Georg Thurmair

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Georg Thurmair (born February 7, 1909 in Munich ; † January 20, 1984 ibid) was a German poet of around 300 hymns, writer , journalist and documentary filmmaker .

biography

After completing a commercial apprenticeship in Munich, Georg Thurmair worked in the youth center in Düsseldorf from 1926 as a secretary and close companion of Prelate Ludwig Wolker . Since 1923 he was district president of the Catholic youth association in the city of Munich, to which Thurmair also belonged; When Wolker was elected head of the German Catholic Young Men Association based in Düsseldorf in 1926, some Munich employees went with them to Düsseldorf, including Thurmair. He attended evening high school in Düsseldorf .

1930s and 1940s

In 1932 Georg Thurmair designed several issues of the weekly newspaper Junge Front at the Reichstreffen der Sturmschar , which was directed against the emergence of National Socialism ; because the National Socialists claimed this title for themselves, the magazine had to be renamed Michael in 1935 until it was banned in 1936. The songbooks of the Catholic Young Men Association and the Sturmschar, " Das graue Singeschiff " and "Das yellow Singeschiff", published by the publishing house Jugendhaus Düsseldorf , were co-designed by him.

From 1934, Thurmair was a member of the editorial team of the youth magazine Die Wacht , in which the Altenberg pilgrimage song Well, Brothers, We Are Happy for the first time in 1935 and the title We are only guest on earth , initially entitled “Travel Song”, was published. In der Wacht , Thurmair's texts that were directed against the Nazis' claim to absoluteness appeared repeatedly , such as his poem Rollt your flags around the shaft , published under a pseudonym .

After his 1934 song book The gray Singe ship published invocation of St. Jürg in whose lines "Lying is not bold and screams and has a mouth so hell far the truth to devour" by the Catholic youth of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels was recognized was Thurmair was interrogated by the Gestapo and put on the list of suspects. In the following years he therefore wrote under various pseudonyms (including Thomas Klausner, Stefan Stahl, Richard Waldmann, Simpel Krone, Schikki).

In 1936 Georg Thurmair and Adolf Lohmann , who set various of his poems to music, put together a school hymn book for the Rhineland. Both used the volumes of the Singeschiff and the minstrel as a basis . Since the song conspicuously contrasted Catholic confessional songs with the National Socialist songs, the songbook was banned.

Together with Josef Diewald and Adolf Lohmann , Georg Thurmair published the song book " Kirchenlied " with the subtitle "A selection of sacred songs for the youth" in the publishing house Jugendhaus Düsseldorf in 1938 in order to promote a unified song material of the German Catholics. This collection of 140 old and new hymns from different epochs - beginning with the 16th century -, including numerous evangelical songs, was of great importance for the development of both Catholic and ecumenical church chanting in Germany and became the nucleus for the uniform hymnbook published in 1975 " Praise to God ", in which 79 of the songs contained in the" hymn "were taken over. Georg Thurmair wrote 10 of the songs published in the “Kirchenlied”. Among other things, because of the high proportion of Protestant songs, the songbook was not banned by the National Socialists.

The youth center in Düsseldorf was closed on February 6, 1939. Thurmair moved to Recklinghausen as a freelance writer and then to Munich in 1940. From 1940 to 1945 he was drafted into military service. He mainly worked for the Christophorus Verlag in Freiburg, a subsidiary of the Catholic Herder Verlag .

In Thurmair's texts - as in contemporary Bundestag youth - a "heroic", "male-warlike" behavioral orientation that had many overlaps with the "military virtues" of National Socialism ". ( Arno Klönne ). A certain potential for resistance cannot be denied in the songs: "Being different, being Catholic in a totalitarian state, in which the individual is only allowed something to count if he is absorbed in the whole, is a resistance"; Establishing an ecclesiastical “counter-world” in such a state and thereby withdrawing from the totalitarian claim bears resistance. Critics object that the texts aimed at the cohesion of the Christian ingroup and an "inner emigration" against the regime without actively offering resistance or actively helping other persecuted people in the country.

post war period

After returning from captivity, Georg Thurmair lived in Innsbruck until 1949 , then as editor-in-chief of the weekly magazine Michael in Düsseldorf. From 1957 he was the education officer of the Catholic Action in Bavaria , which later became the regional committee of Catholics in Bavaria , founded and edited the journal Lebendigezelle - Weg und Zielischer Laienarbeit , which is now published under the title Congregation Kreaktiv . and was editor-in-chief of the Munich Catholic Church newspaper from 1969 to 1973 . He composed around 300 hymns and was co-author with Rudolf Reissner of the documentary films Pro mundi vita about the Eucharistic World Congress in Munich in 1960 and Lux mundi about the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).

Private

Since 1941 Georg Thurmair was married to the South Tyrolean poet Maria Luise Thurmair (1912–2005). The couple had six children and had lived in Munich since 1956. He died on January 20, 1984 and is buried in the Munich forest cemetery.

Honors

Works (excerpt)

  • The light sail (1935)
  • The first poems to friends (1938)
  • Path of the Few (1949)
  • House book for Advent and Christmas (1959)
  • Way and Work: The Catholic Church in Germany (1960)
  • Brothers over the Stars (around 1970)
  • Face of Hope (1988)

Songs in "Gotteslob" 1975

  • Complete edition:
    • 167 O hear, Lord, hear me (1963)
    • 169 O Lord, from deep lament (1935)
    • 208 O light of the wonderful night (1963)
    • 260 Sing praises to our God (1940/1971)
    • 262 Now sing a new song to the Lord (1965/1971, based on Psalm 98)
    • 472, 2 O Jesus, you are all my faith (1938)
    • 517 Lord Jesus, Open Our Mouths (1963)
    • 540 Be Praised Lord Jesus Christ (1943)
    • 556 peoples of all lands (1964/1971, after Psalm 47)
    • 565 Come Lord Jesus, Come to Earth (1939)
    • 590–592 Greetings to Mary ( Rosary verses, 1940/1970)
    • 615, 2 and 3 all in honor of my god (1963)
    • 637 Let Us Praise Brothers, Praise (1948)
    • 638 Now Sing Praise You Christendom (1964)
    • 656 We are only guests on earth (1935)
    • 660 Now you leave, oh Lord (1966)
  • Diocesan appendices:

Songs in the Evangelical Hymnal

  • Complete edition:
    • 265 Now sing praise, you Christianity (1964/1967)
  • Regional editions:
    • 555 We want to praise and honor (1939)
    • 695 Now you, O Lord (1966, according to Lk 2.29–32  EU )

Songs in the hymn book " Celebrate and Praise "

  • We are only guests on earth (450)

Songs in " Gotteslob " (2013)

  • Complete edition:
    • 271 O Lord, from deep lamentation (1963)
    • 281 Thus Spoke at Supper (1963)
    • 334 O light of the wonderful night (1963)
    • 455, 2–4 All in honor of my God (1963)
    • 487 Now Sing Praise You Christendom (1964)
    • 489 Let Us Praise, Praise Joyfully (1948)
    • 500 Now you let go, oh Lord (1966)
    • 505 We are only guests on earth (1935)
    • 551 Now sing a new song to the Lord (1965/1971, based on Psalm 98)

Documentaries

  • Pro Mundi Vita (1961)
  • Lux mundi (Light of the World) (1968)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Labonté: The collection "Hymn" (1938). Origin, corpus analysis, reception. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8251-1 , pp. 27-30.
  2. ^ Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the early 20th century . Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59148-2 , p. 42 ff .
  3. ↑ Quoted from Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the 20th century , p. 44, [1] with reference to the source: Das graue Singeschiff , 1934, p. 14.
  4. ^ Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the early 20th century . Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59148-2 , p. 44 f .
  5. ^ Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the early 20th century . Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59148-2 , p. 43 .
  6. ↑ Thomas Labonté: The collection "Hymn" (1938). Origin, corpus analysis, reception. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8251-1 .
  7. ^ Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the early 20th century . Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59148-2 , p. 45 .
  8. ↑ Arno Klönne: Afterword. In: Christel Beilmann : A Catholic Youth in God and the Third Reich. Wuppertal 1989, p. 396, quoted in: Thomas Labonté: Die Sammlung "Kirchenlied" (1938). Origin, corpus analysis, reception. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8251-1 , p. 163, note 232.
  9. ↑ Thomas Labonté: Excursus: Was the hymn a book of resistance? In: ders .: The "Hymn Collection" (1938). Origin, corpus analysis, reception. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8251-1 , pp. 155–169, here pp. 168f; Quote p. 168.
  10. ↑ gemeinde-creativ.de
  11. ^ Maria Margarete Linner: Song and singing in the denominational youth movement of the early 20th century . Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-59148-2 , p. 46 .
  12. ↑ Banned by the Nazi regime a short time after going to press; see: Georg Thurmair: My God, how beautiful is your world. The first poems (1933–1943). New edition. Aventinus Verlag Elisabeth Thurmair, Eggenfelden 1979, ISBN 3-88481-001-4 , foreword.
  13. ↑ Thomas Labonté: The collection "Hymn" (1938). Origin, corpus analysis, reception. Francke Verlag, Tübingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7720-8251-1 , pp. 196-209.
  14. ↑ Aachen (No. 034), Augsburg (No. 972), Bamberg (No. 891), Berlin (No. 926), Erfurt (No. 948), Dresden-Meißen (No. 960), Eichstätt (No. 886 ), Hamburg (No. 910), Hildesheim (No. 880), Limburg (No. 975), Munich-Freising (No. 856), Münster (No. 875), Passau (No. 927), Regensburg (No. 899), Speyer (No. 885), Würzburg (No. 895)
  15. ↑ Limburg (No. 960), Trier (No. 917)
  16. ↑ Mainz (No. 809)
  17. ↑ Augsburg (No. 831), Limburg (No. 852)
  18. ^ Evangelical hymn book, edition for the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, the Lippische Landeskirche.
  19. ^ Evangelical hymn book, edition for the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, the Evangelical Church of Westphalia, the Lippische Landeskirche.
personal data
SURNAME Thurmair, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German hymn poet, writer and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1984
Place of death Munich