Erich Karschies

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Erich Karschies (born February 8, 1909 in Laugszargen , Tilsit district , today in the Rajongemeinde Tauragė , † November 5, 1942 ) was a German teacher and writer .

Life

Erich Karschies was born on February 8, 1909 in Laugszargen in the Tilsit district. He first attended the elementary school in Groß Schilleningken in the district of Heydekrug , then switched to the school in Memel and then to the teacher training college there, which he completed in 1932 with the second teaching examination. After further exams in Königsberg , he worked as a teacher from 1935 and was appointed school councilor in 1937. In addition to teaching, Karschies published articles such as B. in the " Memeler Dampfboot " and in the "Grenzgarten", mainly in Low Prussian Low German, to avoid state censorship. After the Memelland was reconnected to the German Reich , Karschies joined the NSDAP . In 1940 his first novel was published, the successful "Fischmeister", which made him known nationwide. In the following year his second novel “Behind is always the sun” appeared, which dealt with the fate of ethnic Germans . Karschies enlisted in the Wehrmacht in 1941 and fought with the infantry on the Eastern Front .

Erich Karschies fell on November 5, 1942. He was posthumously honored with the Johann Gottfried von Herder Prize in 1943/44 . When the Germans were expelled from East Prussia, his wife and children fled to Flensburg .

After the end of the Second World War, Karschies' book “Behind is always the sun” was placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Publications

  • 1933: Language exercise book: Exercise material from spelling and language teaching for Lithuanian lessons in schools in the Memel region
  • 1940: Der Fischmeister , Holzner Verlag, Tilsit and Leipzig
  • 1941: Behind is always the sun , Vier Tannen Verlag, Berlin and Leipzig

Honors

literature

  • Kürschner's German Literature Calendar . Nekrolog 1936-1970. Edited by Werner Schuder . De Gruyter Verlag, 1973, ISBN 3-11-004381-5 .
  • Heinrich A. Kurschat: Erich Karschies fell ten years ago . In: Memeler Dampfboot , Volume 103, No. 4, Oldenburg , February 20, 1952.
  • He gave us the "fish master" . In: Memeler Dampfboot , 110th year, No. 7, Oldenburg, April 8, 1959.
  • Hermann Luding, Rudolf Thurau (ed.): Land of the dark forests ... East Prussian poetry of our time , Pedagogical Publishing Association Ostpreußen GmbH, Sturm Verlag, Königsberg, 2nd edition, 1941.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter K, list of literature to be discarded
personal data
SURNAME Carschies, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Laugszargen
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1942