Gerd Tolzien

Gerhard Paul Wilhelm Tolzien , called Gerd Tolzien , pseudonym: Erasmus (born June 18, 1902 in Grevesmühlen , † March 23, 1992 in Munich ) was a German writer and journalist .

Life

Gerd Tolzien was born as the eldest son of the pastor and later Evangelical Lutheran regional bishop of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , Gerhard Tolzien (1870–1946), and his wife Martha, née. Bard (1880–1972), a daughter of the Schwerin superintendent and senior church councilor Paul Bard (1839–1927). He grew up with four siblings at his father's place of work in Grevesmühlen, Pinnow (near Schwerin) , Schwerin and Neustrelitz .

Tolzien probably passed his Abitur in Neustrelitz and studied at the Charlottenburg Art School and the Berlin Art Academy . From 1925 he was active as a writer and at the same time worked as head dramaturge of the Märkischen-Panorama-Film-AG in Berlin. Always politically left-wing, he was partially banned from work in 1933 and a total ban in 1936. The seizure of power of the NSDAP experienced Tolzien in Neustrelitz and reported it in a manuscript of a novel, which remained unpublished. He also had to witness how his early works were handed over to the fire on May 10, 1933 when the books were burned in Neustrelitz and his father was ousted. During this time he created a "Luther Window" for the Neustrelitz town church , which has been preserved to this day. From 1940 he had to take part in the Second World War as a soldier .

After the end of the war, Tolzien found a new home in southern Germany. He received one of the first permits as a journalist and in 1945 was appointed editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper "Aufbau" by the American military administration . In 1945 he became the founder and editor-in-chief of the " Franconian Press " in Bayreuth . In 1948 he worked in Schwäbisch Hall and since 1960 as a freelance writer and freelancer for the Kindler publishing house in Munich .

Gerd Tolzien had been with Erna, born on October 7, 1936. Mollenschott (1902–1991) married. The marriage remained childless.

Works

Gerd Tolzien wrote numerous, mostly art-historical publications, but also plays, novels and reports.

• Co-author of Kindler's Painting Lexicon (1964–1971)
• Co-author of the encyclopedia The greats of the world
• Rathenau. A show in 5 acts. (1925)
• The heretic. Novel (1947)
• Kaspar Hauser. Cultural-political time considerations. (1947)
• Berlin novella. Munich: self-published, [1949]
• The botched son of a great father. Autobiographical novel. Self-published, Munich 1967. [New print .: Berlin: Berliner Kreis, 2019. ISBN 978-3-948413-23-1 ]
• German newspaper in year zero. Documentation. S. Schwarz, Munich 1975
• Behind the iron curtain. (1980)
• Anathema. From the “Spirit of Bayreuth” to the “Bavarian Dreyfus Case”. (1984)
• Metanoeite to peace! (1986)
• I will not let myself be FRG! (1990)

Furthermore, from 1967 Tolzien published in the Saturday edition of the Bayerische Rundschau under the pseudonym Erasmus as "Sunday Thoughts" countless columns, some of which appeared in the Moralities Collection (1978).

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• Grete Grewolls: Gerd Tolzien. In this: Who was who in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania? A dictionary of persons. Ed. Temmen, Bremen and Rostock 1995. p. 441.
• Hans-Cord Sarnighausen: To the family of the Mecklenburg regional bishop Gerhard Tolzien (1870-1946). From country life in Tarnow to Schwerin celebrities. In: Archive for Family History Research, Vol. 7 (2003), 3, pp. 163-169 and Vol. 8 (2004), 2, pp. 126-131. [Addendum]

Web links

• Literature about Gerd Tolzien in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Gerd Tolzien in the state bibliography MV
• Gerd Tolzien at filmportal.de