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Horst Lange

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Horst Lange

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1904-10-06 (Liegnitz (now Legnica))
死没
1971-07-06 66歳
国籍
German
言語
German
宗教
Roman Catholic
居住地歴
Liegnitz → Weimar → Berlin → Breslau → Munich

経歴

職業
poet, novelist
活動期間
1925年〜1971年
影響を受けた人物
Günter Eich, Oda Schaefer, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Schopenhauer
影響を与えた人物
Wolfdietrich Schnurre, Günter Grass

学歴

Bauhaus school Weimar
Architecture-related
期間: 1921
国: Germany
Briefly, office job via uncle
University of Berlin
Art history, literature, theatre
期間: 1925-
国: Germany
University of Breslau
Art history
国: Germany

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Schwarze Weide

1937年 Magical realism

A novel about a protagonist's awakening sexuality, visions of murder, and a sect-dominated village, exploring fate, guilt, and taboo themes.

fateguiltsexualityapocalypse

Ulanenpatrouille

1940年 Novel

Explores submission to dark, formless powers and inevitable fate.

fatewar

Die Leuchtkugeln

1944年 Novella

Three stories about a doomed organist-composer Hermes on a path of self-discovery at the front.

self-discoverywar

Ein Schwert zwischen uns

1952年 Novel

Indictment of moral corruption and materialism in post-war Germany.

moral corruptionmaterialism

Verlöschende Feuer

1956年 Novel

A doomed young couple in Berlin during the air-raids of the war's end.

late wardoom

作風・主題

文体
NaturmagieMagical realismExpressionist elements
頻出モチーフ
fateguiltsexual deformityapocalyptic visionsdualism of light and darkness

健康

  • Loss of sight in one eye
    1940年代(第二次世界大戦中)
    Wounded during front service in WWII

評価・遺産

Key figure of Inner Emigration during the Third Reich. Provided important example of magical realism influencing post-war German literature like Schnurre and Grass. Marginalized post-war but revived by 1979 war diaries publication.

引用

  • Today no gods are visible. And if they were visible, one would not believe in them anymore. This mankind is therefore so helpless and so abandoned that it falls prey to its seducers without resistance, because they are no longer capable of separating good from evil.
    出典: War Diaries (1979年)
  • The apocalypse has already existed for a long time next to our bourgeois cosiness, the plush sofa. Fire falls from the skies and the disorder which man has caused is growing to infinity.
    出典: War Diaries (1979年)

豆知識

  • Briefly joined the Communist Party
  • Openly opposed Nazis, distributed anti-Nazi stickers
  • Practiced Inner Emigration with wife Oda Schaefer
  • Protagonist in Schwarze Weide allegedly modeled on Hitler
  • Met Paul Klee at Bauhaus