 Arno Schmidt's house in Bargfeld.
 Schmidt's grave in the garden of his house in Bargfeld. Arno Schmidt (January 18, 1914 - June 3, 1979) was a German author and translator. If you hold the copyright to an image (e. ...
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Arno Schmidts house at Bargfeld Bargfeld is a hamlet of about 190 inhabitants near Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany, documented since 1056, now belonging to the village municipality Eldingen. ...
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is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...
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Biography
Born in Hamburg, Schmidt was a strict individualist, almost a solipsist. Disaffected by his experience of the Third Reich, he had an extremely pessimistic world view. In Schwarze Spiegel, he describes his utopia as an empty world after an anthropogenic apocalypse. Although he was a strict atheist, he maintained that the world was created by a monster called Leviathan, whose predatory nature was passed on to humans. Still, he thought this monster could not be too powerful to be attacked, if it behooved humanity. This article is about the city in Germany. ...
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Solipsism (from the Latin ipse = self and solus = alone) is the metaphysical belief that only oneself exists, and that existence just means being a part of ones own mental states — all objects, people, etc, that one experiences are merely parts of ones own mind. ...
Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...
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Destruction of Leviathan. 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré. Leviathan (Hebrew: , Standard Tiberian ; Twisted; coiled) was a Biblical sea monster referred to in the Old Testament (Psalm 74:13-14; Job 41; Isaiah 27:1). ...
His writing style is characterized by a unique and witty style of adapting colloquial language, which won him a few fervent admirers. Moreover, he developed a willful orthography by which he thought to reveal the true meaning of words and their connections amongst each other. One of the most cited examples is the use of 'Roh=Mann=Tick' instead of 'Romantik' (revealing romanticism as the craze of unsubtle men). The atoms of words holding the nuclei of original meaning he called Etyme (etyms).
His theory of etyms is developed in his magnum opus Zettels Traum, in which an elderly writer comments on Edgar Allan Poe's works in a stream of consciousness, while discussing a Poe translation with a couple of translators and flirting with their teenage daughter. Schmidt also accomplished a willful translation of Edgar Allan Poe's works himself (1966-73, together with Hans Wollschläger). Magnum opus (sometimes Opus magnum, plural magna opera), from the Latin meaning great work,[1] refers to the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer, and most commonly one who has contributed a very large amount of material. ...
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ...
In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique which seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes. ...
Hans Wollschläger (born March 17, 1935) is a German writer, translator, historian, and editor of German literature. ...
As none of his works sold more than a few thousand copies, he lived in extreme poverty. During the last few years of his life, Arno Schmidt was financially supported by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, the heir of a German cigarette manufacturer, who was one of his admirers.
In the 1960s he authored a series of plays for German radio stations presenting forgotten or little known and - in his opinion - vastly underrated authors, as e.g. Johann Gottfried Schnabel, Karl Philipp Moritz, Leopold Schefer, Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow, et al. These "plays" are basically talks about literature with two or three participants plus voices for quotations (Schmidt lent his voice for his translations of Finnegans Wake quoted in Der Triton mit dem Sonnenschirm [1961]). 11 of these so called "Radio-Essays" were republished on 12 audio CDs in the year 2003. The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...
Karl Philipp Moritz (September 15, 1756 in Hameln - June 26, 1793 in Berlin) was a German author and writer of the Sturm und Drang and classical literary periods, influencing early German Romanticism as well. ...
Leopold Schefer (July 30, 1784 - February 16, 1862), German poet, novelist, and composer, was born at Muskau in Lower Lusatia, and educated at the gymnasium of Bautzen. ...
Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (17 March 1811 – 16 December 1878) was a German writer notable in the Young Germany movement of the mid-19th century. ...
For the street ballad which the novel is named after, see Finnegans Wake. ...
He died in Celle. Celle is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany. ...
American entrepreneur and technology writer Dave Winer is a grandnephew of Arno Schmidt. Dave Winer (b. ...
Selected works - Leviathan (1949)
- Das steinerne Herz ("The Stony Heart", 1956)
- Die Gelehrtenrepulik ("The Egghead Republic")
- Kaff auch Mare Crisium ("Boondocks/Moondocks")
- Zettels Traum ("Bottom's Dream", 1970)
- Die Schule der Atheisten ("School for Atheists", 1972)
- Abend mit Goldrand ("Evening Edged in Gold", 1975)
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