Alfred Mombert
Alfred Mombert ( born February 6, 1872 in Karlsruhe, † April 8, 1942 in Winterthur ) was a German writer and poet.
Life
Mombert was a son of the merchant Eduard Mombert and his wife Helene Gombertz; the economist Paul Mombert was his cousin. In 1890, he was a high school in his hometown and went on to complete a one-year volunteer military service.
Immediately afterward, he began at the universities of Heidelberg, Leipzig and Berlin to study law. 1896 put Mombert in Heidelberg for state exams and was in the following year - also in Heidelberg - a doctorate. Between 1899 and 1906 he worked as a lawyer in Heidelberg. In 1906 he gave up his profession and devoted himself entirely to writing, studying, among other things geography and oriental studies and undertook numerous journeys.
His mystical and visionary works were highly appreciated among others by Martin Buber and Richard Dehmel. 1919 Mombert was a member of the Arts and Cultural Council for Baden, 1928 he was elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts. 1933 joined him, the Nazis because he was a Jew, from the Academy from 1934 and banned his works. Mombert remained in Germany and maintained a lively correspondence with his friends. In October 1940, he was deported in the wake of Wagner Bürckel action camp Camp de Gurs in southern France, where he was interned until April 1941. His friend Hans Reinhart finally reached that the hard sufferers was allowed to leave in October 1941 in Switzerland, where he died in Winterthur on April 8, 1942, the health consequences of the stay in the camp.
Mombert about 3730 titles comprehensive collection of books located since 1950 in the Baden State Library in Karlsruhe.
Reception
Mombert works are in the tradition of Friedrich Hölderlin and Friedrich Nietzsche. His poetry has similarities with the Stefan George and Rainer Maria Rilke.
Works (selection)
- Day and night. Poems. In 1894.
- The creation. Poems. 1897.
- The Thinker. Poems. In 1901.
- The Sun Spirit. In 1905.
- Heavenly Zecher. Poems., 1909.
- The hero of the Earth. Poems., 1919.
- The Sun Spirit myth. In 1923.
- Atair. Poems. In 1925.
- Sfaira, the old man. 1936-1942 (2 parts).
Posthumous honors
In the Heidelberg district Emmertsgrund the Mombertstraße and the adjacent Mombertplatz after the writer Alfred Mombert are named. In the courtyard of the condominium Mombertplatz also a plaque on the namesake depends.
In Karlsruhe there is a Mombertstraße in Oststadt.