Wilhelm Holzamer
Wilhelm Holzamer ( born March 28, 1870 in Nieder-Olm, † 28 August 1907 in Berlin) was a German writer and literary critic.
Life
The milieu of the rural craftsmen that were found Wilhelm Holzamer was brought up by his grandfather Andreas Holzamer, a progressive advocates of democratic aspirations during the March Revolution, the life of William remained a model. On the degree followed from 1886 to 1889 a teacher training in Bensheim. From 1889 taught Wilhelm Holzamer in Heppenheim the subjects German, music and drawing.
Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse called him because of his artistic skills to the capital city of Darmstadt, where the core group of artists was assembled, who created the art movement of Jugendstil. Holzamer organized in 1901 the first public presentation. With the Viennese architect Joseph Maria Olbrich, the head of the group of artists, he was a close friend.
After Holzamer had met the actress and women's rights activist Nina Mardon, he separated from his wife, Marie, who had borne him seven children, and went after his literary model Heinrich Heine following to Paris.
1905 Holzamer returned back to Germany and chose Berlin as place of residence. In the local literary scene he joined the Friedrichshagener circle of poets.
Holzamer died in Berlin on August 28, 1907.
Artistic creation
The literary oeuvre Wilhelm Holzamers ranges between Heimatverbundensein and cosmopolitanism. The first literary phase was marked lyrical, where Gustav Falke, Detlev von Liliencron, Richard Dehmel and Conrad Ferdinand Meyer were his role models.
Later he joined as a story writer and novelist in appearance. As an enlightened humanitarian, republican - liberal Democrat, he embodied the opposite position to the current time rich German nationalism, Prussian militarism, anti-Semitism.
His anticlerical oriented social criticism was characterized by affection for the little people, which was reflected in his successful debut novel about Peter Schneider Nockler.
In the following great novel about the poor Luke, his first autobiographical work, expressed Holzamer, all shaped his life, one could refer to his books. Accordingly, he reflected particularly in the biographical historical novel published in 1902 St. Sebastian 's life crisis when choosing between two women.
Holzamer served as one of the first German writers of the insights of Freudian psychoanalysis in his literary work. His empathy for the inner life of a woman is remarkable.
From this ability Holzamers witness three women's novels The Storm woman ELLIDA Solstratten and Inge, where he took up interpretive approaches of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and the Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen.
From 1905, living in Berlin, he was presenting his life in the autobiographical novel The Derailed and designed in his last work before year and day life fate of the innkeeper's daughter Dorth.
In addition to his literary work Holzamer Wilhelm was an influential literary critic and reviewer, primarily in the Frankfurter Zeitung, and shaped the literary scene through his connection to the Berlin publisher Eugen Diederichs.
Holzamers literary importance lies in its stylistic brilliance, he. Ability while exploring the human psyche, a symbol containing language arts and narrative drama
Through his liberal emancipatory cosmopolitanism he inspired the playwright Carl Zuckmayer. His descriptions of nature are reflected in the work of the writer Elisabeth Langgässer.
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Last celebration
When I am dead, you shall celebrate my memory, glad with songs and with fresh flowers, happy with a thousand blissful thoughts, just do not cry you shall only do not be sad, be glad that an asylum Santander harbor that a sufferer peace and the rest was a seeker. When they come, who want to insult me - And they come, now I see dull kick they draw to the polls, if they then piling stones on my ashes, Stone by stone, to arched a hill, Suffer not - and smile bright eye, sing songs that celebrate spring, strew flowers that crown the summer, parts of fruits that gave you the autumn. See the ways that I went, they were mapped, and a Higher protects me, I do not know myself, and that will honor me, I have been faithful to him, and I was unfaithful, forever my trail goes out. If the winter then, beloved, thou shalt dream Dreams that glowed in my soul, because my life was all a rigid frost. When I am dead, you shall celebrate my memory, and in songs I want and live in flowers, in the amount of rage and contempt - and in your dreams when I sleep!
Works
- To light. Poems, Berlin 1897
- ELLIDA Solstratten, Berlin / Leipzig in 1900
- Games. With drawings by Joseph Maria Olbrich, Leipzig 1901
- Peter Nockler, The history of a tailor, Leipzig 1902 ( later editions in 1905 and 1919 Berlin, Stuttgart 1925, reprint Nieder-Olm, 1973)
- The poor Luke. A story in the twilight, Leipzig 1902 ( later editions 1905 Berlin, Stuttgart 1916, reprint Nieder-Olm 1975)
- Heinrich Heine, Berlin / Leipzig 1906 ( Biography of the German writer )
- The Derailed. Novel in two volumes, Edited by Nina Mardon - Holzamer Berlin, 1910, Reprint Nieder-Olm oJ (ca. 1970 )
- Master of recent novels narrator, ed. by Richard Wenz, Vol VI, Leipzig 1913 (contains two previously published stories not Holzamers )
- Prior year and a day. Newly edited and with an afterword by Jens Frederiksen. Mainz 1997
- Where I hang out my sign of the Championship? Selected stories. Edited and introduced by Klaus Boehme. Weinheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021961-0
- Saint Sebastian. Novel of a priest. Newly edited, introduced and equipped with images of Klaus Boehme. Heppenheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024142-0