Carl Oskar Jatho

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Carl Oskar Jatho (pseudonym: Peter Petry ; born May 23, 1884 in Bucharest , † June 23, 1971 in Cologne ) was a German essayist , poet , writer and cultural philosopher . He belonged to various artists' communities in Cologne in the 1920s, was a co-founder of the Kalltal community  and a close friend of Franz Wilhelm Seiwert .

Life

Carl Oskar Jatho was the son of pastor Carl Jatho , who at the time of his birth was active in the Protestant community in Bucharest . In the year he was born, the family moved to Germany in the Rhenish Boppard , where Carl Oskar Jatho spent his childhood. From 1891 the family lived in Cologne. Jatho studied art and architecture in Marburg , Munich and Berlin (according to other sources: literature and art history).

In 1916 Jatho was discharged from military service after being wounded, and in the same year he married Käthe Jatho-Zimmermann . Together with his wife, he established regular lecture and discussion evenings with opponents of the war in their shared apartment in Cologne, to which the young Franz Wilhelm Seiwert joined in 1916 ; The penniless artist had “paid” for his first entry to a lecture with one of his sculptures. A close friendship developed between the Jathos and Seiwert.

Jatho is attributed to the environment of various artist communities of the time, u. a. the Cologne Dadaists. Together with Seiwert and their little son, the family moved to Simonskall in the Eifel in 1919 and founded the Kalltalgemeinschaft in the Junkerhaus , a group of artists and writers who wanted to realize the dream of proletarian self-government and joint artistic production. Was involved among others, Otto Freundlich and sporadic Heinrich Hoerle ; The publications of the Kalltal community, some of which were reproduced on a hand press , were published in the Jatho u. a. was involved as an author with the essay From Society to Community . The press censorship practiced by the British occupation authorities in Cologne, which in 1919 led to the discontinuation of the predadaist magazine Der Ventilator, may also have played a role in the choice of the remote printing location .

In 1921 the Kalltal Community dissolved and the Jatho family moved back to Cologne. There Jatho belonged to the circle of the Cologne progressives with Seiwert, Hoerle and Wilhelm Räderscheidt , who also published texts in Seiwert's magazine project "a to z".

After the First World War , Jatho worked as a permanent employee at the Kölnische Zeitung and the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten . As a freelancer for radio, he wrote articles on urban planning, architecture and the fine arts as well as for the series “Heresies at the Time”. After 1933 he left the editorial team and in the following years wrote a. a. several paperbacks on water trips, which were printed in several high editions over the war years and in the post-war period, also as field post .

In 1944 the Jathos house was destroyed by air raids; Numerous pictures by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert were also destroyed. In the post-war period Jatho published writings on Cologne, a monograph on Seiwert and an autobiography. He also spoke about current architectural issues and the reconstruction of the destroyed Cologne.

Jatho died in 1971; his estate is under the call number 1288 in the historical archive of the city of Cologne .

Fonts (selection)

  • From society to community. Publication of the Kalltalgemeinschaft, issue 6, 1928
  • France: A travel book. Georg Müller Publishing House, Munich 1929.
  • Stars over small rivers. With 3 pen drawings by Kurt Jatho, Verlag Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1936.
  • Wanderer on God's stream. With 12 pen drawings by Kurt Jatho, Verlag Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1935.
  • Urbanity: About the return of a city. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1946.
  • Secret of the Cathedral. The Petruspforte of Cologne Cathedral. Hans Hümmeler Verlag, Bonn 1948
  • Cologne, Cologne 1958.
  • A city of the world. Cologne before and after. 1958.
  • Franz Wilhelm Seiwert - Monographs on Rhenish-Westphalian Art of the Present , Volume 27. Verlag A. Bongers, Recklinghausen 1964.
  • Childhood on the Rhine, 1969.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carl Oskar Jatho , biography and estate in the portal rheinische-literaturnachlaesse.de
  2. ^ A b Walter Först: People, Landscape and History: A Rhenish-Westphalian reading book. Grote, Cologne / Berlin 1965, p. 297
  3. ↑ junkerhaus-simonskall.de: Short biography of Carl Oskar Jatho
  4. ↑ Der Ventilator , in: Ralf G. Hoerig and Jochen Schmück, Database of German-speaking Anarchism - DadA Department: Periodicals 1798–2001 ff.
  5. ^ Wulf Herzogenrath: Max Ernst in Cologne. Kölnischer Kunstverein , Cologne 1980, p. 125
  6. ^ Catalog of the German National Library, publications by Carl Oskar Jatho
  7. ↑ archive.nrw.de: Jatho, Carl Oskar, signature: Best. 1288, inventory history
personal data
SURNAME Jatho, Carl Oskar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petry, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German essayist, poet, writer and cultural philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1971
Place of death Cologne