Wolfgang Kirchbach

Wolfgang Kirchbach
etching by Johann Lindner in 1895

Bust on the tombstone, Lichterfelde cemetery , signed: Martin Meyer-Pyritz

Wolfgang Kirchbach (born September 18, 1857 in London , † September 8, 1906 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German writer , illustrator and journalist .

Life

Wolfgang Kirchbach was born as the son of the history painter Ernst Kirchbach and his wife Emma. Schmitthenner-Stockhausen was born. He spent his early childhood in London with the older sons of Ferdinand Freiligrath and Karl Blind , who were banned from Germany because of their political views. The family later moved to Dresden .

After studying philology and history at the University of Leipzig , he moved to Munich in 1879 , where he joined the circle of Michael Georg Conrad . In 1882 he made a trip to Italy . In 1888 he went back to Dresden as an editor and theater critic, where he a. a. edited the magazine for national and international literature and the Dresdner Nachrichten . In 1896 he moved to Berlin, worked for the Vossische Zeitung and other newspapers and was involved in the Wandervogel and popular education movement . He was a co-founder of the Giordano Bruno Federation, which set itself apart from materialism and represented a unified, “idealistic” worldview in which science, philosophy and art were to be merged.

Kirchbach's cycle of novellas Children of the Reich (1883) was classified in the Reichstag as "dangerous to the public" and earned him the reputation of a naturalist . He is assigned to the Friedrichshagener poet circle and also wrote about Berlin and its surroundings. His second wife, Marie Luise Becker , whom he married in 1904, was also a writer.

His grave is in the Lichterfelde cemetery in Berlin , his estate in the Saxon State Library in Dresden.

Awards

Knight's Cross first class of the Saxon Albrecht Order

Works

Salvator Rosa . Novel. 2 vols. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1880.
Children of the Empire and their reviewers. A cycle of novels. Friedrich, Leipzig 1883.
A book of life. Collected smaller writings, travel thoughts and time ideas. Heinrichs, Munich / Leipzig 1886. ( online )
Waiblinger. A tragedy of our time. 1886.
The last people . A stage fairy tale. E. Pierson, Dresden / Leipzig 1890, online in the Internet Archive
The world driver . Novel. E. Pierson, Dresden / Leipzig 1891, online in the Internet Archive
Life on the roller . Novel. Association of Book Friends, Berlin 1892, online in the Internet Archive
Gordon Pasha . A time drama. E. Pierson, Dresden, Leipzig / Vienna 1895, online in the Internet Archive
Lili-Tsee . Japanese fairy tale in one act. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1896, online, English in the Internet Archive. Music: Franz Curti , arranger: Hugo Röhr
What did Jesus teach ?! Two original gospels . Dümmler, Berlin 1897, online in the Internet Archive
The book of Jesus . Dümmler, Berlin 1898, online in the Internet Archive
Friedrich Schiller, the realist and realpolitician . Renaissance Publishing House, Berlin 1905.
To understand ancient Greek poetry . 3 essays. Publishing house for literature, art and music, Leipzig 1906. ( online )
The Leiermann of Berlin. Cheerful novels from the folk spirit . Pierson, Dresden 1906.

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang Kirchbach - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wolfgang Kirchbach in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Wolfgang Kirchbach in the Gutenberg-DE project
Cornelia Herold: Kirchbach, Ernst Wolfgang . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Works by and about Wolfgang Kirchbach at Open Library
Kirchbach's manuscripts and letters in libraries and archives

Individual evidence

^ Adalbert von Hanstein: The youngest Germany . Leipzig 1901, p. 29
^ Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 214-216, 496 .
↑ In addition Cornelius Ludwig: The painter in the revolt. Wolfgang Kirchbach's “Salvator Rosa” between artistic renewal and life reform . In: Achim Aurnhammer, Günter Schnitzler, Mario Zanucchi (eds.): Salvator Rosa in Germany. Studies on its reception in art, literature and music. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9533-0 , pp. 357-383 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kirchbach, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	September 8, 1906
Place of death	Bad Nauheim

[1] Adalbert von Hanstein: The youngest Germany . Leipzig 1901, p. 29

[2] Andreas W. Daum: Science popularization in the 19th century. Civil culture, scientific education and the German public 1848–1914 . Oldenbourg, Munich 2002, p. 214-216, 496 .

[3] In addition Cornelius Ludwig: The painter in the revolt. Wolfgang Kirchbach's “Salvator Rosa” between artistic renewal and life reform . In: Achim Aurnhammer, Günter Schnitzler, Mario Zanucchi (eds.): Salvator Rosa in Germany. Studies on its reception in art, literature and music. Rombach, Freiburg i. Br. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7930-9533-0 , pp. 357-383 .