Hans-August Vowinckel

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Hans-August Vowinckel (born November 20, 1906 in Siegen , † July 24, 1941 in Smolensk ) was a Westphalian writer. He was best known for his story Der Kampf im Forst . The story deals with a poaching story from the Odenwald from the time after the Wars of Liberation in the years 1813-15.

Life

Vowinckel was shot down as a member of a propaganda company and war correspondent while flying over Smolensk. He saw himself in a national struggle. "Our people" are, he noted in December 1940, in a "struggle for existence" with this war. That is his "fate". It is fighting for a "mission". The war is a great fight and a "divine fate".

The book The poet and soldier. The author's widow Renate Vowinckel published a book of honor . It was a kind of literary legacy and consists mainly of letters, photos and poems. It was also a contribution to war propaganda. The font was placed on the list of literature to be segregated in 1947 by the German Administration for Popular Education in the Soviet occupation zone .

The literary scholar Horst Denkler classifies Vowinckel's Heimatliteratur 2006 as propaganda contributions. The "homeland" category is charged and politicized in a regime-stabilizing sense. This politicization increases when - as in Vowinckel's contributions - "home" appears to be threatened or lost, if it is to be defended or conquered elsewhere. "Home foundation through victory over 'disorder and rebellion'".

Fonts

  • Schiller as the poet of history. An interpretation of the Wallenstein, Berlin 1938 (dissertation University of Freiburg)
  • The fight in the forest. Story, Stuttgart 1940 (in Russian: Borba w lesu. Rasskaz, o.O. 1943)

literature

  • Christiaan Janssen, Demarcation and Adaptation. German culture between 1930 and 1945 as reflected in the departmental bodies Het Duitsche Boek and De Weegschaal, Münster 2003
  • Wolfgang Schwarz (ed.): The early crowned: words of fallen German poets from then and now, Planegg 1943
  • Renate Vowinckel (ed.), The poet and soldier. A book of honor, Stuttgart 1942

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Karsten (Ed.), Motivating Soldiers. Morale Or Mutiny (Military and Society), New York 1998, p. 103.
  2. ^ Gustavo Corni, Raccontare la guerra. La memoria organizzata, Milan 2012
  3. ↑ Christiaan Janssen, Demarcation and Adjustment, German Culture between 1930 and 1945 in the mirror of the departmental organs Het Duitsche Boek and De Weegschaal, Münster / New York 2003, p. 173; see also the following contemporary positive review: Emil Horbach, Hans-August Vowinckel, Der Dichter und Soldat. A book of honor, in: De Weegschaal, H. 9, 1943/44, p. 36, with the statement that Vowinckel had died "in the middle of the victorious onslaught, the hero's death in the struggle of order against annihilation".
  4. ↑ Horst Denkler, Ruined Works, Debris of Life. Literary traces of the 'lost generation' of the Third Reich, Tübingen 2006, p. 124f.
personal data
SURNAME Vowinckel, Hans-August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Wins
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1941
Place of death Smolensk