1929, DNB 366091522 , p. 207.
2. ↑ Carola L. Gottzmann: Siegfried von Vegesack. The Baltic tragedy in Aurel von Heidenkamp . In: Carola L. Gottzmann, Petra Hörner (Ed.): Studies on research problems in German literature in Central and Eastern Europe . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-631-33542-3 , pp. 187-204.
3. ↑ Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, holdings Ana 397: Repertory of the estate of Siegfried von Vegesack , accessed on August 24, 2020.
4. ↑ school logo Realschule rain. In: realschule-regen.de, accessed on October 26, 2016 (also on the Vita and the award).
5. ↑ Review in: Oskar Loerke : Der Bücherkarren. Meetings in the Berlin Börsen-Courier, 1920–1928 (= publications by the German Academy for Language and Poetry, Darmstadt . Volume 34. ISSN  0418-8128 ). Among employees by Reinhard Tgahrt. Edited by Hermann Kasack . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 1965, DNB 453159052 , p. 298 f. ( Preview and continuation in Google Book Search).