Wilhelm Hegeler

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Wilhelm Hegeler

Wilhelm Hegeler (born February 25, 1870 in Varel , Oldenburg , † October 8, 1943 in Irschenhausen ) was a German writer .

Life

Wilhelm Hegeler came from a family of manufacturers . His father died shortly after he was born, and his mother married Matthias Evers (1845–1906), their children's tutor . He was the brother of the Lutheran pastor Georg Gotthilf Evers (1837-1916), who had converted to Catholicism .

The family changed their place of residence several times; Via Oldenburg , Hanover and Elberfeld , it finally reached Düsseldorf , where Wilhelm Hegeler grew up from 1879 to 1889. After visiting the school and the matriculation examination he began 1889 a study of jurisprudence . Hegeler studied at the universities in Munich , Geneva and Berlin . Since he had already interested as a student of literature - especially for French writers such as Zola , Balzac and Maupassant as well as Russian as Gogol , Dostoevsky and Tolstoy - he heard during his studies in addition to legal and lectures in literature , art history and history . From Geneva he made trips to France and stayed for a long time in Paris . During his last semester at Berlin University , Hegeler, who at that time sympathized with the Social Democrats , lived in Friedrichshagen near Berlin , where he maintained contacts with the Friedrichshagener Dichterkreis and worked for Bruno Willes " Free People's Stage ". After completing his studies, Hegeler gave up law and turned to literature .

From 1893 onwards, Wilhelm Hegeler published numerous narrative works that were initially heavily influenced by naturalism , some of which can also be classified as entertainment literature. From 1895 Hegeler lived in Rudolstadt in Thuringia . After the marriage he moved to Munich with his wife , and later back to Berlin . Hegeler's first marriage failed in 1904; then he stayed in Italy for a long time . From 1906 to 1918 he lived in Weimar .

At the beginning of the First World War , Wilhelm Hegeler volunteered for the military. After training as a paramedic , he was a nurse in a hospital in Flanders from February to October 1915 . From November 1915 until the end of the war he worked as a war correspondent for the German headquarters on the Eastern Front . Hegeler delivered numerous reports , including a. for the " Berliner Tageblatt " and " Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten ". At the end of the war he was critically ill with a heart and stomach ailment; during his convalescence he stayed in the Thuringian town of Blankenhain . In his literary work he turned away from his earlier works and practiced a largely non-political inwardness as an author . From 1923 he stayed again more often in Weimar and Berlin , where he a. a. also participated in the filming of his novel "Pietro the Corsair and the Jewess Cheirinca" by Ufa . From 1928 Hegeler lived again in Weimar; In 1929 he made an extensive trip to France , Spain and North Africa . After his second marriage had been divorced shortly after the First World War , he married for the third time in 1932; this marriage also failed after a few months.

Since he refused to pay his respects to the new regime through membership in literary bodies or associations, Hegeler's publication options were severely restricted after the National Socialist seizure of power ; until his death only three books were published by him. From 1939 Hegeler lived in Irschenhausen in the Isar valley . His death was the result of his heart disease and shock from an air raid on a neighboring town.

Works

  • Mother Bertha , Berlin 1893
  • And all about love , Berlin 1894
  • Pygmalion , Berlin 1898
  • Sunny days , Berlin 1898
  • Nelly's Millions , Berlin 1899
  • Engineer Horstmann , Berlin 1900
  • Pastor Klinghammer , Berlin 1903
  • Kleist , Berlin [a. a.] 1904
  • Flames , Berlin 1905
  • Pietro the Corsair and the Jewess Cheirinca , Berlin 1906
  • The annoyance , Berlin 1908
  • The good news , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1910
  • The sky above me and the waves below me , Berlin 1911
  • The king's education , Stuttgart 1911
  • The courage to be happy , Berlin [u. a.] 1911
  • Eros , Berlin 1913
  • Tiefurt , Weimar 1913
  • The passion of Hofrat Horn , Berlin 1914
  • The golden chain , Berlin [u. a.] 1915
  • With our blue jackets and field gray , Berlin 1916
  • The triumphal march through Serbia , Berlin 1916
  • Two friends , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1921
  • The buried person , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1922
  • Otto the blacksmith , Berlin 1923
  • Elisabeth Hoff's apple , Stuttgart 1925
  • The rumor and other stories , Berlin 1926
  • Valentin Key's two wives , Stuttgart 1927
  • Goya and the Bucklige , Leipzig 1928
  • The interest penny , Hamburg 1928
  • The miracle of Belair , Hamburg [u. a.] 1931
  • The inner command. A Yorck novel , Universitas Deutsche Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin 1936; appeared in the same year under the title: The decision. Novel from the fateful year 1812 in Wegweiser-Verlag, Berlin
  • The thunderstorm , Leipzig 1939
  • The box man , Prague [u. a.] 1943

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Works by and about Matthias Evers, Wilhelm Hegeler's stepfather,  in the German Digital Library
personal data
SURNAME Hegeler, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Varel , Oldenburg
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1943
Place of death Irschenhausen