Anton Schnack

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Anton Schnack (born July 21, 1892 in Rieneck , Lower Franconia , † September 26, 1973 in Kahl am Main ) was a German writer.

biography

The younger brother of the writer Friedrich Schnack was also in Rieneck, the third child of a police station - commander born. His father's official transfers took Schnack to Dettelbach , Kronach and Hammelburg , where he finally graduated from the Progymnasium (predecessor of the Frobenius Gymnasium ). After various activities as a journalist a . a. in Halberstadt and Bolzano , and whistles took 1915 / 1916 until his wounding on World War part. After the war ended, he worked as an editor in Darmstadt and began to publish his first poems . From 1920 to 1925 he worked as a feature editor and theater critic for the Neue Badische Landes-Zeitung in Mannheim and married Maria Glöckler on October 24, 1924 . He then went on extensive trips abroad, which took him to France , Italy and Dalmatia . After another job in Mannheim and several moves, the Schnack couple settled in Berchtesgaden until 1933 . He was one of the 88 writers who signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler in October 1933 .

In the year 1937 after Frankfurt moved, Schnack was in 1944 for Wehrmacht confiscated. After a short US imprisonment, he finally settled in Kahl am Main , where he died on September 26, 1973 .

Literary work

As a writer, Anton Schnack devoted himself above all to poetry and small prose pieces that were published in various collections such as “ The Colorful House Postille ” (1938), “ Encounters in the Evening ” (1940) etc. In addition to various short stories , only two novels have been published by him .

Schnack is valued as a master of poetic miniatures, who focused his gaze on the little things and the trivialities of everyday life and awakened them to an almost sensually perceptible life through his art of words.

In 1968 he was awarded the Bavarian Poet Thaler by the Munich tower writers .

Even more than that of his brother Friedrich Schnack, his work has been largely forgotten today. All publications were previously only available in antiquarian form. Only in 2003, on the 30th anniversary of his death, was a two-volume edition published by Elfenbein-Verlag . Hartmut Vollmer worried.

His work Encounters in the Evening was translated into Korean in the 1970s and used in school lessons.

Works

Poetry

  • 1919 stanzas of greed
    The adventurer
    The thousand laughs
  • 1920 Tier wrestled tremendously with Tier
  • 1936 The message in a bottle
    The outcasts
  • 1947 The ad reader
  • 1948 lunch wine
  • 1953 That lady who ...

prose

  • 1934 calendar cantata
  • 1935 Small reader
  • 1937 The good afternoon
  • 1938 The colorful house postil
  • 1940 encounters in the evening
  • 1941 youth legend
  • 1946 Robinson's fishing rod
    Arabesques around the ABC
    Girl medallions
  • 1949 Fantastic geography
  • 1951 The Franconian year
  • 1954 letter game
  • 1956 The journey out of longing
    Flirt with everyday life
  • 1957 Breviary of Tenderness
  • 1961 Beautiful girls' names
  • 1964 Wine trip to Franconia

Novels

  • 1936 migratory birds
  • 1937 The gloomy Franz

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Anton Schnack 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

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personal data
SURNAME Schnack, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rieneck , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1973
Place of death Bald on the Main