Carl Lange (writer)

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Carl Lange (born January 27, 1885 in Schöneberg ; † May 30, 1959 in Bremen ) was a German writer , poet , essayist and lieutenant colonel . He is the founder of the Ostdeutsche Monatshefte in Danzig , which appeared from 1920 to 1939 and again from 1955.

Life

Lange's first poems were published in 1912 under the title Verse . He lived in Danzig-Oliva as a freelance writer and editor of the Ostdeutsche Hefte, sheets of the German Heimatbund Danzig , which he founded in 1920. His "conservative-authoritarian worldview" shaped the magazine, in which well-known national authors such as Agnes Miegel , Hans Franck and Hans Friedrich Blunck published.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists and their allies he signed in October 1933 along with 87 other writers, the vow faithful allegiance to Adolf Hitler . Lange "did a lot to adapt and to be able to 'experience the new times'". He could continue to publish. In the following years, mainly militaristic-nationalistic works such as Generalfeldmarschall von Mackensen (1935), Our Mackensen in the Southeast (1938) or The Liberation of Danzig (1940) appeared. During the war he was u. a. used in the army archive in Potsdam . In February 1945 he addressed the people of Gdańsk on the Reichsender Danzig with perseverance slogans. They were seals that had been made in the days before. On March 1, 1945, the radio broadcast settings of his poems.

In 1945 he retired to Wernigerode . His writings were now on the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet zone of occupation . After he was still able to publish his volume of poems, Heart Be Quiet, in the GDR in 1949 , he was imprisoned for six months in 1950 for endangering the peace. He left the GDR and went to Bremen , where he stayed until the end of his life.

Lange was close friends with the Siewert sisters, the writer Elisabeth and the painter Clara Siewert , about whom he published several articles in the East German monthly books and in the West Prussia yearbook.

Works (selection)

  • Stream from the Deep, Poems , 1919
  • Kurt Faber in memory . In: Ostdeutsche Monatshefte 11 (1930) 2, 127
  • Call from the Silence , 1933
  • Deutscher Geist , R. Voigtländer, 1933
  • The Crown Prince , Berlin, 1934
  • The glowing battle relief of Tannenberg , Berlin, 1934
  • Field Marshal General v. Machensen , 1935
  • Our Mackensen in the southeast , Stuttgart, Union, 1936
  • Kampf und Stille , Sieben Rod Verlag, 1936
  • Mackensen, the Marshal Forward of World War I , 1937
  • The liberation of Danzig , Stuttgart, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1940
  • Spring Poems , 1946
  • Heart be calm. Consoling poems of the time , Berlin-Reinickendorf, 1949

Honors

  • 1959 West Prussian Culture Prize

literature

  • Heinz Radke:  Lange, Carl. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 565 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Jens Stüben: The cultural-political magazine “Ostdeutsche Monatshefte” and its “struggle” for the “German East” (1920–1939). In: Matthias Weber (Ed.): Germany's East - Poland's West , Frankfurt / Main u. a. 2001, pp. 299-346.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the East German books : Jens Stüben, the cultural-political magazine “East German monthly books ” and their 'struggle' for the 'German East', in: Matthias Weber (ed.), Deutschlands Osten - Polens Westen. Comparative study on historical regional studies, Frankfurt (Main) 2001, pp. 17–29.
  2. ↑ Jens Stüben, the cultural-political magazine “Ostdeutsche Monatshefte” and their 'struggle' for the 'German East', in: Matthias Weber (ed.), Deutschlands Osten - Polens Westen. Comparative study on historical regional studies, Frankfurt (Main) 2001.
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 318.
  4. ↑ Jens Stüben, the cultural-political magazine “Ostdeutsche Monatshefte” and their 'struggle' for the 'German East', in: Matthias Weber (ed.), Deutschlands Osten - Polens Westen. Comparative study on historical regional studies, Frankfurt (Main) 2001, p. 138.
  5. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 318.
  6. ↑ Jens Stüben, the cultural-political magazine “Ostdeutsche Monatshefte” and their 'struggle' for the 'German East', in: Matthias Weber (ed.), Deutschlands Osten - Polens Westen. Comparative study on historical regional studies, Frankfurt (Main) 2001.
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-l.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-n.html .
personal data
SURNAME Long, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1959
Place of death Bremen