Gustav Schröer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gustav Schröer (born January 14, 1876 in Wüstegiersdorf , † October 17, 1949 in Weimar ) was a German writer .

Life

After training as an organist and sexton , he worked in Ziegenrück for a few months in 1896 , from where he was transferred to Eßbach on July 1st . In addition to his work as a teacher, he was also active as a writer from 1913. In 1920 he was appointed to Erfurt as a district youth worker , and in 1922 to the post of state youth worker in Weimar . From 1924 Schröer was together with the pastor August Ludwig and the church councilors Ernst Seidel and Otto Senffleben publisher of the Protestant church newspaper Glaube und Heimat , published by Wartburg-Verlag . From 1928 to 1932 he brought out the journal of the Thuringian Federation “Die Pflugschar”.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in October 1933, Schröer was one of the 88 writers who had signed a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . After the end of the war, his works Volk im Schmiedefeuer (1934) and The Flight from the Murman Railway (1935) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out in the Soviet occupation zone .

Schröer has published a total of almost 70 books, in addition to the Leipzig publishers Hesse and Becker and Quelle and Meyer, above all at Bertelsmann- Verlag. All of them were very popular and were also an economic success for him. Heimat gegen Heimat was one of the best-selling titles and reached a circulation of 600,000 copies between 1933 and 1945.

Most of his novels had heroes rooted in the countryside. His work can be assigned to bourgeois realism . It sometimes shows strong nationalistic features.

Works

  • When the homeland died
  • Old bells new sound (Ed.)
  • From life's colorful wreath
  • The rescued village
  • The heart speaks
  • The fate of Käthe Rotermund
  • The stronger
  • The Christmas carol
  • The inn to the chapel
  • The farmer from Lehdenhof
  • The peasant grandson
  • The Brockhof and its women
  • The passed pawn
  • The happy Balthasar
  • The Savior from the Binsenhof
  • The helper from Lengau (play, 4 acts)
  • The Lord God and a man
  • The yard in the reed
  • The hollow furnace maker
  • The right heir
  • The rascal from Bruckau
  • The Schulze von Wolfenhagen
  • The shot at the devil
  • The Champion of God (Lutherroman)
  • German legends
  • The farmers of Siedel
  • The escape from everyday life
  • The escape from the Murmanbahn
  • The homeland conquered
  • The war loan of the boys from Erbesbach
  • The St. Thomas avalanche . A novel from the mountains: People's Association of Book Friends. Wegweiser-Verlag GmbH, Berlin (1940). 358 pp.
  • The people from the Three Valley
  • The Pentecostal birch
  • The settlers from Heidebrinkhofe
  • The Wiedes
  • Sat for three days (comedy)
  • A barbarian bit
  • One love way
  • Mrs. Käthe Werner
  • God worth Ingram and his work
  • Gustav Adolf and his faithful
  • Home against home: C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1929; last edition there 1953
  • I had a comrade
  • In the shadow of the Helberg
  • Joachim Werner
  • Käthe Jüttner's path to happiness
  • Kinderland
  • War volunteers
  • Land need
  • Peter Lorenz
  • Shards on the way
  • Fate hands
  • Silent stories
  • Silent people
  • Storm in you for
  • For man's honor
  • From people I have come to love
  • From people I met
  • People in the forge fire
  • When you get on the dog
  • Who digs a pit for others (comedy)
  • As the heart suggests to them
  • Wilhelm Henneckes honeymoon
  • We won't let ourselves get down
  • We throw the fire (drama)

(in italics : stories or volumes of stories)

literature

  • Christian Adam: Reading under Hitler: authors, bestsellers, readers in the Third Reich. Galliani, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86971-027-3 , pp. 277ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 549.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-s.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-s.html
personal data
SURNAME Schröer, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Wüstegiersdorf
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1949
Place of death Weimar