Felix Riemkasten

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Felix Riemkasten (born January 8, 1894 in Potsdam , Brandenburg ; † October 6, 1969 in Friedenweiler , Baden-Wuerttemberg ) was a German writer , esotericist , new spirit and yoga teacher .

Life

Riemkasten was born on January 8, 1894 in Potsdam . The craftsman's son studied economics and philosophy at the Berlin University . From 1919 to 1931 he was a civil servant for the Free State of Braunschweig and had to resign as a civil servant in connection with the measures taken by Germany's first state government with the participation of the NSDAP. From 1932 he worked as a freelance writer in Berlin-Zehlendorf . Because of the aerial warfare over Berlin and the surveillance by the Gestapo , Riemkasten went to Saxony. He lived on a farm near Bad Säckingen until the end of the war. later he moved to Reutlingen, from where he opened the first German hatha yoga school in Stuttgart on September 10, 1953 . He finally moved these to Friedenweiler and ran them until his death in 1969.

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Riemkasten published books from 1920, where he also followed in the footsteps of Christian Morgenstern's literary figure "Palmström". With his books "Der Bonze" (with reference to Otto Grotewohl ), "Comrades" and "Is the Left Really Still the Right?", Published from 1930 onwards , he dealt with parliamentary democracy, without the NSDAP expressly as an alternative to the democratic parties to call. In the democratic socialism represented mainly by the SPD , however, he saw an ideology that only calm down ordinary workers and employees. Riemkasten is characterized by Mohler as a “German socialist” and a representative of the conservative revolution . The Brunnen-Verlag, in which his books have now appeared, also represented other authors of the conservative revolution and was headed by the staunch National Socialist Willi Bischoff during this time . The Munzinger archive, however, writes "The strongly socially minded author got along no better with the National Socialists".

After 1933, however, Riemkasten mainly wrote books that today would be characterized as advice (skiing, photography), as well as apolitical books for young people and humorous feature articles . He published in the magazine Die Jugend and between 1936 and 1943 in Simplicissimus . His works, published after 1945, dealt exclusively with yoga , meditation , breathing techniques and esotericism .

Works (selection)

  • Stand-up collar proletarians . Roman, Leipzig: Gerstenberg 1920
  • The new people . Roman, Leipzig: Gerstenberg 1920
  • Knörkel of being. Palmstrom filius . Poems, Berlin: Delta-Verlag 1922
  • The swing over . Berlin: Widder-Verlag 1922
  • Every day, Gloria. Stories from our daughter Mananne , Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag K. Winckler 1927
  • The fat cat . Brunnen-Verlag, Berlin 1930.
  • Enjoyed . Roman, Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag 1931
  • Is the left really still the right? Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag 1931
  • The idol . Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag 1932
  • Skiing, easy to learn with a smile. Another ski instruction book, but this time different from the others, written by Felix Riemkasten and Rudolf Leutelt in a friendly community, Munich: Bruckmann 1933
  • The covenant of the righteous . Leipzig: Zinnen-Verlag 1935
  • We're building a house, yeah! With 23 pictures by Karl Arnold , Berlin: Brunnen-Verlag Willi Bischoff 1935
  • Petereit. The German philistine picture book . With pictures by Karl Arnold Berlin: Brunnen Verlag Willi Bischoff 1935
  • Easy to learn to photograph with laughter . Munich: Bruckmann Verlag 1937
  • Ali - the hangover . Illustrated by Olaf Gulbransson , Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1938
  • The garden's great burden as lust , Berlin: Wigankow Verlag 1939
  • A man without supervision , Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag 1940
  • It's easier with laughter. Cheerful wisdom . Leipzig: E. Huyke Verlag 1941
  • Such and such. Types from the Nazi era . Lahr: Publishing house Schauenburg 1947
  • The fourth life, man and his mission . Rascher Verlag Zurich 1949
  • Healing by the spirit. Not miracles, but regularity . Berlin: Schikowski 1959.
  • Ghosts in Ebensbach . Vienna u. a .: Breitschopf 1973, ISBN 3-7004-1032-8 .
  • Yoga for you. Textbook for the practical exercise of Hatha Yoga . Schwab, Schopfheim 1979.
  • The breath book. The breath, how it heals and helps. Systematic teaching on breathing, light gymnastics, relaxation and meditation . Argenbühl-Eglofstal: Schwab-Verlag 1980, ISBN 3-7964-0056-6 .
  • Contemplation in the healing silence: deep relaxation as a physical and mental remedy . Freiburg im Breisgau: Bauer 1992, ISBN 3-7626-0082-1

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Felix Riemkasten in the Munzinger archive , accessed on June 12, 2011 ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Notes on the past and present of yoga in Germany. yoga-akademie.de, accessed on October 12, 2015 .
  3. ^ Armin Mohler / Karlheinz Weissmann, The Conservative Revolution in Germany. 1918-1932. A manual, 6th completely revised and expanded edition, Graz, Ares Verlag, 2005, p. 517.
  4. ↑ Horst E. Miers : Lexicon of secret knowledge . Goldmann, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-442-11708-9 . (Page 343f.)

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personal data
SURNAME Belt box, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, esotericist, new spiritist and yoga teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1969
Place of death Friedenweiler