Viktor Meyer-Eckhardt

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Viktor Meyer-Eckhardt (born September 22, 1889 as Viktor Meyer in Hüsten ( Westphalia ), † September 2, 1952 in Breyell ( Lower Rhine )) was a German writer .

Life

Viktor Meyer (in his publications he added the maiden name of his mother “Eckhardt” to the family name “Meyer”) was the son of an artist . He attended elementary school in Olsberg and Daseburg . After the father's death in 1900 the family moved to Düsseldorf , where Meyer-Eckhardt attended grammar school from 1902 . In 1909 he passed the matriculation examination; He then studied German , Romance languages and philosophy at the universities in Bonn , Munich , Berlin and Leipzig . 1913 doctorate he in Leipzig with a thesis on the poetry of August von Platen for Doctor of Philosophy . Meyer-Eckhardt took part in the First World War as a non-commissioned officer ; At times he worked as an interpreter .

From 1919 to 1923 Meyer-Eckhardt worked as a librarian in Düsseldorf. He undertook extensive journeys, partly as hikes, to Italy , Greece and the Middle East . From 1923 he lived as a freelance writer in Leutherheide / Kempen-Krefeld district .

Viktor Meyer-Eckhardt's work consists of novels , stories , travelogues and poems . His poetry is shaped by the author's opposition to literary modernism , especially to Expressionism , to which Meyer-Eckhardt opposed a formally strict poetry, which was initially influenced by models such as Goethe and Hölderlin , and later mainly by ancient Greek authors. Meyer-Eckhardt's narrative works mostly deal with historical topics, such as B. the life of the medieval emperor Frederick II in The Lord of the End . His novella Das Vergehen des Paul Wendelin (1922), which critically examined the role of officers in World War I, was one of the books burned by the Nazis in 1933 .

Works

  • Platens Gaselen , Leipzig 1914 (under the name Victor Meyer)
  • The artist , Jena 1921
  • The offense of Paul Wendelin , Braunschweig 1922
  • Dionysus , Jena 1924
  • Mr.Berthélemy's furniture , Jena 1924
  • The gem , Jena 1926
  • The Life of Mary , Jena 1927
  • Adana's lucky dog , Berlin 1935
  • Praise of the hand , Düsseldorf 1935
  • Poems , Langensalza [u. a.] 1936
  • Star above the chaos , Leipzig 1936
  • Merlin and the Devil , Munich 1937
  • To Zeus , Berlin 1939
  • People in fire , Berlin 1939
  • Orpheus , Berlin 1939
  • Count Mirabeau , Berlin 1940
  • The Famagusta revelers , Berlin 1940
  • The three weddings and other short stories , Berlin 1941
  • On the Knowledge of the Pious , Düsseldorf 1946
  • The Lord of the End , Düsseldorf 1948
  • Madame Sodale , Düsseldorf [a. a.] 1950
  • The story of the two belts or the adventures of Johannes Meier von Soest , Düsseldorf [u. a.] 1951
  • Hiking trips , Heidelberg [u. a.] 1964
  • The Duke of Enghien , Ratingen [u. a.] 1973

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  1. ↑ Bettina Hey'l: Victor Meyer-Eckhardt's narrative texts about the French Revolution , in: Osman Durrani, Julian Preece (ed.): Travelers in Time and Space, travelers through time and space. The German-language historical novel , Amsterdam - New York 2001, pp. 91–110, here p. 97 with note 22
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Eckhardt, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Viktor (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Hüsten , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1952
Place of death Breyell , Lower Rhine