Hanns Martin Elster

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Hanns Martin Elster ( pseudonyms : Hans Bruneck , Hanns Martin von Bruneck , born June 11, 1888 in Cologne , † November 17, 1983 in Graefelfing ) was a German writer .

Life

Hanns Martin Elster was the son of the writer Otto Elster . He studied at the universities in Munich , Paris , Leipzig and Vienna and obtained a doctorate in philosophy . From 1911 to 1913 he published the Wilhelm Raabe calendar with his father and in 1919 a ladies calendar with Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballestrem . In 1920 he founded the literary magazine Die Flöte and in 1924 the Horen-Verlag , in which the magazine Die Horen , which he edited until 1930, appeared. From 1926 until its dissolution in 1933, he was a board member and secretary of the Kleist Foundation .

Elster, who by his own account had been a member of the NSDAP and the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur since 1933 at the latest , worked after the transfer of power to the National Socialists in the "press office for civil servants" at the Reich leadership of the NSDAP. From 1933 to 1934 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine Das Third Reich of the German Association of Officials and from 1934 to 1936 of the "National Socialist Official Newspaper". On October 28, 1933, he appealed against the pledge of the most loyal allegiance to the Reich Association of German Writers because his name was not listed, which could give the false impression “that those writers who are not named in the list of names will not take part in the pledge of allegiance and stand by the leader. "

After the end of the Second World War , Elster published the magazine Die Lesewelt des Deutschen Bücherbund from 1950 . From 1952 he worked as a publisher in Düsseldorf . From 1955 to 1963 Elster was president of the authors' association Die Kogge and from 1968 president of the Society of Bibliophiles .

Hanns Martin Elster's work includes treatises on the history of literature , biographies and advice on personal development. In addition, he published numerous individual works and editions of works by German authors and translated from French .

In the Soviet occupation zone were after the end of World War II the following works Magpie to the list of auszusondernden Literature set: Dietrich Eckart. The German poet and champion of National Socialism (Berlin 1934), Love and Marriage (from the 11th edition 1936), which in 1934 published by the National Socialist People's Welfare book published Healthy parents - healthy children! , Bismarck (Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1944), Heinrich the Lion (Hoffmann and Campe 1940) and Elster's book What betrays face and posture? (Rudolphsche Verlagbuchhandlung, Dresden 1939).

In the GDR, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein was also banned in the 1935 edition.

In the play Alma by Joshua Sobol Elster takes the writer as a friend Franz Werfel on.

Works

  • Adolf Bartels as a poet , Munich 1907 (under the name Hanns Martin von Bruneck)
  • Gustav Frenssen , Leipzig-Co. 1911
  • Richard Schaukal , Leipzig-Co. 1911
  • Hundred years of publishing house Fr. Wilh. Grunow , Leipzig 1919
  • How do I get memory power? , Dresden 1919
  • Freiherr vom Stein , Berlin 1920
  • Walter von Molo and his work , Munich 1920
  • Love and marriage , Dresden-A. 1921 (under the name Hans Bruneck)
  • The renewal of the German theater , Regensburg 1922
  • Frank Wedekind and his best stage works , Berlin (among others) 1922
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal and his best stage works , Berlin (among others) 1922
  • Moritz von Schwind , Berlin 1924
  • Minister Freiherr vom Stein , Berlin 1925
  • Schiller's life , Berlin 1925
  • Brzeziny , Berlin 1934
  • Dietrich Eckart , Berlin 1934
  • Ernst von Wildenbruch , Berlin 1934
  • Admiral Scheer, the victor in the naval battle off the Skagerrak , Leipzig 1935
  • War reporting dog Tom , Berlin 1938 (together with Otto Albrecht)
  • Minister of War, General Field Marshal, Prime Minister Count Albrecht von Roon , Berlin 1938
  • How do you overcome shyness and fear of life? , Dresden 1938
  • Bismarck , Hamburg 1939
  • What does face and demeanor reveal? , Dresden 1939
  • Work through your face , Dresden 1939
  • Heinrich the Lion , Hamburg 1940
  • How can I get bigger? , Dresden 1940

Editing

  • Daniel Elster : The wanderings of Daniel Elster . 2 vols. Stuttgart 1912
  • Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen : The adventurous Simplicius Simplicissimus , Berlin 1913
  • Ernst von Wildenbruch : Selected Works , 4 vols. Berlin 1919
  • Johann Hermann Detmold : Satires , Berlin 1920
  • Annette von Droste-Hülshoff : Collected works , 3 volumes, Weimar 1923 (poems and ballads / the spiritual year / stories in verse and prose)
  • Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke : Helmuth von Moltke , Stuttgart 1923
  • The German novella of the present , Berlin 1925
  • Jacob Grimm : Children's and Household Tales , Berlin 1925
  • The Pantheon , Berlin 1925
  • The German genius. A collection of German past and present for home and school . Preface by Thomas Mann . Berlin 1926
  • Gustav Freytag : Collected Works . Leipzig 1926. 5 works in 12 volumes (1. Memories from my life; 2–3 debit and credit; 4–5 The Lost Manuscript; 6–8 The Ancestors; 9–12 pictures from the German past)
  • At the ceremony , Leipzig 1936
  • German heroes and exploits in the world war . Stuttgart 1937
  • Harald von Wilda : The Art of Writing Letters . Dresden 1939
  • Theodor Fontane : Picture book from France , Berlin 1941
  • Theodor Fontane: Prussian Generals , Berlin 1943
  • Georg Büchmann : Winged words , Stuttgart 1956
  • Georg Alexander Mathéy : Georg Alexander Mathéy , Wiesbaden 1957
  • Karl Röttger : Selected Works , 2 vols. Emsdetten 1958
  • Heinrich Heine : Collected Works , 2 vols. Gütersloh 1959 (introduction, poems / verses)
  • Josef Winckler : God's maze. The chiliastic pilgrimage , Stuttgart 1967
  • Josef Winckler: The sacred dogs of China , Stuttgart 1968
  • Alfons Paquet : Collected Works , Stuttgart 1970 (poems / novels, stories / travel)
  • Josef Winckler : Schneider Börnebrink , 2 vols. Emsdetten 1976
  • Josef Winckler: Trilogy of Time. Iron World, Emsdetten 1981
  • Fritz von Unruh : Complete Works , Berlin, von Elster 2 vols. Ed .:
    • 11. The General's Son , 1983
    • 17. Sacrifice, Politeia, Biographies , 1979

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Individual evidence

  1. Helga Strallhofer-Mitterbauer: Nazi literature prices of Austrian authors , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1994
  2. ^ Joseph Wulf : Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich. A documentation , Sigbert Mohn, Gütersloh 1963, pp. 97-98, letter from Elster from October 28, 1933.
  3. Klee, Kulturlexikon, p. 134; documented by Joseph Wulf: Literature and Poetry in the Third Reich, 1989 edition, p. 114.
  4. ^ List of literature to be sorted out 1946 .
  5. a b addendum 1947 .
  6. a b c addendum 1948 .
  7. List of the Ministry for National Education of the German Democratic Republic 1953 .