Wilhelm Schussen

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Grave in the Tübingen city cemetery

Wilhelm Schussen , actually Wilhelm Frick , (born August 11, 1874 in Kleinwinnaden , † April 5, 1956 in Tübingen ) was a German writer .

Life

Wilhelm Schussen's parents ran a small guest house and farm in his place of birth. Instead of taking over these small businesses, Schussen went to the teachers' seminar in Saulgau and Ochsenhausen and became a secondary school teacher. After working as a teacher in Cannstatt near Stuttgart and Schwäbisch Gmünd , he was retired in 1912 due to illness. He then worked as a publishing editor in Munich and finally as a freelance writer.

In 1907 his first book was published, the picaresque novel "Vinzenz Faulhaber". He chose his pseudonym Wilhelm Schussen after the name of the river Schussen , which rises near his birthplace. In quick succession, Schussen published other novels, volumes of essays, autobiographical writings and poems. During his lifetime, with more than 30 publications, he was one of the most productive, most widely read and most popular Swabian writers.

His contemporaries considered him an important humorist and author of high standing, whose works can stand "alongside the best German stories". Hermann Hesse , with whom Schussen was friends, praised the "real Swabian loner" and the "whimsical" mixture of "Swabian reality" and "Swabian romanticism" in his books.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis he was in October 1933 the 88 German writers that the vow faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler signed. From the beginning he belonged to a group of Swabian writers founded in 1938 by the Württemberg governor Wilhelm Murr under the name Schwäbischer Dichterkreis , which makes it clear that Wilhelm Schussen was viewed as conforming to the system on the part of the Nazi power apparatus. Hermann Hesse made serious reproaches to his long-time friend in a letter addressed to him on March 1, 1946, for his `` didn't know '' attitude. After years in Stuttgart and Ravensburg , he moved to Tübingen in 1937 , where he also died. His grave in the city cemetery there is right next to the Holderlins .

Numerous streets (Bad Schussenried, Herbertingen , Lichtenstein , Tübingen, Wangen im Allgäu ), a school ( Kehlen ) and a town hall ( Eriskirch ) now bear the name of Schussen and testify to his former popularity in Upper Swabia. His estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach .

Works (selection)

Prose and poetry

  • Vinzenz Faulhaber. A picaresque novel , Stuttgart 1907
  • Meine Steinauer , Roman, Stuttgart 1908
  • Johann Jakob Schäufele's philosophical cuckoo eggs , essays, Stuttgart 1909
  • Gildegarn , Roman, Heilbronn 1911
  • Heimwärts , poems, Stuttgart 1913
  • In the big year , stories, Konstanz 1915
  • Lieutenant Vollmar tells stories, Gotha 1917
  • Emerit in love , story, Stuttgart 1917
  • Höschele der Finkler and other cheerful stories , Stuttgart 1918
  • The red mountain , Roman, Stuttgart 1918
  • Freund Huchler writes , essays, Heilbronn 1920
  • That was my walk , poems, Stuttgart 1921
  • The novel by Dr. Frippery , Roman, Breslau 1922
  • A good stumbler , Roman, Munich 1923
  • The dismantled Osiander , Roman, Munich 1925
  • The Wilhelm-Schussen-Book , Stories and Poems, Stuttgart 1934
  • The story of the pharmacist Johannes , Roman, Freiburg im Breisgau 1935
  • Riot around Rika , Roman, Berlin 1938
  • Tübingen Symphony , Essays, Reutlingen 1949
  • Anecdote of my life , Ravensburg, 1953

Drama and radio play

  • Love and money , comedy
  • You can't do without work , comedy
  • Off to the city of the Abderites , radio play

literature

  • Matthäus Gerster: The newer Swabian literature. Ceremony of the Württemberg booksellers' association. Stuttgart 1929, pp. 19-21
  • Ewald Gruber: Wilhelm Schussen, a poet from the Oberland. In: Local history sheets for the Biberach district. Vol. 9, 1986, No. 1, pp. 33-44
  • Wolfgang Hegele: Wilhelm Schussen's narrative poetry from his time in Gmünd. In: Einhorn-Jahrbuch Schwäbisch Gmünd. Vol. 23, 1996, pp. 101-116
  • Hermann Hesse: Foreword. In: Wilhelm Schussen: “Der amliebte Emerit” and “Vinzenz Faulhaber” . German Book Association, Berlin 1927, pp. 7-10
  • Susanne Lange-Greve: Wonderful blue mirror. Wilhelm Schussen 1874-1956 . Schwäbisch Gmünd 2004, 2nd edition 2006, 112 pages, numerous illustrations, ISBN 3-936373-09-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerster 1929, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Hesse 1927, p. 8f.
  3. ^ 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 , p. 557.
  4. ^ Die Neue Literatur 40 (1939), p. 107.
  5. ↑ Hermann Hesse: Complete Works. Vol. 15. Frankfurt am Main 2004 ISBN 978-3-518-41115-5 , pp. 623 f.
personal data
SURNAME Shoten, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frick, Wilhelm (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Small calf
DATE OF DEATH April 5th 1956
Place of death Tübingen