Born on November 3, 1871. His mother came from a noble family, the granddaughter of a banker, the daughter of a cavalry general. His father is a genre artist and battlelist, the son of a blacksmith, but a court painter of Frederick Franz II of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The healthy, brave and kind boy loved to tell stories about how he saw a mole in a golden crown in the garden or a dwarf in a white beard. From the age of four he wrote poems and fairy tales. Chocolate homeschooling.
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Born on November 3, 1871. His mother came from a noble family, the granddaughter of a banker, the daughter of a cavalry general. His father is a genre artist and battlelist, the son of a blacksmith, but a court painter of Frederick Franz II of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The healthy, brave and kind boy loved to tell stories about how he saw a mole in a golden crown in the garden or a dwarf in a white beard. From the age of four he wrote poems and fairy tales. Chocolate homeschooling. In school, problems with teachers, hatred of mathematics and discipline (that school is a kind of prison, you can read in his novels). The death of the father; material difficulties; in the house the tenants are French and English students. Taste for foreign languages and cultures, interest in English lyrics, love for Tennyson. The first verses are tender love verses: love for a neighbor named Lily (this name will wander from book to book). Already in August in verses “half-flowered dream”, and in September longing (Lily cheated, secretly married another). The yearning lasts two years. March 1891 – Certificate of maturity. Berlin, military service. Six weeks later, he was fired due to progressive myopia. A year and a half of law school, the dashing life of a corporation ... A few years later, the first classical texts appear, which provided Evers with a worthy place in the history of literature – two “golden” collections “Devil-possessed” and “Horrors”, some stories from them (“Hearts of Kings”, “Dead Jew”, “Tophar Bride”, “Spider”, “The Last Will of Stanislawa d’Asp”) may well claim the title of masterpieces. Fantasy competes in extraordinary with pain. Newspaper reviewers are delighted: America has E.A. Poe, France has Barbet d’Oreville, Germany has Hans Heinz Evers. An even more excellent master of syllable than an American, a more psychologist than a Frenchman, and a more fantastic than both put together. (O. Wolbrück, Teglihe Rundheu, Berlin). ... Evers endlessly travels, explores half the world, writes several books of travel essays (India and I, With My Eyes, etc.). The novels “The Apprentice of the Wizard” and “Alraune” are published. He writes a lot for the theater. War finds him in America; The New World interned Germans, and Evers spent 1916-20 years in a special camp for displaced persons. This affected his political mood: 1932 - the peak of nationalism in the work of Evers. By this time, two novels were published – “The Horseman in the German Night” and “”, glorifying the early Nazi semi-legendary heroes Gerhard Scholz and, accordingly, Horst Wessel. But the Nazis who came to power were not very useful in their adventurous and romantic interpretation of party history. From Evers and Horst did not make Gorky and “Mother”; the absence of anti-Semitic pogroms in these novels was already recognized as “destructive”. “You surround yourself with all sorts of Evers,” Rosenberg wrote to Goebbels in 1934. In 1935, all of his books were forbidden even to have, except Horst and The Horseman, which were forbidden only to sell (a curious gradation, we do not seem to have such). He could not leave Germany and in recent years he has stopped writing. The author of a hundred novels, a dozen novels, three dozen essays, heaps of prefaces and translations, and a hundred and sixty-eight (according to Schennewald) poems died of rapidly progressive senile tuberculosis on June 12, 1943, a few weeks before his Berlin apartment was bombed.