Ernst Stadler
Ernst ( Mary Richard ) Stadler ( born August 11, 1883 in Colmar, † October 30, 1914 at Zandvoorde near Ypres in Belgium) was an Alsatian poet who wrote in German.
Life
Stadler was born the son of a public prosecutor, and attended high school in Strasbourg. He was friends with René Schickele and Otto Flake - both as members of the art group " The youngest Alsace ". With them he gave in 1902 the magazine Der Stürmer (not to be confused with the eponymous Nazi weekly Der Stürmer ) for progressive seal out, which was renamed in 1903 in the flag. Stadler studied in Strasbourg and in 1904 in Munich, German, Romance and Comparative Linguistics and received his doctorate with a thesis on the Parzival. 1906-08 he spent as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalen College at Oxford. At the University of Strasbourg, he habilitated with a work on Wieland's Shakespeare translations.
From 1910 to 1914 Stadler taught German philology professor in Brussels. The offer to go to Toronto as a visiting professor, he had to turn down because of the First World War began and Stadler was drafted as a reserve officer. In the same year he was killed during the First Battle of Ypres by a grenade.
Ernst Stadler is buried in the cemetery of Strasbourg city part Robertsau.
Work
Stadler was enthusiastic about theater and poetry. The highlight of his brief literary publications was formed in 1914 his poetry collection The departure, which made Stadler a leading figure of literary expressionism. In contrast to Georg Heym he was not deterred by Unheilsvorahnungen. The religiously oriented Stadler appealed to his readers to break to a better life, and sought the depression distribute. As Alsatian him and Schickele lay understanding between Germany and France, especially the heart. This goal were also his work as a translator, as well as his literary studies that proved the interdependencies of the various literatures.
Ten of his poems were included in the most well-known anthology of poetry of Expressionism, humanity dusk.
Works
- Preludes ( poems, Strasbourg 1904)
- Wieland's Shakespeare ( Habilitation thesis, Strasbourg 1910)
- Ride over the Rhine in Cologne bridge at night (1913 )
- The Awakening ( poems, Leipzig 1914)
Translations
- The Balzac - Book ( stories and novellas, Strasbourg 1913)
- Francis Jammes: The prayers of humility (Leipzig 1913)