Gustav Falke
Gustav Falke (11 January 1853 – 8 February 1916) was a German writer. Falke was born in Lübeck to merchant Johann Friedrich Christian Falke and his wife Elisabeth Franziska Hoyer. The historians Johannes and Jacob von Falke were his uncles, and the translator Otto Falke was his cousin. He worked in a bookstore in Hamburg from 1868, then moved to Essen, Stuttgart, and Hildburghausen. He returned to Hamburg in 1878, where he was educated in music by Emil Krause, to become a piano teacher. In 1888 he married his former piano student Anna Theen. They had two daughters and a son. Falke started to publish his works in the 1890s and was introduced into the Hamburg literary society around Otto Ernst, Jakob Loewenberg, Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath, and Detlev von Liliencron. Much of his work was impressionistic lyric poetry inspired by Liliencron, Richard Dehmel, and Paul Heyse. He also wrote conservative, "folk" pieces, following Eduard Mörike and Theodor Storm, and children's books in rhyme and prose. With the advent of World War I, he volunteered to write war propaganda as well, for which he was awarded the Prussian Roter Adlerorden. Composers such as Pauline Volkstein set Falke’s texts to music. Falke died in Hamburg. Aus dem Durchschnitt, Berlin 1892 Mynheer der Tod und andere Gedichte, Dresden u.a. 1892 Tanz und Andacht, München 1893 Harmlose Humoresken, München 1894 Der Kuß, München 1894 Zwischen zwei Nächten, Stuttgart 1894 Landen und Stranden, Berlin
- Hamburger Kinder, 1895
- Neben der Arbeit, 1895
- Hab ich nur deine Liebe, 1901 Zwei, 1896 Neue Fahrt, Berlin 1897 Der Mann im Nebel, Hamburg 1899 Mit dem Leben, Hamburg 1899 Gustav Falke als Lyriker, Hamburg 1900 Vogelbuch, Hamburg 1901 (together with Otto Speckter) Katzenbuch, Hamburg 1900 (together with Otto Speckter) Hohe Sommertage, Hamburg 1902 Putzi, Hamburg 1902 Aus Muckimacks Reich, Hamburg 1903 Zwischengerichte, Leipzig 1903 Der gestiefelte Kater, Hamburg 1904 Ausgewählte Gedichte, Hamburg 1905 Bübchens Weihnachtstraum. Melodramatisches Krippenspiel.
