Hans Heyck

Hans Heyck (born September 19, 1891 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † June 24, 1972 in Kempfenhausen ) was a German writer and poet who also wrote under the pseudonym Harro Loothmann .

family

Swen Hans Wilhelm Heyck was a son of the historian Eduard Heyck (1862–1941), a son-in-law of the journalist and editor (Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) Otto Runge (1864–1940), a grandson of the writer and poet Wilhelm Jensen (1837–1911), a great-grandson of the mayor of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein politician and bailiff of Sylt, Schwen Hans Jensen (1795–1855), and a great-grandson of the journalist, writer and literary historian Johann August Moritz Brühl (1819–1877).

Life

After stays in Freiburg , Heidelberg , Donaueschingen and Munich , Heyck attended humanistic grammar schools in Doberan / Mecklenburg , Berlin and Munich and graduated from high school in Munich in 1910. After a three-year business apprenticeship in Hamburg, he emigrated to Argentina in 1913 , but returned to Germany after the outbreak of World War I in the autumn of 1914 and was first an artilleryman, then a pilot and flight instructor in France and West Prussia . He was awarded the Iron Cross Second Class and the Wound Badge . Heyck married in 1916 and had four children.

Heyck was party secretary of the German National People's Party in 1919/20 . After working in various professions, small settlers in Upper Bavaria and teacher at a farming college in Diez / Lahn, he became a freelance writer in Bad Aibling in 1931 , after his books, such as the popularly influenced novel Germany without Germans published in 1929, had become successful. He joined the NSDAP in 1931 .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he was accepted into the synchronized German PEN Club on April 23, 1933 at the suggestion of the Kampfbund for German culture controlled by Alfred Rosenberg , which, however, was dissolved in January 1935.

During the Second World War he was drafted into the air force and served with an anti- aircraft unit in Bavaria.

In the post-war period he belonged to the right-wing extremist German cultural organization of the European mind .

Writing activity

Heyck published his first poems and short stories during the First World War. From 1925 on, several contemporary, later mainly historical, novels followed, mainly dealing with Prussian history. His most successful works were Friedrich Wilhelm I bailiff and servant of God on earth , The Great Elector of Brandenburg , The Great King and The Puppy Nest. A book by settlers, animals and children . Heyck's books achieved editions of almost 500,000 copies, almost all of them before 1945. Quite a few of his publications are influenced by Nazi ideology such as: Robinson returns home (the NSDAP raised no objections to the publication) from 1934. The book The lucky guy. The novel of a dictatorship from 1931 was “Dedicated to the leader of the coming Reich”. After 1945, there was little demand for Hans Heyck's novels. His only major work published after 1945, with a circulation of 5,000, was Clausewitz. A picture of life and time (1968), which he had already written during the Second World War. It was published by the right-wing extremist Druffel-Verlag .

Heyck was also active as a poet and in 1955 was awarded the honorary ring "The German Poem" from the "German Cultural Work of the European Spirit", a right-wing extremist organization that sees itself as a "people-conscious and people-loyal community" for the promotion of German cultural assets.

In the Soviet occupation zone , Heyck's writings on Germany's liberation struggle from 1918 to 1933 ( Velhagen & Klasing , Bielefeld 1933), Robinson returns home (Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1934), Through enemy blockade into the fatherland (Schneider, Leipzig & Vienna 1937), Armin, the Cherusker (Staackmann, Leipzig 1940), The English slipped through the net (Schneider, Berlin & Leipzig 1942) and Das Welpennest ( Eher , Munich 1943) put on the list of literature to be discarded. In the German Democratic Republic , the list was followed by Germany without Germans (Staackmann, Leipzig 1929) and Liberator Armin (Schloessmann, Leipzig & Hamburg 1933).

Works

• 1925 The contemporary. A satirical novel
• 1926 The demigoddess and the other. Novel from the German youth movement
• 1928 The outsider A world seeker's novel
• 1929 Germany without Germans. A novel from the day after tomorrow
• 1930 The vortex. A love and marriage novel
• 1931 The lucky one. Novel of a dictatorship
• 1932 Armin the Cheruscan. A German novel
• 1933 Kleist. drama
• 1933 Germany's liberation struggle, 1918–1933. Political treatise
• 1934 By hostile lock in the fatherland. A book for young people
• 1934 Robinson returns home. A novel between yesterday and tomorrow.
• 1935 Friedrich Wilhelm I. bailiff and servant of God on earth, novel
• 1936 love game in Rome, novella
• 1936 The bog body, comedy
• 1938 The Great Elector of Brandenburg
• 1940 The Great King, novel
• 1943 The puppy nest. A book by settlers, animals and children
• 1952 Pegasus in Paradise. New edition of The Puppy Nest
• 1955 Karwendel Elegy, poem
• 1956 Northern Lights, Poems of a Life
• 1958 King between death and victory. Frederick the Great in the Seven Years War
• 1961 Luminous life. German poems from eight centuries
• 1965 Clausewitz three times. Historical sketches
• 1968 Clausewitz. A picture of life and time, a novel
• 1971 Karwendel Elegy and Algoma Dreiklang, poems
• 1973 The Great King, novel. Revised new edition (posthumous)
• 1996 Diary about my trip to America - summer 61 (posthumous)
• 2018 Happiness in Bavaria. Translation into English of Pegasus in Paradise

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Heyck in the catalog of the German National Library
• To the place of birth and death

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 244.
2. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-h.html
3. ↑ http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1953-nslit-h.html