Friedrich Rasche

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Friedrich Rasche (born May 7, 1900 in Radeberg near Dresden , † March 27, 1965 in Hanover ) was a German journalist, critic, essayist , writer and poet.

Life

Friedrich Rasche was born on May 7, 1900 in Radeberg near Dresden. His father was a painter. Friedrich Rasche studied theology, philosophy, German, art history and theater studies in Leipzig . In 1922 he published verse and prose poems for the first time. He completed his doctorate on the subject of Schopenhauer's pessimism and the value problem in 1924. After completing his studies, Rasche switched to journalism. First he worked as an editor and lecturer at the Leipziger Tageblatt . His friend Erich Kästner , who himself worked for this newspaper and wanted to take some time off for his own doctorate , had found him this position .

In 1926 Rasche went to Hanover . There he took up an activity as an art and theater critic for the Hannoversche Anzeiger . Rasche was an opponent of National Socialism . His wife Hildegard was “half-Jewish” and therefore suffered from reprisals. For example, she was not allowed to attend theater performances. From then on, Rasche demonstratively left the seat next to him free for theater performances that he attended as a critic. From 1935 on, the journalist was repeatedly banned from writing because he also published the writings of ostracized authors. In 1941 Rudolf Augstein , who later founded and made the news magazine Der Spiegel , volunteered in his editorial team. In 1942, Rasche was banned from publishing.

After the end of the Second World War , the British military government commissioned him to head the editorial office of the Hannoversche Nachrichtenblatt of the Allied military government . He made sure that Augstein also came to the paper as editor. Augstein, who toyed with the idea of ​​becoming a playwright, failed with his plan because of the critic Rasche. By tearing a play by Augstein, he ensured that Augstein devoted himself entirely to journalism from then on.

Rasche then worked as a feature editor at the Hanover Press , of which he was deputy editor-in-chief until 1965. He belonged to the PEN Club and the Lower Saxony Writers' Association . In addition, Rasche was the Lower Saxony representative in the main committee of the film evaluation office of the federal states in Wiesbaden .

Rasche published his own short stories and poems and was the author of numerous publications on German literary history. Among other things, he published as an essayist in the newspaper Die Zeit . Friedrich Rasche died on March 27, 1965 in Hanover-Badenstedt . There the Friedrich-Rasche-Winkel is named after him. His estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar.

Publications (selection)

  • Schopenhauer's pessimism and the value problem (dissertation). Crimmitschau: Rohland and Berthold Verlag 1924
  • Liberated art - speeches and lectures of the Celler Kunstwoche . Hannover Verlag Adolf Sponholtz 1946 (Ed.)
  • The hanged. Five stories . Hanover: Richard Beeck Verlag 1948
  • Fritz von Unruh . Rebel and herald. The poet and his work . Hannover: Publishing house for literature and current affairs 1960
  • Goslar - portrait of a city . Hanover: Verlag Fackelträger 1963
  • From person to person . Hanover: Verlag Fackelträger 1965
  • From all four winds . Poems. Hamburg: Hoffmann and Campe 1967

Features articles (selection)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Böttcher u. a. (Ed.): Friedrich Rasche. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Hanover: Schlütersche 2002, p. 292.
  2. ↑ Simon Brenne: Unwavering voice in the features section. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 100, April 29, 2008.
  3. ↑ Simon Brenne: Unwavering voice in the features section. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 100, April 29, 2008.
  4. ↑ Uta von Kardorff: Encounter. "Misery is the midwife of all geniuses". Rudolf Augstein's early mortification as a poet . In: Die Zeit, 12/2003 , accessed on February 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ See Josef Müller Marein, It began thirty years ago. In: Die Zeit, February 20, 1976 , accessed November 27, 2013; Poems and texts by Rasche also accessed from the Zeit-Archiv on February 17, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Rasche, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author, writer, critic, essayist
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Radeberg
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1965
Place of death Hanover