Curt Hotzel

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Curt Hotzel (born April 20, 1894 in Leipzig , † August 10, 1967 in West Berlin ) was a German publicist.

Life

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Curt Hotzel completed an apprenticeship as a banker in Erfurt and went to Berlin in 1913, where he enrolled at the commercial college. He also studied philosophy at the University of Berlin.

His studies were interrupted by military service in the First World War. As early as 1916, Hotzel saw himself as a writer and journalist in the service of the Volkish idea . He joined the ethnic group around Ernst Wachler , the founder of the Bergtheater Thale , and identified himself with the poet Hanns Johst .

In the time of upheaval after the First World War, he was preoccupied with visions for the transformation of Germany. In 1919 not only his book Blutweihe was published , but also his manifesto by the expressionist artist group Jung-Erfurt. During this time, Hotzel stood up against the unfortunate alienation of the people from art and advocated teaching people to see again and opening their senses. The Jung-Erfurt group seems to have disbanded between 1922 and 1924 under the influence of right-wing national forces; It is not known whether or how Hotzel was involved in this development.

In 1919 he also wrote for the magazine Aufgang. Völkische Blätter for young Germany and saw the world premiere of his play Alboin und Rosimund in the Harz mountain theater, which was probably brought about by the protection of Wachler.

From 1919 to 1921 Hotzel continued his studies in Heidelberg , among others with Friedrich Gundolf , with the subjects of literary and art history.

The city of a good conscience was published in Erfurt in 1920 , and Ernst Wachler published in 1921 . An intellectual history of our time . Apparently he finished his studies in 1921 and went back to Berlin, where he was initially editor of the features pages of the Deutsches Tageblatt . He remained loyal to the nationalist ideas that had developed towards the end of the First World War, and, following the poet Josef Ponten and following Friedrich Nietzsche , emphasized the Dionysian, unreasonable source of the German soul. This attitude led around 1930 to the judgment of blood, alien, un-German and calculating that he passed on Thomas Mann . In 1934 he gave the important anthology German uprising. The post war revolution out.

In 1933 he joined the Reich Association of German Writers and in 1934 the Reich Association of German Journalists . During the Third Reich he wrote for the Stahlhelm , for Die Sendung , Welt und Welle and the Völkischer Beobachter, among others . From 1937 to 1944 he was editor-in-chief of the Kladderadatsch , from 1939 he wrote political editorials for various press offices. In 1939 he was accepted into the Bamberg circle of poets . On October 1, 1941, he entered with membership no. 8,742,602 joined the NSDAP . Hotzel also worked under the pseudonym Thürink , which was confirmed in 1940 by the Reichsschrifttumskammer.

In the 1940s he increasingly shifted to historical material, to which he also clung to in his time as a freelance writer after the end of the Third Reich. In 1944 the novel Kaspar Schlick was published , 1952 The Guilt of the Black Eicken , 1955 Masquerade in Lüneburg and 1960 Act and Dream of the carver Veit Stoss . The fifth edition of this work came out in 1996.

The romance novel The Uncertain Heart , which saw several editions, focuses on a young woman, Ulrike von Lestewitz, who was torn between two men during the Napoleonic wars in Germany. The Spanish fan deals with Joseph Bonaparte's reign in Spain. Germaine or the Error of Locarno deals with the life of a writer between 1924 and 1954 and bears autobiographical traits. Apparently this is the only work by Hotzel from the post-war period that still deals with developments of the 20th century.

In 1946, the German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone added its writings Geld macht Geschichte (1933), Hanns Johst (1933) and Wwall im Westen (1940) to the list of literature to be segregated , followed by Reich and Prussia (1932) and in 1947 1948 Into the field, drawn into freedom (1933).

In 1950 he became a member of the NDPD . From the 1950s onwards, Hotzel's books were published almost without exception by the Nation's publishing house in the GDR . According to a personal file from the German Schiller Foundation from 1963, Hotzel was supported by the foundation that year with a one-off payment of DM 500. It is listed there under the spelling Kurt Hotzel . Most recently Hotzel lived as a freelance writer, journalist and editor in the western part of Berlin.

In the published 1919 blood consecration Hotzel called for a leader and called for the "salvation of the Aryan noble spirit before the socialist-syndicalist-Bolshevik wave the Europe of flooding threatens" . During the time of National Socialism, Hotzel was loyal to those in power. In the autobiographical story Germaine or the error of Locarno , Hotzel characterized himself as part of those "who opposed in spirit, but by not changing anything, not stopping the disastrous development but promoting it" .

Works (selection

  • Blood consecration. Thoughts on the German Future , 1919
  • Money makes history. The work of political bankers , Berlin, Verlag Das Reich 1933 (with a foreword by F. Hielscher)
  • Hanns Johst. The way of the poet to the people , Berlin, Frundsberg-Verlag 1933
  • Foreign gods on the Rhine , Berlin, Hochwart-Verlag 1935
  • Praise from Bamberg , 1937
  • The donkey's head , 1938
  • Daniel walks around , 1939
  • Beauty in Film , Berlin 1940 (= current film books 129)
  • Humor in Film , Berlin 1940 (= current film books 32)
  • Ramparts to the west. 2000 years ago and today , Berlin, Verlag Die Wehrmacht 1940 (11th – 20th thousand, = Kleine Wehrmacht-Bücherei 14)
  • The blunt Amor , Bayreuth, Gauverlag 1944
  • Black Eicken's fault. Novel of a fraternity , Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1952, ²1954, ³1956, 4th edition 1960, 5th edition 1969
  • Nettelbeck , Verlag der Nation 1953
  • Peasants against Bonaparte. Hessen-Kassel 1809 , Verlag der Nation 1953
  • Masquerade in Lützenburg. Historical narrative , Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1954
  • Germaine or the error of Locarno , Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1956
  • The uncertain heart. Historischer Liebesroman , Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1957, ²1958, ³1958, 4th edition 1959, 5th edition 1966, 6th edition 1972
  • Sons of Don Quixote , Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1959
  • Act and dream of the carver Veit Stoss , Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1960, 1961, 4th edition 1974, 5th edition 1996, illustrated by Alfred Will , ISBN 3-373-00497-7
  • Felix Dahn and Curt Hotzel, Die Völkerwanderung: Germanic-Romanesque early history of Europe , Safari-Verlag 1960; Klagenfurt: Kaiser, 1977
  • The Spanish fan , Verlag der Nation, Berlin, Verlag der Nation 1962, ²1967
  • Five historical stories , Verlag der Nation, Berlin o. J. (1955), illustrated by Alfred Will (contains: Nettelbeck, soldier of his people, Stein's return, farmers against Bonaparte, singer and hero)

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar, Nekrolog 1936–1970, Berlin, de Gruyter 1973
  • Lexicon of German-speaking writers from the beginning to the present, Leipzig 1974
  • Ute Gerdes: Curt Hotzel. In: Wulf Segebrecht (Ed.): The Bamberg Poet Circle 1936-1943. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0104-0 , pp. 174-178.
  • German Literature Lexicon (DLL), Volume 8, Column 160 founded by Wilhelm Kosch, 1971 Francke Verlag Bern and Munich

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Frank Krummel: Nietzsche and the German spirit. Walter de Gruyter, 1998, ISBN 9783110156133 , p. 13. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ^ Wolfgang Schneider: Friendliness to life and pessimism. Vittorio Klostermann, 1999, ISBN 9783465027935 , p. 14. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  3. ^ Articles: CH: "Student 1918," - Officer 1918, from unknown - Spartakus, v. Waldemar Pabst .- The German advance into the Baltic States, The Freikorps save Oberschlesien, v. Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz .- Freikorps in the West 1918/20, by H. Mahnken.- Red Army on the Rhine and Ruhr; Separatism, by E. Rodermund.- Freikorps Epp , by Heinz Schauwecker .- Political assassinations in Germany, by FW Heinz.- The farmer stands up, by Friedrich Hielscher .- The share of the steel helmet , by H. Brauweiler.- The uprising of Bundischen Jugend, by W. Fabricius .- The awakening of the nation from the war, by Schauwecker.- How Carinthia fought for its freedom, by Josef Friedrich Perkonig .- Two related freedom movements, by Franz Fromme . - The Chinese Freedom Movement and the First Earth War by Hielscher. - The way and the rise of National Socialism, by Johann von Leers . - Impressions of a fascist from the Third Reich, by A. Vecchio-Verderame. - The anti-bourgeois affect, from CH
  4. ↑ Investigative Committee of Liberal Jurists , SBZ Biography, 3rd edition 1964, reprinted 1965 in Berlin, pp. 156–157.
  5. ^ Letter H, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Preliminary In: polunbi.de. April 1, 1946, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  6. ^ Letters Q and R, list of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. He. In: polunbi.de. January 1, 1947, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  7. ^ Letter H, List of literature to be discarded. Published by the German Administration for Public Education in the Soviet Occupation Zone. Second N. In: polunbi.de. September 1, 1948, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Harry Waibel : Servants of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 149.
  9. ↑ Personal files of the German Schiller Foundation. In: ora-web.swkk.de. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Gerdes, Hotzel , p. 177.
  11. ↑ Hotzel, Blutweihe , p. 24, quoted from Gerdes, Hotzel , p. 177.
  12. ^ Hotzel, Germaine or the error of Locarno , quoted from Gerdes, Hotzel , p. 177.
personal data
SURNAME Hotzel, Curt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hotzel, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Publicist and was accepted into the Bamberg circle of poets in 1939
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1967
Place of death Berlin- West