Werner Hundertmark

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Werner Hundertmark (born July 24, 1909 in Tsingtau ; † February 7, 1945 in Prüm ) was a German bookseller and poet.

With his skeptical attitude towards National Socialism , he was a representative of the lost generation . His strong connection to Greek antiquity and the world of thought of Stefan George manifested itself in a narrow oeuvre of often bitter sonnets .

Life

Werner Hundertmark was born in the German lease area Kiautschou ( China ), where his father Carl Hundertmark ran the Hotel Prinz Heinrich . After the First World War, the family moved to Hamburg .

Little is known about Hundertmark's training. In the 1920s he was influenced by membership in a group of the youth movement . One of his first publications was the poem Yousoufs Please , which appeared in 1933 in the great dare - German boys magazine .

In the spring of 1933 he undertook a bicycle tour lasting more than four months, which led via Vienna and Belgrade to Saloniki , Delphi and Crete .

May 1934 he signed as an employee of the long-established bookstore W. Mauke Söhne, Hamburg. In February 1936, he and Hermann Rhein took over the Henschel & Müller bookstore.

He was drafted in the summer of 1940. He had left his wife a few days before the birth of their second son and had to close the bookstore.

Hundertmark was killed in the fighting around the Eifel town of Prüm in February 1945; the details of his death are not known.

In addition to three volumes of poetry, a few printed single sheets have also appeared. His estate is stored in the Hamburg State and University Library.

Works

  • 1935: Hellas forever our love . Hermann Rhein Verlag, Wismar
  • 1939: Nausicaa . Hermann Rhein Verlag, Wismar
  • 1941: Ariadne , trilogy. (unpublished)
  • 1943: Caucasian incidents . (unpublished)
  • 1943: And when the scythe passed through grain and poppy seeds . Hans Dulk Verlag, Hamburg

literature

  • Michael Philipp: A ray from Hellas. Werner Hundertmark, a poet of the "lost generation". In: Barbara Stambolis (ed.): The youth movement and its effects. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bastian Müller (writer)
  2. ^ Papers in the Hamburg State and University Library
personal data
SURNAME Hundred marks, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German bookseller and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Tsingtau
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1945
Place of death Prüm