Auguste Supper

Auguste Supper, 1909 or earlier, portrait drawing by Karl Bauer

Emil Stumpp Auguste Supper (1926)

Auguste Supper (born January 22, 1867 in Pforzheim as Auguste Luise Schmitz , † April 14, 1951 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German writer .

Life

Auguste Supper was the daughter of an innkeeper and grew up in Calw . She attended elementary school and a secondary school for girls . In 1887 she married the lawyer Otto Heinrich Supper and moved with him to Ulm . From 1890 the couple lived in Stuttgart , from 1896 in Calw and from 1905 back in Stuttgart. After the death of her husband in 1911 Auguste Supper first lived in Korntal , from 1921 in the rectory in Hohengehren and finally from 1923 in Ludwigsburg . Supper was buried in the Brethren part of the new Korntaler cemetery at the side of her husband.

Auguste Supper was a widely read author during his lifetime; Especially her books, which had been published by C. Bertelsmann Verlag since 1936 , achieved high editions, as their content corresponded to National Socialist ideology . In 1918 the author received the Great Gold Medal for Art and Science of the Württemberg Crown and in 1924 the Marie-von-Ebner-Eschenbach Prize . In recognition of her ideological support, she had been an honorary senator of the Reichsschrifttumskammer since 1935 . In a public event, the city of Pforzheim honored the present Supper on the occasion of her 70th birthday as a "poet of German style, German love and German loyalty"; congratulations rang out in a "Sieg Heil on leaders, the poet and people and our country." In 1938 she became a member of the newly founded Swabian poet circle and in 1942 finally to the Swabian Poet price excellent. Suppers' Memoirs published in 1937 under the title From Half-Past Days were on the first “ List of Literature to be Separated ” published in 1946 in the Soviet occupation zone . In 1954 a street in Ludwigsburg and Korntal was named after the writer, later also in Calw (1963) and Pforzheim (1975).

During her time in Korntal, Auguste Supper maintained contacts with the local Brethren Church and Johannes Hesse . Later, the relationship to pietism gave way to an increasingly biblical and subjectivist attitude, influenced by Christoph Schrempf , Carl Jatho and Gottfried Traub , among others . She expressed severe criticism of the churches and from 1938 on was a member of the anti-Semitic German Christians , who saw in Hitler the savior sent by God.

reception

Auguste Supper began writing poetry while he was still at school and has been publishing literary texts since the 1890s . Her work consists mainly of novels and short stories , most of which are located in the Black Forest region. Even her early work was marked by a decided anti-Catholicism as well as ethnic , anti-Semitic and - especially during the First World War - war-glorifying tendencies. She expressed her deep admiration for the last King of Württemberg, Wilhelm II , even after his death in 1921, but then transferred this to Adolf Hitler , whom she regarded as a savior . In a poem entitled “The Savior”, for example, which she published in 1939, the year of Hitler's 50th birthday, the last stanza reads:

Now we look, blinded but ready,
into the dawn of Germany's greatest time.
Blessed be the Savior who broke their path!
God met us in his coming.

Even after the collapse of the Third Reich , she remained true to her National Socialist convictions. For them, Hitler's failure was the work of traitors. She rejected democracy . During their denazification proceedings , which were carried out in front of the Ludwigsburg Chamber of Arbitration, there was initially a temporary suspension in February 1948 due to a medically certified inability to stand trial. The proceedings ended by verdict of July 21, 1948 with a classification in the category followers and a measure of atonement in the amount of DM 50.00, although the mayor's office of Ludwigsburg and the committee of political parties had previously officially declared at the request of the ruling chamber that Supper had “through their literature helped National Socialism ”or“ not insignificantly supported ”.

There are certain continuities in the literary appreciation of the post-war period. In 1951, on the occasion of Supper's death, an obituary appeared in the Swabian homeland , edited by editor Oskar Rühle , under the abbreviation “HL”, in which, for example, the “blood inheritance of the Swabian mother from the peasant family” is mentioned. Hellmuth Langenbucher , who was the chief editor of the Schwaben magazine as early as 1942, is probably hiding behind the author's abbreviation . Monthly Issues for Volkstum und Kultur, together with his deputy at the time, Oskar Rühle, was responsible for an article on the occasion of the awarding of the Swabian Poets' Prize . In this it is stated that Supper “deserved the honor given to her by the National Socialist state like no other.” Even in 1963, in a further contribution in the Swabian homeland, terminological echoes of the language of the blood-and-soil ideology can be recognized, if that Supper's work is associated with the “Prussian blood and Swabian blood”, which “rolled equally in the veins of the poet”, as well as with “Fund of valuable genetic material” or “valuable genetic material”.

In some municipalities, streets are named after Auguste Supper. In Pforzheim, Ludwigsburg and Calw there is an Auguste-Supper-Strasse, in Korntal-Münchingen an Auguste-Supper-Weg. In the Ludwigsburg municipal council on July 29, 2015, the SPD parliamentary group's application to rename Auguste-Supper-Strasse failed due to the rejection of the CDU parliamentary group, the Free Voters parliamentary group and the Republican City Council . A city council of the FDP also rejected the proposal.

Works

The Hirsau monk. Stuttgart 1898. Back there with us. Stories from the Black Forest. Eugen Salzer-Verlag , Heilbronn 1905. The black doctor. Story from Würzburg's dark times. Eugen Salzer-Verlag, Heilbronn 1906. Folks. Heilbronn 1907. In flight through Switzerland. Heilbronn 1908. Apprenticeship. Stuttgart u. a. 1909. Elderberry scent. Munich 1910. The witch of Steinbronn. Hamburg 1911. How Adam died. Munich 1911. Fall foliage. Heilbronn 1912. The mill in the cold ground. Heilbronn 1912. The new method. Wiesbaden 1912. The prince and his princess. Stuttgart 1913. From the roadside. Heilbronn 1913. To our soldiers. Stuttgart 1915. The man on the train. Stuttgart u. a. 1915. About the young war. Hagen iW 1915. Gottfried Faber's way. Constance from 1916. The master's son. Stuttgart u. a. 1916. Selected stories. Stuttgart u. a. 1917. Hans Schneider's folly. How the Annemei got old. Zurich 1917. Hermann Lohr. Gotha 1917. Owls. Heilbronn 1917. On the stone head. Stuttgart 1918. The carillon. Stuttgart u. a. 1918.

Twelve night spook. Berlin u. a. 1919. Eccentrics. Berlin-Dahlem 1921. The way to Dingsda. Stuttgart u. a. 1921. The wooden ship. Stuttgart 1923. Homecoming. Stuttgart 1924. The ragged one. The box of the old mine. Berlin 1925. Hans-Albrecht's wandering. Gütersloh 1926. Shellfish. Stuttgart 1927. The eldest of the shoemaker's job. Bielefeld 1927. The strongest spell. Berlin 1927. On old ways. Tübingen 1928. Hess and his book. Basel 1928. The juggler. Stuttgart 1929. The girls from Marienhof. Stuttgart u. a. 1931. Encounters. Bielefeld u. a. 1933. How we celebrate Christmas Hanover 1933. The girl Peter and the stranger. Gütersloh 1936. The survey. Stuttgart 1936. From half past days. Munich 1937. The great strength of Eva Auerstein. Gütersloh 1937. Brenda's pitcher. Gütersloh 1940. The one from the flower meadow. Gütersloh 1943. Black Forest stories. Stuttgart 1954. Lucky enough. Heilbronn 1957.

literature

• Gerhard Kaller:  Auguste Supper. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 271-273.
• Heike Harsch: The eventful life of Auguste Supper. In: Hie good Württemberg. 66th year, nos. 1 and 2, supplement to the Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, part 1, April 4, 2015, pp. 6–8 and part 2, June 6, 2015, pp. 14–16.
• Reinhard Hübsch: "Where was there anything else that was uplifting?": Auguste Supper and the National - a presentation based on documents. In: Commons. H. 28/29, 1990, pp. 189-205.

Web links

• Entry in database font and image. 1900-1960 .
• Entry in the Stadtwiki Pforzheim-Enz
• Entry by Auguste Supper in the online database of the Baden-Württemberg State Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Führer. Main organ of the NSDAP Gau Baden. Volume 11, episode 25 of January 25, 1937, p. 5. ( online at the Badische Landesbibliothek )
2. ↑ Gerhard Kaller: Auguste Supper. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon . Volume 11. Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 271-273.
3. ↑ In her autobiography, Supper herself writes about her religiosity in many places: Auguste Supper: From half past days. Memories and confessions. Munich: JF Lehmanns , 1937, pp. 141–150.
4. ↑ Auguste Supper: The Savior. In: Swabia. Monthly booklets for folklore and culture . 11, 1939, p. 320.
5. ^ Eva-Maria Gehler: Female Nazi Affinities. Degree of affinity for the system of women writers in the “Third Reich”. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8260-4405-2 , p. 43, Supper lists in the section “Approval to National Socialism”.
6. ↑ Records 1939–1950, part of Auguste Supper's estate, German Literature Archive Marbach, manuscript department.
7. ↑ Spruchkammer method Bü file 19899 in the inventory EL 902/15 (Spruchkammer 30 - Ludwigsburg process files) in the state archive Ludwigsburg .
8. ↑ Hellmuth Langenbucher: Auguste Supper in memory. In: Swabian homeland. 2, 1951, pp. 108-109.
9. ↑ Hellmuth Langenbucher (chief editor), Oskar Rühle (deputy): Auguste Supper. A German master narrator. For the awarding of the Swabian Poet Prize. In: Swabia. Monthly books for Volkstum und Kultur 14, 1942, pp. 175-180, here p. 175.
10. ↑ Karl Greiner : On becoming the poet Auguste Supper. In: Swabian homeland. 14, 1963, pp. 135-136.
11. ^ Hilke Lorenz: Hindenburg remains Ludwigsburg. In: Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de , July 31, 2015. (stuttgarter-zeitung.de)