Werner von der Schulenburg (Author)

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Portrait medallion Werner von der Schulenburg on the monument to Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg in Verona

Gebhard Werner von der Schulenburg , pseud. Gebhard Werner (born December 9, 1881 in Pinneberg , † March 29, 1958 in Magliasina ) was a German playwright, novelist and translator.

Life

Werner von der Schulenburg came from the noble family von der Schulenburg . His father Hugo von der Schulenburg (1848–1930) was a Prussian captain and volunteer in Herford , his mother was Klara Elisabeth born. Richter (1858-1940).

He enjoyed the military training in the cadet corps that was customary in his circles and initially became an officer. He studied law in Strasbourg , then in Munich , Leipzig and Marburg . In 1911 he received his doctorate. jur. He then studied art history and completed this course with a doctorate on Petrarch .

He published historical-biographical novels early on, for example Malatesta (1911, about Sigismondo Malatesta ).

In 1917 he became a military attaché in Bern , where he lectured for Erich Ludendorff and Paul von Hindenburg . In 1919 he moved to Italy and from November 1930 wrote in the fascist yearbook Gerarchia , including about Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP . In March 1933, Edgar hired Julius Jung von der Schulenburg for public relations work in Franz von Papen's office , where he observed the formation and further development of the four-party pact and accompanied von Papen to the negotiations of the Reich Concordat in Rome . Werner von Schulenburg was one of the paid agents of the Reich Main Security Office ( Amt VI ) in Italy at the beginning of the 1940s , with his own office in Rome. From there, he delivered politically or militarily relevant information on people living in Italy (including employees of the Vatican) to the security service of the Reichsführer SS . During the gradual collapse of the Axis powers , he changed his place of residence via Paris to St. Moritz .

Von der Schulenburg had lived in Italy since 1919 and in Italian-speaking Switzerland from 1934 on the La Monda chestnut estate above Auressio in the Onsernone Valley . He conducted research on Italian cultural history and translated several Italian plays, including the play Villafranca (1932), written jointly by Benito Mussolini and Giovacchino Forzano , into German (1940, under the title Cavour ).

In 1936 Schulenburg's comedy Schwarzbrot und Kipfel was one of the most frequently performed German comedies (in Munich, Stuttgart, Jena and Dessau). In 1950 his successful novel The King of Corfu appeared about Matthias Johann Graf von der Schulenburg (1661–1747), the defender of the then Venetian island of Corfu against the Turks.

He moved his private archive to the Basel State Archives . It has been with Isa von Schulenburg's widow since the summer of 1990.

Works

  • Chronicle of the city of Söderborg , historical novel, 1909
  • A winter drive through Provence , seal, 1910
  • Sanssouci , comedy, 1911
  • Malatesta . The Novel of a Renaissance Man , 1911
  • Stechinelli . The novel of a cavalier , 1911 ( digitized version of the 4th edition from 1921 in the Internet Archive )
  • Eulenspiegel . Ein Heidebuch , 1911 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • The Ten Catholic Novellas , 1912
  • Hamburg. A series of novels
    • Part 1: Don Juan in tails , 1912
    • Part 2: Antiques , 1913
    • Part 3: Thomas Dingstäde. Pre-war novel , 1916
  • Judas, an epic poem , 1914
  • German Flame , Ballads, 1915
  • A new portrait of Petrarch . A study of the interaction between literature and fine arts at the beginning of the Renaissance period , 1918 (based on the 1915 post-doctoral thesis)
  • My cadet memories. A contribution to solving a question of time , 1919
  • Dante and Germany. European thinking and the German imperial idea in the 14th and 20th centuries. A contemplation , 1921
  • Dr. Boétius the European , Roman, 1922 ( digitized in the Internet Archive )
  • Diplomatic half-world. From the papers of a late diplomat , Roman, 1922
  • Herostrat , play, 1922
  • Letters from the Roccolo. A Ticino novella , 1924 (new editions a.o. 1944, 1958 and 1962)
  • Don Juan's Last Adventure , novel, 1924
  • Kings. Novellas from the Giant Mountains , 1925 ("Der Rosenstock" collection)
  • The young Jacob Burckhardt . Biography, letters and contemporary documents (1818-1852) , 1926
  • Johann Caspar Goethe . Father of a Genius , biography, Menschen & Menschenwerk series , 1926
  • The King's Jesuits , novel, 1927
  • In front of the port. Novella , 1928 (manuscript)
  • The Marquise's Ring , Comedy, 1930
  • Shadow play of love. A comedy , 1930
  • Venus in the First House , comedy, 1930
  • Onlookers of world history , 1930 (Skald books vol. 29)
  • Glass from Murano , drama, 1932
  • The Marquise's Ring , Comedy 1932
  • OHL orders drama, 1932
  • Land under the Rainbow , novel, 1934
  • Diana in the bath , comedy, 1935
  • The Secretessa. A society piece in 3 acts , around 1935 (typescript)
  • Black bread and croissants , comedy in three acts, 1935
  • Prince Pückler , Comedy, 1936 (revision of "Venus in the First House")
  • Sun over the fog. Roman from Lombardy , 1936 (revised version of the novel Land under the Rainbow )
  • The Detour , Comedy, 1937
  • A woman declares war , comedy, 1937
  • The gray friend. A novel from overseas , 1938
  • The gods laugh , comedy, 1938
  • Light from the West , play, 1938
  • The clocks of our valley , drama, 1938
  • Rose Red Ox , comedy in three acts, 1939
  • The Pearls of Charles the Bold , comedy, 1941
  • Behind the mountains. Story , 1944 (see A Wind Blowing From Africa , 1953)
  • Goldoni , Comedy, 1945
  • Artemis and Ruth. Story , 1947 (subtitle of the 1953 edition: A story from Ticino )
  • Shimmered seas , 1947 (Mosaik-Bücherei Vol. 2)
  • Revolution in Venice , comedy, 1947
  • Book of Hours of Love , essay, 1947
  • The King of Corfu , historical novel, 1950
  • The girl in the skipper's pants. A short story , 1951
  • The Consul's Parrot , Roman, 1952
  • There is a wind from Africa. A tale from the Riviera , 1953 (new title from Behind the Mountains , 1944)
  • The Genius and the Pompadour , Roman, 1954 (on Madame de Pompadour , Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the Chevalier d'Éon )
  • Crème à la Cocotte. A cheerful novel between Pinneberg and Monte Carlo , 1956
  • Tre Fontane. Ticino novel . From the estate, ed. by Isa von der Schulenburg, 1961
  • The persecuted. Poems 1935 ( Margherita G. Sarfatti “Dedicated to all my Jewish friends”), selected from posthumous drafts and revised by Jsa von der Schulenburg in the interests of the author ( PDF, 321 KB )

Translations from Italian

(Selection; more comprehensive overview at wernervonderschulenburg.com)

  • Alessandro Pavolini : The lights of the village , novellas, 1940 (Italian model or original edition unclear)
  • Benito Mussolini , Giovacchino Forzano : Cavour (Villafranca). Play in three acts. Translation and introduction by Werner von der Schulenburg. Hamburg 1940 ( Villafranca , 1932)
  • Giuseppe Fanciulli: Marshal Balbo , 1943 ( L 'eroica vita di Italo Balbo narrata ai giovani , Turin 1940)
  • Carlo Goldoni : The Murrkopf. Comedy in 3 acts. Taking into account the Italian version edited by Goldoni, translated from the French by Werner von der Schulenburg , 1947

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Lexicon. Volume 5 (Obs-Soy). Horw / Luzern: Verlag Schweizer Lexikon Mengis + Ziehr 1993, p. 622
  2. ^ Genealogical manual of the nobility, Volume A XV, page 447, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1979
  3. ↑ Schulenburg's autobiographical notes in: 'Meine Kadettenerinnerungen', 1919
  4. ^ Bernadette Ott: Werner von der Schulenburg. In Walther Killy : Literaturlexikon, Bertelsmann Lexikon-Verlag, Volume X (1991), p. 423
  5. ↑ Beetz File , OSS protocol of October 8, 1945 (PDF file (S 2); accessed on March 30, 2017)
  6. ^ Paul Meier-Kern: An unheeded private archive. Basler Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Altertumskunde, accessed on June 3, 2020 .
  7. ^ Manfred Bosch: Boheme on Lake Constance. Lengwil am Bodensee: Libelle 1997, p. 436
  8. ↑ antiquarian offer , accessed on June 24, 2018
  9. ^ Catalog of the DNB , accessed on June 24, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Schulenburg, Werner von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulenburg, Gebhard Werner von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Pinneberg
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1958
Place of death Magliasina