Wolf von Kalckreuth

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Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth at the age of 13, oil painting by his father, Count Leopold von Kalckreuth, 1900

Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth (born June 9, 1887 in Weimar ; † October 9, 1906 in Stuttgart-Cannstatt ) was a German poet and translator.

Life

He was the eldest son of the painter Leopold Graf von Kalckreuth and Bertha Yorck von Wartenburg . Wolf Kalckreuth was considered a promising poet. However, the sensitive artist, who had been physically impaired since childhood, decided to pursue a military career. Apparently overwhelmed by the demands of military service, he committed suicide a few days after starting work at the age of 19. In a letter to Alfred Lichtwark two days after his son's death, his father wrote: "Although one of my family visited him every day and was with him in the evening, the poor boy was under the false illusion that there was no escape from his terrible service [...] In the morning he shot himself in bed after ordering his house with slips of paper and letters, his little house [...] but one cannot be angry with him, it lay in him for a long time, death befell him closer than life. "

In literary terms, the name Wolf Kalckreuth is primarily associated with two works: his translation of Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil and the Rilke poem Requiem for Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth , which with the words “ Who speaks of Siegen? Surviving is everything ”ends.

Works

  • Charles Baudelaire : Flowers of Evil. (Les fleurs du mal) Translated into German verse by Wolf von Kalckreuth. Insel, Leipzig 1907
  • Poems , Insel, Leipzig 1908
  • Poems and transmissions. Published by Hellmut Kruse. Schneider, Heidelberg 1962
  • slumber black nights. Poems , Hochroth, Berlin, Bielefeld etc. 2015
  • Paul Verlaine : Selected Poems. Transferred from Wolf von Kalckreuth. Insel, Leipzig 1906

literature

  • Hellmut Kruse : Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth. Form and work of the young poet. Diss. Phil. Université de Friborg 1948
  • Frauke Velden-Hohrath: Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth. Existence - translation - poetry. The lyrical work between longing for death and lust for war. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1998
  • Ortrun Gutjahr, David Graf von Kalckreuth: "Surviving is everything". Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth in the picture of his father Leopold and in Rilke's Requiem. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005
  • Manfred Schmid: The suicide of Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth in Cannstatt. In: Ute Harbusch, Gregor Wittkop Eds .: Short stay. Forays through literary places. Göttingen 2007

See also

Web links

Wikisource: Requiem (Rainer Maria Rilke)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frauke Velden-Hohrath, Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth. Existence - Translation - Poetry, Würzburg 1998, p. 311
  2. ↑ see selection under web links
personal data
SURNAME Kalckreuth, Wolf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalckreuth, Wolf Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poet and translator
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1906
Place of death Stuttgart-Cannstatt