Clemens Laar

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Clemens Laar , actually Eberhard Köbsell, (* 15. August 1906 , † 7. June 1960 in West Berlin ) was a principal in the era of National Socialism popular German writer .

Life

Clemens Laar studied modern history and modern languages ​​in Berlin and Leipzig and, after completing training in publishing and journalism, settled in Berlin as a freelance writer.

In 1936 Laar published … rides for Germany , a sports novel about the 1928 Olympic dressage champion, Rittmeister Carl-Friedrich Freiherr von Langen . The novel was very successful; its total circulation from 1936 to 1980 was almost 200,000 copies. In the film adaptation from 1941, Willy Birgel played the leading role. Both the novel and the film show a nationalistic tendency that conforms to the ideology of the National Socialists. After 1945, a heavily revised version was published in which all sections that were now considered objectionable had been deleted and the main character was reinterpreted as an opponent of National Socialism. The title “… rides for Germany” became - often in an ironic form - a proverbial phrase.

In 1951 the novel My Father's Horses followed . The novel was made into a film in 1954 in two parts (Part 1: Lena and Nicoline ; Part 2: His third wife ) by Gerhard Lamprecht .

In his later years, Laar fell into disuse. In 1960, at the age of 53, he committed suicide on the balcony of his villa in Berlin's Grunewald . He was buried in the Grunewald-Forst cemetery . The grave has not been preserved.

Works

  • The Gray Wolves of Count Spee: The Heldenfahrt of the German South Sea Squadron (1935)
  • The Battle of the Dardanelles (1936)
  • ... rides for Germany: Carl-Friedrich Freiherr von Langen: A Fighters Fate (1936)
  • Battle in the Desert (1936)
  • Tiger Shark: A South Seas Novel (1936)
  • Battle for the Dardanelles (1936)
  • The Bloody Frontier (1937)
  • U 31 - The Ship from Beyond (1937)
  • The Ghost Submarine (1937)
  • Rail Track (1938)
  • The Great March (1939)
  • Fighters in a losing position (1939)
  • The Captain from No Man's Land (1940)
  • Adventurer (1942)
  • Accused Ocean (1942)
  • The Commander (1942)
  • One team (1944; also as men - fighters - adventurers . Volume 1)
  • Hunt Without Mercy (1944)
  • Moribundus: radio play (1945)
  • My Father's Horses: The Equestrian, Romantic, and Amorous Stages of the Rich Life of a Poor Man (1950)
  • Cavalcade: A Chronicle of Riders and Horses - together with Hans-Joachim von Killisch-Horn (1950)
  • The curieuse equestrian primer (1951)
  • Rongon: The Luck of My Fist (1951)
  • Lived in the Saddle - Died in the Saddle: The Roman and Romanticism of the German Horse Riding (1952)
  • The Fifth Horseman (1952)
  • Gaudeamus equis or The Verden Honeymoon (1952)
  • Garde du Corps: The year of determination in the noble and brave life of Rittmeister Malte Wielandt, Baron von Godeysen (1953)
  • Amour royal: The luck of the promise (1954)
  • Ride into the Sunset: The Happiness of Fulfillment (1956)
  • Our Heart to Horses (1957)
  • The Emperor's Hippodrome: A novel from Germany's golden age and also from the great awakening (1959)
  • Tomorrow: The Strangely Confused Paths of Jürgen Godeysen, the Faithful Seeker for the Fulfillment of Existence: Completed by Peters-Arnolds (1960)

literature

  • Christian Adam : The dream of the year zero: authors, bestsellers, readers: The reorganization of the world of books in East and West after 1945. Galiani, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-86971-122-5 , pp. 266–269.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Spiegel 25/1960.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 445.
personal data
SURNAME Laar, Clemens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koebsell, Eberhard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1906
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1960
Place of death West Berlin