Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz

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Hans-Caspar Anton Konstantin von Zobeltitz (born August 7, 1883 in Berlin , † August 10, 1940 in Meiningen ) was a German writer and editor .

Life

The son of the writer and bibliophile Hanns von Zobeltitz was also editor of the monthly magazine at the Velhagen & Klasing publishing house . He was a knight of the Royal House Order of the Hohenzollern with swords. Zobeltitz was primarily a military writer and glorified the First World War in his works . His wife Erika von Zobeltitz (1892–1967) was a writer and wrote under the pseudonym Renate Uhl. Her novel "The Two Diersbergs" was filmed under the title "Heart Without a Home".

In October 1933, Zobeltitz, who had joined the NSDAP on March 21 of that year , signed a pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler together with 87 other writers .

His most famous work was Kora Terry , which was filmed in 1940 with Marika Rökk . He did not live to see the premiere of the film on November 27, 1940. The major died in a hospital in Meiningen .

Several works written and edited by Zobeltitz were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out after the end of the war in the Soviet occupation zone and in the German Democratic Republic .

Works

  • Hindenburg. A life of duty. The becoming and duty of the field marshal and president . Biography, Berlin, 1926
  • Georg Goetz - the infantryman . Roman, Stuttgart / Gotha, 1927
  • Werner Holten - the seaman . Roman, Stuttgart / Gotha, 1927
  • My uncle Fedor. [Leipzig], 1927
  • The Quadriga in World Wars . Roman, Stuttgart / Gotha, 1927
  • Fritz Berlow - the rider and aviator . Roman, Stuttgart / Gotha, 1928
  • The Vitapalast . Roman, Berlin, 1929
  • Bea, Beate and Be . Roman, Leipzig, 1935
  • Little woman on a big ship . Roman, Leipzig, 1937
  • Kora Terry - The novel by an artist . Stuttgart, 1939
  • Against honor . Story, Berlin, 1940

See also

Web links

Wikisource: Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , Vol. 5., 2004, p. 2692
  2. ^ Jan-Pieter Barbian: literary politics in the third realm: institutions, competencies, fields of activity . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1993, p. 33.
  3. ^ 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. 685.
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-h.html
  5. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-x.html
  6. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-u.html
  7. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1948-nslit-x.html
  8. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-y.html
personal data
SURNAME Zobeltitz, Hans-Caspar von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zobeltitz, Hans-Caspar Anton Konstantin von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1940
Place of death Meiningen