Max Herrmann-Neisse - Berlin, Germany - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

The plaque is located on the building that is now has a Look 54 shop on its ground floor at Kurfürstendamm 215. The plaque includes a relief of Max Hermann Neisse's profile and is inscribed as follows:

"In diesem haus wohnte der dichter Max Herrmann-Neisse *1886 Neisse O/S †1941 London"

[English translation:] "In this house the poet Max Herrmann-Neisse lived *1886 Neisse O/S †1941 London"

ABOUT THE MAN:

"Herrmann-Neisse, Max (Neiße, 1886-1941, London), was in reality Max Herrmann, to which name he added the name of his birthplace. He studied literature and history of art in Munich and Breslau, then turned to journalism and writing, first in his Silesian native city, and from 1917 in Berlin. He wrote mainly poetry and, influenced by Expressionism, contributed to Die Aktion; other periodicals include R. Schickele's Die weißen Blätter. His poetry reflects his own sense of isolation, most poignantly felt after his emigration in 1933. He showed a preference for traditional forms and rhymed verse. He settled in London and, deprived of his German citizenship in 1938, wrote the defiant poem ‘Ewige Heimat’, for the homeland will live on ‘in the song of its banished sons’ (‘in dem Lied verstoßner Söhne’). His poetry appeared in about 12 collections, including Empörung, Andacht, Ewigkeit (1918), appealing for the brotherhood of man, Im Stern des Schmerzes (1924), Einsame Stimme (1927), and Um uns die Fremde (1936). Other volumes include Letzte Gedichte, ed. Leni Herrmann (posth. 1941), and select editions, Erinnerung und Exil (1946), Im Fremden ungewollt zuhaus, ed. H. Hupka (1956), and Lied der Einsamkeit. Gedichte von 1914-1941, ed. F. Grieger (1961). Of his three plays, the comedy Joseph der Sieger (1919) achieved success. He also wrote two novels, Cajetan Schaltermann (1920) and Der Flüchtling (1921), and a number of stories which appeared in the collections Hilflose Augen (1920) and Die Begegnung (1925). Gesammelte Werke (9 vols.), ed. K. Völker, appeared 1986 ff.

In 1927 Herrmann-Neiße received the Eichendorff Prize, in 1933 the Hauptmann Prize."

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