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Karl Friedrich Henckell
German writer
1864
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1929
country of citizenship: Germany
language of expression: German
educated at: University of Zurich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Heidelberg University, Humboldt University of Berlin
occupation: poet, author, literary critic, writer
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Karl Friedrich Henckell (17 April 1864, Hanover – 30 July 1929, Lindau) was a German author, poet, and publisher.
Henckell studied at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg, Munich, and Zurich. He lived abroad, in Switzerland, in Zurich and much later Muri (Bern), in Italy (Milan), and in Belgium (Brussels), and was well acquainted with the modern literatures of Europe, on which he frequently lectured, besides giving readings from his own poems. From 1896 until 1905 he was his own publisher, as well as the publisher of other literature, in Zurich and Leipzig. He settled in Munich in 1908. His poetry is revolutionary and socialistic in its tendency.
The composer Richard Strauss set nine of Henckell's poems to music, the first one in 1894, "Ruhe, meine Seele!" (Rest, my soul).
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16Moderne Dichtercharaktere
Programmatic poetry anthology by Wilhelm Arent
author: Wilhelm Arent, Hermann Conradi, Arno Holz, Karl Friedrich Henckell, Heinrich Hart, Julius Hart, Otto Erich Hartleben, Ernst von Wildenbruch
1885
Aus einem Notizbüchlein der Liebe. Nr. 32
1889 poem written by Karl Friedrich Henckell
author: Karl Friedrich Henckell
1889