Bruno Tanzmann

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Bruno Tanzmann (born December 1, 1878 in Alt-Hörnitz near Zittau / Oberlausitz , † August 28, 1939 in Hellerau ) was a German folk writer and publisher.

Life

Bruno Tanzmann grew up with his younger brother Edwin on his grandparents' farm in Waltersdorf in Upper Lusatia. As a young man he embarked on a journey that took him as a blind ship passenger from Antwerp via Genoa to Syracuse . After completing his military service in Dresden, he returned to his grandparents' estate as a farmer.

In addition to his work, he began to write poetry and short stories. His text "Mother and Child" was awarded a prize in a competition organized by the Dürerbund and published in 1908 in the anthology "Am Lebensquell". Adolf Bartels became aware of him and tied Tanzmann into the national agitation.

In 1910 Bruno Tanzmann moved with his brother Edwin to the garden city of Hellerau and opened a bookstore there with an attached Wanderschriften headquarters. He was involved in the German adult education center movement. In 1914 he was drafted as a soldier and fought in the Graf von Pfeil infantry brigade of the Saxon Landwehr on the Eastern Front . From book donations from well-known publishers, he built a field library of 6,000 volumes, which was dispersed again in the post-war confusion.

After the war he married Ilse Ferchland, who was almost 20 years his junior and daughter of a government master builder. With her he moved into a representative home in the Hellerau villa and country house district. In this house he founded the Hakenkreuz-Verlag together with his brother Edwin in 1919 . In addition to the swastika- Jahresweiser and many other things, he also published the writings of the life reformer Heinrich Pudor . However, a contract with the author Heinar Schilling for the publication of the “King's Song” drove the publisher into financial ruin, although it had succeeded in gaining personalities like Eugen Diederichs , Selma Lagerlöf and Heinrich Claß as subscribers .

In 1920 Tanzmann set up the first German farmer's college in Hellerau and published a magazine with the same title. In this magazine he reprinted an appeal from Willibald Hentschel in 1923 , in which he demanded: Let's found “a chivalrous German combat community on German soil - I call it Artam.” Tanzmann then became the organizational co-founder of the Artamanen movement, but resigned in 1926 their leadership back.

None of his economic ventures was granted lasting success. His family broke up over it. In 1933 he tried to work with the Sunday newspaper “Weltwacht der Deutschen. Sunday newspaper for the Germanness of the earth ”to get back economically solid ground under the feet. This newspaper also contained a page "Criticism of Abuses in the German Reich", which maneuvered him more and more into the sidelines. In 1935 he was even critical of Jewish policy and race research . His application for membership in the NSDAP was rejected in 1937 due to "defamation of high-ranking party comrades". Although he received a one-time honorary salary of 1,000 Reichsmarks from Adolf Hitler as a “völkischer pioneer” in 1935 , his newspaper was warned for “disdain for national-socialist state principles and disseminating untrue news”.

In 1939 Tanzmann committed suicide.

literature

  • Kurt Arnold Findeisen: Handwriting of the plow. Honor booklet for Bruno Tanzmann. Thinker and poet on his 60th birthday . Limpert, Berlin 1938 (Festschrift).
  • Thomas Gräfe: Bruno Tanzmann , in: Wolfgang Benz (Hrsg.), Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Anti-Semitism in the Past and Present , Vol. 8, Berlin 2015, pp. 129–132.
  • Matthias Piefel: Bruno Tanzmann. A völkisch agitator between the Wilhelmine Empire and the National Socialist leadership state. In: Walter Schmitz (Hrsg.), Clemens Vollnhals (Hrsg.): Völkische Movement - Conservative Revolution - National Socialism. Aspects of a politicized culture. Thelem, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-935712-18-9 , pp. 255-280.
  • Thomas Nitschke: The garden city of Hellerau in the tension between the cosmopolitan reform settlement and the nationalist-minded folk community. Dissertation, Halle 2007.
  • Thomas Nitschke: The history of the garden city Hellerau. Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2009, ISBN 978-3-938122-17-4 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Piefel: Bruno dance man. A völkisch agitator between the Wilhelmine Empire and the National Socialist leadership state. In: Walter Schmitz (Hrsg.), Clemens Vollnhals (Hrsg.): Völkische Movement - Conservative Revolution - National Socialism. Aspects of a politicized culture. Thelem, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-935712-18-9 , p. 257.
  2. ↑ Matthias Piefel: Bruno dance man. A völkisch agitator between the Wilhelmine Empire and the National Socialist leadership state. In: Walter Schmitz (Hrsg.), Clemens Vollnhals (Hrsg.): Völkische Movement - Conservative Revolution - National Socialism. Aspects of a politicized culture. Thelem, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-935712-18-9 , p. 280.
  3. ^ A b Justus H. Ulbricht: Bruno Tanzmann. In: Uwe Puschner (eds.), Walter Schmitz, Justus H. Ulbricht: Handbook on the "Völkische Movement" 1871-1918. Saur, Munich a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-598-11241-6 , p. 929.
  4. ↑ a b Matthias Piefel: Bruno dance man. A völkisch agitator between the Wilhelmine Empire and the National Socialist leadership state. In: Walter Schmitz (Hrsg.), Clemens Vollnhals (Hrsg.): Völkische Movement - Conservative Revolution - National Socialism. Aspects of a politicized culture. Thelem, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-935712-18-9 , p. 279.
  5. ^ Johanna Herzing: "Green Revolution" and swastika. The ethnic publisher and agitator Bruno Tanzmann. In: From the second-hand bookshop. NF 6 2008, ISSN  0343-186X , pp. 299-311.
personal data
SURNAME Tanzmann, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk publisher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Hörnitz near Zittau , Upper Lusatia
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1939
Place of death Hellerau