Ernst Kratzmann

Ernst Kratzmann at a speech during the “driver training week” of the Vienna Hitler Youth , 1943

Ernst Kratzmann (born December 8, 1889 in Budapest , Kingdom of Hungary , Austria-Hungary , † July 13, 1950 in Vienna , Austria ) was an Austrian writer .

Life

Ernst Kratzmann was the son of the glass painter Eduard Kratzmann and grandson of the painter Gustav Kratzmann . Ernst Kratzmann came to Vienna early with his father . He studied natural sciences with a focus on botany at the University of Vienna , worked at the Institute for Pharmacognosy there and received his doctorate in philosophy in 1914 . After taking part in World War I as a soldier , he worked as a middle school teacher . From the beginning of the twenties he published literary works; in addition, he dealt with topics from the field of psychology and was co-author of a work on addiction psychology .

Ernst Kratzmann was the author of novels and short stories , of which the novel "The Smile of Magister Anselmus", published in 1927, had a total print run of over 50,000 copies by 1941 . Kratzmann was considered a sympathizer of the National Socialist regime, was also a member of the NSDAP from March 1933 and in the same year applied for admission to the Reich Association of German Writers , in which he named the National Socialist writer Mirko Jelusich as guarantor. According to his own information, from 1933 onwards, Kratzmann also wrote articles for the Völkischer Beobachter . His political involvement is said to have brought him clear disadvantages under Austrofascism : his novel "Faust - a book of German spirit" is said to have been confiscated by the police in 1936, his teaching work would have suffered and he would have been in a "purely Jewish institution" until the "Anschluss" in 1938 been transferred to a sentence.

After the end of the Second World War , Kratzmann was considered to be “ less exposed ”. In 1948 his novel “The New Earth” was on the “ List of Literature to be Separated ” in the Soviet zone , while in the same year the short-lived Austrian “Central Commission for Combating Nazi Literature” decided to end his book “Faust” and those during the Third Reich To put the published titles "Die neue Erde" and "Götter" on a so-called "delivery list", other books by Kratzmann were released. Since 1955, a street called "Kratzmanngasse" in the Essling district of Vienna has been named after him.

Works

• About the structure and the presumed function of the "partition glands" of Rhododendron hirsutum, intermedium and ferrugineum , Vienna 1910
• The microchemical evidence and the distribution of aluminum in the vegetable kingdom , Vienna 1913
• A twin flower in Gymnadenia conope (L.) R. Br. , Vienna 1913
• Sun leaves and shadow leaves at Asarum europaeum L. , Vienna 1914
• On the anatomy and microchemistry of the cashew nut (Anacardium accidentale L.) , Vienna 1914
• Dying Kings , Leipzig [a. a.] 1920
• The machines , Vienna [u. a.] 1922
• The smile of Magister Anselmus or the life of Hanns Meinrat Maurenbrecher from Dinkelsbühl , Vienna
  • 1 (1927)
  • 2. The lonely force , 1928
• Faust , Vienna [a. a.] 1932
• The psychological foundations of alcoholism , Berlin 1932
• Addiction , Berlin 1936 (together with Ernst Gabriel)
• Brangäne , Vienna [a. a.] 1938
• Battle under the stars , Vienna [a. a.] 1938
• Regina Sebaldi , Vienna 1939
• The new earth , Berlin [u. a.] 1940
• The valley of sounds , Vienna 1941
• The gods , Vienna 1942
• The fairy tale of the glassblower and the devil , Vienna 1944
• The garden of the Holy Mother , Krems ad Donau 1959

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Street names in Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 201f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013

Web links

• Ernst Kratzmann in the "Austrian Biographical Lexicon"
• Report on the deliberations of the "Central Commission for Combating Nazi Literature" on Ernst Kratzmann (pp. 54 - 55) (PDF file; 2.76 MB)