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Franz Schauwecker (born March 26, 1890 in Hamburg , † May 31, 1964 in Günzburg ) was a German writer and publicist .

Life

Schauwecker, the son of a customs officer, studied art history and German in Munich , Berlin and Göttingen . He was a volunteer in the First World War .

In 1919 he had his breakthrough as a writer with the war novel Im Todesrachen. The German soul in the world war . In various subsequent works he propagated the German soldiers as champions of a coming new empire.

Like Ernst Jünger , with whom he temporarily published Die Standarte - Contributions to the spiritual deepening of the front thought , a publication of the Stahlhelm , and Friedrich Hielscher as a representative of the "New Nationalism" and is seen as one of the pioneers of National Socialism in literature . Jünger also wrote the foreword to his novel Der fierige Weg (1926). Schauwecker is best known for his novel Aufbruch der Nation (1929), in which he formulates the insight: "We had to lose the war to win the nation." The text reveals some elements that, according to Ralf Schnell's criteria, as Identify National Socialist literature. In a diary entry (November 1929) of the then Gauleiter of Berlin and later Minister for Propaganda in the Nazi state , Joseph Goebbels , it says about the novel: “A gorgeous book. I was overcome by tears. Individual scenes downright masterful. I read it on with avid. "

In 1931 Schauwecker was a member of the Society for the Study of Fascism . In 1932 he became chairman of the National Association of German Writers (NDS). In October 1933, Schauwecker was one of the 88 signatories of the pledge of most loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . Ulrich Fröschle calls the document "doubtful", while Joseph Wulf considers the document to be "hardly very credible".

During the time of National Socialism , his works achieved high editions. The youth novel Thecumseh followed the nine war books written between 1933 and 1938 . Elevation of the Prairie , published in 1938 and a success. It is about the

“Indian chief named in the title, in whom all tribesmen see already at his birth the future powerful leader who will surpass all others 'in fame and rank'. Having come of age, he takes control of his tribe and leads them victoriously through several battles against enemies. The hero of the novel shows many parallels to the real ' Führer ' [...] "

Several prose texts by Schauwecker came out around 1940; then he appeared again in literary terms in 1944 with The White Rider and Robby . In the autumn of 1941 he did military service for three weeks.

Schauwecker probably fled from the Soviet troops in April 1945 and settled with his wife in Günzburg , Bavaria . It can be assumed that denazification proceedings against Schauwecker did not take place because the writer was not a member of the NSDAP .

Many of his works were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out after the end of the war in the Soviet occupation zone and the German Democratic Republic .

Schauwecker published shorter stories in various newspapers and also gave lectures at the Volksbildungswerk Günzburg. In addition, in the early 1950s he wrote a work that has not yet been published about the period from 1933 to his present. Looking back, Schauwecker commented on this immediately past time as follows:

“I've only felt repulsed by these last few years, probably because I haven't come to terms with them, telling myself that it will be a very difficult thing to come to terms with what has gone on in these years [...].

Franz Schauwecker died on May 31, 1964 in Günzburg .

Works (selection)

  • In the jaws of death. The German soul in World War 1919
  • Ghavati. An animal novel , 1920
  • The gods and the world , 1922
  • Hilde Roxh , novel, 1922
  • The fiery way , 1926
  • That was the war. 200 combat shots from the front , 1927
  • Such is peace. The revolution of time in 300 pictures , 1928
  • Dawn of the Nation , 1929
  • The Mirror, Verse , 1930
  • Germans alone. Cut through time , 1931
  • Brandenburg trip , 1932
  • War of the Germans , 1933
  • The Decision to Acting, 1933
  • The big saga. Vikings experience the world , 1934
  • Tropic of Love , 1937
  • The great renunciation , 1938
  • The armored cruiser. War voyage, fight and ruin , 1938
  • Thecumseh. Elevation of the Prairie , 1938
  • Before the assault , 1940
  • One of many , 1940
  • Fusilier Lehmann IV. , 1940
  • Man between today and tomorrow , novel, 1940
  • The White Rider , novel, 1944
  • Robby , 1944

literature

  • Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, pp. 175–205.
  • Oswald Claaßen: Franz Schauwecker. One life for the nation. Berlin: Frundsberg 1933.
  • Ulrich Fröschle : “Radical in thinking, but weak in action”? Franz Schauwecker: Awakening of the Nation (1929). In: From Richthofen to Remarque, ed. v. Thomas F. Schneider. Amsterdam u. a .: Rodopi 2003. (= Amsterdam contributions to modern German studies; 53) pp. 261–298. ISBN 90-420-0955-1
  • Barbara Haible: Indians in the service of Nazi ideology. Investigations into the function of books for young people about North American Indians in National Socialism. Hamburg: Kovac 1998. (= Poetica; 32) ISBN 3-86064-751-2
  • Bernd Hüppauf: Between metaphysics and visual essayism. Franz Schauwecker: That was the war (1928). In: From Richthofen to Remarque, ed. v. Thomas F. Schneider. Amsterdam u. a .: Rodopi 2003. (= Amsterdam contributions to modern German studies; 53) pp. 233–248. ISBN 90-420-0955-1
  • Armin Mohler u. Karlheinz Weißmann: The Conservative Revolution in Germany 1918–1932. A manual , 6th, completely revised. u. exp. Aufl. Graz: Ares-Verlag 2005. ISBN 3-902475-02-1
  • Uwe Sauermann: The magazine "Resistance" and its circle. The journalistic development of an organ of extreme nationalism and its sphere of influence in the political culture of Germany. 1926-1934. Augsburg: Univ. Diss. 1984.
  • Jürgen Hillesheim / Elisabeth Michael (Ed.): Lexicon of National Socialist Poets: Biographies, Analyzes, Bibliographies. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1993, ISBN 3-88479-511-2 .
  • Hans Sakowicz / Alf Mentzer: Literature in Nazi Germany. A biographical lexicon . Hamburg / Vienna: Europa Verlag (adult new edition) 2002 ISBN 3-203-82030-7
  • Ernst Klee : Franz Schauwecker. Entry in ders .: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 193; Ralf Schnell: Poetry in dark times. German literature and fascism . Reinbek: Rowohlt 1998.
  2. ^ The diaries of Joseph Goebbels (1987), p. 452. Quoted in Bengsch (2011), p. 192.
  3. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 194.
  4. ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 516.
  5. ↑ Ulrich Fröschle: “Radical in thinking, but weak in action?” Franz Schauwecker: Aufbruch der Nation (1929) . In: Thomas F. Schneider and Hans Wagner (ed.): Amsterdam essays on new German Vol 53. Von Richthofen to Remarque. German-speaking prose for World War . Amsterdam 2003, p. 295.
  6. ^ Joseph Wulf: Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation . Gütersloh 1963, p. 96.
  7. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 197f.
  8. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 197.
  9. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 198.
  10. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 199.
  11. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  12. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-s.html
  13. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-s.html
  14. ↑ Nadja Bengsch: Franz Schauwecker - the "poet of heroic life" . In: Rolf Düsterberg (Ed.): Poets for the "Third Reich". Volume 2. Biographical studies on the relationship between literature and ideology . Bielefeld: Aisthesis 2011, p. 200f.
  15. ↑ Schauwecker to Mohler from October 30, 1951. DLA 99.1, A: Mohler. Quoted in Bengsch (2011), p. 200.
personal data
SURNAME Look alarm clock, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1964
Place of death Gunzburg