Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll

Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll (born November 14, 1877 in Berlin ; † February 20, 1951 ) was a German journalist and writer .

Life

Wilhelm Conrad Gomoll was born in Berlin in 1877. He studied German , literature and art history at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin , the University of Zurich and the University of Geneva . During his studies Gomoll made trips abroad to Greece, Denmark and southern Scandinavia and worked as a freelance journalist from 1896 to 1899 in Switzerland, France and Italy. In 1900 Gomoll began a traineeship in the editorial office of the newspaper "Berliner Latest Nachrichten", which later became part of the newspaper " Die Post ". In 1903 he published his first volume of poetry . In 1910 Gomoll became a lecturer in literary and art history in the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus in Berlin.

After the beginning of World War I , Gomoll was appointed war correspondent and placed under the intelligence department of the General Staff of the Field Army. Until the end of the war, Gomoll was in various theaters of war and worked as a war correspondent at the Great Headquarters for u. a. the Schlesische Zeitung , the Kölnische Zeitung , the Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and the Leipziger Neuesten Nachrichten .

After the war Gomoll settled in Kleinmachnow and became editor of the Kreuzzeitung . Gomoll became a member of the Berlin Press Association . In 1929 he became head of the press department of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft .

Even before the National Socialists came to power , Gomoll became a member of the NSDAP .

In 1932 Gomoll took part in an anthology edited by Ludwig Kunz in honor of Wilhelm Lehmann on his 50th birthday.

During the National Socialist era , Gomoll became a member of the advisory board of the Reich Association of German Writers, which was founded in 1933 . He was also head of the press department at the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge .

Literary work

Gomoll appeared mainly as a poet . His work as a writer is mentioned in the poet survey by Franz Brümmer and the literary history of Adolf Bartels . He wrote the Lübeck novel “Hogesünn” and the novellas “Dance of Death”. The composer Hans Koessler set Gomoll's poem Hymne to Beauty to music .

Publications

• World and I , poems, 1903
• Dreams and Rides - The Paradise Garden , Poems, 1906
• Vasumitra, legendary lay sermon , 1908
• Hogesünn , Roman, 1912
• Japanese culture and Chinese poetry , Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger , September 21, 1913
• Dance of Death , short stories, 1913
• In the fight against Russia and Serbia , war records, 1916
• About a dead poet , obituary for Rainer Maria Rilke , Berliner Börsen-Zeitung , January 13, 1927
• Wandering , poems, 1930
• Broadcasting in its infancy . In: Under the spell of the microphone , Berlin 1931
• Sound in the wind , poems, 1935
• The Eternal Guard. The ring of German cenotaphs around the Reich , 1940

literature

• Cuno Horkenbach : The German Empire from 1918 to today . Verlag für Presse, Wirtschaft und Politik, 1932. S. 525.
• Franz Brümmer : Lexicon of German poets and prose writers from the beginning of the 19th century to the present . 6th completely revised and greatly increased edition. 6th volume, 1913. p. 401.
• Adolf Bartels : The German poetry of the present - the youngest , Verlag H. Haessel, 1921. P. 66.
• Kürschner's German Literature Calendar : 1943 . P. 338.
• Hans Dieter Schäfer : Wilhelm Lehmann. Studies on his life and work , 1969. p. 53.
• Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann , Sabine Brenner, Carola Spies, Franz Steinfort: Der Bund Rheinischer Dichter , Verlag F. Schöningh, 2003. p. 259.
• Rolf Parr : Interdiscursive As-Sociation. Studies on literary-cultural groups between Vormärz and Weimar Republic. Tübingen: Niemeyer 2000. p. 353.
• Peter Walther (Ed.): Muses and Graces in the Mark . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2002. p. 141.