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Joachim Ringelnatz, whose real name was Hans Bötticher, is known today primarily as the author of fun poems and creator of the anarchic figure of the sailor Kuttel Daddeldu. His other artistic work, however, has largely been forgotten. This includes his memoirs of the war years 1914-1918, published under the title "Als Mariner im Krieg" (As a Mariner in the War), in which Ringelnatz describes his wartime experience in detail and close to reality and provides an unusually authentic picture of the Imperial Navy at war apart from the proud ships of the line, which the author could only admire from a distance.
He himself went to sea on converted tugs and cutters - units that have so far received little attention in literature.
"Ringelnatz als Mariner im Krieg 1914-1918" is published to accompany the exhibition of the same name from 26 June.2003 to 11 January 2004 at the German Naval Museum in Wilhelmshaven. The volume places Ringelnatz's personal war experience in the context of the events of the First World War at sea and is at the same time a contribution to the history of his work. It opens with a biographical sketch in which Frank Woesthoff shows the importance of civilian and military seafaring for Ringelnatz's career. Werner Rahn provides an overview of the historical events Ringelnatz witnessed during the war years. In a profound and generally understandable manner, he traces the lack of orientation and weakness in decision-making of the naval leadership and its supreme commander, Germany's navy-loving Kaiser, as well as their consequences. Frank Möbus' contribution proves that Joachim Ringelnatz himself was able to reproduce details meticulously and realistically despite the ten years that lay between the end of the war and the writing of his wartime experiences. Ringelnatz was also unsparing in his treatment of himself. With his less heroic publication, he set a deliberate counterpoint to the shift to the right that the Weimar Republic experienced in those years. A tabular biography of the poet by Friederike Schmidt-Möbus rounds off the volume. Volume 4 of the series "Kleine Schriftenreihe zur Militär- und Marinegeschichte".
He himself went to sea on converted tugs and cutters - units that have so far received little attention in literature.
"Ringelnatz als Mariner im Krieg 1914-1918" is published to accompany the exhibition of the same name from 26 June.2003 to 11 January 2004 at the German Naval Museum in Wilhelmshaven. The volume places Ringelnatz's personal war experience in the context of the events of the First World War at sea and is at the same time a contribution to the history of his work. It opens with a biographical sketch in which Frank Woesthoff shows the importance of civilian and military seafaring for Ringelnatz's career. Werner Rahn provides an overview of the historical events Ringelnatz witnessed during the war years. In a profound and generally understandable manner, he traces the lack of orientation and weakness in decision-making of the naval leadership and its supreme commander, Germany's navy-loving Kaiser, as well as their consequences. Frank Möbus' contribution proves that Joachim Ringelnatz himself was able to reproduce details meticulously and realistically despite the ten years that lay between the end of the war and the writing of his wartime experiences. Ringelnatz was also unsparing in his treatment of himself. With his less heroic publication, he set a deliberate counterpoint to the shift to the right that the Weimar Republic experienced in those years. A tabular biography of the poet by Friederike Schmidt-Möbus rounds off the volume. Volume 4 of the series "Kleine Schriftenreihe zur Militär- und Marinegeschichte".
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- Books (first-hand)
- Author
- Huck, Stephan (Hrsg.)
- Title
- Ringelnatz als Mariner im Krieg 1914-1918
- Details
- Paperback, 21 bw-photos and 2 tables. 125 pp.
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