Hans Franck (writer)

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Hans Franck (born July 30, 1879 in Wittenburg / Mecklenburg ; † April 11, 1964 in Schwerin ) was a German writer and dramaturge . He was a member of Bamberg's circle of poets .

biography

Hans Franck, the son of a roofer, earned his living as a primary school teacher in Hamburg for ten years from 1901 , but from 1911 devoted himself entirely to his literary work.

From 1914 on he worked as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf with Louise Dumont and Gustav Lindemann and from 1915 published the theater magazine Masken with interruptions until the end of the 1919/20 season . In addition to this function, from the beginning of the 1914/15 season he was also head of the affiliated Düsseldorf Theater Academy , later the Academy of Performing Arts . In the First World War he served as a Landsturmmann.

In 1921 he bought Gut Frankenhorst on Lake Ziegelsee in Schwerin and worked as a freelance writer from then on. In his book Mein Leben und Schaffen from 1929 he reported on this life. He began with tragedies and dramas of ideas, of which only Godiva achieved a great stage success in 1919. The following were known of his dramas: Opfernacht from 1921 and his probably most mature dramatic poem Klaus Michel from 1926. In 1924, Hans Franck, Manfred Hausmann , Hans Leip and Wilhelm Scharrelmann founded the cog as a friendship and literary association of European writers around the Low German literature To provide. The Kogge Prize has been awarded in Bremen since 1954.

But his attitude also corresponded to National Socialism . In 1922 his novel The Third Reich was published. A creed . In October 1933, together with 87 other writers, he signed the pledge of loyal allegiance to Adolf Hitler . In 1934 Hitler appeared . A folk and youth book. In 1938 he took part in the Reichsfront Dichtertreffen in Guben . After the occupation of Poland in World War II , he was represented with more than 50 texts in the National Socialist Krakauer Zeitung published in the General Government.

Even in the socialist certain DDR he could continue to publish without difficulty after the 1945th Nevertheless, several of his works in the Soviet zone of occupation and in 1953 in the GDR Three Stories (1939) were placed on the list of literature to be sorted out.

His estate is in Schwerin in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania State Library ; Parts of it can also be found in the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar.

Honors

Memorial plaque in Wittenburg
  • Cog Ring of Honor 1959 in Bremen
  • On March 27, 2008, a small memorial library was opened in his former home in Frankenhorst, now the Seehotel Frankenhorst, in memory of him.
  • On July 24, 1929, Hans Franck was declared an honorary citizen of the city of Wittenburg.
  • In Wittenburg there is the Hans-Franck-Schule Wittenburg .

estate

Works

  • The Duke of Reichstadt ( tragedy , 1910)
  • Duke Heinrich's Homecoming ( Drama , 1911)
  • The pentagram of love ( novellas , 1919)
  • Godiva ( drama , 1919)
  • Free Servants ( Drama , 1919)
  • Sidereal Sonnets ( Poems , 1920)
  • Telluric sonnets ( poems , 1923–28, published 1931)
  • Sacrifice Night ( Drama , 1921)
  • The Third Empire. A creed. ( Novel , 1922)
  • The South Sea Island ( novella , 1923)
  • Coming home ( novella , Schünemann 1924)
  • Chants of God ( poems , 1924)
  • Meta Koggenbrook ( novel , 1925)
  • Chancellor and King ( tragedy , 1926)
  • Klaus Michel ( Drama , 1926)
  • Minnermann ( novel , 1926)
  • Seventh chord ( novellas , 1926)
  • The rainbow ( short stories , 1927)
  • Right is wrong ( novellas , 1928)
  • My life and work ( biographical writing , 1929)
  • Gate of Friendship ( novel , 1929, published as early as 1910 under the title Thieß und Peter )
  • Time prism ( novellas , 1932)
  • Own earth ( novel , Schünemann 1933)
  • The right mother ( novel , 1933)
  • Get over! Stories from Kinderland 1933 Albert Langen-Georg Müller Verlag Munich
  • Journey to Eternity ( novel , 1934)
  • Hitler. A folk and youth book ( brochure , 1934)
  • The Circle ( Poems , 1935)
  • The Pilgrimage to Lübeck ( Novelle , 1936), re-published in 2007 in the 8th edition under the title Johann Sebastian Bach's Pilgrimage to Lübeck . ISBN 978-3-579-06461-1
  • The story of the two same brothers ( novel , 1936)
  • The Junk ( Novella , 1936)
  • Last love. Goethe and Ulrike ( novel , 1937)
  • Annette ( novel , 1937)
  • The city of Elias Holl ( novel 1938, published as early as 1922 under the title The Third Reich )
  • The Crown of Life ( novel , 1939)
  • The forest without end ( novel , 1941)
  • A royal duel ( anecdotes , 1941)
  • Heimat ( songs , our reading books, Krainburg - Zweigverlag, 1941–1944)
  • A piece of earth ( novel in two books , 1944)
  • The remedy ( novella , 1947)
  • Sebastian ( Godseeker novel about the theologian Sebastian Franck , 1949)
  • The women's barge ( novella , 1954)
  • Poems ( Union Verlag 1954)
  • Autumnal Heart ( Two Goethe novels: The Shrewd, Weather Lights , Union Verlag 1955)
  • Marianne ( Goethe novel , 1955)
  • Let yourself be comforted ( memorial poems , Evangelischer Verlag 1957)
  • Kaleidoscope (33 stories, 1959) Union Verlag Berlin
  • Selected works in two volumes (Volume 1: Annette, Reise in die Ewigkeit, Volume 2: Marianne, Novellen und Erzählungen, Neue Gedichte) Union Verlag 1959
  • Cantata. The life of Johann Sebastian Bach ( novel , 1960)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach . The story of his life ( novel , 1960)
  • A poet's life in 111 anecdotes ( autobiography , 1961)
  • Ernst Barlach ( biography , 1961)
  • Early bells ( stories 1916-1955 , 1962) Union Verlag Berlin
  • The Crossroads ( novel , 1963)
  • The trumpet blast ( short stories , 1963)
  • Friedemann. The son of Johann Sebastian Bach ( novel , 1964)
  • You lovely art ( Collected Musician Stories , 1964)
  • Ending is the beginning ( poems , 1964)
  • Tokkata and Fugue. The life of Johann Sebastian Bach ( novel , 1980)
  • Mecklenburg legends and fairy tales. Edited by Heinz Grothe. Husum 1982. ISBN 3-88042-154-4
  • Life is love Letters from and to Hans Franck . Published by Werner Stockfisch. 2006. ISBN 978-3-356-01156-2

Audio books

Bibliographies

  • Heinz Grothe (ed.): The heart gift. Hans Franck on his 75th birthday, July 30, 1954 . Hanover 1954, pp. 41-49.
  • Heidemarie Sobotha (editor): Hans Franck. Bibliography . Edited by the Schwerin City Archives , Hans-Franck-Archiv branch, by Hans Heinrich Leopoldi. Schwerin 1969
  • Katrin Sobotha: Hans Franck. The Schwerin estate. Cultural Office of the State Capital, Schwerin 1996.

Editing

literature

  • Anita Bernstetter: Hans Franck . In: The Bamberg Poets' Circle. 1936-1943 . Exhibition in the Bamberg State Library , May 8–31, 1985. Bamberg 1985, pp. 146–155.
  • Michael Matzigkeit: literature on the move. Writer and theater in Düsseldorf 1900–1933 . Düsseldorf 1990, pp. 125 ff., 239-247. ISBN 3-92433-123-5
  • Reinhard Rösler : The unworldly on Frankenhorst . In: Reinhard Rösler: Authors, Debates, Institutions . Bockel-Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-93269-628-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 (= The time of National Socialism. Vol. 17153). Completely revised edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-17153-8 , p. 144.
  2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-f.html
  3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1947-nslit-f.html
  4. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-f.html
  5. ↑ State Library Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, http://www.lbmv.de/
  6. ↑ Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, archive link ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturwerte-mv.de
  7. ↑ Calliope. Union catalog of bequests and autographs
  8. ↑ German Literature Archive Marbach, http://www.dla-marbach.de/dla/elektronische_publikationen/kussmaul/bestandsliste/teilnachlass_franck_hans/index.html
  9. ↑ https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?query=Die+Pilgerfahrt+nach+L%C3%BCbeck+herzler&method=simpleSearch
personal data
SURNAME Franck, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1964
Place of death Schwerin