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Carl Maria Weber
1890–1953
A German educator and writer remembered for bringing literature, teaching, and reform-minded ideas together in the first half of the 20th century. Writing under the pseudonym Olaf as well as his own name, he worked across essays, poetry, and other prose.
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Erwachen und Bestimmung: Eine Station: Gedichte
by Carl Maria Weber
About the author
Born in Düsseldorf on September 6, 1890, he became known in Germany as both a teacher and a man of letters. Reference works identify him as a writer, essayist, lyric poet, and educator, and several sources note that he also used the pseudonym Olaf.
His career is closely linked with education as well as literature, which gives his work a distinctive shape: he was not only writing for readers, but also thinking about culture, ideas, and learning more broadly. That combination helps explain why he appears in literary and biographical records as a figure who moved between intellectual life and the classroom.
He died in Prien am Chiemsee on August 15, 1953. Though he is much less widely known today than the composer with the similar name, surviving biographical records show a versatile German author whose work spanned poetry, essays, and pedagogy.