Hanns von Gumppenberg


Hanns Theodor Wilhelm Freiherr von Gumppenberg was a German poet, translator, cabaret artist and theatre critic. He used the pseudonyms Jodok and Professor Immanuel Tiefbohrer.

Life

Gumppenberg was born in 1866 in Landshut, the son of Karl Freiherr von Gumppenberg, a postal clerk from Bamberg and a scion of the original Bavarian noble family of Reichsfreiherren von Gumppenberg. His mother was Engelberta von Gumppenberg, née Sommer, daughter of a geographer.
Both the father and already the grandfather were active in literature. The father wrote mostly dialectal drama and poetry, the grandfather belletristic works and witty Punch and Judy plays.
Gumppenberg received an education at the in Munich, where he ventured his first attempts at poetry. After the page school and the Abitur at the Wilhelmsgymnasium München he took up studies in philosophy and literary history in Munich in 1885. For reasons of better livelihood, however, Gumppenberg decided three years later to take up legal studies. He eventually abandoned law studies to work as a freelance writer and journalist. In 1894, he married Charlotte Donnerstag in Berlin, who died in 1895.
Gumppenberg was theatre critic of the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten from 1901 to 1909. From 1910 to 1913, together with Alfred Auscher, he was editor of the new artistic-literary journal Light and Shadow. Wochenschrift für Schwarz-Weiß-Kunst und Dichtung. Afterwards he worked as an author and editor for the magazine Jugend until his death. From 1902 onwards, Gumppenberg also regularly worked as a translator of foreign poetry, for example Swedish poems by Bellman, Fröding and Karlfeldt.
After 1889, Gumppenberg moved in the circles of the Munich modernists, to which Michael Georg Conrad and his followers belonged first and foremost. Together with Georg Hoffmann, Julius Schaumberger and Otto Julius Bierbaum, he founded the in 1890. In 1897, he married Helene Bondy, the daughter of the factory owner Ignaz Bondy and the Austrian women's rights activist Ottilie Bondy, in his second marriage.
In 1901, under the pseudonym Jodok, he became a co-founder of the Munich cabaret as a writer of poetry and drama parodies. His parodistic work also eventually made him famous. Gumppenberg's collection of parodies Das Teutsche Dichterross, 1st edition 1901, went through a total of 14 editions. However, he remained unsuccessful with the main part of his work – mostly worldview and idea dramas.
The First World War and inflation brought Gumppenberg into financial difficulties and from 1922 he was also in poor health. On 29 March 1928 he died in Munich of a heart condition at the age of 61.
Gumppenberg's estate is housed in the Monacensia literary archive of the city of Munich.

Work

Thorwald. München, 1888Apollo. J. Lindauer, München 1890Das dritte Testament – Eine Offenbarung Gottes. Poesse, Munich 1891
  • Kritik des Wirklich-Seienden – Grundlagen zu einer Philosophie des Wirklich-Seienden. Verlagsabtheilung der deutschen Schriftstellergenossenschaft, Berlin 1892Alles und Nichts – Dichtung in 3 Abtheilungen und 12 Bildern. Baumert & Ronge, Großenhain und Leipzig: 1894Die Minnekönigin. Reclam, Leipzig 1894Der fünfte Prophet. Verlag f. Deutsches Schriftthum, Berlin 1895Der erste Hofnarr. Baumert & Ronge, Großenhain und Leipzig 1899Das Teutsche Dichterross in allen Gangarten vorgeritten. Verl. der Deutsch-Französischen Rundschau, Munich 1901.Die Verdammten. E. Bloch, Berlin 1901Der Veterinärarzt – Mystodrama in einem Aufzug. in "Die elf Scharfrichter". Vo. 1,. Schuster und Loeffler, Berlin 1901Der Nachbar – Monodrama in einem Satz. in "Die elf Scharfrichter". Vol. 1,. Schuster und Loeffler, Berlin 1901Überdramen Th. Mayhofer Nachf., Berlin 1902Die Einzige. Callwey, Munich 1903Grundlagen der wissenschaftlichen Philosophie. Callwey, Munich 1903König Konrad I. Callwey, Munich 1904König Heinrich I. Callwey, Munich 1904Herzog Philipps Brautfahrt. Callwey, Munich 1904Aus meinem lyrischen Tagebuch. Callwey, Munich 1906Bellman-Brevier – Aus Fredmans Episteln und Liedern, Deutsch von Hanns von Gumppenberg, Verlag von Albert Langen, Munich 1909Beweis des Großen Fermat'schen Satzes für alle ungeraden Exponenten. Callwey, Munich 1913Schauen und Sinnen. G. Müller, Munich 1913Schaurige Schicksale, fälschende Fama und leere Lorbeeren – Dokumentarisches über meine Bühnenwerke. Callwey, Munich 1914Der Pinsel Yings. Callwey, Munich 1914Philosophie und Okkultismus. Rösl, Munich 1921Das Teutsche Dichterross in allen Gangarten vorgeritten. 13. u. 14. erw. Aufl. Callwey, München 1929Lebenserinnerungen. Aus dem Nachlass. Eigenbrödler Verlag, Berlin 1930