Wilhelm Lentrodt (writer)

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Ludwig Heinrich August Wilhelm "Willy" Lentrodt (* 1864 in Oesdorf , Pyrmont district , † April 13, 1914 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German writer of the late German Empire.

Life

Willy Lentrodt was the son of the Princely Councilor Wilhelm Lentrodt (1838–1921), rent master at Hospital Flechtdorf and Waldeck's member of the state parliament, and Emilie Pehlig. His brother Hans Lentrodt (1869–1946) was a dentist in Munich.

In the 1890s Lentrodt worked as the Princely Waldecksch court librarian in Arolsen , then went to Berlin and worked as an art critic for the short-lived daily newspaper Berliner Reform in 1896/97 . In June 1897 he founded the bi-weekly magazine Der Volkserzieher with Wilhelm Schwaner , Moritz von Egidy and others . Journal for family, school and public life . Lentrodt was later an editor and reviewer at S. Fischer Verlag and wrote for the daily newspaper Der Tag aus dem Scherl- Verlag.

As a writer, he mainly wrote novels, poems and essays. His best-known work is the collection of essays The double face of the present , published by S. Fischer Verlag after his death in 1914 . Oskar Loerke described the collection of essays in a review as “a memory and example of an excellent, orderly person”. According to the literary scholar Stefan Pegatzky, Lentrodt can be read as the description of the different paths of artistic Nietzsche succession and as a symptom of the upheaval in intellectual orientations at the turn of the century: as a dualistic image of the turn from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche, from pessimism to life affirmation.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Lentrodt was part of the then famous Berlin bohemian life, which took place in the suburbs of Schlachtensee , Friedrichshagen and in the West Berlin center around the Café des Westens with protagonists such as Peter Hille , Paul Scheerbart , Frank Wedekind and Else Lasker-Schüler and Erich Mühsam collected. Mühsam, with whom he was friends, wrote years later in his apolitical memoirs about Lentrodt:

“Here I also want to commemorate a deceased friend who often visited me in Friedrichshagen and whose name of the poet has wrongly been completely forgotten. It's Wilhelm Lentrodt. His beautiful, quiet short stories were published by S. Fischer many years ago; nobody reads them anymore, nobody speaks of them anymore, hardly anyone knows about them anymore. When I stayed in Berlin overnight [...] Lentrodt usually gave me quarters in his room on Elsholzstrasse. He was one of the best people I knew. Once a girl spoke to us late at night on Potsdamer Strasse; it was frozen through and already too old and ugly to be able to hope for much from their trade. She complained that she had been transferred, lived in Lichtenberg and could no longer go home. Lentrodt invited her over, made another tea, put the poor woman in bed, stowed me on the sofa despite my protest and slept on the floor, wrapped in a blanket. "

Lentrodt was married to Clara von Occolowitz and had a daughter, who later became a harpist Ursula Lentrodt (1908-2005/2006). He died after a long period of lung disease and was first buried in Steglitz and later reburied in his home in Flechtdorf .

Works

  • Hot tracks . Grossenhain: Baumert, 1893
  • Moments of intoxication . Poems. Dresden: Pierson, 1895.
  • From nights . Poems and sayings. Munich: Schupp, 1899.
  • The image of Christ: a treatise . Berlin-Schlachtensee: Schwaner, 1908.
  • The Farmer: A Psychological Study . Leipzig: Eckardt, 1909.
  • The double face of the present . Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1914. With a preface by Franz Evers

literature

  • Wilhelm Schwaner : Willy Lentrodt dead . In: Der Volkserzieher 18 (1914), No. 9.
  • Wilhelm Schwaner: Willy Lentrodt . In: Der Volkserzieher 18 (1914), No. 11 (May 24, 1914), pp. 81–84.
  • Wilhelm Schwaner, Otto Raack: To Willy Lentrodts coffin . In: Der Volkserzieher 18 (1914), No. 11 (May 24, 1914), pp. 84–85.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death register StA Steglitz, No. 181/1914
  2. ↑ Oskar Loerke: “The double face of the present” . In: Die neue Rundschau 26 (1915) Volume 1, pp. 141-143 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Stefan Pegatzky: The porous I: body and aesthetics from Arthur Schopenhauer to Thomas Mann. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, p. 386
  4. ↑ Erich Mühsam: Non-political memories. Berlin: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Lentrodt, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lentrodt, Ludwig Heinrich August Wilhelm (full name); Lentrodt, Willy (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer of the late German Empire
DATE OF BIRTH 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Oesdorf , Pyrmont district
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1914
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz