Wilhelm Schmidtbonn

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Wilhelm Schmidtbonn

Wilhelm Schmidtbonn (born February 6, 1876 in Bonn as Wilhelm Schmidt ; † July 3, 1952 in Bad Godesberg- Rüngsdorf) was a German writer .

Life

Wilhelm Schmidtbonn was the son of a fur merchant. He attended high school and the conservatory in Cologne without graduating. After an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Giessen , he studied philosophy and literature at the universities in Bonn , Berlin , Göttingen and Zurich .

From 1906 to 1908 he was dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf , where he published the magazine “Masken”. His close friendship with August Macke also fell during this time. Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke's memories paint a colorful picture of this friendship. During the First World War he was a war correspondent . During this time he also wrote a nationalist anti- British play in 1914 in which he described England as "envious" and "primordial enemy". Schmidtbonn, who traveled extensively in Germany , Austria and Switzerland , lived as a freelance writer temporarily in Bavaria , Tyrol and Ticino . He lived in Ascona there from 1928 to 1939 and maintained contact with Marianne von Werefkin and Richard Seewald . Towards the end of his life he returned to his home in the Rhineland. He was a member of the German Academy of Poetry , a subdivision of the Prussian Academy of Arts . After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he signed a declaration of loyalty to the German Academy of Poetry on March 18, 1933 . He was made an honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn in 1936, received the Rheinische Literaturpreis for 1941 and in 1943 the Beethoven Medal of the city of Bonn.

Schmidtbonn belonged to the Bund Rhenish Poets , which was founded by Josef Winckler , Wilhelm Vershofen , Jakob Kneip and Richard Dehmel and met for the first time in 1926. While he initially emerged as a playwright with naturalistic , then neo-romantic pieces before the First World War , his later work consists mainly of narrative works. The main motifs are always the Rhenish landscape around Bonn and its residents. The Rhineland is seen as a central European landscape. In his last, historical, novel, the Albertuslegende (1948), the biography of Albertus Magnus , Schmidtbonn searched for the roots of the Christian-social image of man that Pius XI. in his encyclical "Quadragesimo anno" from 1931 had already sworn. Politics should achieve happiness and justice for the people through its Christian orientation. Of Schmidtbonn's numerous works, only The triangular market square , in which he erected a monument to his hometown Bonn, is known today.

His (honor) grave is in the old cemetery in Bonn. Part of the estate is in the Bonn City Museum, where furniture and paintings from the estate of the Schmidtbonn couple can also be found in the permanent exhibition. The extensive written estate is in the Bonn city archive. In 1959, Schmidtbonnstrasse in Bonn was named after him.

  • Schmidtbonn's grave in the old cemetery in Bonn

  • Birthplace of the writer on Bonn's market square

Works

  • Mother Landstrasse , Bonn 1901
  • Sunday children , Berlin 1903
  • Uferfolk , Berlin 1903
  • The golden door , Berlin 1904
  • Ravens , Berlin 1904
  • The Savior , Berlin 1906
  • The Count von Gleichen , Berlin 1908
  • The wrath of Achilles , Berlin 1909
  • Help! A child fell from the sky , Berlin 1910
  • Stories from the Lower Rhine , Vienna [a. a.] 1911
  • Hymn of Life , Berlin 1911
  • Eros at play , Berlin 1911
  • The lucky ship , Stuttgart 1912
  • The prodigal son , Berlin 1912
  • The King of Munster 1913
  • The wonder tree , Berlin 1913
  • People and cities in war , Berlin 1915
  • The city of the possessed , Berlin 1915
  • War in Serbia , Berlin 1916
  • Land of plenty , Berlin 1916
  • If they won! , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1916
  • The Little Book of War , Konstanz a. B. 1917
  • The escape to the helpless: the story of three dogs , Leipzig [u. a.] 1919
  • The beaten , Munich 1919
  • The actors , Munich 1920
  • Behind the seven mountains , Leipzig 1920
  • The trip to Orplid , Berlin 1922
  • Garden of the Earth , Leipzig [a. a.] 1922
  • The pastor of Mainz , Berlin 1922
  • The Enchanted House , Cologne 1923
  • The Enchanted , Vienna 1924
  • Four novellas , Cologne 1924
  • Maruf, the great liar , Stuttgart 1925
  • The intrepid island , Munich 1925
  • The stories of the untouched women , Stuttgart 1926
  • Rhenish people , Berlin [a. a.] 1926
  • The Wilhelm Schmidtbonn Book , Trier 1926
  • My friend Dei , Stuttgart 1927
  • The seventy stories of the parrot , Stuttgart 1927
  • The doppelganger , Berlin 1928
  • Rhenish stories , Leipzig 1929
  • The little wonder tree , Leipzig 1930
  • A summer book , Berlin 1930
  • Wilhelm Schmidtbonn , Munich-Gladbach 1930
  • Murderer , Berlin 1932
  • The honest Mrs. Schlampampe , Berlin 1932
  • Dietrich von Bern , Berlin 1933
  • Youth on the Rhine , Chemnitz 1934
  • Born on a stream , Frankfurt a. M. 1935
  • The triangular market square , Berlin 1935
  • Age of love , Bremen 1935
  • A man declares war on a fly , Vienna [u. a.] 1935
  • Hü Lü , Potsdam 1937
  • Anna Brand , Berlin 1939
  • Heimat , Ratingen 1942
  • The brave brownies , Cologne 1943
  • Albertus legend . Verlag Josef Knecht, Freiburg im Breisgau 2008, ISBN 978-3-7820-0909-6 (first edition: Cologne 1948). Publishing info
  • Wilhelm Schmidtbonn and Gustav Wunderwald , Bonn 1980

Translations

literature

  • Choir around Schmidtbonn. On Wilhelm Schmidtbonn's 50th birthday. , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt , Stuttgart 1926. Foreword and Ed. Herbert Saekel
  • Fine Mühlenbruch: Studies on the art of design in Wilhelm Schmidtbonn's life's work due to his artistic development. Bonn 1951
  • Elisabeth Erdmann-Macke: "Memories of August Macke", Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1962
  • Trudis E. Reber: Wilhelm Schmidtbonn and the German theater. Lechte, Emsdetten 1969
  • Wilhelm Schmidtbonn and August Macke . The fascination of the theater. Ed. Margarethe Jochimsen, Paul Metzger. Series of publications by the August-Macke-Haus , Bonn, 12th 1994. ISBN 3-929607-11-5
  • Pia Heckes: "About the need to renew the world socially ...". In: Bonner Geschichtsblätter 55/56 (2006), pp. 233-256

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , exact quotation p. 532.
  2. ↑ Irmgard Wolf, Document of a Friendship. Artist relationship. Suitable for the Werefkin exhibition in the Macke-Haus: A photo of the poet and painter was discovered in Wilhelm Schmidtbonn's estate, General-Anzeiger Bonn February 26, 2000
  3. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 532.
  4. ^ Schmidtbonnstraße in the Bonn street cadastre
  5. ^ Wilhelm Schmidt-Bonn: The King of Munster . In: March, a weekly journal . 7th year, no. 39 . März-Verlag, Munich September 27, 1913, p. 456-458 .
  6. ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/flucht-zu-den-hilflosen-die-geschichte-dreier-hunde/oclc/13764870&referer=brief_results
personal data
SURNAME Schmidtbonn, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1952
Place of death bad Godesberg