Wilhelm Schäfer
Wilhelm Schäfer or during the first marriage from 1890 to 1896 Wilhelm Schäfer - Dittmar ( born January 20, 1868 in Ottrau (Hessen ); † January 19, 1952 in Überlingen / Bodensee ) was a German writer.
Shepherd's work consists mainly of short stories and anecdotes along the lines of Kleist and lever. By 1922 published the " German folk soul " glorifying book Thirteen Books of the German soul, he became one of the most popular ethnic - national authors of the Weimar Republic and the period of National Socialism.
Life
William Shepherd was the son of a shoemaker. 1871 the family moved to Gerresheim where shepherds attended a Lutheran elementary school. Subsequently, he was a student of a secondary school in Dusseldorf and prepared in 1883 on a preparatory school in Mettmann to the profession of primary school teacher before. From 1890 to 1897 he worked as a teacher in Vohwinkel and Elberfeld. During this time, which was also marked by a friendship with Richard Dehmel, he began to publish literary works.
A contract with the Cotta Verlag in 1897 enabled him to travel to Paris, Zurich and Munich. In 1898 he went to Berlin, where he initially worked as an ad copywriter. In 1900 he moved to Dusseldorf, where he edited the cultural magazine " The Rhineland " and director of the " Association of Friends of Art in the countries on the Rhine" was.
Shepherd, those projected in the years shared a friendship with Hermann Hesse lived from 1903 in Braubach, from 1907 to 1915 in Vallendar and from 1915 to 1918 in Hofheim (Taunus ). In 1918 he settled on the " Sommerhalde " Bodman on Lake Constance.
Wilhelm Schäfer was from 1926 a member of the poetry section of the Prussian Academy of Arts; In 1931 he left the Academy, together with Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer and Emil Strauss differences due to the ideological orientation of the institution. After the Nazis came to power he was from May 1933 Honorary Senator of the German Academy of the seal. Shepherd, who was already marked early on by a conservative and national ideology, identified largely with the Nazi ideology and worked, although he himself was not a member of the NSDAP, willingly formulation and promotion of the objectives of Nazi cultural policy. Shepherd was highly valued by Adolf Hitler, so he took him in August 1944 in the Gottbegnadeten list of the most important writers.
His involvement in the system of the Nazi state meant that after 1945, a discussion of his work took place only sporadically.
Shepherd's writings (all published by Langen / Müller, Munich) Prussia and Bismarck Reich. From " Thirteen Books of the German soul " (1934 ), Christopher speech (1935 ) and War and Seal: speech to the poet meeting in Weimar on Oct 10 1942 ( 1943) were set in the Soviet zone of occupation on the list of proscribed literature.
Awards
Shepherd received, inter alia, the following awards: 1927 an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg, 1932, the Goethe Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main, 1937 the Rhineland Prize for Literature, in 1941 the Goethe Prize of the city of Frankfurt, 1942 Immermann Award; In 1938 he was made an honorary citizen of Ottrau 1948 an honorary citizen of Bodman.
Works
- Fritz and Paul on the upper middle school. Berlin 1894
- Mannsleut. Elberfeld 1894
- A murderer. Elberfeld 1894
- Songs of a Christian. Elberfeld 1895
- Jacob and Esau. Berlin 1896
- The Ten Commandments. Berlin 1897
- Gottlieb Mangold. Berlin 1900
- William Shakespeare. Zurich 1900
- The béarnaise. Berlin 1902
- International Art Exhibition Dusseldorf 1904. Dusseldorf 1904 ( together with Rudolf Klein )
- The German Association of Artists. Dusseldorf 1905
- Anecdotes. Dusseldorf 1907
- The Lower Rhine the Bergische Land. Stuttgart 1907
- Rhine legends. Berlin 1908
- The Necklace Affair. München [ et al ] 1909
- The Mißgeschickten. München [ et al ] 1909
- The writer. Frankfurt q.s. 1910
- How did my anecdotes? . Dortmund 1910
- 33 anecdotes. München [ et al ] 1911
- The Lost coffin and other anecdotes. München [ et al ] 1911
- Karl Stauffer's life transition. München [ et al ] 1912
- The dotted Rhine cruise. München [ et al ] 1913
- Of life of a human friend. Berlin 1915
- Anecdotes and legends. Bern 1918
- The buried hand and other anecdotes. Munich 1918
- Narrative writings. Munich 1 anecdotes and stories. 1918
- 2 Rhine legends. 1918
- 3 A Chronicle of passion. 1918
- Fourth day of life of a human friend. 1918
Editorship
- Sculptors and painters in the countries on the Rhine. Dusseldorf 1913
- Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Grand Inquisitor. Rudolstadt (Thür. ) 1924