Bruno Schultz (publisher)

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Bruno Schultz (before 1927 - after 1944) was a German photographer , publisher and captain in the OKW . He initially supported the currents of modern art and literature and, after 1933, the National Socialist cultural policy and propaganda .

Life

Bruno Schultz was a photographer and co-owner of the Berlin publishing house Robert and Bruno Schultz , which had been in existence since 1877 at Schellingstrasse 12 in Berlin .

From 1927 to 1938, initially with Hans Windisch , he published the annual Das Deutsche Lichtbild , which was "enthusiastically welcomed" by Reichskunstwart Edwin Redslob and Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy : "The photographic process is unprecedented compared to the previously known optical processes . “Moholy-Nagy also designed the title signet for the magazine, which was used until 1938 and consisted of a black and a white rectangle. In addition to his own photographs, Schultz published works by well-known photographers such as Karl Blossfeldt , Hugo Erfurth , Albert Renger-Patzsch as well as articles by Franz Werfel , László Moholy-Nagy, Raoul Hausmann and others. a. The 1930 annual show was dedicated to Heinrich Kühn , the foreword was written by Kurt Tucholsky under the pseudonym Peter Panter . The 1934 annual report contained a foreword by Adolf Hitler (on own account ). Schultz personally signed a copy for Hitler with the words: “Adolf Hitler, the Führer, the closing words here in limitless love! Bruno Schultz, editor and publisher (SS / M23) August 2, 1934. "

Das Deutsche Aktwerk followed in 1938 with nudes by Willy Zielke , Heinz von Perckhammer , Trude Fleischmann , Heinz Hajek-Halke , Ewald Hoinkis and others. At the beginning of the war the publisher also took scientific books, including a work by Richard Bieling and Heinz Zeiss on Emil von Behring , in the program.

From around 1941 Schultz was Untersturmführer of the General SS and a captain in the high command of the Wehrmacht . After his apartment at Bismarckstrasse 3 in Steglitz was destroyed in 1943, he and his wife Margarethe moved into the house of the doctor, who was called up for military service. Hans Daubenspeck in Kaulsdorf near Berlin. The writer Erich Knauf and his friend, the caricaturist Erich Ohser , were also housed in the house since November 1943 . During one night in an air raid shelter , they spoke frankly about the current political situation. On February 22, 1944, Schultz reported Knauf and Ohser to Joseph Goebbels in a written denunciation . Ohser said of Goebbels that "as a so-called minister, he had so throttled and disgusted all German artists through idiotic orders that German art, as can be seen by the blind," "went to the dogs". On March 28, 1944, Knauf and Ohser were arrested. Goebbels declared the case a top priority and called on Roland Freisler , President of the People's Court , to bring the matter to a quick conclusion. The trial opened on April 6th. Ohser died the night before by suicide by hanging . Before that he had written about Bruno Schultz in his farewell letter that he was “the most mentally depraved thing I have ever experienced in my life”. Knauf was sentenced to death by Freisler "for defeatist statements in the air raid shelter" and beheaded on May 2, 1944 in the Brandenburg prison .

Bruno Schultz died of typhus while a Soviet prisoner of war .

Awards

  • Dr. phil. hc., PhD in Chicago, USA

literature

  • Wolfgang Eckert : Home, your stars ... life and death of Erich Knauf. A biography. Chemnitzer Verlag, Chemnitz 1998, ISBN 3-928678-40-X .
  • Erich Kästner : An unpaid bill. In: The daily stuff. Chansons and prose. 1945-1948. Atrium Verlag, Zurich 1948, pp. 26–28.
  • Lothar Lang : Erich Knauf - life and work. Attempt at a biography; [Exhibition from September 14th to November 1st, 1985]. Burgk 1985.
  • Eva Züchner: The missing journalist. A German story. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8270-0896-1 ( limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Commons : Bruno Schultz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rüdiger Zimmermann: How Dietz came to the snake - the invention of the publisher's signet. (PDF; 126 kB) p. 9 , accessed on September 4, 2012 .
  2. ^ László Moholy-Nagy: The unparalleled photography. In: Das Deutsche Lichtbild. No. 1, 1927, SX
  3. ^ Library of Congress, TR1. D37 Third Reich Coll. Set 3
  4. ^ Eva Züchner: The missing journalist. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2010, p. 223.
  5. ↑ www.spitzenstadt.de, Plauen, April 23, 2015
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Eckert: Murder in seven seconds . In: Ossietzky , 10/2014 ( online )
  7. ↑ Own letterhead from January 14, 1933, estate of Raoul Hausmann
personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German photographer, publisher and captain in the OKW
DATE OF BIRTH before 1927
DATE OF DEATH after 1944