Hermann Kasack

Hermann tunic ( born July 24, 1896 in Potsdam, † January 10, 1966 in Stuttgart ) was a German writer and poet. He was also a pioneer in the mediation of literary content in the early days of broadcasting. He published several radio plays also under the pseudonyms William Hermann and Hermann Merten.

Life

Hermann Robert Richard Eugene Kasack grew up as the only child of a physician in Potsdam. He attended the grammar school in Potsdam and Victoria began in 1914 a study of the political economy literature and history in Berlin, from which he graduated in Munich 1920.

In 1915 he published in the journal The action his first poem entitled Mother. 1916 took place in Berlin first lecture evenings " New Poetry" with Wolf Przygode instead. Model for the figure of the painter Catell in the city behind the power - - and with the poet Oskar Loerke The following year, the lifelong friendships with the painter Walter Gramatté began. His first book, The Man. Verses, was published in 1918.

1920 married Hermann Kasack Maria Fellberg. In the same year he became a lecturer in the Gustav Kiepenheuer publishing house in Potsdam. In this role, he was, among other things out the collected works of Friedrich Hölderlin. 1924 his daughter Renate was born. In 1925 he left the Kiepenheuer Publishing and was settled literary staff at the radio - hour Berlin, where he was responsible for the programming of the first poetry readings of contemporary poets. The following year, his drama was premiered sister and he became director of the S. Fischer Verlag. In 1927, his son, the later Slavic Wolfgang tunic, was born. In the following years he worked as a freelance writer and radio writer. He has published numerous poems and was responsible for more than one hundred radio broadcasts, including many portraits of writers and numerous radio plays, of which only a few have been preserved as sound files. On March 28, 1933 him any cooperation was banned on the radio. Nevertheless, he signed on 26 October 1933, the most faithful vow allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

He stayed after the ban with almost no work until he succeeded by Oskar Loerke editor at S. Fischer ( later Suhrkamp ) Publisher 1941. While Peter Suhrkamp's arrest in 1944 took over the publishing line tunic.

After the war tunic worked again for the Berliner Rundfunk until he moved to Stuttgart in 1949. In 1947 he published his most famous novel, The city behind the current for the in Berlin in 1949, he received the Fontane Prize. He was a founding member in 1948 of the German PEN Center and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. His second and last novel, The large network appeared in 1952. From 1953 to 1963 he sat as president of the German Academy for Language and Poetry primarily for the publication of forgotten contemporary authors. 1955 his opera The city was behind the current, set to music by Hans Vogt, premiered in Wiesbaden. On his sixtieth birthday appeared a collection of his most important essays and speeches from three decades as a gift of the Suhrkamp publishing house. The Minister President of Baden -Württemberg awarded him a professor. In 1960, he received the Leo Tolstoy Commemorative Medal of the Maxim Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow.

1963 Kasack resigned from his post as president of the German Academy for Language and Poetry, after he was almost completely blind. He died on 10 January 1966 in his flat in Stuttgart.

Works

The following list contains only a selection, a detailed and complete listing is on the website of the City and Regional Library Potsdam, see Related links.

Poetry

  • The Man. Verses, Munich 1918
  • The island. Poems, Berlin 1920
  • The song of the year, Potsdam 1921
  • Stage. A series of poems, Potsdam 1921
  • Echo. Thirty-eight poems, The Raven Press, Berlin 1933
  • The current of the world. Poems, Hamburg 1940
  • The eternal existence. Poems, Berlin 1943
  • From the chinese picture book, with drawings by Caspar Neher Rudolf, Frankfurt / M. In 1955.
  • Answer and question. 13 poems, Frankfurt / M. 1961
  • Watermark. New poems, Frankfurt / M. 1964
  • Poesiealbum 291, Maerkischer Publisher Wilhelmshorst 2010 EAN 978 3 931 329 91 4

Dramas

  • The sister. A tragedy in eight stations, Berlin 1920
  • The tragic mission. A dramatic event in ten scenes, Berlin 1920 ( emphasis Potsdam 1993)
  • Vincent. Drama in five acts, Potsdam 1924
  • The city behind the current. Libretto of the oratorio opera in three acts, Frankfurt / M. 1954

Radio plays

  • Voices in the fight. Radio play ( under the pseudonym Hermann Wilhelm ), Berlin 1930 ( First broadcast: December 7, 1930 Length: 30 '), post-production of the NDR in 1959 under the title rally ( Director: Fritz Schröder -Jahn, Length: 28')
  • Tull, the champion diver. A series of ten radio plays for the youth ( under the pseudonym Hermann Merten ), Berlin 1932, two resulting consequences: children travel with Tull ( Length: 33'33 " ) and Tull 's Children's Olympiad ( Length: 26'54 " )
  • A voice of thousands. Radio gasket ( under the pseudonym Hermann Wilhelm ), Berlin 1932 ( directed by Edlef Köppen, broadcast of October 6, 1932, Length: 11'46 " ), German Broadcasting Archive Nr.C 1680
  • The reputation. Radio gasket ( under the pseudonym Hermann Wilhelm ), Berlin 1932 ( directed by Edlef Köppen, First broadcast: December 12, 1932 Length: 57'34 " ), German Broadcasting Archive Nr.C 1632

Stories

  • The Visitation. A narrative, Munich 1919 ( new edition Berlin 1922)
  • The birch grove, 1944
  • The loom. Narrative, Frankfurt / M. 1949
  • Forgeries. Narrative, Frankfurt / M. 1953
  • The unknown target. Selected samples and work, Frankfurt / M. 1963

Novels

  • The city beyond the river, Berlin 1947
  • The large mesh, Berlin / Frankfurt / M. 1952
  • Alexander. The dubious nature of life, 1932 ( unpublished, 150 pages, fragment)
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