Willrath Dreesen
Willrath Dreesen (born May 14, 1878 in Norden ; † August 14, 1950 in Langeoog ) was a German editor , spa director and writer .
Life
Willrath Dreesen was the son of a grocer . He grew up in the north , where he attended grammar school and in 1898 passed the matriculation examination. Then studied it theology at the universities in Göttingen , Marburg and Basel . During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Brunsviga fraternity in 1898 . In 1902 he continued his studies at the University of Bonn , where he switched to German and philosophy . In 1905 he earned his doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Theodor Storm . After Dreesen had worked as a teacher and lecturer during his student days, he held the position of lecturer for speech art and aesthetics at the University of Frankfurt from 1913 .
After the First World War, Willrath Dreesen worked from 1919 to 1924 as an editor and member of the management team at Reclam Verlag in Leipzig . From 1924 to 1928 he was Jakob Pauls ' successor as community leader on the island of Langeoog . He also held the position of shipping director on the island in 1927/28. During his time as community leader he was also the island's spa director ; From 1930 he successfully reorganized the Saxon spa Lausick , of which he was director for a decade. After the owners of this spa were expropriated by the Soviet occupation authorities in 1946 , the state of Saxony appointed Dreesen as trustee . After his retirement in 1948 he returned to Langeoog, where he worked again as the spa director until his death.
Before the First World War , Willrath Dreesen published novels , poems (some in East Frisian dialect ) and plays ; his work is strongly influenced by his East Frisian homeland. Later poems written alongside his professional activity appeared posthumously in 1953 .
A street on Langeoog was named after him: Willrath-Dreesen-Straße .
Works
- Sea, March and Life , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1904
- Romantic elements in Theodor Storm , Dortmund 1905
- Eala freya Fresena! , Oldenburg [u. a.] 1906
- Ebba Hüsing , Leipzig 1910
- Poems , Leipzig 1910
- Storm surge , Leipzig 1910
- New German cultural policy and Reclam , Leipzig 1919
- The kingfisher and other poems , Leer (Ostfriesl.) 1953
literature
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume II: Artists. Winter, Heidelberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-8253-6813-5 , pp. 147-148.
Web links
- http://www.ostfriesenelandschaft.de/fileadmin/php/side.php?news_id=427&part_id=0&navi=11
- Carl Enders: Dreesen, Willrath. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 106 f. ( Digitized version ).
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SURNAME | Dreesen, Willrath |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German editor, spa director and writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1878 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | north |
DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 1950 |
Place of death | on Langeoog |