Wilhelm Weigand

Wilhelm Weigand ( born March 13, 1862 in Gissigheim, Baden, † December 20, 1949 in Munich; native Wilhelm Schnarrenberger ) was a German poet and writer.

Life

He was born as William Schnarrenberger, but took on May 2, 1888 the maiden name of his grandmother, where he had grown up since 1863.

Weigand studied Romance languages ​​, art history and philosophy in Brussels, Paris and Berlin. In 1889 he married Thora Hermann was thus well-off and lived since then in Munich. In 1904 he was co-founder of the Süddeutsche Monatshefte.

Weigand's works are the epoch of Romanticism and realism assign.

Awards

  • Johann- Peter-Hebel Prize ( 1942)
  • Literature Prize of the Capital of the Movement (Munich ), 1943
  • Honorary Citizen of the Municipality Gissigheim, 1947

Works (selection)

  • The Frankenthaler, novel, (Leipzig, 1889)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche, Essay (1893 )
  • The choice of candidate, Drama, (1893 )
  • Summer, poems (1894 )
  • The father, one-act play (1894 )
  • The misery of criticism, essay (1894 )
  • Agnes Korn, Drama (1895 )
  • The victim, Drama (1896 )
  • The twofold Eros, stories, (1896 )
  • The Renaissance, drama cycle ( 1898ff. )
  • Stendhal, essay (1903 )
  • The Löffelstelze, novel, (Tübingen, 1919)
  • The Court of Louis XIV From the Memoirs of the Duke of Saint -Simon. , (About 1922)
  • The gray messenger, stories, ( Prague 1924)
  • The trip to the island of love, novel, (1928 )
  • The gardens of God, Roman, (1930 )
  • Helmet Hausen, novel, (1938 )
  • World and way. From My Life (1940 )
  • People and master narratives (1940 )
  • The red tide. The Munich Revolutionary and Rätespuk 1918/19, novel, (Munich, 1935)
  • The call in the morning, Roman, (Tübingen, 1941)
  • The Ring:. Fates to a Familienkleinod. (Tübingen, 1947)
  • Sebastian Scherzlgeigers drive to Kautzien - A travel novel, 1948
  • The Abbé Galiani. A friend of the Europeans. (Bonn) 1948.

Literature on Wilhelm Weigand

  • H. About flock: Wilhelm Weigand's historical dramas. PhD thesis University of Breslau in 1920
  • Hans Brandeburg: William Weigand. In: The New Literature, Vol 32 (1931 ), Issue 1
  • Arthur Eloesser: The German Literature from Romanticism to the present. Berlin: B. Cassirer in 1931
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