Paul Ernst (German writer)

Carl Friedrich Paul Ernst ( born March 7, 1866 in Elbingerode ( Harz), † May 13 1933 in St. Georgen an der Stiefing, Styria ) was a German writer and journalist. Together with Wilhelm von Scholz, he released a comedy under the pseudonym PW Fun Möller.

Life

Born as the son of mine overseer Johann Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst and his wife Emma Auguste Henriette Dittmann he was baptized on 18 March 1866. He studied after completing his school education theology and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Tübingen. Another study of literature and history in Berlin joined them. In 1892 he received his doctorate. He became a member of the progressive writers association through Berlin.

Early on, he joined the labor movement and was a member of the Social Democratic Party, from which he resigned in 1896, however, again. In the " Berliner Volksbank Sheet" No. 232 of October 5, 1890 it featured Friedrich Engels as a superficial and sniveling opportunist.

Beginning of the 20th century, it remained to Paul Ernst in Weimar. During this period numerous dramas and stories. 1905/1906 he worked as a dramaturge at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. Later he devoted himself entirely to his freelance career as a writer. He died in 1933 in Austria.

His literary work is extensive and varied. It includes novels, short stories and novellas as well as dramas, essays and epics. Are his early works still naturalism to you, his later work, especially in the 1920s writings are part of the neoclassical, whose main representatives Paul Ernst is counted.

1933, even before Hitler could decide on the award, Paul Ernst was awarded the Goethe Medal for Art and Science.

In the wake of the Nazi Gleichschaltung of the Prussian Academy of Arts and the distance of 40 Jewish and unpopular for other reasons Academy members Ernst was appointed on 5 May 1933 on one of the vacant places.

Works

Novels

  • The narrow path to happiness
  • The happiness of Lautenthal
  • The Treasure of Morgenbrotstal
  • Seeds of hope

Novellas and short stories

  • The death of Cosimo
  • Comedians and rogues stories
  • The Wedding
  • The Blessed Isle and Other Stories from the South

Dramas

  • Lumpenbagasch (1898 )
  • In the private room Chambre (1899), one-act plays
  • The fast Engagement (1899), one-act plays
  • When the leaves fall (1899), one-act plays
  • Demetrios (1905 )
  • Ariadne auf Naxos. A drama in three acts (Weimar 1912) ( digitized )
  • Canossa
  • Brunhild
  • Childeric
  • Chriemhild
  • Prussia spirit

Essays

  • Henrik Ibsen (1904 )
  • The way to form ( 1906)
  • Collapse of Idealism (1919)
  • Collapse of Marxism (1919)
  • Foundations of the new society (1929 ) ( completed by new edition of essays The collapse of Marxism. )
  • The German people and the poets of today (1932, published 1933)
  • A Credo (1935 )

Poetry

  • Polymeter (1898 )
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