Das Teufelsmoor des Rainer Maria Rilke: wegmarken - Softcover

Iven, Mathias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3948114153 ISBN 13: 9783948114152

Publisher: Edition A.B.Fischer, 2023

Synopsis

It was the painter Heinrich Vogeler who introduced Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1927) to Worpswede. In the spring of 1898, Vogler invited the poet to visit him in Bremen. From there, they undertook a trip to the northeast of Devil's Moor. In August 1900, Rilke was a guest at Vogeler's Barkenhoff for almost six weeks, where he met Fritz Mackensen, Otto Modersohn, Fritz Overbeck and other artists. In addition, the young painter Paula Becker and the sculptor Clara Westhoff fascinated him. The time in Worpswede gripped him so that he recorded in his diary at the end of September 1900: "Da entschloß ich mich, in Worpswede." But just a few days later he returned to Berlin to prepare for another Russia trip. Wistfully he wrote to Clara Westhoff: "Your home was to me, from the first moment, more than just a kind stranger. Was just home, the first home in which I saw people live... " Finally, Rilke also found his home in the North German moor landscape, where he founded a house stand with Clara Westhoff in Westerwede. In December 1901, their common daughter, Ruth, was born - Rilke was happy. But happiness did not last long. Already in the summer of 1902 he left wife and child and went to Paris. His restlessness was to lead Rilke through half Europe in the years to come, and yet he returned to the devil's moor one time or another. Mathias Iven embarks on the footsteps of the poet and his lifelong fascination on the moor and heath landscape around Worpswede, the only area where he had something like a home. Angelika Fischer presents in impressive black and white photographs the place and surroundings of Worpswede, which became the source of great poetry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edition A.B.Fischer
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3948114153
• ISBN 13: 9783948114152
• Binding: Perfect Paperback