Heinrich Seidel
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Perlin, Germany
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, Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
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– 7 November 1906, Berlin
Berlin
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) was a German
Germany
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engineer
Engineer
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, poet
Poet
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and writer
Writer
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.
Life
Anhalter Bahnhof
The Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, approximately 600 metres southeast of Potsdamer Platz. Although the station was closed in 1952, the name lives on in the Berlin S-Bahn station of the same name.- Early days :...
railway station in Berlin, where he was the first to achieve the construction of its main hall roof
Roof
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with a free span of 62,5 m. However, in 1880 he gave up the profession to dedicate himself to writing.
In Berlin, Heinrich Seidel became a member of the Hütte Academic Association "A.V. Hütte" and the literary society Tunnel über der Spree
Tunnel über der Spree
Der Tunnel über der Spree was a German literary society based in Berlin, founded on 3 December 1827 by Moritz Gottlieb Saphir. Most active between 1840 and 1860, it acquired 214 members and influenced literary life in Berlin for more than seventy years....
. Under the pseudonym Johannes Köhnke he collaborated with Julius Stinde
Julius Stinde
Julius Stinde , German author, was born at Kirchnüchel in Holstein, the son of a clergyman.Having attended the gymnasium at Eutin, he was apprenticed in 1858 to a chemist in Lübeck. He soon tired of the shop, and went to study chemistry at Kiel and Giessen where he proceeded to the degree of...
(pseudonym Theophil Ballheim), Johannes Trojan and others in the Allgemeiner Deutscher Reimverein (ADR), where he achieved impressive achievements as an rhyme
Rhyme
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acrobat (literal translation of Reimakrobat).
The famous catchphrase "Dem Ingenieur ist nichts zu schwer" (to an engineer nothing is too difficult) was his personal motto
Motto
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and the first line of his writing Ingenieurlied (Song of an Engineer).
Works
- Aus der Heimat, Novellen, 1874
- Vorstadtgeschichten, 1880
- Leberecht Hühnchen, Jorinde und andere Geschichten, 1882
- Im Jahre 1984, 1884
- Neues von Leberecht Hühnchen und anderen Sonderlingen, 1888
- Natursänger, 1888
- Leberecht Hühnchen als Großvater, 1890
- Sonderbare Geschichten, 1891
- Von Perlin nach Berlin, Lebenserinnerungen, 1894 (new edition 2006)
- Leberecht Hühnchen (Gesamtausgabe), 1901
- Heimatgeschichten (Gesamtausgabe), 1902
- Reinhard Flemmings Abenteuer zu Wasser und zu Lande (3 Bde.), 1900-1906
- Ingenieurlied
External links
- Texte von Heinrich Seidel (Projekt Gutenberg-DE)
- Heinrich Seidel in der Chronik der HÜTTE
- Alfred Biese: Kurze Autobiographie
- Kurzbiografie zu Heinrich Seidel
- Über "Leberecht Hühnchen"