Franz Johannes Weinrich

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Memorial plaque for Franz Johannes Weinrich in Breisach am Rhein .

Franz Johannes Weinrich (born August 7, 1897 in Hanover , † December 24, 1978 in Ettenheim ) was a German writer and poet who followed the traditions of Catholic hagiography and the mystery play . He also published under the pseudonym Heinrich Lerse .

Life

Franz Johannes Weinrich was the son of the mason foreman Karl Weinrich and his wife Katharina nee Martin. He grew up with eight siblings. After elementary school , he attended the higher commercial school in Hanover and completed a commercial apprenticeship at the Hanover newspaper . In the first years of the war he found odd jobs in Hanover, then in Mülheim an der Ruhr . In 1916 he volunteered for the Guard Fusilier Regiment . In 1917 he suffered a serious wound near Arras that affected him for life.

After the end of the war he returned to Hanover and began his writing activities under the impression of the war experience. At the same time, he turned to Christianity during this time . He met Karl Gabriel Pfeill in Neuss and the Expressionist group of artists and writers of the White Rider . In the 1920s, the first volumes of poetry and theater pieces appeared, which found an echo in the youth movement . In 1922 he married Katharina, born in Neuss, Pannes (1890–1981), with whom he lived as a freelance writer in various places in southern Baden from 1924 . The marriage remained childless.

During the time of National Socialism he wrote other dedicated ecclesiastical and religious works that brought him into conflict with the Reichsschrifttumskammer . After the Second World War , his work increasingly distanced itself from the zeitgeist.

He spent the last ten years with his wife in a retirement home in Lahr . In accordance with his wishes, he found his final resting place in Breisach am Rhein . His grave is preserved and cared for by the Breisach History Association to this day. His works are collected in the Breisach city archive.

Works

  • Heavenly Manifesto (1919)
  • A Human - Scenes from the Death of a Human (1920)
  • With you I will dance the next star (poems, 1921)
  • The Dancer of Our Lady (1921)
  • The Tellspiel of the Swiss Peasants (1923)
  • Columbus (1923, world premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim )
  • Midday in the valley (poems, 1924)
  • The sea voyage ( Parzival novel, 1926)
  • The Handmaid of God - a Game by Saint Elizabeth (1928)
  • Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia (1930)
  • Return from Babylon (tragedy over the Jewish settlement of Palestine , 1932)
  • The Lions Den (novel, 1932)
  • The celebration of the kingship of Jesus Christ (Mystery Play, 1934)
  • The sealed dome (novel, 1935)
  • The Torture of Our Lord (1935)
  • The Xanten Cathedral Game (1936, placed on the list of harmful and undesirable literature by the Reich Chamber of Literature )
  • Consolation in the Night (Poems, 1947)
  • Conquering Peace (Mystery Play, 1947)
  • (Editor :) Breisach yesterday and today (Documentation, 1949, with a preface by Leo Wohleb )
  • The wonderful hostel. Stories in Verse and Prose (1950)
  • The treasure in the mountain (novel under the pseudonym Heinrich Lerse after the master HL , 1954)
  • The youth next to us (novel based on the book Tobit , 1961)
  • The Psalter of the Lord (to pictures from the Our Father chapel in Ibental , 1972)
  • The Wedding at Cana (1976)

The Catholic prayer and hymn book of Gotteslob contains Weinrich's text Herz Jesu, God's sacrificial fire with the melody of Adolf Lohmann (No. 371).

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personal data
SURNAME Weinrich, Franz Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lerse, Heinrich (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Catholic writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1978
Place of death Ettenheim