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Horst Wolfram Geißler (* June 30 1893 in Wachwitz; † April 20 1983 in Munich) was a German writer.

Biography
Geißler was born the son of the narrator Max Geißler. After high school he studied in Kiel and Munich and received his doctorate with a thesis on Grillparzer and Schopenhauer to Dr. phil. Horst Wolfram Geißler became famous in 1921 for his novel The Dear Augustine. He lived in Munich since 1912 and from 1947 in Hechendorf am Pilsensee (Upper Bavaria).

He published his first novel in 1916. In the period that followed he produced further narrative works. These either had a historical and cultural-historical background, or were related to the present and mostly showed life from its bright side.

His most famous novel character, the "dear Augustine", he grew up in the rectory of Wasserburg on Lake Constance. It was Geißler's express wish to find his last rest in the cemetery in Wasserburg am See next to the St. Georgs Church. His grave, designed in the Biedermeier style, can be found immediately to the left of the entrance, still under the southern spreading branches of the large peace oak from 1871, which stands in front of the cemetery.

Horst Wolfram Geißler is represented with his Dear Augustin in the Kindlers Literatur Lexikon. Quoting from it: "The great success of the work (the German edition is now approaching the million) is due not least to the accurate illustration of German peculiarities and to Geißler's transparent, relaxed diction : For three decades the novel has therefore been reading German at American universities used. ”(Richard Mellein in the KLL).

Numerous translations made Geißler's work known abroad. His novels and short stories are distributed in well over two million copies.

His book Der liebe Augustin was successfully filmed in 1959.

Honors

 * 1961: Bavarian Order of Merit
 * 1974: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
 * Honorary Citizen of the City of Wasserburg am Bodensee

Novels

 * Der erste Biedermeier, 1915
 * Der letzte Biedermeier, 1916
 * Das Lied vom Wind, 1916
 * Der ewige Hochzeiter, 1917
 * Das Glück, 1919
 * Wer ist der Gral?, 1920
 * Der liebe Augustin. Die Geschichte eines leichten Lebens, 1921; Sanssouci, Zürich 1993, ISBN 3-7254-1020-8
 * Entweder – oder, 1926
 * Die sieben Sonderbaren, 1926
 * Der Puppenspieler, 1929
 * Weiß man denn, wohin man fährt? (späterer Titel: Der blaue Traum), 1930
 * Die Dame mit dem Samtvisier, 1931
 * Sankt Nimmerleins Insel, 1931
 * Lilian sorgt für Durcheinander, 1932
 * Georgine ganz allein, 1933
 * Kleines Fräulein im Winterparadies, 1934
 * Der Weg ins Wunderbare, 1934
 * Der Prinz und sein Schatten, 1935
 * Die Glasharmonika, 1936
 * Der unheilige Florian, 1938
 * Das Wunschhütlein, 1939
 * Menuett im Park, 1940
 * Frau Mette, 1940
 * Wovon du träumst, 1942
 * Nymphenburg, 1947
 * Odysseus und die Frauen, 1947
 * Sie kennen Aphrodite nicht, 1948
 * Grillenkonzert, 1949
 * Das Schiff Mahayana, 1951 (späterer Titel: Die Frau, die man liebt, 1959)
 * Der ewige Hochzeiter. Ein Spitzweg-Roman, 1952
 * Alles kommt zu seiner Zeit, 1953
 * In einer langen Nacht. Kriminalroman, 1954; Sanssouci, Zürich 1998, ISBN 3-7254-1124-7
 * Frag nicht zuviel, 1955
 * Das Mädchen im Schnee, 1957
 * Der seidene Faden, 1957
 * Lady Margarets Haus, 1959
 * Schlafittchen, 1959
 * Das Lächeln des Leonardo, 1960
 * Königinnen sind so selten, 1960
 * Der Sternsaphir, 1961
 * Wo schläft Kleopatra?, 1965; Sanssouci, Zürich 1997, ISBN 3-7254-1114-X
 * Ein Schwarzes und ein Weißes, 1968
 * Odysseus und Penelope, 1970
 * Über die Erde hin, 1971
 * Der Geburtstag, 1973
 * Aus dem violetten Samtbeutel, 1975

Novels, short stories

 * Die Rosen der Gismonda, 1917
 * Der Zauberlehrling, 1918
 * Jungfer Durchlaucht, 1925
 * Traum in den Herbst und Anakreons Grab, 1927
 * Karneval in Venedig, 1942
 * Der Astrolog, 1948
 * Begegnung in Venedig, 1949
 * Die Wandlung des Antonio, 1953
 * Gondelfahrt, 1974
 * Die Marquise von Manzera, 1976
 * Melodien der Landstraße, 1979

Books

 * Der Sprung über den Schatten, 1935

Diaries

 * Das Orakel, 1977
 * Mein fliegender Teppich, 1978

Books

 * Repetitorium der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Ein chronologischer Grundriß, 1917
 * Panzer im Osten. Vom Kampfe. Division in Sowjetrußland, 1943
 * Der ewige Tempel. Studien zur Geschichte, zur Entwicklung und zu den Grundgedanken der Astrologie, 1949
 * Neu aufgelegt als: Astrologie. Geschichte – Entwicklung – Bedeutung. Grundgedanken. Sanssouci, Zürich 1982

As editor

 * Die Gestaltungen des Faust. Die bedeutendsten Werke der Faustdichtung seit 1587, München 1927; Nachdruck Olms, Hildesheim 1974, ISBN 3-487-05255-5
 * Die Schönheit der deutschen Sprache, 1929

Literature
Werner Dobras: Geißler and dear Augustin. In: Bodensee-Hefte, Wil, 1993, 6, pp. 30-33 Peter Kramer: Where dear Augustine lived. A novel by Horst Wolfram Geißler that embodies the essence of the landscape at the lake. In: Approaches to Lindau. Famous authors in and around the island town, Montaigne, Strindberg , Hesse , Geißler, Walser and others , ed. v. Manfred Hagel. Signature, Lindau 1996, pp. 50-65, ISBN 3-9804163-1-3 Manfred Bosch : "With a wonderful luminosity backwards ..." Horst Wolfram Geißler and the most successful Bodensee novel of the 20th century. In: Bohème am Bodensee. Literary life at the lake from 1900 to 1950. Libelle, Lengwil am Bodensee 1997, pp. 233-235, ISBN 3-909081-75-4

Weblinks

 * Kurzbiographie
 * http://www.museum-im-malhaus.de/horst-wolfram-geissler.html
 * Kurzbiographie
 * http://www.museum-im-malhaus.de/horst-wolfram-geissler.html

Individual records
Category:Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Category:20th-century literature Category:German-language literature Category:Novels Category:Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Merit Category:1893 births Category:1983 deaths Category:Men