Gottfried Rothacker

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Gottfried Rothacker ( pseudonym for Bruno Nowak ; born June 25, 1901 in Opava , † March 22, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German writer .

Life

Gottfried Rothacker - coming from a Sudeten German family - attended high school in his hometown of Opava , which from 1918 belonged to Czechoslovakia . After he had passed the school leaving examination , Rothacker studied literature and philosophy at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague from 1920 . Here he was in 1925 for Doctor of Philosophy with the thesis on the development of the fist shape to Goethe doctorate . Subsequently, Rothacker, who had already shown himself to be a radical supporter of German-national ideas during his student days, worked as a traveling teacher in the vicinity of Opava on behalf of the German Cultural Association . From 1926 he was a member of the German National Socialist Workers' Party (DNSAP). After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in the German Reich in 1933, Rothacker moved to Berlin , where he worked as a freelance writer and journalist . He mainly wrote for the Berliner Börsen-Zeitung . Rothacker died in 1940 of a nervous disease.

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Gottfried Rothacker was the author of novels , short stories , poems and plays . His work is strongly influenced by the author's National Socialist convictions and his anti-Czech attitude. With his subjects “German Abroad ”, “Borderland Fighting” and “Hero Adoration”, he is considered a pioneer of National Socialism and is one of the more popular writers of National Socialist Germany. With his novel The Village on the Border , published in 1936, he wrote one of the best-selling novels of the “Third Reich”; the book had a total print run of over 250,000 copies by 1944 . For Die Kinder von Kirwang , Gottfried Rothacker was awarded the Hans Schemm Prize of the National Socialist Teachers Association (NSLB) in 1938. After the Second World War , most of Rothacker's works after 1933 were on the " list of literature to be sorted out " in the Soviet occupation zone .

Fonts (selection)

  • Magic garden , 1921 (poems)
  • Der Bauer , Berlin 1932 (one-act play under the name Bruno Nowak)
  • Roderich , 1933 (drama about the fall of the Goths in Spain)
  • Die Stedinger , Berlin 1934 (play under the name Bruno Nowak)
  • Anno 1527 , Berlin 1935 (under the name Bruno Nowak)
  • The victim of the Notburga , Berlin 1935 (under the name Bruno Nowak)
  • The village on the border , u. a. Deutsche Hausbücherei: Hamburg and Verlag Langen Müller: Munich 1936ff (Grenzlandroman)
  • Sudeten Germanism , Hamburg: Deutsche Hausbücherei: Munich 1936 (as publisher)
  • The children of Kirwang , Young Generation Publisher: Berlin 1937 (Grenzlandroman)
  • Stay steady! , Verlag Langen Müller: Munich 1938 (short stories)
  • Faithful to the people , Berlin 1938 (short stories)
  • Sudetenland and German Prague , Leipzig 1939
  • Legacy. From the estate of the poet , Bayreuth 1942 (posthumously edited by Martha Nowak-Rothacker)

Secondary literature

  • Josef Walter König: The literature of the East Sudetenland , Wolfratshausen 1946.
  • Fritz Eichler: Narrated Legacy , Heidelberg 1961.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature in National Socialism: Overview of works and authors

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personal data
SURNAME Rothacker, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nowak, Bruno (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Troppau
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1940
Place of death Berlin