Friedrich Märker

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Friedrich Märker (born March 7, 1893 in Augsburg , † April 27, 1985 in Feldafing ) was a German writer and publicist. The focus of his work was on racial writings as well as contemporary and cultural criticism.

He also appeared under the pseudonyms Alexander Stark , Nikolaus Haug and Fyodor Ukrainow .

Life

After studying philosophy, literature and art history in Berlin, Kiel and Munich (1913 to 1916) he worked as a dramaturge and theater director for Otto Falckenberg in Munich, then in Düsseldorf and Leipzig. From 1926 he was a theater and art critic as well as an adult education center lecturer in Berlin. In 1934 his main work on racial theory appeared, "Character Pictures of the Races", in which he tried to demonstrate the superiority of the Nordic race, especially over the Eastern race, based on the respective facial features. In 1938 he will race for theoretical differences under the Nazis a lecture and gag order received.

Since 1939 he was with the writer Margarete Märker, geb. Willinsky, married.

In 1944 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , in 1945 he was taken prisoner by the United States.

After 1945, in addition to his work as a writer, he made a contribution to the development of writers' organizations. He became president of the Association of Writers in Munich, in 1956 he founded the collecting society for literary copyrights , which in 1958 became the collecting society Wort . In 1959 he was honored with the Great Federal Cross of Merit. From 1952 he was a member of the German PEN Club and from 1949 to 1953 of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Works (selection)

  • Zest for life and world feeling , 1920
  • Types. Basics of character studies , 1930
  • Lavater's Physiognomic Fragments. Selected and annotated , 1949
  • Face shape symbolism. Physiognomic and mimic observations , 1933
  • Character images of the races. Vol. 1: Racial science on a physiognomic and phrenological basis , 1934
  • Young rebels - old tyrants , 1969
  • The Art of Reading the Face , 1971
  • The great contradiction , 1984, ISBN 3-9800315-6-X
Radio plays
  • The tiller and death , 1946
  • The Holy Alliance , 1953
  • Farewell in Taganrog , 1953

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The ideas can also be found summarized in individual contributions such as "The Nordic Race", in: Preußag-Werkszeitung - Harz and Dill group; 2nd year, No. 18, August 26, 1934; P. 4. Also Birski, Schlägel, Eisen und Hakenkreuz, Diss. Braunschweig 2008, p. 148 with further references.
  2. ↑ Munzinger | 00000006630 | Friedrich Märker || in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1985 of July 15, 1985
personal data
SURNAME Märker, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stark, Alexander (pseudonym); Haug, Nikolaus (pseudonym); Ukrainow, Fyodor (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director, writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Augsburg , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1985
Place of death Feldafing , Bavaria