Werner Bock

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Werner Bock (born October 14, 1893 in Gießen ; died February 3, 1962 in Zurich ) was a German poet, storyteller and literary historian.

Life

Werner Bock was born as the son of the writer Alfred Bock and his wife Julie, b. Kehr, born in Giessen. He attended the Grand Ducal High School in Karlsruhe and studied German, art history and philosophy in Giessen and Munich. He completed his studies in 1919 with a dissertation on the aesthetic views of Wieland .

Werner Bock took part in the First World War as a soldier at the front. In 1919 he married Frieda Mensch. Like his father, he converted from Judaism to Protestantism in the 1920s.

He lived as a freelance writer and published poems, stories, essays. In 1934 Werner Bock was banned from publishing. In 1939 he emigrated to Argentina via France, where he received citizenship in 1942. From 1940 Werner Bock worked for various German-language publications in Buenos Aires ( Argentinisches Tageblatt and the exile magazine Deutsche Blätter ). From 1943, Bock also wrote in Spanish. His poems, essays, travelogues, reviews and other texts have been published in La Nación and Sur , Libros de Hoy , Universitas , among others . At the same time, from 1950 onwards, Bock published in numerous German magazines and newspapers, including Merkur , Akzente , and Neue Deutsche Hefte .

Bock was professor for German literature and philosophy in Montevideo from 1946 to 1949 .

Bock made a contribution to the presence of German literature and culture in South America through initiatives and activities. In his poems he dealt with the loss of his (German) home and the gain of a new home.

From 1950 Bock traveled to Europe six times. In 1958 he moved entirely to Losone / Ticino.

Works

  • The eternal you. Poems. Weimar 1931.
  • Morir es nacer. Stories. Buenos Aires 1947.
  • Blossom on the precipice. Selection of prose from my creative years 1919–1950. 1951.
  • Consolation. Selection of poems from the years 1909–1950. Buenos Aires 1951.
  • Poesias selectas. Selected poems. Buenos Aires 1955.
  • Idea y amor. De Goethe a Hesse. Buenos Aires 1952.
  • When I'm dust Poems from the years 1952–1956. Wiesbaden 1956.

Awards and memberships (selection)

  • 1947 First prize of the Club del Libro del Mar for the stories Morir es nacer
  • 1952 Faja de honor (armband) of the Argentine Writers' Union (SADE)
  • 1958 Grand Cross of Merit of the FRG
  • 1958 Goethe plaque from the city of Frankfurt am Main
  • 1943 Member of the Sociedad Argentina de Escritores (SADE)
  • 1953 member of the German PEN center in the FRG

literature

  • Franz Lennartz: German poets and writers of our time. Stuttgart 1963, pp. 78-80.
  • Killy literary dictionary. Volume 2, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020375-2 , p. 7.
  • Bock, Werner. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 3: Birk – Braun. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-598-22683-7 , pp. 239-245.
  • Between warmongering and paralysis - The Giessen poets Alfred and Werner Bock and Werner Bock: Memories of the First World War 1914-1918 in Ehlers et al, Captured in the war. Giessen 1914-1919 . Jonas Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-89445-494-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christoph König (Ed.), With the assistance of Birgit Wägenbaur u. a .: Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950. Volume 1: A-G. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2003, ISBN 3-11-015485-4 , p. 210ff.
  2. ^ Franz Lennartz: German poets and writers of our time. Stuttgart 1963, p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet, storyteller and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH to water
DATE OF DEATH 3rd February 1962
Place of death Zurich