Wilhelm Michel

William Michel ( born August 9, 1877 in Metz, † April 16, 1942 in Darmstadt ) was a German writer.

He grew up in Frankenstein on in the Palatinate and studied philology and law in Würzburg and Munich. In 1901 he settled as a freelance writer in Munich. 1925 Büchner Prize he was awarded.

From 1906 to 1930 he was among other employees of the magazine The world stage. In February 1933, there came with the publisher Carl von Ossietzky a rift because Michel had turned against the performance of Bertolt Brecht's play Saint Joan of the Stockyards in Darmstadt. Michel had called on February 1, 1933, the Cologne Rundschau resistance to the piece as " a blissful emotion unbroken survival instincts against an artistically disguised attempt to kill our souls ."

His extensive work is now largely forgotten.

Wilhelm Michel is the grandfather of the church musician Josef Michel and great-grandfather of the church musician Johannes Matthias Michel.

Works (selection)

  • Apollo and Dionysus. Dualistic forays 1904
  • Rainer Maria Rilke 1905
  • The spectator. poems 1907
  • The diabolical and grotesque in art in 1911
  • Friedrich Hölderlin 1912
  • Man fails in 1920
  • Hölderlin Western twist 1923
  • Hölderlin and the German spirit in 1924
  • Suffering am I 1930
  • The Life of Friedrich Hölderlin 1940
  • Commitment to the church. Eckart -Verlag, Berlin and Witten 1953.
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