Heinrich Lilienfein

Heinrich Lilienfein ( born November 20, 1879 in Stuttgart, † December 20, 1952 in Weimar ) was a German writer.

Life

Heinrich Lilienfein was the son of a lawyer. He attended Charles High School in Stuttgart, where he took off in 1898 -leaving examination. Subsequently, he studied history, philosophy and art history at the universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg. In 1902 he received his doctorate in Heidelberg with a thesis in the field of Carolingian history of Doctor of Philosophy. Lilienfein settled as a freelance writer in Wilmersdorf. In 1905 he married the painter Hanna Erdmannsdörffer; she was the daughter of his former teacher, the historian Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer. The couple Lilienfein lived in Heppenheim ( mountain road ) and from 1907 in Wilmersdorf. After the death of his first wife in 1910 Lilienfein married her sister Sophie Erdmannsdörffer. Lilienfein took off in 1915 as a soldier in the First World War. From 1920 he lived as Secretary General of the German Schiller Foundation in Weimar.

Heinrich Lilienfein was the author of many, at the time of successful plays, mostly on historical topics; next to it he wrote novels and short stories. His works are an expression of the basic conservative attitude of the author, philosophical formally influenced by German idealism and the Weimar Classicism. As the most important narrative work lilies Feins applies in 1938 published novel " In shackles - free" about the author Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, to be able to make a subtle criticism of the Third Reich in the later critics believed. Heinrich Lilienfein had, however, already in October 1933 of the signatories addressed to Hitler devotion address vow faithful followers heard he was a member of the Board of Trustees of Goebbels Foundation for cultural workers and stood in 1944 on the started by Hitler and Goebbels called Gottbegnadeten list. Nevertheless Lilienfein could exercise his office as Secretary General of the Schiller Foundation in the Soviet zone and the early GDR again from 1947. - Henry Lilienfein in 1932 was awarded the Goethe Medal and in 1939 with the Swabian poet prize and the title of professor. From 1949 he was a freeman of the city of Weimar, and in 1952 an honorary pension he received from the GDR government suspended. Lilienfein was buried in a grave of honor in the Historical Cemetery in Weimar. His estate is located in Weimar Goethe and Schiller Archive and the German Literature Archive in Marbach.

Works

  • The views of church and state in the Empire of the Carolingians, Heidelberg 1902
  • Crucifixion, Heidelberg 1902
  • People dusk, Heidelberg 1902
  • The Saviour bride, Heidelberg 1903
  • Modernus, Heidelberg 1904
  • Heinrich Vierordt, Heidelberg 1905
  • Maria Fried Hammer, Heidelberg 1905
  • Mountain of scandal, Heidelberg 1906
  • The Lord God Warter, Berlin 1906
  • The fight with the shadow, Berlin 1906
  • The big day, Berlin 1907
  • Ideals of the devil, Berlin 1908
  • The black gentleman. Olympias, Berlin 1908
  • The Bull of Olivera, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1910
  • Of the women and a woman, Stuttgart [ua ] 1911
  • The great silence, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1912
  • The tyrant, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1913
  • The Duchess of Palliano, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1914
  • The Sunken star, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1914
  • In the silent garden, Heilbronn 1915
  • A game in the wind, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1916
  • Hildebrand, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1917
  • The Court of Shadows, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1919
  • The fiery cloud, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1919
  • And the sun was darkened ..., Heilbronn 1919
  • The survivors, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1920
  • The treasure in the field, Stuttgart 1921
  • As the Uz found the promised land ..., Stuttgart 1921
  • Cagliostro, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1922
  • The Drunken year, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1923
  • From Weimar and Swabia, Heilbronn 1925
  • The Redemption of John the Parricide, Stuttgart 1925
  • Between darkness and day and other stories, Berlin- Charlottenburg in 1926
  • Theater, Stuttgart 1927
  • World without a soul, Stuttgart 1927
  • The ghost town, Stuttgart 1929
  • Night in Poland in 1812, Stuttgart 1929
  • Walther Klemm, Eger 1930
  • Bernard Besserer, Ulm 1931
  • Carnival without end, Berlin 1931
  • The fire -eating, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1932
  • The big Karaman, Stuttgart [ et al ] 1933
  • Wieland, Berlin 1933
  • Anne Marie wins the Free! , Berlin 1934
  • Schiller and the German Schiller Foundation, Weimar 1934
  • Tile Kolup, Stuttgart 1935
  • The hour of Charles XII, Berlin 1936
  • In shackles - free, Stuttgart 1938
  • Visiting from Holland, Berlin 1942
  • Lucas Cranach and his time, Bielefeld [ua ] 1942
  • Transfiguration and other stories, Gotha 1942
  • Light and Irrlicht, Gotha 1943
  • Bettina, Munich 1949
  • The two last of Laufach Laufach 1981

Editorship

  • Bernhard Erdmannsdörffer: Minor historical writings, Berlin 1 The Great Elector, 1911
  • 2 (1911)
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