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Gustav Falke
Gustav Falke, 1905; photograph by Rudolf Dührkoop
Born	11 January 1853 Free City of Lübeck
Died	8 February 1916(1916-02-08) (aged 63) Hamburg, German Empire
Occupation	writer
Literary movement	impressionistic lyric poetry

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 [de] 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 [de], Jakob Loewenberg [de], Emil von Schoenaich-Carolath [de], 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.^[1]

Falke died in Hamburg.

• Holger Drachmann: Verschrieben, Leipzig 1904 (translated together with Julia Koppel)
• John Brymer mit Zeichnungen von Stewart Orr: Zwei lustige Seeleute, Köln am Rhein 1905 Original: Two Merry Mariners

• Steht auf ihr lieben Kinderlein, Köln 1906 (published together with Jakob Loewenberg)
• Friedrich Hebbel: Meine Kindheit, Hamburg 1903
• Das Büchlein Immergrün, Cöln 1903
• Kriegsdichtungen, Hamburg
  • 1. Hoch, Kaiser und Reich!, 1914
  • 2. Unsere Helden, 1915
  • 3. Wir und Österreich, 1915
  • 4. Zu Wasser und zu Lande, 1915
  • 5. Feinde ringsum, 1915
  • 6. Von Feld zu Feld, 1915
  • 7. Fern vom Krieg, 1916
  • 8. Zum blutig frohen Reigen, 1917

• Oscar Ludwig Brandt: Gustav Falke. Enoch Verlag, Hamburg 1917.
• Friedrich Castelle: Gustav Falke. Ein deutscher Lyriker. Hesse und Becker, Leipzig 1909.
• Joachim Müller (ed.): Die Akten Gustav Falke und Max Dauthendey, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1970 (Aus dem Archiv der Deutschen Schillerstiftung; 15/16)
• Kurt Oppert: Gustav Falke. Darstellung seiner Persönlichkeit und Formanalyse seiner Gedichte nach allgemeinen Gesichtspunkten und im Vergleich zu andersartiger Lyrik. Dissertation, Universität, Bonn 1925.
• Jens Resühr: Verskunstprobleme in der Lyrik Gustav Falkes. Hamburg 1967.
• Ernst Ludwig Schellenberg: Gustav Falke. Verlag für Literatur, Kunst und Musik, Leipzig 1908 (Beiträge zur Literaturgeschichte; H. 55)
• Heinrich Spiero: Gustav Falke. Ein Lebensbild. Westermann, Braunschweig 1928.
• Gerhard Steiner: Stille Dächer, zarte Liebe. Die Jugendzeit des Dichters Gustav Falke in Hildburghausen. Verlag Frankenschwelle Salier, Hildburghausen 1994, ISBN 3-86180-024-1.

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• Works by Gustav Falke at Open Library