Theodor Duimchen

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Theodor Duimchen (born March 28, 1853 in Delitzsch , † September 5, 1908 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

He was born in Delitzsch am Markt 11, the son of a tobacco trader, while his mother came from a silk boiler family. In 1869 Duimchen graduated from secondary school with "sufficient". In accordance with his father's wishes, he learned the trade in order to be able to continue the family business. Duimchen was able to make several long trips to establish business contacts in the tobacco sector, which apparently also took him to the Caribbean, Cuba and the USA. Larger in the sense, he tried after the death of his father in 1879 to get into the rapidly emerging oil business and to ship petrol from the USA to Europe on a large scale; Duimchen went bankrupt and even had to sell his parents' office building in Delitzsch. As a result, his mother later died in the poor house. For this bankruptcy, Duimchen blamed the ruthless business conduct of the Rockefeller Trust . He processed these experiences in the book " The Trusts and the Future of Cultural Humanity " published in 1903 , in which he warned of the coming world domination of the trusts , which would displace the nation states if the states did not act against them in good time.

After Berlin on siedelnd Duimchen began to engage in literary. He has authored several books and contributed to various magazines. This included B. “ Die Gartenlaube ”, where he brought out the novella “ Blauweiß ” in sequels in issues 23, 24 and 25 of 1895 . In: “ Die Zukunft ” No. 15 - 1896, p. 73 ff., He published the short story “ Mittel undwege ” and also there, No. 16 - 1896, p. 463, “ Die Kunst”: Novelle and sketches .

In his works Duimchen dealt with social problems, portrayed conflicts between the contemporary versus the traditional merchant spirit, or he pointed out the prevailing class differences that burdened love relationships.

Due to economic problems with publishers, such as pirated prints and a failed marriage after the death of a child, i.e. unhappy financial and family circumstances, Theodor Duimchen shot himself on September 5, 1908 in his apartment at Eichhornstrasse 10 in Berlin.

Works

  • Cafeteria culture (Hamburg 1888)
  • Jantze Verbrugge (Stuttgart 1888)
  • Head and Heart (Dresden 1889, 1905)
  • From an old home (Leipzig 1895)
  • Freedom for Cuba (also: "Cuba insurrecta") (Berlin 1898)
  • The emergency under criminal law (with: Dr. Erich Sello , Berlin 1901)
  • Between Belt and Sound (1901)
  • Modern Moral Pictures, Nine Novellas (Berlin 1902)
  • The Trusts and the Future of Human Culture (Berlin 1903)
  • Bruch, Roman (Berlin 1904)
  • The Pearl of the Antilles (Berlin 1905, 1915)
  • La insurrecta, Roman (Berlin 1905, 1906)
  • Complete Works (1905)
  • Monarchs and mammonarchs (Berlin 1908)

literature

  • Manuel Niemann: 1908: Writer Theodor Duimchen takes his own life, in: Leipziger Volkszeitung, Local Delitzsch-Eilenburg-Bad Düben, June 26, 2017, p. 28.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Egbert Klautke: Unlimited Possibilities: "Americanization" ... 2003, p. 51 , accessed on June 26, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Theodor Duimchen - From this person four publications. German Literature Archive Marbach, accessed on June 26, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Duimchen, Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Delitzsch
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1908
Place of death Berlin