Franz Büchler

Franz Büchler (1988)

Franz Theodor Büchler (born February 10, 1904 in Strasbourg , † September 15, 1990 in Baden-Baden ) was a German writer and visual artist .

Life

Käthe Büchler, bust of Franz Büchler, 1933

Franz Büchler was born on February 10, 1904 as the only child of the Catholic railway official Franz Büchler, who died at the age of 27, and the Protestant Melani (née Sartorius) in Strasbourg . From 1909 he attended preschool and the Protestant grammar school there. When Alsace returned to France at the end of the First World War , he and his mother were expelled. They move to Baden-Baden , where Büchler attends the humanistic high school in Hohenbaden until he graduates from high school.

He first studied natural sciences in Heidelberg and later in Freiburg im Breisgau , Munich and Lausanne history, philosophy, German and Romance languages. At the age of 24 he passed the state examination for the higher teaching post and received his doctorate from Gerhard Ritter with the thesis “The spiritual roots of the holy alliance ”. In the same year he married Käthe Frahm. The marriage lasted until Büchler's death. She has seven children.

After completing his legal clerkship , Büchler was hired as a substitute teacher in Karlsruhe , where he also worked as a theater critic, sculptor and writer. In 1934 he is in Oberkirch teacher assessor and 1940 in Heidelberg teacher . A year later the family moved to Büchler's native city of Strasbourg .

In 1934 Büchler published his first volume of poetry, “Licht von Innen”. In 1937 the drama "August the Strong" followed, premiered a year later in Aachen . The tragedy “Sunanda”, after “Duke Bernhard” Büchler's third drama, was removed from the program shortly before its premiere in Leipzig in 1942 by the “Reichsdramaturgie” in the Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

At the end of the Second World War , Büchler was again forced to leave Strasbourg . He and his family reached Baden-Baden, penniless . But in 1947 the apartment had to be vacated for the French occupation and the family found accommodation in Unterlauchringen . In 1950 Büchler returned to Baden-Baden and lived in the Lichtental district until his death . Released from school due to illness, from now on he devotes himself more to writing. In addition to other dramas and poems, stories, novels and essays were published and Büchler began to work as a painter. He also travels to Peru, among other places, and meets regularly with Paul Celan in Paris .

His last novel "The lying eagle" is published in the year of his death. Franz Büchler is buried in the Lichtental cemetery. One year after his death, the Baden-Baden City Library set up a room in the literature museum in the garden house in his honor .

Works (in selection)

The lung tuner, 1966

drama

August the Strong . Berlin 1937.
Duke Bernhard . Munich 1939.
Sunanda . Strasbourg 1942.
Ananias . Stuttgart 1953.
Balk . Stuttgart 1953.
Dramas of the time. Ree, Wina, Iris . Strasbourg 1960.
Piece work. The colonel, the wind egg, ptarmigan and plaice, child's play . Weinheim 1972.

Poetry

Light from within . Poems. Leipzig 1934.
Earth and salt . Poems. Düsseldorf u. Cologne 1960.
Flotsam . Poems. Berlin 1972.
with Inge Wurth : way to Delphi. Cantos . Berlin 1979.
with Inge Wurth: The spiritual year (52 weeks and 1 day). Cantos . Freiburg i.Br. 1982.

prose

Schizoid. Stories and texts . Tübingen u. Basel 1972.
The no man's way or the united . Novel. Berlin 1975.
The lying eagle. A utopian novel . Waldkirch 1990.

essay

Watershed of two ages . Essays. Heidelberg 1970.
Eduard Reinacher as the author of the 'Alsatian Idyls and Elegies'. Commemorative speech at Stettenfels Castle on June 29, 1969 . In: Studies by the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . Ed. V. Christian Hallier. Vol. 3. Frankfurt a. M. 1971. pp. 263-272.
The painter Anne Luc . Concrete experiences through abstract images . In: Studies by the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . Ed. V. Christian Hallier. Vol. 4. Frankfurt a. M. 1975. pp. 161-178.
Boundary lights . Essays. Berlin 1975.

Reading book

Again it is early morning. Freiburg i.Br. 1983.
Supplementary volume: The threshold. Texts . Freiburg i.Br. 1984.

literature

Rieger, Walter: Franz Büchler: "Earth and Salt". An interpretation . In: Serving Word. A celebration for Ernst Bender on his 70th birthday . Supervised by Walter Franke. Karlsruhe 1959. pp. 107-114.
Report on the fifth award of the Erwin von Steinbach Prize to Dr. Franz Büchler . In: Studies by the Erwin von Steinbach Foundation . Ed. V. Christian Hallier. Vol. 2. Frankfurt a. M. 1968. pp. 243-256.
Four-volume monograph by Inge Wurth:
- Light suffered. On the poetry of Franz Büchler . Berlin 1975.
- Departure and arrival. On the prose of Franz Büchler . Berlin 1976.
- The drawn. On the dramas of Franz Büchler . Berlin 1977.
- Mind and form. On Franz Büchler's essays . Berlin 1977.
Franz Büchler. Baden-Baden symposia I . Published by the cultural office of the city of Baden-Baden in 1996.
Büchler, Franz . In: German Literature Lexicon . The 20th century. Biographical-Bibliographical Handbook . Justified v. Wilhelm Kosch . Ed. V. Konrad Feilchenfeldt . Vol. 4. Zurich a. Munich 2003. pp. 522f.
Huber, Heinz G .: A writer who was a teacher in Oberkirch : Franz Büchler (1904-1990) . In: 125 years of Oberkirch Higher School. Festschrift . Ed. V. Friends of the Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch. Oberkirch 2005. pp. 115-120.

Web links

Wikiquote: Franz Büchler - Quotes

Literature by and about Franz Büchler in the catalog of the German National Library
franzbuechler.de
Literature Museum of the Baden-Baden City Library and the corresponding page at Literaturland Baden-Württemberg

Individual evidence

↑ In a curriculum vitae attached to his doctorate , Büchler writes that they were "driven out of Alsace by the unfortunate outcome of the war". After 1918 a total of around 200,000 Germans who had moved to Alsace after 1871 were expelled .

↑ Franz Büchler: The spiritual roots of the holy alliance. Freiburg i.Br. 1929.

↑ One reason for the long waiting time for the civil servant relationship is possibly due to Büchler's attitude towards the National Socialist system , because he was "extremely critical of the Nazi system , especially in the early days"; Differences to the headmaster and the mayor, both staunch National Socialists, can also be proven from his time in Oberkirch . (Heinz G. Huber: A writer who was a teacher in Oberkirch: Franz Büchler [1904-1990] . In: 125 years Oberkirch Higher School. Festschrift . Ed. V. Friends of the Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch. Oberkirch 2005. S 115–120, here: p. 116f.)

↑ According to the ministry's files, this happens “for political reasons” after an intervention by Subhas Chandra Bose , a leader of the Indian independence movement. (Bundesarchiv Berlin R55-20229, p. 57) At this time Bose was busy building an Indian volunteer army against the British colonial power in Berlin . The printing of the piece in the same year by Hünenburg-Verlag , Strasbourg , remains unopposed.

↑ In his essay "Peruanische Streiflichter" Büchler deals with experiences of the time in Peru , first published in: Neue Deutsche Hefte . Ed. V. Joachim Günther . 16th year 1969, issue 1, pp. 63–79.

↑ After Celan's death, Büchler writes about an encounter between the two in the essay “Gedenken an Paul Celan”, first published in: Neue Rundschau . 81st year 1970, issue 3. pp. 628–634.

personal data
SURNAME	Büchler, Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Büchler, Franz Theodor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer and visual artist
DATE OF BIRTH	February 10, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH	September 15, 1990
Place of death	Baden-Baden

[1] In a curriculum vitae attached to his doctorate , Büchler writes that they were "driven out of Alsace by the unfortunate outcome of the war". After 1918 a total of around 200,000 Germans who had moved to Alsace after 1871 were expelled .

[2] Franz Büchler: The spiritual roots of the holy alliance. Freiburg i.Br. 1929.

[3] One reason for the long waiting time for the civil servant relationship is possibly due to Büchler's attitude towards the National Socialist system , because he was "extremely critical of the Nazi system , especially in the early days"; Differences to the headmaster and the mayor, both staunch National Socialists, can also be proven from his time in Oberkirch . (Heinz G. Huber: A writer who was a teacher in Oberkirch: Franz Büchler [1904-1990] . In: 125 years Oberkirch Higher School. Festschrift . Ed. V. Friends of the Hans-Furler-Gymnasium Oberkirch. Oberkirch 2005. S 115–120, here: p. 116f.)

[4] According to the ministry's files, this happens “for political reasons” after an intervention by Subhas Chandra Bose , a leader of the Indian independence movement. (Bundesarchiv Berlin R55-20229, p. 57) At this time Bose was busy building an Indian volunteer army against the British colonial power in Berlin . The printing of the piece in the same year by Hünenburg-Verlag , Strasbourg , remains unopposed.

[5] In his essay "Peruanische Streiflichter" Büchler deals with experiences of the time in Peru , first published in: Neue Deutsche Hefte . Ed. V. Joachim Günther . 16th year 1969, issue 1, pp. 63–79.

[6] After Celan's death, Büchler writes about an encounter between the two in the essay “Gedenken an Paul Celan”, first published in: Neue Rundschau . 81st year 1970, issue 3. pp. 628–634.