Carl Maria Holzapfel

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Carl Maria Holzapfel (born October 21, 1890 in Unna / Westphalia , † December 31, 1945 ) was a German cultural functionary during the Nazi era .

Life

Carl Maria Holzapfel was the son of a businessman. The family changed their place of residence several times during Holzapfel's childhood. He attended schools in Uerdingen , Brilon , Werl and Krefeld, among others . Holzapfel left the grammar school after the Obersekunda and began an apprenticeship as a judiciary, which he broke off in 1913 after his marriage to Hildegard Carnap († 1951), a later communist who later joined the National Socialists . He completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller and, together with his brother Adolf Holzapfel, ran his own bookstore , which still exists today as the Holzapfel bookstore in Berlin-Zehlendorf . In 1915 he took part in the First World War as a soldier . Holzapfel was seriously wounded while working on the western front (lower leg amputation) and after his recovery he continued to run the community bookstore Gebrüder Holzapfel . In 1924 he went to Berlin , where he had to give up his work as a bookseller after some time due to the global economic crisis . From 1928 he worked for Deutsche Lufthansa . From 1930 he was together with his friend, the writer Reinhard Goering , editor of the German aviation calendar . In addition, he published his first literary works in newspapers and magazines.

In 1930 Carl Maria Holzapfel joined the NSDAP . After the National Socialist " seizure of power ", Holzapfel made a career in the cultural bureaucracy of the Nazi state . He held a leading position in the Reichsverband Deutsche Bühne and was, from 1937, deputy head of the Nazi cultural community in the Kraft durch Freude department of Rosenberg's office, where he was responsible for music. Because of his wounding, Holzapfel was unable to actively participate in World War II . The persecution of his children Marilene (who was married to the writer Reinhard Goering and had two sons by him) and Siegfried, who sympathized with groups critical of the system and, among other things, a. therefore lost his place at university (German and newspaper studies), through the Gestapo , did not prevent Holzapfel. In June 1945 he was arrested by the Soviet occupying forces in Berlin. Nothing is known about his further fate. Crab apple is considered lost . His date of death was set on December 31, 1945 under the Disappearance Act.

Holzapfel mainly wrote poems that were strongly influenced by his National Socialist sentiments and the admiration of Adolf Hitler . He soon got into conflict with his son Siegfried , a poet ("Olaf Lunaris") who heavily criticized his Nazi epics. Due to her relationship with the industrialist and Nazi opponent Oskar Rehn, who was brought to the Mauthausen concentration camp because of his plans to assassinate Hitler, his daughter Marilene was imprisoned until his death in July 1942 for "risk of blackout".

His writings One builds a cathedral ... (Heyer, Berlin and Leipzig 1934) and guard the flag! (Eichblatt, Leipzig 1937) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone after the end of the Second World War . Holzapfel, on the other hand, wrote touching literature such as The Musical Offering about Frederick the Great's encounter with Johann Sebastian Bach in Potsdam.

Holzapfel also took part in the fairy tale theater for children. An adaptation of Sleeping Beauty (1940) and Vom Fischer und syner Frau (1942) came from his pen .

Works

  • Women fly , Berlin 1931 (together with Käte Stocks and Rudolf Stocks)
  • Someone builds a cathedral ... , Berlin [u. a.] 1934
  • Love test , Berlin 1935
  • Six poems , Halle 1935
  • Guard the flag! , Leipzig 1937
  • The musical sacrifice , Stuttgart [u. a.] 1937
  • The singing heart , Halle 1937
  • Accomplish , Halle 1937
  • Sleeping Beauty , Berlin 1940
  • Von Fischer and syner Fru! , Berlin 1942

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-h.html
  3. ↑ See Jörg Fligge: "Beautiful Lübeck Theaterworld." The city theater during the Nazi dictatorship. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild, 2018. ISBN 978-3-7950-5244-7 . S. 326f., 568. The story Vom Fischer und Syner Frau , performed in Lübeck at Easter 1943, was very well received by the young audience.
personal data
SURNAME Holzapfel, Carl Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Unna
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1945