Theo Malade

Theodor Malade (born July 23, 1869 in Spremberg , † December 19, 1944 in Heimarshausen ) was a German doctor and writer .

Life

Malade was the son of a cloth factory owner. He lost his mother in early childhood. After attending grammar schools in Cottbus and Guben , he first studied law at the University of Greifswald , but then medicine in Greifswald and Berlin . After a doctorate to Dr. med. In 1896 and as an assistant in Berlin, from 1897 he worked as a doctor in Treptow an der Tollense in the province of Pomerania .

During the Second Balkan War , he was sent on a four-month scientific trip to Serbia by the Red Cross in 1913 . At the beginning of the First World War , he initially worked as a doctor on the Western Front and was temporarily captured by the French prisoners of war with the Pomeranian military hospital. After his release from captivity, he was used in Flanders and in Russia the following year. In 1915 he was a member of the German troops supporting an Ottoman attack on the Suez Canal . He was then stationed in Smyrna under Otto Liman von Sanders and was most recently sent to the Mesopotamia front. He had to spend five months in Aleppo because of a severe fever .

In 1917 he moved to Bad Kösen in the province of Saxony , where he took over the management of a reserve hospital and settled after the end of the war. He married a daughter of General von Röhl , who came from Pomerania .

As a writer, he has published several short stories, poems, novels and plays. These include those related to Pomerania ; in the anthology "Pomeranian Literature - Samples and Data" (1969) he is represented with a poem and the beginning of a story. In his first collection of short stories, Stories from the Plaice (1901), he processed the observations from his time in Pomerania. With his first novel Assistant Preacher , he addressed the dangers of syphilis . His play Lebenskünstler (1904) about the life of a doctor was successfully performed on numerous stages in Germany. At the same time it brought him an accusation of insult, since a doctor who also practiced in Treptow ad T. believed he recognized himself in the ruthless and vicious life artist , the protagonist's opponent. However, the court acquitted Malade.

In 1912 he published the novel Mr. Bredenfelds Erbe , in which he described life in the countryside in Pomerania between 1870 and 1897. The work was originally intended to be a cultural image of all the estates of that time , but was then limited to agriculture for sales reasons. The later published story of Lütten Snieder , which ends with the "heroic death" of Lütten Snieder in the fight against the Herero , comes from the original version of the novel.

During World War II he wrote the field letters of a doctor , in the gazebo were published. He processed his war experiences in the novel The Wanderer on a Rope and in the theater cycle Märtyrer .

At Geba in the Thuringian Rhön a “Dr. Malade circular route” reminds of him.

Works (selection)

• Tales of the clod. Sattler, Braunschweig 1901.
• Assistant preacher. Hermann Walther, Berlin 1902.
• Life artist. Play in five acts, 1904.
• Mr. Bredenfeld's legacy. 1912.
• The story of lütten Schnieder. Fleischel, Berlin 1914.
• From a small university. JF Lehmanns Verlag, Munich Berlin 1938 (to the University of Greifswald).
• Spirits of the deep. 1941.

literature

• Fritz Raeck: Pomeranian literature. Samples and dates. Pommerscher Zentralverband, Hamburg 1969, p. 344.
• Otto Walter-Stettin : Theo Malade, a Pomeranian homeland poet. In: Our Pommerland . 6th year 1921, issue 9, pp. 285–289.

Web links

• Literature by and about Theo Malade in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature about Theo Malade in the state bibliography MV

Footnotes

1. ↑ Dr.-Malade-Rundweg at EG Rhönblick currently.