| Hugo Alexander Oelbermann | |
| Birth Date: | 4 October 1832 |
| Birth Place: | , Marienheide, Germany |
| Death Place: | Bad Godesberg, Bonn, Germany |
| Other Names: | Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, Nath. Faust |
| Occupation: | Poet, bookseller |
Hugo Alexander Oelbermann (or Ölbermann; 4 October 1832 – 1898) was a German poet and bookseller. His pseudonyms were Hugo von Müllenbach, Ernst Thränenlacher, and Nath. Faust.[1]
Oelbermann was born on 4 October 1832 in, Marienheide, Germany, the son of pastor Friedrich Oelbermann and Marianne von Wenckstern (née Komp).[2] The writer and journalist was his stepbrother.
Hugo received his education at a boys' boarding school and at a in Gummersbach. In 1848, he went to Barmen to apprentice under (b. 1807) as a bookseller. In Barmen, he met the poets Emil Rittershaus and Carl Siebel, with whom he founded the Wuppertal poets' circle.[3]
Later, after 1853, he worked as a bookseller in Königsberg, Gotha, Zurich, and Leipzig. In Leipzig, he also wrote for Die Gartenlaube magazine. On 19 October 1859, he asked Siebel to inquire with Friedrich Engels or Karl Marx whether they could financially support him.
In 1866, he helped to provision a statue for the tomb of Friederike Brion, made by the sculptor .[4] Oelbermann is said to have joined the "Young Germanic School" at one point, as stated in a publication about Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach.[5] [6] In 1882, he founded the short-lived (Bonn Monday Journal), which became a publishing house a few months later under the name (The Old Leaf).
Oelbermann died in 1898 in Bad Godesberg, Bonn, and was buried on November 2, 1898, in the .
His poem "Maienglöcklein" was set to music by Paul Hindermann.[7] His poem "O säh ich auf der Heide dort" was set to music by in his unpublished Opus 25.[8]
In the, letters from him to, the J. G. Cotta’sche Buchhandlung (publishing house), Lorenz Diefenbach, (1794–1877), Karl Gutzkow, Hermann Kletke, Adolf Stern, and others are preserved.
"Unter Hugo Oelbermann’s Präsidium thaten sich mit Emil R. Karl Siebel, K. G. Wilh. Wens, W. Langewiesche d. J. u. A., noch halbe Knaben, zum „Wupperbund“ für theoretische und praktische Pflege der „schönen Wissenschaften“ zusammen." ["Under Hugo Oelbermann's presidency, Emil R. Karl Siebel, K. G. Wilh. Wens, W. Langewiesche the Younger and others, still half boys, came together to form the 'Wupperbund' for the theoretical and practical cultivation of the 'fine sciences'."]