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Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele (24 July 1889 – 28 July 1915) was a German writer. He was born in Berlin, Germany, as a son of a wealthy Jewish banker. He was the partner of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau and was a musician and wrote over 100 various pieces.
Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele (* 24. Juli 1889 in Berlin; † 28. Juli 1915 am Narew) war ein deutscher Lyriker und Herausgeber
Ehrenbaum-Degele´s first poems appeared in Pan, Der Sturm and in Die Bücherei Maiandros in 1911 and these established him as an early representative of expressionism. About this time he befriended the poet Else Lasker-Schüler, through whom he met Paul Zech and other members of artistic circles.
Indeed, the love of Murnau's life, poet Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele, killed in the war, was the son of a Jewish banker."
Hans served as an officer in the German Army during the First World War and was killed fighting on the Eastern Front on 28th July 1915, while fighting on the Narew River in what is now Poland. After his death, the poet Else Lasker-Schüler immortalised him in her poetry collection entitled “Tristan”.
Schatten sickern stumpf auf Pflastersteine ... Tief in einem Schacht von kargem Licht ... Alle Gedichte von Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele beim poetischen Stacheltier auf einen Blick.
6 de jun. de 2012 · For Shepard, the deepest wound the war inflicted on Murnau was the death on the Eastern Front of his intimate friend Hans Ehrenbaum-Degele, on whom he once recklessly cheated. Baffled and hurt, Hans voluntarily enlists and soon gets himself killed, to the undying shame and mortification of Murnau, at least according to Shepard.
