German Historical Novelists - Wilhelm Hnermann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Felix Dahn, Franziska Von Reitzenstein, Georg Ebers, Wilhelm Meinhold (Paperback)

Chapters: Wilhelm Hnermann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Felix Dahn, Franziska Von Reitzenstein, Georg Ebers, Wilhelm Meinhold, Willibald Alexis, Karl Zuchardt. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Wilhelm Hnermann (28 July 1900, Kempen, Germany - 28 November 1975) was a German priest and writer, best known for his novelized biographies of Roman Catholic saints. In 1923 Hnermann was ordained to the priesthood and started serving in Essen in the Diocese of Aachen. His first play, the tragedy Childrens Crusade (Der Kinderkreuzzug), was published in 1931, and in 1936 he made a breakthrough with the biographical novel on the Moravian-German Redemptorist Clement Maria Hofbauer. In the same year, the transfer of mortal remains of the saintly missionary Damien de Veuster from a Hawaiian leper colony to his native Belgium inspired Hnermann to compose a biographical novel about him (Priester der Verbannten). Hnermann was born, spent his childhood and served for some time near Flanders that he loved and knew quite well. Thus in the novel about the Flemish Father Damien he introduced his own deep sympathies and concerns about the then rather culturally oppressed Belgian Flemings, while at the same time showing how selfless devotedness, which Father Damien personified, transcended the narrow national and racial borders. It was possible to interpret the novel in different ways: German and Flemish nationalists could take it as a support of Germanic Flemings against Romance Walloons, but the majority of other Europeans understood it as an affecting story about the unshakable love and patience of the Catholic missionary. Be that as it may, the novel was soon translated into numerous European and non-European languages, and also determined his writing orientation for t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23274837