Friedrich Schnack
Friedrich Schnack (born March 5, 1888 in Rieneck , Lower Franconia , † March 6, 1977 in Munich ), pseudonym: Charles Ferdinand , was a German poet , writer and journalist .
Life
After a commercial apprenticeship, Friedrich Schnack, brother of Anton Schnacks , worked in banking and trading from 1910, including at a Berchtesgaden trading house and a cooperative in Breslau . He studied botany , entomology , geology and art history at the Universities of Breslau and Würzburg . In the First World War soldier in Turkey , he was on the island 1918-19 Prinkipos imprisoned. After his return employee in Wroclaw and Mannheim , he became 1923 feuilleton editor of " Dresdner Latest News " and later the "Badische Zeitung new country" in Mannheim.
Since 1926 he lived as a freelance writer and employee of the press and radio in Nuremberg , Breslau, Hellerau , Heidelberg, Überlingen / Bodensee , Baden-Baden and Munich, among others . He was one of the 88 writers who signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 . Schnack was a participant in the Weimar Poets 'Meeting in 1941 , at which the European Writers' Association was founded.
Schnack first wrote expressionistically influenced natural poetry from the world of the Orient (including The Coming Reich , 1920), then poems in which the native Main Franconian landscape forms the thematic background ( Vogel Zeitvorbei , 1922). Schnack was more successful than his poetry with his numerous short stories and novels ( trilogy of novels from three ages : Sebastian im Wald , 1926; Beatus and Sabine , 1927; Die Orgel des Himmels , 1927; revised and summarized under the title Die Brennende Liebe , 1935) and - after the Second World War - with natural history and poetic non-fiction books. In addition to these books, his gardening books became very popular. For Walt Disney he wrote the text for the German booklet to the documentary Wunder der Prärie in 1955 and the foreword for an edition of Maria Sibylla Merian's 24 colored insect bites in 1954 .
Schnack was a member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and co-founder of the Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt .
Artistic creation
His novels and stories take place in distant countries as well as in his Franconian homeland . They include the world of dreams and fairy tales, but above all nature, which Schnack masterfully depicted in his poetry. In the romantic-fantastic novels and fairy tales , which are kept in a select lyric language, the portrayal of nature increasingly dominated. Characteristic is the equally scientific and poetic immersion in nature.
Awards
- 1965: Bavarian Order of Merit
- 1968: Bavarian poet thaler
- 1974: Large Federal Cross of Merit
Works
Poetry
- 1913 up, ancient day
- 1920 The coming empire
- 1922 Vogel Time passed
- 1924 The blue haunted house
- 1933 rosewood
- 1951 The years of life
- 1962 Cheerful botany
- Dream bird call
Novels
- 1923 The golden apples
- 1923 The fatal journey
- 1924 The wedding to Nobis
- 1926 Sebastian in the forest
- 1927 Beatus and Sabine
- 1927 The organ of heaven
- 1928 The magic car
- 1929 The star tree
- 1930 gold digger in Franconia
- 1932 The new country
- 1933 Click from the toy store
- 1934 The frozen angel
- 1936 The miraculous road
- 1938 Klick and the gold treasure
- 1954 The forest child. A little novel . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1939 - Insel-Bücherei 552/1
- 1955 world trip to Beryl
- 1970 Petronella in the cottage garden
Nature books
- 1928 The life of butterflies
- 1930 In the wonder realm of the butterfly
- 1937 Sibylle and the wild flowers
- 1939 Cornelia and the medicinal herbs
- 1940 The blissful gardener
- 1945 Clarissa with the wicker basket
- 1949 rural diary
- 1954 Love garden for Clementine
- 1955 Miracle of the Prairie
- 1956 The book Immergrün
- 1956 Aurora and Papilio
- 1960 The forest book
- 1961 Rose, Queen of the Gardens
- 1961 My favorite birds
- 1962 dream of paradise
- 1975 On the stairs of time. The year with Estrella
Travel books
- 1931 On distant island (1942 under the title: Big Island Madagascar )
- 1949 Vontaka, star of the steppe
- 1951 The painter from Malaya
- 1951 The Wizard of Zanzibar
- 1971 The beautiful days of life
- 1974 The man from Alaska
Fairy tales and legends
- 1921 dream fugue
- 1922 Klingsor
- 1931 butterfly legends
- 1932 butterfly legends
- 1934 land without tears. A picture sheet story . Insel Verlag, Insel Bücherei 459/1
Others
- 1956 Maria Sibylla Merian
- 1965 The world of work in art
- 1967 Franconian Universe
- 1968 His step went through many goals
literature
- Otto Schmitt-Rosenberger: "The poetic is always right". For the 100th birthday of Friedrich Schnack. In: Earth. Würzburg, 38, 1988, pp. 212-213.
- Otto Schmitt-Rosenberger: "To question the meaning of the world, of creation ...". On the 25th anniversary of Friedrich Schnack's death. In: Franconian house calendar and Caritaskalender. Würzburg 2002, pp. 62-64.
- Friedrich Schnack. In: Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Schnack in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Friedrich Schnack in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Little Book of Tropical Wonders. Colored engravings by Maria Sibylla Merian, preface by Friedrich Schnack. Insel-Verlag, 1954, pp. 27-50.
- ↑ "Das Waldkind" is the completely new version of the book "Der Sternenbaum" from 1928.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schnack, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ferdinand, Charles (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poet, writer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rieneck , Lower Franconia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 6, 1977 |
| Place of death | Munich |