Carl Christian Bry

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Carl Christian Bry , actually Carldecke (born April 12, 1892 in Stralsund ; † February 9, 1926 in Davos ), was a German writer .

Life

Carl Christian Bry was the son of butcher Hermann Traugott Pauldecke and his wife Johanne Wilhelmine Caroline, born. Telschow. They lived in Stralsund at Wasserstraße 12. His father (1856–1936) was the owner of a large butcher shop and came from Neumarkt (Polish Środa Śląska ) in Silesia . His mother (1857–1922) came from Glashagen, Grimmen district, now part of the Wittenhagen community . She worked as a maid in Stralsund. The parents' marriage was concluded on April 4, 1883 in Stralsund. The maternal line of this family came from the Netherlands ; Bry took this name as his writer's name, pronouncing the "y" German like "i". Bry died of tuberculosis relatively early in Davos on February 9, 1926 at the age of 33.

Bry studied philosophy , history , jurisprudence , theater studies , a Studium Generale with Georg Simmel and Max Dessoir and others in Munich and elsewhere , and earned money as a critic and writer of manuscripts . Despite his physical handicap , he made a secure income early on, worked as a theater critic and silent film writer, and entered the publishing business in 1915. During the November Revolution of 1918, latent tuberculosis became virulent. At the end of the illness there was early death.

Bry is best known for his description and explanation of spiritual aberrations under the title Masked Religions . An example: “Even those behind the world see the whole world in a new way. But all things serve him only to confirm his monomania. […] The world shrinks to the backworlder. In everything and every thing he only finds confirmation of his own opinion. The thing itself no longer takes hold of him. He can no longer be grasped; as far as things concern him, they are nothing but keys to the world beyond. This can be proven almost experimentally. Once you talk with a man to whom about the anti-Semitism has become a capped Religion, on the salt shaker on the dining table. His obsessed spirit, hungry for confirmation, will have arrived at the thesis after two sentences that the old Jews had cheated in the salt trade from Phenicia or that the percentage of Jewish employees in the state salt pans is of course far too high. He has become positively incapable of seeing a salt barrel. He no longer sees it in its sobriety or in its beauty, as a salt container or as a container for quarrels and tears, as a gauge of conjugal love, as an indicator of cleanliness in the household or as a means of removing fresh wine stains from the tablecloth. He only sees something in it that no one else, even with the greatest imagination, can find in the salt barrel: the Jews. "

Works

  • The environment. A human study of the latest poetry in four parts. (only part 1: "The Upper World"?) The homecoming, Munich-Pasing 1920.
  • The book Career and Fate. From the poet's desk to the reader's bookcase. Dürr and Weber, 1924.
  • Disguised religions. Critique of collective madness. Verlag Friedrich Andreas Perthes, Gotha / Stuttgart 1924. (New ed., With a foreword by Martin Gregor-Dellin, Franz Ehrenwirth Verlag, Munich 1979.)
  • The Hitler putsch. Reports and comments by a Germany correspondent (1922–1924) for the “Argentinisches Tag- und Wochenblatt”. Edited by Martin Gregor-Dellin. Greno Verlag, Nördlingen 1987.

Web links

Wikisource: Carl Christian Bry  - Sources and full texts

Edition of “Religions in Disguise”. (PDF)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum vitae in the dissertation of Carldecke: The book series in the German book trade in recent years , Gotha, 1916, back of the book.
  2. ^ Birth certificate of Carl Christian Ernstdecke, Stralsund registry office 1892, no. 202. Letter and copy dated January 29, 2020 from Stralsund City Archives.
  3. ^ Certificate of the marriage of master butcher Hermann Traugott Pauldecke with Johanne Wilhelmine Caroline Telschow, closed on April 4, 1883 in Stralsund. Registry office Stralsund 1883 No. 37. Letter and copy dated January 29, 2020 from Stralsund City Archives.
  4. ↑ Quoted from the 1988 edition obtained from Martin Gregor-Dellin, p. 33.
personal data
SURNAME Bry, Carl Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blanket, Carl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1926
Place of death Davos