Hans Heinrich Ehrler

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Emil Stumpp Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1926)
Hans Heinrich Ehrler's birthplace with a facade painting of a wax puller by Karl Max Lechner in Bad Mergentheim, 2011
Hans Heinrich Ehrler. Signature 1936

Hans Heinrich Ehrler (born July 7, 1872 in Mergentheim , † June 14, 1951 in Waldenbuch ; also Hanns Heinrich Ehrler or Hans Heinz Ehrler ) was a German writer , poet and editor .

life and work

Hans Heinrich Ehrler came from an old Württemberg - Franconian family of craftsmen . His father, the wax puller and gingerbread man Johann Michael Ehrler composed Knittelverse and was friends with Johann Strauss in Vienna . His birthplace is the former Chancellor's House on Obere Markt in Bad Mergentheim, which was renamed Hans-Heinrich-Ehrler-Platz in his honor . His mother Margaretha died in 1877.

As a child, Hans Heinrich Ehrler wanted to enter the clergy and after elementary school he attended the Royal Latin School in Ingolstadt and the grammar school of the Royal Study Institute in Landshut (today Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium Landshut ), whose students also included Hans Carossa and Ludwig Thoma . But after he rebelled at the age of 18, his father brought him back to Bad Mergentheim at the Mergentheim Latin School . However, since at that time the degree did not lead to a secondary school leaving certificate , Ehrler completed his Abitur in Ellwangen in 1892 . Already in his school days he made lyrical attempts.

Ehrler was enrolled for two years in law at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and one year in philology at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Johannes Volkelt was one of his formative teachers .

Before he devoted himself entirely to writing as a freelance writer, he worked as an editor in Cologne , Stuttgart , Heilbronn , Konstanz and Karlsruhe . From 1902 he was a permanent freelancer for the Frankfurter Zeitung for two decades . His marriage to Melanie (née Frommherz) in 1904 remained childless. The animal book author Paul Eipper , husband of Melanie's sister Emmy, was his brother-in-law. In 1911 Ehrler published his first volume of stories, Letters from the Country, at Albert Langen Verlag and settled in Friedrichshafen on the beloved Lake Constance . In 1913 the couple moved to the urban area of Freiburg im Breisgau , then to the suburb of Littenweiler .

During the First World War Ehrler initially worked in the military censorship , after which he was assigned to Stuttgart as a correspondent for the military administration. He has published extensive series of war propagandistic articles in the Frankfurter Zeitung and in the war newspaper of the 7th Army. He suffered from the war and, as a patriotically minded German, from defeat. “The republic recognized Ehrler , he hated the revolution . On January 9, 1919, the day of the decision against Spartacus , he took the red flag from the balcony of the Stuttgart city hall and put the Württemberg flag on because black and red gold could not be found in the entire city hall. ” In 1919 and 1920 Ehrler was co-editor of the magazine The Swabian Federation .

Shaken by the war, Hans Heinrich Ehrler retired to the former Cistercian monastery of Maulbronn for a while. He described this time in his book Letters from My Monastery . In his novel Wolfgang: The Year of a Young Man , published in 1925, Ehrler dealt with the war and was thus noticed in the youth movement. However, there were no great successes with readers throughout his life, even if the author received the literary prize of the Württemberg Goethebund in 1928 for the volume of poems face and face and in 1930, at the instigation of Wilhelm Stapel, was accepted into the then influential Langen Müller Verlag. In 1926 Ehrler finally moved to Waldenbuch in the forest area of Schönbuch south of Stuttgart, where he lived with his wife until his death.

As a student in Munich Ehrler had been a supporter of Bismarck . After that he was close to the liberal Democratic People's Party . But Ehrler saw the catastrophe of the First World War as a consequence of Germany's moral neglect and so, after initially rejecting National Socialism, as in his speech at the Constitutional Celebration in Stuttgart in 1932, he was impressed by the phrases of the National Socialists and joined the NSDAP in 1939 . He was represented with his contribution When Abgrunds Geister stirs in the poem anthology Dem Führer , which was presented to Adolf Hitler on his fiftieth birthday in 1938. In the same year Ehrler received the so-called Swabian Poet's Prize , a Nazi literary prize donated by the Württemberg Prime Minister and Minister of Education Christian Mergenthaler in 1935 , as well as a lifelong state honorary salary of 2000 Reichsmarks (after the currency reform 2000 DM). After the war, he had to, among other things because of his numerous contributions to the Nazi courier a denazification set, an account of his relationship with the Third Reich, he put in his estate writing The Book of responsibility from. An anecdote tells that at a meeting of the members of the Reichsschrifttumskammer the actually rather apolitical-minded poet caused a scandal when he hit the Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels on the shoulder and said to him: “I only like half.” Ehrler began to drink - not excessively, but still regularly. He went into internal emigration . After 1945 it became quiet around him, "he had become completely out of date." As in the völkisch-national-socialist literary stories, he was nonetheless still in Germanistic standard works of the early Federal Republic as a timelessly important poet.

1955, four years after his death and burial in Forest book, the body of "was home to poet " Hans Heinrich Ehrler back to his home town of Bad Mergentheim, he his life on a regular basis for treatment , had visited the cemetery of St. Michael transferred.

Numerous poems by Hans Heinrich Ehrler were set to music (often for male choirs ). Composers were Ludwig Bibus , Georg von Albrecht , Julius Gessinger , Oskar Merkle , Wilhelm Rieth , Hermann Reutter , Quirin Resche and Eberhard Ludwig Wittmer .

Longstanding friendships and collaborations have linked him with the liberal politicians Theodor Bäuerle and Theodor Heuss , with the young conservative journalists Carl Christian Bry and Hermann Hefele , with the national socialist authors Ludwig Finckh , Georg Schmückle and Gerhard Schumann as well as with the Germanists Paul Kluckhohn and Hermann Pongs . The estate is in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and in the Bad Mergentheim city archive.

Works

  • Spring songs. Langen, Munich 1913.
  • Love does not suffer death: poetry. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1915.
  • When all the little fountains flow ...: German love songs. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1918 (as editor).
  • The court of the patrician house and other stories. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1918.
  • A selection from classic Swabian poetry. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1919 (as editor).
  • A selection from contemporary Swabian poetry. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1919 (as editor).
  • Poems. Strecker & Schröder, Stuttgart 1920.
  • The trip to the rectory. Greiner & Pfeiffer , Stuttgart 1922.
  • Letters from my monastery. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1922.
  • Letters from the country. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1924 (novel).
  • Elisabeth's Sacrifice: Novellas. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1924.
  • Maulbronn Monastery. Publishing house Dr. Karl Hoenn, Landschlacht (Bodensee) 1925 (with 16 lithographs by Adolf Hildenbrand ).
  • Wolfgang: The year of a youth. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1925.
  • The journey home. J. Kösel & F. Pustet publishing house, Munich 1926.
  • The mirror of the high and German master Maximilian Franz - a game. J. Thomm'sche Druckerei, Bad Mergentheim 1926.
  • Brother Hermann's Klause. Fleischhauer & Spohn, Stuttgart 1927.
  • Face and Face: New Poems. L. Klotz, Gotha 1928.
  • The law of love. L. Klotz, Gotha 1928.
  • My trip to Berlin: the experiences of a provincial man. Greiner & Pfeiffer, Stuttgart 1929.
  • The deadline. Georg Müller, Munich 1930 (novel).
  • The lights fade in the light: New poems. Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1932.
  • The three encounters of the architect Wilhelm. Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1935 (novel).
  • Under the Evening Star: New Poems. Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1937.
  • Thought with the heart: contemplations. Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1938.
  • The four-tube fountain: 4 stories. Albert Langen / Georg Müller, Munich 1941.
  • New cherubian wanderer: poems. Bonifacius printing works, Paderborn 1941.
  • The morning. Bonifacius printing works, Paderborn 1942.
  • Charlotte. Wunderlich, Tübingen / Stuttgart 1946 (novel).
  • Women and girls. Thomas-Verlag, Kempen-Niederrhein 1948 (short stories).
  • Our watch has a magic touch: poems. Wunderlich, Tübingen / Stuttgart 1950.
  • Hikers and Pilgrims: Stories. Bonifacius printing works, Paderborn 1950.
  • Poems: For the company of friends. Publishing house of the Society of Friends of Hans Heinrich Ehrler, Tübingen 1951.
  • The imperishable: poems. Pallotti-Verlag, Friedberg near Augsburg 1955 (selected by Erwin K. Münz).
  • Maulbronn Monastery: Described by Hans Heinrich Ehrler / Pictured by Arnold Petersen. Bartmann-Verlag, Frechen 1964
  • From home to home. Zehnder, Bad Mergentheim 1991.

literature

  • Langenbucher, Hellmuth: Hans Heinrich Ehrler . In: Württemberg. Monthly in the service of the people and homeland. 1932, pp. 323-327.
  • Theo Gundling: Hans Heinrich Ehrler, origin and work , in: Württembergische Schulwarte. 15th year 1939, pp. 296-310.
  • Henriette Herbert: Hans Heinrich Ehrler: Attempt to look at the essence. Erich Wewel Verlag, Krailing in front of Munich 1942.
  • Willi Habermann (Ed.): As if it were a piece of him. Volkshochschule Bad Mergentheim, Bad Mergentheim 1972. (With texts by Carlheinz Gräter , Theo Gundling, Willi Habermann, Gottlob Haag and Alois Keck).
  • Hans Dieter Haller: Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872 to 1951) in: Pegasus in the country. Writer in Hohenlohe. Baier-Verlag, Crailsheim 2006, ISBN 978-3-929233-62-9 .
  • Stefan Keppler: literary regionality and secret literary history. For example Hans Heinrich Ehrler - from the empire to inner emigration. In: Stuttgart work on German studies. No. 423, pp. 375-391. Heinz, Stuttgart 2004/2005, ISBN 3-88099-428-5 .
  • Stefan Keppler-Tasaki: Hans Heinrich Ehrler (1872–1951). Biography of a Westerner. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-412-51107-4 .
  • Otto Borst :  Ehrler, Hans Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 361 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Hans Heinrich Ehrler  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willi Habermann (ed.): As if it were a piece of him. Adult Education Center Bad Mergentheim, Bad Mergentheim 1972, p. 13
  2. ↑ Willi Habermann (ed.): As if it were a piece of him. Adult Education Center Bad Mergentheim, Bad Mergentheim 1972, p. 16
  3. ↑ On the political biography of Manfred Bosch, see: “On loan from the over there put into the Herüben”. About the poet Hans Heinrich Ehrler. In: Schwäbische Heimat 48 (1997), pp. 240–245.
  4. ↑ Briefly used for Nazis FN of March 12, 2014
  5. ↑ state archive Ludwigsburg EL 902/4 Bü 2719 (with digitization).
  6. ↑ Willi Habermann (ed.): As if it were a piece of him. Volkshochschule Bad Mergentheim, Bad Mergentheim 1972, p. 73
  7. ↑ Willi Habermann (ed.): As if it were a piece of him. Adult Education Center Bad Mergentheim, Bad Mergentheim 1972, p. 18
  8. ↑ See e.g. B. Hellmuth Langenbucher: Folk poetry of the time. Berlin 1941, pp. 365-367.
  9. ↑ See e.g. B. Fritz Martini: German literary history. From the beginning to the present. 2nd edition Stuttgart 1950, pp. 562-563.
  10. ↑ Cf. on part of this group of people around Ehrler the testimony of Hermann Pongs: The poet's birthday [1937]. In: Classics in Dark Times 1933-1945. Edited by Bernhard Zeller. Marbach 1983, Vol. 2, pp. 186-189.
personal data
SURNAME Ehrler, Hans Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ehrler, Hanns Heinrich; Ehrler, Hans Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, poet and editor
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Mergentheim
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 1951
Place of death Waldenbuch