Willrath Dreesen

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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.

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personal data
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