Gustav Falke (11 January 1853 – 8 February 1916) was a German writer.
Life
Falke was born in
Lübeck
Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...
to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians
Johannes
Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as "John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, ''Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Yeh ...
and were his uncles, and the translator Otto Falke was his cousin.
He worked in a bookstore in Hamburg from 1868, then moved to
Essen
Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
,
Stuttgart
Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...
, and
Hildburghausen
Hildburghausen (IPA adapted from: ) is a town in Thuringia in central Germany, capital of the district Hildburghausen.
Geography
It is situated in the Franconian part of Thuringia south of the Thuringian Forest, in the valley of the Werra river ...
. He returned to Hamburg in 1878, where he was educated in music by
Emil Krause, to become a piano teacher. In 1888 he married his former piano student Anna Theen. They had two daughters and a son.
Falke started to publish his works in the 1890s and was introduced into the Hamburg
literary society
A literary society is a group of people interested in literature. In the modern sense, this refers to a society that wants to promote one genre of writing or a specific author. Modern literary societies typically promote research, publish newsle ...
around , , , and
. Much of his work was impressionistic
lyric poetry
Modern lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person.
It is not equivalent to song lyrics, though song lyrics are often in the lyric mode, and it is also ''not'' equi ...
inspired by Liliencron,
Richard Dehmel
Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (18 November 1863 – 8 February 1920) was a German poet and writer.
Life
A forester's son, Richard Dehmel was born in Hermsdorf near Wendisch Buchholz (now a part of Münchehofe) in the Brandenburg Province, Ki ...
, and
Paul Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (; 15 March 1830 – 2 April 1914) was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the ''Tunnel über der Spree'' in Berlin and ''Die Krokodile'' in Munich, he wrote no ...
. He also wrote conservative, "folk" pieces, following
Eduard Mörike
Eduard Friedrich Mörike (8 September 18044 June 1875) was a German Lutheran pastor who was also a Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. Many of his poems were set to music and became established folk songs, while others were used by ...
and
Theodor Storm
Hans Theodor Woldsen Storm (; 14 September 18174 July 1888), commonly known as Theodor Storm, was a German writer. He is considered to be one of the most important figures of German realism.
Life
Storm was born in the small town of Husum, on th ...
, and children's books in rhyme and prose. With the advent of
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
, he volunteered to write war propaganda as well, for which he was awarded the
Prussia
Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...
n ''Roter Adlerorden''. Composers such as
Pauline Volkstein
Pauline Volkstein (19 January 1849 – 6 May 1925) was a German composer of over 1,000 songs.
Volkstein was born in Quedlinburg. She had little formal music training, but came from a musical family. Her mother had studied counterpoint with Friedr ...
set Falke’s texts to music.
Falke died in
Hamburg
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.
Works
* ''Aus dem Durchschnitt'', Berlin 1892
* ''Mynheer der Tod und andere Gedichte'', Dresden u.a. 1892
* ''Tanz und Andacht'', München 1893
* ''Harmlose Humoresken'', München 1894
* ''Der Kuß'', München 1894
* ''Zwischen zwei Nächten'', Stuttgart 1894
* ''Landen und Stranden'', Berlin
** 1. ''Hamburger Kinder'', 1895
** 2. ''Neben der Arbeit'', 1895
** 3. ''Hab ich nur deine Liebe'', 1901
* ''Zwei'', 1896
* ''Neue Fahrt'', Berlin 1897
* ''Der Mann im Nebel'', Hamburg 1899
* ''Mit dem Leben'', Hamburg 1899
* ''Gustav Falke als Lyriker'', Hamburg 1900
* ''Vogelbuch'', Hamburg 1901 (together with
Otto Speckter
Otto Speckter (9 November 1807, in Hamburg – 29 April 1871, in Hamburg) was a German etcher and illustrator.
Life and work
He was the son of Johannes Michael Speckter, whose lithographic company he took over in 1834. His brother was the pa ...
)
* ''Katzenbuch'', Hamburg 1900 (together with Otto Speckter)
* ''Hohe Sommertage'', Hamburg 1902
* ''Putzi'', Hamburg 1902
* ''Aus Muckimacks Reich'', Hamburg 1903
* ''Zwischengerichte'', Leipzig 1903
* ''Der gestiefelte Kater'', Hamburg 1904
* ''Ausgewählte Gedichte'', Hamburg 1905
* ''Bübchens Weihnachtstraum''. Melodramatisches Krippenspiel. Musik (1906):
Engelbert Humperdinck. UA 1906
* ''Eichendorff'', Berlin u.a. 1906
* ''En Handvull Appeln'', Hamburg 1906
* ''Timm Kröger'', Hamburg 1906
* ''Frohe Fracht'', Hamburg 1907
* ''Heitere Geschichten'', Berlin u.a. 1907
* ''Drei gute Kameraden'', Mainz 1908
* ''Hamburg'', Stuttgart u.a. 1908
* ''Die Kinder aus Ohlsens Gang'', Hamburg 1908
* ''Dörten und andere Erzählungen'', Leipzig 1909
* ''Ein lustig Jahr der Tiere'', München 1909 (together with Th. Huggenberger)
* ''Tierbilder'', Mainz (together with Eugen Osswald)
** 1 (1909)
** 2 (1909)
* ''Winter und Frühling'', Leipzig 1909
* ''Die Auswahl'', Hamburg 1910
* ''Geelgösch'', Leipzig u.a. 1910
* ''Klaus Bärlappe'', Mainz 1910
* ''Der Spanier'', Berlin 1910
* ''Drei Helden'', Mainz 1911 (together with Arpad Schmidhammer)
* ''Das Schützenfest. Im Fischerdorf'', Reutlingen 1911
* ''Unruhig steht die Sehnsucht auf'', Hamburg u.a.] 1911
* ''Gesammelte Dichtungen'', Hamburg u.a.
** 1. ''Herddämmerglück'', 1912
** 2. ''Tanz und Andacht'', 1912
** 3. ''Der Frühlingsreiter'', 1912
** 4. ''Der Schnitter'', 1912
** 5. ''Erzählende Dichtungen'', 1912
* ''Herr Henning oder Die Tönniesfresser von Hildesheim'', Leipzig 1912
* ''Die neidischen Schwestern'', Berlin 1912
* ''Der Schnitter'', Hamburg 1912
* ''Die Stadt mit den goldenen Türmen'', Berlin 1912
* ''Anna'', Hamburg 1913
* ''Herr Purtaller und seine Tochter'', Mainz 1913
* ''Kunterbunt'', Mainz 1914 (together with Eugen Osswald)
* ''Vaterland heilig Land'', Leipzig 1915
* ''Viel Feind, viel Ehr'', Leipzig 1915
* ''Das Leben lebt'', Berlin 1916
Translations
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Holger Drachmann
Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann (9 October 1846 – 14 January 1908) was a Danish poet, dramatist and painter. He was a member of the Skagen artistic colony and became a figure of the Scandinavian Modern Breakthrough Movement.
Early yea ...
: ''Verschrieben'', Leipzig 1904 (translated together with Julia Koppel)
*
John Brymer
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
mit Zeichnungen von
Stewart Orr
William Stewart Orr (21 January 1872 – 1944) was a Scottish watercolour artist and book illustrator.
Born in Glasgow, the son of William Orr, a merchant there, the young Orr was educated at the Glasgow School of Art."ORR, Stewart", in Bernard ...
: ''Zwei lustige Seeleute'', Köln am Rhein 1905 Original: ''Two Merry Mariners''
Editor
* ''Steht auf ihr lieben Kinderlein'', Köln 1906 (published together with Jakob Loewenberg)
*
Friedrich Hebbel
Christian Friedrich Hebbel (18 March 1813 – 13 December 1863) was a German poet and dramatist.
Biography
Hebbel was born at Wesselburen in Dithmarschen, Holstein, the son of a bricklayer. He was educated at the ''Gelehrtenschule des Johanneu ...
: ''Meine Kindheit'', Hamburg 1903
* ''Das Büchlein Immergrün'', Cöln 1903
* ''Kriegsdichtungen'', Hamburg
** 1. ''Hoch, Kaiser und Reich!'', 1914
** 2. ''Unsere Helden'', 1915
** 3. ''Wir und Österreich'', 1915
** 4. ''Zu Wasser und zu Lande'', 1915
** 5. ''Feinde ringsum'', 1915
** 6. ''Von Feld zu Feld'', 1915
** 7. ''Fern vom Krieg'', 1916
** 8. ''Zum blutig frohen Reigen'', 1917
Literature
German language
* Oscar Ludwig Brandt: ''Gustav Falke''. Enoch Verlag, Hamburg 1917.
*
Friedrich Castelle
Friedrich Castelle (also known as Hans Dietmar, Fritz von Schonebeck or Hans Uhlenbrock; 30 April 1879 – 15 January 1954), was a Völkischer Nationalismus (Völkischer Nationalism, a German ethnic and nationalist movement) journalist and write ...
: ''Gustav Falke. Ein deutscher Lyriker''. Hesse und Becker, Leipzig 1909.
* Joachim Müller (ed.): ''Die Akten Gustav Falke und Max Dauthendey'', Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1970 (Aus dem Archiv der Deutschen Schillerstiftung; 15/16)
* Kurt Oppert: ''Gustav Falke. Darstellung seiner Persönlichkeit und Formanalyse seiner Gedichte nach allgemeinen Gesichtspunkten und im Vergleich zu andersartiger Lyrik''. Dissertation, Universität, Bonn 1925.
* Jens Resühr: ''Verskunstprobleme in der Lyrik Gustav Falkes''. Hamburg 1967.
* Ernst Ludwig Schellenberg: ''Gustav Falke''. Verlag für Literatur, Kunst und Musik, Leipzig 1908 (Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte; H. 55)
*
Heinrich Spiero Heinrich may refer to:
People
* Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
* Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
*Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...
: ''Gustav Falke. Ein Lebensbild''. Westermann, Braunschweig 1928.
* Gerhard Steiner: ''Stille Dächer, zarte Liebe. Die Jugendzeit des Dichters Gustav Falke in Hildburghausen''. Verlag Frankenschwelle Salier, Hildburghausen 1994, .
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1853 births
1916 deaths
Writers from Lübeck
German poets
German male poets
German-language poets