Anton Dörfler

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anton Dörfler (born August 2, 1890 in Munich , † March 12, 1981 in Seeshaupt ) was a German writer and local poet.

Life

Anton Dörfler was born on August 2, 1890 in Munich. His ancestors on his father's side were farmers from Upper Franconia , his mother's artisans from Upper Palatinate . Nine years later he moved with his parents to Würzburg , where he spent a carefree youth. At the age of 16 he began his first attempts at writing with fairy tales , novels and plays.

Dörfler worked in various professions. At the age of 18 he worked as a teacher in Oberleinach, Gerbrunn, Rudolstadt in Thuringia , the Adam Würzburg Institute, in Heustreu, Schweinfurt , Nuremberg and Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg . He later worked as an actor , theater critic and editor of the Stuttgart magazine "Dielesen". Above all, however, he was always a freelance writer in Berlin , Hamburg , several small towns in Württemberg and Stuttgart .

At the First World War he participated in the Würzburg 9th Infantry Regiment ("Neuner") in the association of the 4th Bavarian. Infantry division.

As early as 1918 he published the German Stories from Three Worlds in Leipzig . He achieved great success in 1921 with the book Wunder und Feste der Schule zu Wunnentor, also published in Leipzig . A wider audience, he was in 1935 with the craft novel The millennial pitcher known in Jena appeared and for which he in the same year the Nazi cultural community Walter Seng the Nazi reinterpreted and from the chief officer NSDAP awarded Wilhelm Raabe Prize was awarded. Poetry readings took him all over Germany and also to France , Belgium , Holland , Hungary and Romania . In 1941 he settled in Seeshaupt on Lake Starnberg .

During the time of National Socialism he published a number of books that emphasized the value of the homeland and the presentation of mainly conservative virtues such as humility, patience and piety. These included non-political works, but also those whose distribution was restricted in the post-war period due to the content of National Socialist ideas in Austria . Like other authors, Dörfler also contributed to the volume of poetry Dem Führer, which was written on the occasion of the fiftieth birthday . Poems for Adolf Hitler . In the last stanza of the poem entitled Greetings from the Silent , in which he addresses Hitler, he addresses the Hitler salute , which is full of hot blessings :

“In the bell
ringing of your deed, even shy hearts shake punishing reasons.
And when the silent ones raise their greeting hand, it
is no less full of hot blessings. "

- Anton Dörfler (1939)

After the war, Dörfler was unable to continue his successes and was increasingly forgotten. He died on March 12, 1981 in Seeshaupt .

His son Walter Dörfler (1922–2000) became one of the most important German scene and stage designers from the 1960s to the 1980s, his grandson Ferdinand Dörfler works as an actor.

Works (selection)

  • German stories from three worlds, Leipzig 1918
  • Miracle and festival of the school at Wunnentor. Pedagogical idylls, Leipzig 1920
  • Heinz, a novel for children, Leipzig 1921
  • The way out of the well room, Roman, Berlin 1925
  • Poems, Nuremberg 1925
  • The millennial jug, Roman, Jena 1935
  • The call from the garden, story, Jena 1936
  • The Eternal Bridge, Roman, Jena 1937
  • Seven mirrors of love, stories, Jena 1938
  • Wendelin, Roman, Jena 1939
  • Würzburg the Sunday city, illustrated book, Bayreuth 1940
  • Street, wall and gun. 1941 as volume 16 in: Series of publications by the press department of Reich Minister Dr. Dead
  • The beautiful woman from Würzburg, Roman, Braunschweig 1941
  • Regine Amthor, Roman, Düsseldorf 1941
  • Music in a Bright Night, Stories, Berlin 1942
  • The rose miracle, Leipzig / Karlsbad 1943
  • Rest and grace, poems, Braunschweig 1947
  • No man's land of marriage, Roman, Düsseldorf 1949
  • Hour of the early stars, short stories, Düsseldorf 1949
  • Secret of the myrtle, Roman, Freiburg i.Br. 1949
  • Beloved Würzburg, Feldafing 1961
  • Patience in Life, Würzburg 1963
  • Youth according to the sundial. Cheerful memories, Volkach 1969
  • Poems and lyrical scenes, Feldafing 1976

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Anton Dörfler Entry in ders .: 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the classification of the Wilhelm Raabe Prize and its award winners in National Socialist cultural policy, cf. Horst Denkler : The Wilhelm Raabe Prize - A German Story. Radio essay. In: Hubert Winkels (Ed.): Rainald Goetz meets Wilhelm Raabe: the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize, its history and topicality. Wallstein Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3892444897 , pp. 20-46 (Dörfler is mentioned as the winner of the year 1935 on p. 33 in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Greetings from the silent. In: The Führer. Poems for Adolf Hitler. Edited by Karl Hans Bühner . Georg Truckenmüller Verlag, Stuttgart [1939], p. 48
personal data
SURNAME Dörfler, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and local poet
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1981
Place of death Seeshaupt , Upper Bavaria