Emanuel Geibel Society

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Emanuel Geibel , ca.1860

The Emanuel Geibel Society was a cultural society in Lübeck that was active in literary and cultural policy in the 1930s / 40s.

The society named after the Lübeck writer Emanuel Geibel was created in 1939 from the merger of the Society of Theater Friends founded by Robert Ludwig with the Literary Society in Lübeck founded in July 1934 by Hermann Stodte . The predecessors as well as the new founding formed subsidiary associations of the 1789 founded and since the conformity on July 31, 1933 Nazi-oriented society for the promotion of non-profit activities , an association of old Lübeck law .

Program content

The Andreas-Wilms-Haus in Lübeck

The foundation took place after the office of director of the main company, the "non-profit", had passed to the district leader of the NSDAP, Otto Bernhard Clausen . The founding meeting took place on November 8, 1939. The chairman was the head director at the Lübeck Theater , Robert Ludwig, since Stodte had died in September 1939. The playwright and theoretician Ernst Bacmeister gave a lecture The tragedy without guilt and atonement . Two months after the German attack on Poland , Bacmeister pleaded for the abolition of "individual tragic" as it was characteristic of the topos of classical humanistic idealism, "in order to free the Germans as a precaution from any remorse", as they did war that had begun could have suggested. The lecture was published as issue 1 of a series of publications published by the society, which was published by the then völkischer Verlag Franz Westphal in Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz.

On October 13, 1940, the Society held a “ceremony for Emanuel Geibel and Gottfried Herrmann ” in the Andreas-Wilms-Haus on the occasion of Emanuel Geibel's 125th birthday. Robert Ludwig performed Geibel's unpublished poems, and there were two premieres of compositions by Herrmann, who was the city's music director for many years in Lübeck in the 19th century. At the event, the National Socialist Lord Mayor Otto-Heinrich Drechsler announced the establishment of an Emanuel Geibel Foundation, from whose funds a prize should be awarded every five years. This then became the so-called “Prize of the Emanuel Geibel Foundation”, or “ Emanuel Geibel Prize ” for short . It was awarded for the first and last time in 1943 to mark the 800th anniversary of the city. It went to four artists who joined the NSDAP in the 1920s and 1933, respectively.

On March 2, 1941, the Society held a "Flemish Lesson" at the same location - in association with the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and in conjunction with the Volksbildungswerk - dedicated to the Flemish National Socialist poet Cyriel Verschaeve . The Flemish-Dutch historian and activist Prof. Antoon Jacob from the University of Hamburg from the right wing of the Flemish nationalists , spoke in 1944 together with Cyriel Verschaeve, Jef Van de Wiele and other members of a National Socialist “government in exile” formed in Germany of the “Reichsgau Flanders” to Verschaeve, one read from one of his writings and the Lübeck Singing and Playing Circle under Erwin Zillinger sang Flemish songs. Watercolors and tapestries by Erich Klahn were shown. The völkisch National Socialist painter and carpet artist Erich Klahn, one of the Geibel Prize recipients in 1943 who was politically active in the völkisch “Low German Movement”, was able to show watercolors from his “Ulenspiegel” cycle publicly for the first time outside of Lübeck .

Events with the Protestant author Hans Löscher (1941) and the National Socialist writers Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1942) and Friedrich Griese (1942) are also documented.

Around 1950 the company ceased operations. Their tradition of poetry readings was continued by the Weiland bookstore in Lübeck.

Writings of the Society

  • Ernst Bacmeister : The tragedy without guilt and atonement. [The lecture was given by the poet on November 8, 1939 for the founding event of the Geibel Society in Lübeck] Edited by the Geibel Society in Lübeck, issue 1. Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz: Westphal 1940
  • Friedrich Ernst Peters : The return of Empedocles : Friedrich Hölderlin and Josef Weinheber . Published by the Geibel Society in Lübeck, issue 2. Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz: Westphal 1940, 2nd edition [1943]
  • Richard Carstensen : Emanuel Geibel. Born and died in Lübeck. Serious and cheerful things from his life and work. Lübeck: Geibel Society 1940

literature

  • Geibel-Gesellschaft zu Lübeck 1939, Friends of Poetry and the Stage: Subsidiary of the “Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities” 1789: Annual plan 1940/41 with contributions by Friedrich Bischoff ... and unpublished poems by Emanuel Geibel. Lübeck: Coleman 1940.
  • Georg Behrens, 175 years of charitable work , Lübeck 1964, pp. 136/137.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Fligge / Alois Klotzbücher, supply of literature as a communal task in the Empire and in the Weimar Republic (lectures at the eighth annual conference of the Wolfenbüttel working group for library history from May 2-4, 1994 in the Herzog August Library), Wiesbaden 1997, p. 128.
  2. ↑ On Ludwig under National Socialism see Jörg Fligge : Lübecker Schools in the “Third Reich”: a study on the education system in the Nazi era in the context of developments in the Reich. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2014, p. 160 u. ö .; After the end of National Socialism, Ludwig imitated open-air Karl May performances as a "festival" in Bad Segeberg and worked there as a director, see: Gerd Ueding (Ed.), Karl-May-Handbuch, Würzburg 2001, p. 525 ; History of the Karl May Festival: Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geschichte-sh.de
  3. ↑ Gaetano Billari, “Refuge of the Spirit”? Conservative-revolutionary, fascist and National Socialist theater discourses in Germany and Italy 1900–1944, Tübingen 2001, p. 249.
  4. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 82 (1940) No. 40, title page.
  5. ↑ a b Lübeckische Blätter 82 (1940) No. 42, p. 440 f.
  6. ^ Eva Dambacher: Literature and Art Awards 1859-1949. A documentation. Marbach (Neckar) 1996, pp. 55,153; Helga Mitterbauer: Nazi literary prizes for Austrian authors. A documentation. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1994, p. 123.
  7. ↑ Gjalt R. Zondergeld: "We want to go west!", In: Burkhard Dietz / Helmut Gabel / Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Griff nach dem Westen. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960). Münster, pp. 655–671, here: p. 671.
  8. ↑ Gjalt R. Zondergeld: "We want to go west!" , In: Burkhard Dietz / Helmut Gabel / Ulrich Tiedau (eds.): Griff nach dem Westen. The "West Research" of the ethnic-national sciences on the north-western European area (1919–1960). Münster, pp. 655–671, here: p. 671.
  9. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 83 (1941) No. 9, title page and p. 107 f.
  10. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 83 (1941) No. 10, p. 118 f.
  11. ↑ For this event, see in detail: Claus Schuppenhauer: Eulenspiegel also has time and place. Notes on Erich Klahn and the 'Low German Idea' , in: Erich Klahns Ulenspiegel. Series of illustrations for Charles de Coster's novel. Wolfenbüttel 1986, pp. 13-26, here: p. 25.
  12. ↑ Lübeckische Blätter 83 (1941) No. 5, p. 58.
  13. ^ A b Lübeckische Blätter , special circular February 14, 1942.
  14. ↑ 200 years. Persistence and change of bourgeois public spirit. , ed. v. of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities in Lübeck , Lübeck 1988, p. 174.