Friedrich Deml

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Friedrich Deml (born February 15, 1901 in Ebrach ; † November 14, 1994 in Bamberg ) is a former high school teacher and German writer .

Life

Deml was born into a farming family in Ebrach . He studied German , history , art history , geography and geopolitics in Munich and Vienna . During this time he found access to literature. His role model was Friedrich Nietzsche , in whom he believed he recognized a beacon of the future.

As early as 1923 Deml was actively working on the first National Socialist combat newspaper in Regensburg . During this time he composed a kind of mystery play in prose with the title The Antichrist . As a result, he came into closer contact with the poet Hans Brandenburg , which developed into a friendship that did not break off after Deml worked as a teacher in Upper Silesia . After completing his studies, he was for two years Studienassessor at school in Leobschütz / OS , then at the Monastery School in Opole , and 1934 teacher and seminar leader in Gliwice . During his stay in Silesia, which he perceived as "exile", he wrote two volumes of poetry, some radio plays and several short stories and novels .

Hans Brandenburg, who had previously read and criticized Deml's manuscripts, campaigned for his friend to return to Franconia after ten years of teaching in 1938 and then to teach in Bamberg as a teacher at the Lyceum. At the suggestion of Hans Brandenburg, Deml was elected as the first new member of the Bamberg poets' group in 1938 . He found recognition there, took part in all public events of the group of poets and also read from his works. Following the poets 'meeting in Bamberg in 1938, the establishment of the ETA Hoffmann Society was proclaimed with the help of the Bamberg poets' circle; On this occasion, the anthology Round Table was published by E. Th. A. Hoffmann in 1939 , which contains two texts by Friedrich Deml.

In the first years of the war Deml organized several E. T. A. Hoffmann celebrations in association with the National Socialist organization Kraft durch Freude . After the war, only Deml's collaboration as deputy chairman of the ETA Hoffmann Society with a few contributions for the communications of the ETA Hoffmann Society reminded of the no longer existing group of poets .

Deml's volume of novels Das earthische Abenteuer with its Christian motto “Faith and Power” caused offense in 1938, especially in the NSDAP , because a reviewer recommended “handing Deml over to the Kremlin in case the court poet's place […] is soon through one of the usual shots in the neck should be released ”. This denunciating criticism had no consequences, however, since the National Socialists did not want to deny him his "will to the natural values ​​of home, people, empire, nation". Deml's propagated religiosity did not contradict the idea of ​​national mission, because for him the idea of ​​the Reich was closely linked to his faith. From his point of view, the purposeful struggle for the German living space in Europe was a geopolitical reality. Until he was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1942, Deml took part in NSDAP cultural and political events in order to underline his credibility with the party.

After being called up, he was deployed in Norway and, according to his own statement, was a member of the German-Norwegian resistance movement in the vicinity of Moltke - Steltzer , who were close to the Kreisau district . Deml's time as a soldier in Norway ended in captivity ; released from it, he stayed for two years in Schleswig-Holstein , where he began a two-year activity under Prime Minister Steltzer.

In 1947 Deml returned to Bamberg and initially taught at the Lyceum, then moved to the ETA Hoffmann Gymnasium in 1953 and from 1960 also taught folklore and local history at the Pedagogical University . In the post-war period Deml continued to publish short stories and volumes of poetry. In his novella Kleist in Würzburg , dedicated to Heinrich von Kleist , which appeared for the first time in 1937 in the anthology Das irdische Abenteuer and in 1962 in a separate edition without significant corrections, he describes Kleist's search for meaning and mission in his life.

Deml's allegation from 1954 that the city of Bamberg had simply abandoned his colleagues from Bamberg's circle of poets is astonishing in view of the fact that some of these authors continued to appear as staunch National Socialists after 1945. Deml's visionary plan to establish a new group of poets with a Christian-occidental tendency remained a pious wish of the author. This was not detrimental to his literary orientation: He wrote a play called The Hour of Pilate , which was performed in March 1955 in the secularized Dominican Church in Bamberg, which was used culturally at the time , but was not published.

As one of the few remaining members of the Bamberg Poets 'Circle , Friedrich Deml was once again the focus of attention on the anniversary of the liberation , May 8, 1985, in Bamberg, the exhibition The Bamberg Poets' Circle. 1936–1943 was opened in the Bamberg State Library . During the opening of the exhibition there was a scandal between the audience and Deml about his work in National Socialism. This debate was then continued in letters to the editor of the local newspaper Fränkischer Tag between the initiator of the exhibition, Wulf Segebrecht , and Deml's son and his son-in-law, as to whether Deml should be classified as a follower of the National Socialist regime or a resistance fighter . In 1994, at a reading of selected works by Deml, people in Bamberg asked themselves whether this author was susceptible to the ideology of the Third Reich . Deml's story Der Faltbootfahrer from 1933 provoked a particular discomfort in the audience after the reading.

His literary work consists of poetry , novels , short stories, plays and essays , radio plays and a libretto . Numerous poems and stories by Deml are characterized by religious themes. Friedrich Deml died very old in 1994 in Bamberg.

Honors

Works

  • The antichrist. (unpublished)
  • The language of things. Poems. Kösel & Pustet, Munich 1932.
    • Czech translation: Mluva věcí. Translated from the German by OF Babler . Edited by František Vik. Hlasy, Svatý Kopeček 1938.
  • The folding boat driver (= contemporary poet ; Volume 5). Kösel & Pustet, Munich 1933.
  • The death board and other stories from Bavaria and Franconia. Styria, Graz 1934.
  • Regensburg, the stone legend. Poems by Manz, Regensburg / Munich 1935.
  • Preface. In: Paul Habraschka : After the shift. Poems. The Upper Silesian, Opole 1936.
  • The Franconian Fugue. In: Ten Poets-Ten Landscapes. Verlag Otto Janke, Leipzig 1937.
  • The earthly adventure. Nine stories and one epic poem. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 1937.
  • Self-testimony. In: Bayerische Ostmark , May 20, 1938.
  • E. Th. A. Hoffmann's face. In: Heinrich Zerkaulen (Ed.): Round table at E. Th. A. Hoffmann. Verlag Otto Janke, Leipzig 1939, pp. 123–127.
    • Republished in: Mitteilungen der ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft , 5th issue, 1958, pp. 30–32.
  • The painter and the sea. Henn, Ratingen 1940.
  • Eternal change. On the law of water (= Munich reading sheet ; Volume 45). Gerber, Munich 1941.
  • The face of Sybil. Pattloch, Aschaffenburg 1948.
  • The game of the temptation of Emperor Heinrich (= Nuremberg Games ; 12). Glock & Lutz, Nuremberg 1948.
  • The golden mask. Adventure in the empire of the Incas and in the jungle Amazonia. Pattloch, Aschaffenburg 1951.
  • Bamberg and the poets. 4. Consequences. In: Franconian country. Supplement to the Neue Volksblatt , April 24 to July 20, 1954.
  • The hour of Pilate. (Performed but unprinted drama.)
  • Hoffmanneske. In: Mitteilungen der ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft , 6th issue, 1959, p. 25.
  • Sun mask or The Hunted Hunter. Glock & Lutz, Nuremberg 1960.
  • In memory of Hans Leitherer . In: Mitteilungen der ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft , 10th issue, 1963, pp. 1–2.
  • Kleist in Würzburg (= Delta Collection ; Volume 2). Leo Leonhardt Verlag, Würzburg 1962.
  • (Text to the composition by Heinrich Barthelmes) Chants for the wedding. Sentences. Coppenrath, Altötting 1964.
  • The woman of the east. A Hedwig game. 1965.
  • Sol invictus. Invincible sun. Novel. Bargezzi, Bern 1966.
  • ETA Hoffmann as a living present. In: Mitteilungen der ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft , Issue 13, 1967, pp. 1–2.
  • Paths and detours. 16 episodes. In: Bamberger Volksblatt , October 4 to December 30, 1969.
  • 1000 year old Bamberg and the imperial idea. In: Franken-Ruf. Announcements from the Kulturbund Franconia , 2/1972 to 1/1973.
  • In the core of the atoms. Poems. Hohenloher printing and publishing house, Gerabronn / Crailsheim 1974; ISBN 3-87354-048-7 .
  • Requiem for Friedrich Nietzsche. In: Heinrichsblatt , February 15, 1976.

Publications in the St. Heinrichs calendar of the Archdiocese of Bamberg

  • Professor Nichterlein or The Age of Illusions , 1949, p. 20; 1984 p. 76
  • The Madonna of Mathias Grünewald , 1950 p. 30
  • The village church , 1951 p. 92
  • The harvest, 1952 p. 64
  • The arsonist from Langheim; according to an old folk tale , 1953
  • The opening of the little train , 1954 p. 82
  • Three kings on the way , a poem, 1958 p. 31
  • The village church in Upper Silesia , 1958 p. 69
  • Der Schnitter , 1958 p. 86
  • Melodie des Feldweg , 1959 p. 52
  • Die Brünnelesfeger , 1959 p. 86
  • The harvest , 1959 p. 87
  • The inauguration of the Scheßlitzer Bahn , 1959 p. 89
  • Franconian Ladschaftsmelodie , p. 47
  • Farmer's bread breaks all need , 1960 p. 74
  • Kaiser Friedrich's ride to Speyer , 1962 p. 44
  • Der Kroneif der Kaiserin , 1962 p. 42
  • Bamberg and its fishery, a consideration , 1961 p. 49
  • Meeting in Silesia 1960 , 1963 p. 81
  • Hoffmanns face , 1964 p. 37
  • Hugo von Trimberg, a reflection on the Renner , 1967 p. 32
  • Encounter at Wildenberg Castle, a prose ballad , 1967 p. 37
  • Return to Bamberg 1945 , 1970 p. 64
  • The star mantle , 1974 p. 39
  • Old Franconian Histörchen , 1983 p. 92
  • The false archbishop , 1984 p. 73
  • His surrender, or The Moment of Truth , 1984 p. 75
  • Der Luftschuster , 1985 p. 76
  • Das Antiquitätenfräulein , 1985 p. 74

literature

  • Anonymous: Lucifer visits Napoleon. In: Bucherkunde. Organ of the Office for the Maintenance of Literature at the representative of the Führer for the entire intellectual and ideological education of the NSDAP and the Reich Office for the Promotion of German Literature. 5th year, August 1938.
  • Georg Beck (ed.): Poets of the present. Volume 1, Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg / Wiesbaden 1967.
  • Hans Brandenburg: In the fire of our love. Neuner Verlag, Munich 1956.
  • Georg Beck (Ed.): Friedrich Deml on his 70th birthday. In: Franconia. Journal for Franconian regional studies and cultural maintenance , 23 (1971), pp. 125–126.
  • Georg H. Schlatter Binswanger: Deml In: Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Hrsg.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch . Continued by Carl Ludwig Lang. Sixth volume Deeg - Dürrenfeld, KG Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2004, p. 62 f, ISBN 3-908255-06-6 .
  • Martin Clemens Meyer: Friedrich Deml. A Frankish poet. In: bamberg heute , 2/1981, pp. 57–61.
  • Georg Beck: Friedrich Deml 80 years. The abundance of his creativity also grew in depth. In: Franconia. Journal for Franconian regional studies and cultural maintenance , 33 (1981), pp. 39–41.
  • Ulrike Weber: Friedrich Deml. In: The Bamberg Poets' Circle. An exhibition in the Bamberg State Library. Catalog, Bamberg 1985, pp. 139-144.
    • Republished as: Wulf Segebrecht (Hrsg.): Der Bamberger Dichterkreis. 1936–1943 (= Helicon. Contributions to German literature ; Volume 6). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / New York / Paris 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0104-0 .
  • Ulrike Weber: Bamberg authors. Literature today using the example of a region. Biographies, bibliographies and work characterization. Bayerische Verlagsanstalt, Bamberg 1987.

swell

  • Catalog for the exhibition Der Bamberger Dichterkreis 1936–1943. Bamberg State Library 1985, pp. 139–145.
  • German Literature Lexicon (DLL), Volume 3, p. 75 founded by Wilhelm Kosch, Francke Verlag, Bern / Munich 1971.
  • Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, Volume 6, pp. 62–63. Founded by Wilhelm Kosch, KG Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2004.
  • K. Sczodrok: in Der Oberschlesier 1933 (as reference in the DLL 1971)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg H. Schlatter Binswanger: Deml . In: Konrad Feilchenfeldt (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century. Biographical-bibliographical manual . Founded by Wilhelm Kosch. Continued by Carl Ludwig Lang. Sixth volume Deeg - Dürrenfeld. KG Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich 2004, ISBN 3-908255-06-6 , p. 62 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ulrike Weber: Friedrich Deml . In: Wulf Segebrecht (Ed.): The Bamberg Poet Circle. 1936–1943 (=  Helicon . Volume 6 ). Peter Lang, 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0104-0 , ISSN  0721-2879 , p. 139–145 (page-identical reprint of the 1985 exhibition catalog).
  3. ^ Bernhard Schemmel : ETA Hoffmann House and ETA Hoffmann Society . In: ETA Hoffmann yearbook . tape 17 . Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-503-09891-0 , ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft and Bamberger Dichterkreis, p. 209–211 , here p. 210 .
  4. ^ Notices from the ETA Hoffmann Society. Responsible for the publication: ETA Hoffmann-Gesellschaft. 5th, 6th, 10th, 13th issue. Bamberg 1958, 1959, 1963, 1967.
  5. ↑ a b c Wolfram Deml: Defamation instead of differentiation . In: Franconian Day . No. 114/1985 , May 18, 1985, The reader has the floor.
  6. ^ Georg Beck: Friedrich Deml 80 years. The abundance of his creativity also grew in depth . In: Franconia. Journal for Franconian regional studies and culture . No. 33 , 1981, pp. 39–41 ( uni-wuerzburg.de [PDF; 508 kB ; accessed on February 29, 2020]).
  7. ↑ a b c Wulf Segebrecht: A falsification of history . In: Franconian Day . May 25, 1985, the reader has the floor.
  8. ↑ Alexander Pabsthart: Provincial coping with the past . In: Franconian Day . No. 125 , June 1, 1985, The reader has the floor.
  9. ↑ Andreas Funke: Unfortunate selection with a bitter aftertaste. Jan Budinski presented texts by the Bamberg authors Friedrich Deml and Gerd Groß in the Villa Dessauer . In: Franconian Day . April 11, 1994.
  10. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President

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SURNAME Deml, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Ebrach
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1994
Place of death Bamberg