Martin Kessel

Martin Kessel (pseudonym Hans Bruehl, born April 14, 1901 in Plauen ( Vogtland), † 14 April 1990 in Berlin) was a German writer.

Life

Martin Kessel After leaving school at the universities of Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main, philosophy, literature, theater and fine arts. After he received his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main on Thomas Mann, he settled down in 1923 as a freelance writer in Berlin.

Boiler, essays, aphorisms and poems written next to time-critical narrative prose that usually takes place in Berlin, remained throughout his life an outsider of German literary operation. Nevertheless, he was since 1951 a member of the PEN Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany, since 1954 the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt since 1959 and the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Awards

For his work he received the following awards:

Contrary to information in reference books boiler 1926 not received the Kleist Prize. He went to Alexander Lernet- Holenia and Alfred Neumann. Boiler has been awarded an " honorable mention " for his urban novels and a collection of poems. The error is due to the compilation The Kleist Prize winners 1926. Three biographical documents in the Frankfurter Zeitung on 23 September 1926.

Works

  • Human- Werdung, Leipzig 1921
  • Restrained curves, Frankfurt q.s. 1925
  • Studies on the novella by Thomas Mann Technology, Frankfurt am Main 1926
  • Bustle, Frankfurt q.s. 1927
  • A woman without a stimulus, Berlin 1929
  • Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, Stuttgart [u a ] 1932
  • Welcome to Mergenthal, Berlin- Wilmersdorf 1935
  • Romantic Hobbies, Brunswick 1938
  • The sister of Don Quixote, Brunswick 1938
  • Awakening and Goodbye, Berlin 1940
  • Essays and miniatures, Stuttgart [u a ] 1947
  • Aphorisms, Stuttgart [u a ] 1948
  • The epoch-making substance of poetry, Mainz 1950
  • Collected Poems, Hamburg 1951
  • Musisches criterion, Mainz 1952
  • In reality, however ..., Berlin 1955
  • Escapades, Darmstadt [u a ] 1959
  • In return, Darmstadt [u a ] 1960
  • Head and heart, Neuwied A.Rh. [u a ] 1963
  • Lydia Faude, Neuwied [u a ] 1965
  • Ironic miniatures, Mainz 1970
  • Everything lives only when it is lit, Mainz 1971
  • Awe and laughter, Mainz 1974
  • On Laubenheimer space, peace Auer Press, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-932109-65-2
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