Werner Deubel
Werner Deubel (born July 8, 1894 in Rotenburg an der Fulda , † November 12, 1949 in Heppenheim ), was a German playwright , writer and essayist . Deubel was one of Ludwig Klages' closest friends and is regarded as his pupil.
life and work
After attending school in Kassel , Deubel studied literature , cultural history and philosophy in Munich , Bonn and Frankfurt am Main . He took part in World War I as a volunteer and was seriously wounded as an officer in Macedonia in 1916 . Although he resumed his studies after the end of the war, he switched to the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1921 as a theater critic and editor of the literature and culture supplement . In 1930 he moved to Affolterbach in the Odenwald as a freelance writer .
In 1936 the isolated writer stepped into the limelight of the Lübeck city theater with his work Der Ritt ins Reich . His historical drama was premiered there on February 16 - a work in which around 36 roles were to be cast. The broad-based political and military event revolved around the figure of the Swedish King Charles XII, in whom the struggle of a "hero" with himself and the circumstances was discussed. The undecided king is unlikely to have embodied the National Socialist heroic ideal. The poet attended the realization of his mammoth work.
At the Munich University Deubel had before the war Ludwig Klages met that impressed him deeply. Deubel remained connected to Klages all his life. Deubel published his first and only novel, Gods in the Clouds , in 1927. The rest of his literary work consists mainly of dramas. In his essayistic work, he mainly dealt with the philosophy of Ludwig Klage.
Works
- The siblings of Corsica
- The last fortress
- The ride into the empire
- Hans and Heinrich
- Gods in clouds
- The happiness of Tukulor
Essays
- Werner Deubel: "The religion of the rocket", in: Deutsche Rundschau 55 (October 1928), pp. 63–70.
literature
- Georg Ruppelt : Schiller in National Socialist Germany. The attempt at synchronization. Metzler, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-476-00410-4 . Diss. Braunschweig.
- Günter Hartung : Fascist tragedians in relation to Schiller and Paul Ernst . In: Weimar Contributions . Vienna: Passagen-Verl., ISSN 0043-2199. 30: 1796-1807 (1984)
- Baal Müller : Deubel's struggle for tragedy: the myth and the essence of the tragic in Ludwig Klages and Werner Deubel , in: Hestia, Würzburg, 2002/2003, pp. 117–132
- Nicholas Martin (Ed.): Schiller: National Poet - Poet of Nations. A Birmingham Symposium . Amsterdam Contributions to Modern German Studies, 61. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2006
- Paul Bishop : The "Schiller picture" of Werner Deubel: Schiller as "Poet of the Nation"? Pp. 301-320
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Deubel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Baal Müller: Cultural Revolution: 50 years ago the writer Werner Deubel died , in: Junge Freiheit - weekly newspaper for debate on November 12, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Falter : Ludwig Klages, Philosophy of Life as a Critique of Civilization, page 68
- ↑ Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübecker Theaterwelt. The city theater in the years of the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . P. 230–232.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Deubel, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German playwright, writer and essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1894 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotenburg on the Fulda |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 1949 |
| Place of death | Heppenheim |