René Schickele

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René Schickele

René Schickele (4 August 1883 – 31 January 1940) was a German-French writer, essayist and translator.

Biography

Schickele was born in Obernai, Alsace, the son of a German vineyard owner and police officer and a French mother. He studied literature, history, science and philosophy in Strasbourg, Munich, Paris and Berlin. Together with Otto Flake and Ernst Stadler, he published several magazines as well as poetry. His work as a writer is characterized by tension between French and German culture in Alsace. After Flake's marriage to Dr. Minna Flake ended in 1911, Schickele had a daughter with Minna in 1917, Renate "Renée" Miriam Flake.[1]

After the First World War, he moved to Badenweiler, remaining passionately committed to the understanding between Germany and France. In Badenweiler he met Annette Kolb and Emil Bizer. As early as 1932 he became aware of the risk of being arrested by the Nazis and emigrated to Sanary-sur-Mer in the South of France. He only wrote one book in French, Le Retour (1938), expressing his disappointment over the failure of reconciliation between Germany and France and establishing his painful decision for the Democratic France. He died of heart failure in Vence a few months before the invasion of the German army.[2]

Schickele was the grandfather of the American composer Peter Schickele.[citation needed]

Schickele's most famous work is the novel trilogy Das Erbe am Rhein (1925–31): Maria Capponi (1925), Blick auf die Vogesen (1927) and Der Wolf in der Hürde (1931[2]).

Works (selection)

  • Sommernächte. Straßburg 1902.
  • Pan. Sonnenopfer der Jugend. Straßburg 1902.
  • Mon Repos. Berlin, Leipzig 1905.
  • Voltaire u. seine Zeit. Berlin, Leipzig 1905.
  • Der Ritt ins Leben. Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, 1906.
  • Der Fremde. Berlin 1909.
  • Weiß u. Rot. Berlin, 1910.
  • Meine Freundin Lo. Berlin 1911. (Erweiterte Fassung 1931)
  • Schreie auf dem Boulevard. Berlin 1913.
  • Benkal der Frauentröster. Leipzig 1914.
  • Die Leibwache. Leipzig 1914.
  • Mein Herz mein Land. Leipzig 1915.
  • Das Glück. Rudolstadt 1919.
  • Der neunte November. Berlin 1919.
  • Die Genfer Reise. Berlin 1919
  • Wir wollen nicht sterben! München 1922.
  • Ein Erbe am Rhein. Berlin 1925 (Späterer Titel: Maria Capponi; Band 1 von Das Erbe am Rhein).
  • Symphonie für Jazz. Berlin 1925.
  • Blick auf die Vogesen. Berlin 1927 (Band 2 von Das Erbe am Rhein).
  • Der Wolf in der Hürde. Berlin 1931 (Band 3 von Das Erbe am Rhein)
  • Die Witwe Bosca. Berlin 1933.
  • Liebe und Ärgernis des D. H. Lawrence. 1935
  • Die Flaschenpost. Amsterdam 1936.
  • Le Retour. 1938.
  • Werke in 3 Bänden, herausgegeben von Hermann Kesten. Köln, Berlin 1959.
  • Überwindung der Grenze. Essays zur deutsch-französischen Verständigung. Herausgegeben von Adrien Finck. Kehl, Straßburg, Basel 1987.
  • Großstadtvolk Jahr: k.A.

Literature

References

  1. . Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  2. ^ a b "René Schickele | German writer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 20 August 2020.

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