Wilhelm Weigand (13 March 1862, in Gissigheim, Baden-Württemberg – 20 December 1949, in

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) was a German Neoromanticism and

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period poet and writer. He was born Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, but on 2 May 1888 he took the maiden name of his grandmother.

Distinctions

* Johann-Peter-Hebel Prize (1942) * Honorary Citizen of the Community of Gissigheim

Selected works

* ''Der Frankenthaler'', novel (Leipzig, 1889) * ''Sommer'', poems (1894) * ''Der zwiefache Eros'', short stories (1896) * ''Die Löffelstelze'', novel (Tübingen, 1919) * ''Der Hof Ludwigs XIV. Nach den Denkwürdigkeiten des Herzogs von Saint-Simon'', history (c. 1922) * ''Der graue Bote'', short stories (Prague 1924) * ''Die Fahrt zur Liebesinsel'', novel (1928) * ''Die Gärten Gottes'', novel (1930) * ''Helmhausen'', novel (1938) * ''Welt und Weg. Aus meinem Leben'', autobiography (1940) * ''Die rote Flut. Der Münchener Revolutions- und Rätespuk 1918/19'', novel (Munich 1935) * ''Der Ring.: Schicksale um ein Familienkleinod.'' (Tübingen 1947) * ''Sebastian Scherzlgeigers Fahrt nach Kautzien – Auch ein Reiferoman'', novel (1948)

References

* ''This article is translated from that in the German Wikipedia'' 1862 births 1949 deaths 19th-century German poets People from the Grand Duchy of Baden German male poets 19th-century German male writers {{Germany-writer-stub