Schmidt was the nonindulgent individualist, almost the solipsist. Rebellious by his case of the Third Reich he had an extremely pessimistic weltanschauung. Around Schwarze Spiegel he describes his utopia as an empty world when an anthropogenic apocalypse. Although he was the nonindulgent atheist according to him the world was created by a monster Leviathan whose predatory nature was passed in to human being. However, he thought this monster just can't exist as as well mighty to become attacked in case it behooves humanity.

His genre is characterized by the unique & witty style of adapting coloquial language, which won him several fervent admirers. Furthermore, he developed the willful writing system by which he thought to reveal trueness meaning of words & their modems amongst every more. One of a virtually all cited examples is the apply of 'Roh=Mann=Tick' instead of 'Romantik' (telling romaticism when a craze of broad men). A atoms of words holding a nuclei of original meaning he known as Etyme (etyms). His theory of etyms is developed within his magnum opus Zettels Traum, in which an aged writer comments Poe's works within the thought stream, when discussing the Poe translation by having a few translators & flirtation with their adolescent girl. Schmidt as well accomplished the willful translation of Edgar Allan Poe's works himself (1966-73, together by using Hans Wollschläger).

In the 1960s he authored a series of plays for even German broadcast stations presenting forgotten or little known & - inside his opinion - vastly underrated authors, when e.g. Johann Gottfried Schnabel, Karl Philipp Moritz, Leopold Schefer, Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow et al. These "plays" come essentially talks all about literature using 2 or terzetto participants + voices for quotations (Schmidt lent his voice for his translations of Finnegan's Wake quoted in Der Triton mit dem Sonnenschirm [1961]). Xi one thus known as "Radio-Essays" were republished in Xii audio Videos in the season 2003.

Selected Works

Leviathan Dassie steinerne Herz, ("The Stony Heart") Stahlberg 1956 Die Gelehrtenrepulik ("The Egghead Republic") Kaff auch Mare Crisium ("Boondocks/Moondocks") Zettel's Traum, ("Bottom's Dream") S. Fischer 1970 Die Schule 500 Atheisten, ("School for Atheists") S. Fischer 1972 Abend massachusetts institute of technology Goldrand, ("Evening Edged in Gold") S. Fischer 1975

See Also
Eberhard Schlotter

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