Hugo Oelbermann
Hugo Alexander Oelbermann was a German poet and bookseller. His pseudonyms were Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, and Nath. Faust.
Life
Oelbermann was born on 4 October 1832 in, Marienheide, Germany, the son of pastor Friedrich Oelbermann and Marianne von Wenckstern. The writer and journalist was his stepbrother.Hugo received his education at a boys' boarding school and at a in Gummersbach. In 1848, he went to Barmen to apprentice under as a bookseller. In Barmen, he met the poets Emil Rittershaus and Carl Siebel, with whom he founded the Wuppertal poets' circle.
Later, after 1853, he worked as a bookseller in Königsberg, Gotha, Zurich, and Leipzig. In Leipzig, he also wrote for Die Gartenlaube magazine. On 19 October 1859, he asked Siebel to inquire with Friedrich Engels or Karl Marx whether they could financially support him.
In 1866, he helped to provision a statue for the tomb of Friederike Brion, made by the sculptor. Oelbermann is said to have joined the "Young Germanic School" at one point, as stated in a publication about Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach. In 1882, he founded the short-lived Bonner Montagsblatt, which became a publishing house a few months later under the name Das Alte Blatt.
Oelbermann died in 1898 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, and was buried on November 2, 1898, in the.
Legacy
His poem "Maienglöcklein" was set to music by Paul Hindermann. His poem "O säh ich auf der Heide dort" was set to music by in his unpublished Opus 25.In the, letters from him to, the J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung, Lorenz Diefenbach, , Karl Gutzkow, Hermann Kletke, Adolf Stern, and others are preserved.