Wilhelm Weigand
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Wilhelm Weigand was a German
Neoromanticism and Realism
period poet and writer. He was born Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, but on May 2, 1888 he took the maiden name of his grandmother.
Germany
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Neoromanticism and Realism
Literary realism
Literary realism most often refers to the trend, beginning with certain works of nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors in various countries, towards depictions of contemporary life and society "as they were." In the spirit of...
period poet and writer. He was born Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, but on May 2, 1888 he took the maiden name of his grandmother.
Distinctions
- Johann-Peter-HebelJohann Peter HebelJohann Peter Hebel was a German short story writer and dialectal poet, most famous for his collection of alemannic tales Schatzkästlein des rheinischen Hausfreundes .-Life:...
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)