Carl Bulcke

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Lovis Corinth : Portrait of the Writer Carl Bulcke , 1918

Carl Bulcke (born April 29, 1875 in Königsberg , East Prussia , † February 24, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German writer and public prosecutor .

Life

Meta Kahlke (1870–1886), her fate inspired Carl Bulcke to write the novel “Silke's Love”

After attending the Altstädtisches Gymnasium in Königsberg, Bulcke began studying law in Freiburg, which he later continued in Berlin and Kiel . In Freiburg he became a member of the Cimbria national team . After graduating as Dr. iur. at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , Bulcke worked as a public prosecutor in Naumburg (Saale) , Nordhausen and Essen . At the same time, Bulcke was also active as a poet , as a writer of novels and as a novelist . At the turn of the century he lived in Uetersen and was a welcome guest with the ladies of the higher society of the city. His stories about the human tragedies and the suicide of Meta Kahlke at Düneck Castle inspired him to write his novel Silke's Love , which was published in 1901. In 1909 he was appointed the first chairman of the Association of German Writers founded that year . During the First World War (1916) he was appointed to Berlin by the then official in the Ministry of the Interior, Karl Helfferich . There he became the first film censor of the empire and in 1920 chairman of the film supervisory board and therefore, as senior councilor at this authority, played a key role in the film censorship of the Weimar Republic until he was replaced by Ernst Seeger in this position in 1924 . Bulcke wrote fourteen novels and short stories, the titles of which often indicate the toil and fate of young girls. During Bulcke's lifetime, Silke's Love (1901), A Man Called Balzereit (1917) and Brave Cassio (1930) were among his most famous literary works. An entry on Bulcke's person in Meyers Konversations-Lexikon from 1925 highlights him as an “extraordinary portrayal of reality, especially that of his East Prussian homeland”.

After the seizure of power of the Nazis he was in October 1933 the 88 German writers that the vow faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler signed.

family

Bulcke was born as the son of the businessman Ernst Friedrich Bulcke and his wife Mara geb. Toussaint. In his book The Journey to Italy , Bulcke describes the atmosphere in his parents' house in Königsberg.

On July 16, 1908, in Weimar, he married Maria Volkmann (1885–1965), the Odessa-born daughter of the businessman and American consul in Odessa Johann Hermann Volkmann and his wife Lina nee. Bleuler. The Volkmanns were a widely branched Bremen merchant family. Johann Hermann Volkmann's brothers were among others the rector of Schulpforta Diederich Volkmann and the supervisory board chairman of the North German wool combing Johann Heinrich Volkmann , whose father the theologian Johann Heinrich Volkmann . Maria Bulcke born Volkmann had three sisters, including Emmy Elisabeth, who married Otto Flohr , a merchant from Bremen and later Finance Senator in his hometown, in 1904 .

Carl and Maria Bulcke had three children: the sons Hans (* 1909) and Dietrich (* 1916) and the daughter Susanne (* 1918), later married Bartels.

Works

  • An old house . 1898
  • Quicksand . 1900
  • The daughters of Salome (poems) . 1901
  • Susanne Övelgönne's diary . 1905
  • Silke's love . 1906
  • The trip to Italy; or The Three Ages . 1907
  • The Trostburgs . 1910
  • The sweet Lili / The black ribbon . 1911
  • Black-white-light green . 1913
  • Poor Betty . 1914
  • A person named Balzereit . 1917
  • Catherine . 1918
  • The beautiful Mrs. Schmelzer . 1919
  • Nikoline von Planta . 1930
  • And that's how you spend your short days . 1930
  • Brave Cassio . 1930
  • The red magic island (diary sheets from Heligoland) . 1940 (posthumous)

Censorship report (selection)

Secondary literature

  • Lothar Mosler : Uetersen focus. History and stories 1234–1984 (Human tragedies at Castle Düneck) . Heydorn, Uetersen / Holstein 1985.

Web links

Commons : Carl Bulcke  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 89.
  2. ↑ Censorship decisions in the archive of the German Film Institute
  3. ↑ Censorship decision of May 12, 1921
  4. ↑ Censorship decision of January 22, 1921, page 4
personal data
SURNAME Bulcke, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bulcke, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and public prosecutor
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1936
Place of death Berlin