Carl (Hermann) Busse(12 November 1872 – 3 December 1918) was a German lyric poet. He worked as a literary critic and published his own poetry and prose, occasionally under the pseudonymFritz Döring.
Life
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Busse was born in Lindenstadt near Birnbaum (todayMiędzychód) in the PrussianProvince of Posen(Poznań). He received his secondary education inWągrowiec(German: Wongrowitz). From 1893 he lived in Berlin and received a military education. In 1894 he studied philology, history, and philosophy at theHumboldt University of Berlinand in 1898 earned a doctorate from theUniversity of Rostockwhere he wrote a thesis on the poetry ofNovalisadvised by Wolfgang Golthier. Upon graduation, he was active as a freelance author and literary critic inBerlin.He was an associate editor of theDeutschen Wochenblatt,a journal for politics, art, and literature, and contributed to Leipzig publisher Velhagen & KlasingsMonatsheften.Busse was a founding member of the "Cartel of German Lyric Authors".
The composerHeinrich Kaspar Schmidincluded a setting Busse's poem "Schöne Nacht" in his Op. 9 songs of 1903. The song premiered on 18 June 1903 at the Munich Odeon in a concert of students from theAcademy of Musicin Munich with the composer at the piano. German composerLuise Schulze-Berghof(1889-1970) also set Busse’s text to music.
Busse belonged to a circle of writers supported by Ludwig Stollwerck, a Cologne chocolate magnate and entrepreneur. They helped design the Stollwerck firm's series of collectable scrapbooks and print albums, "Stollwerck's Sammel-Album". Other writers included poet "T. Resa" (Theresa Gröhe, née Pauli-Greiffenberg), zoology professorPaul Matschie,author Hans Eschelbach, journalistJulius Rodenberg,author Joseph von Lauff, novelistGustav Falke,and the poet Anna Ritter.
During theWorld War Iin 1916, Busse joined themilitiaand was decorated with anIron Cross,Second Class. He died in Berlin, in the1918 flu pandemic.Busse was buried in the Friedrichswerderscher Friedhof in Berlin's Kreuzberg district.
Busse married Paula Sara Jacobsen and had two daughters, Ute and Christine. In 1924, his widow rented the ground floor of their house at 25-6 Heidestrasse in Berlin's Steglitz district toDora DiamantandFranz Kafkaunder the name "Dr. Kaesboher". Heidestrasse was named the "Busseallee" in his honor in 1931. In the Nazi period, Paula Busse survived internment atTheresienstadt.
Busse's brother, Georg Busse-Palma, was also a writer.
Works
edit- Gedichte1892
- In junger Sonne1892
- Geschichte einer Jugend1892
- Jugendstürme1896
- Jadwiga1899
- Die Schüler von Polajewo1901
- Das Gymnasium zu Lengowo1907 (Roman)
- Geschichte der Weltliteraturzwei Bände, Bielefeld / Leipzig 1909–1912
- Sturmvögel1917
- Trittchen(aus dem Tagebuch eines Verwundeten)
- Der dankbare Heiligeund andere Novellen
- Deutsche Kriegslieder(1914/1915)
- Heilige Not(Ein Gedichtbuch 1910)
- Neue Gedichte(1892–1895)
- Aus verklungenen Stunden(Sketchbook 1919), Jugenderzählungen – collected by Paula Busse
- Träume1895
- Über Zeit und Dichtung(Aufsätze zur Literatur 1915)
- Vagabunden(Neue Lieder und Gedichte)
- Federspiel(westliche und östliche Geschichten)
- Im polnischen Wind(Ostmärkische Geschichten)
- Flugbeute(Neue Erzählungen)
- Annette von Droste
- Feuerschein(Novellen und Skizzen aus dem Weltkrieg)
- Klar Schiff(Seekriegslieder 1914/1915)
Georg Busse-Palma:
- Lieder eines Zigeuners(1899), with an introduction by Carl Busse
- Zwei Bücher Liebe und andere Gedichte(1903)
References
edit- kauperts directory Berlin street names
- H.K. Schmidt Archive, private communication from Walter Homolka
- "Paula Busse" in ghetto-theresienstadt.info
- "Paula Busse" in the German Dictionary of National Biography (DNB)
- Mark Harman, "Missing Persons: Two Little Riddles About Kafka and Berlin"
- Georg Busse-Palma in DNB
- Detlef Lorenz: "Reklamenkunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder", Reimer-Verlag, 2000.
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