Victor Auburtin

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Portrait of Auburtin by Emil Orlik , Madrid 1925

Victor Auburtin (born September 5, 1870 in Berlin , † June 28, 1928 in Partenkirchen ) was a German journalist and writer .

Victor Auburtin, relief of the grave slab

Life

Auburtin came from a family of French immigrants to Prussia and was a grandson of Friedrich Wilhelm III's personal chef . , Charles Louis Benoit Auburtin (1808-1885). His father was the court actor Charles Boguslav Auburtin, later editor of the Berliner Börsenzeitung (1837-1915), his mother the court actress Charlotte Marie Eglseer. Initially a student at the French grammar school in Berlin , Auburtin later studied, interrupted by an excursion into acting, German, art and literary history in Berlin, Bonn and Tübingen and completed with a dissertation. He then worked for the Berliner Börsenzeitung , the magazines Jugend and Simplicissimus .

From 1911 to 1914 he was a foreign correspondent in Paris for the Berliner Tageblatt . In 1914, after the outbreak of World War I, he was imprisoned as an enemy foreigner in Besançon and was a prisoner in Morsiglia in Corsica for three years ; only after a serious illness was he released and deported to Germany via Switzerland. His life in the internment camp was reflected in the volume What I Experienced in France . From 1917 he worked as a travel writer and freelance correspondent in Madrid and most recently in Rome in 1928. He was also hit hard by the onset of mental illness in his wife Hedwig, née. Gudlowski in later years.

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Auburtin's journalistic and literary works move between the literature of the turn of the century and classical modernism as well as between the France of his ancestors and his homeland Germany and Prussia. His texts are characterized by an anecdotal lightness, dandyism and an elitist, generally conservative stance, which, however, often deviates strongly from political conservatism.

So Auburtin admired the French socialist Jean Jaurès immensely as a person, but rejected his political positions. Often he could not do much with new art movements, but he did not fight them like other conservatives, but rather faced them with a certain distanced, not necessarily unfriendly, skeptical interest. He preferred indulgence to any ideology , a tendency that clearly emerges in his writings, both in content and style.

Works

  • The ring of truth. A fairy tale game in three acts , Munich, Albert Langen, 1907
  • The end. A play in three acts and a final scene , Munich, Albert Langen, 1910
  • The golden chain and other things. Thirteen novellas , Munich, Albert Langen, 1910
  • The onyx bowl , Munich, Albert Langen, 1911
  • Art dies. An essay , Munich, Albert Langen 1911
  • What I experienced in France , Berlin, Mosse 1918; French translation: Carnet d 'un boche en France 1914-1917 , 1918
  • Peacock feathers , Munich, Albert Langen 1921
  • A glass with goldfish , Munich, Albert Langen, 1922; Spanish translation by Ramón de Luzmela: Un vaso con peces de oro , 1925
  • After Delphi , Munich, Albert Langen, 1924
  • One blows the shepherd's flute , Munich, Albert Langen, 1928
  • Crystals and pebbles. Collected while traveling , Munich, Albert Langen 1930
  • Shawm. From the estate , published by Wilmont Haacke, Hamburg 1948
  • The soup chicken . Unpublished drama

In Arsenal Verlag Berlin a Werkausgabe in single volumes, is collected short prose , edited by Peter Moses Krause appeared.

Auburtin also worked as a translator:

  • Victor Margueritte , Le couple , German The way of women
  • Pierre Benoit , Kœnigsmark , German Königsmark
  • Pierre Benoit, La Chatelaine du Liban , German The mistress of Lebanon .

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Victor Auburtin  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://members.gaponline.de/alois.schwarzmueller/01_literarisch_historische_fundstuecke/victor_auburtin_partenkirchen.htm
  2. ^ Dovifat, Emil, "Auburtin, Viktor" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), p. 427 f.
  3. ↑ The grave relief of Victor Auburtin (based on the portrait sketch by Orlik) came to the French grammar school thanks to the initiative of Heinz Knobloch after the grave site in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was closed (1978).
  4. ↑ The biographical information largely follows Wilmont Haacke's preface to Victor Auburtin, Schalmei. From the estate , Hamburg 1948
personal data
SURNAME Auburtin, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1928
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen